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  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... [/code]
    does the same thing, although the USR 7997 isn ... if called with USR from BASIC, but most of them won't ... can't be done from BASIC. For a summary of the ... , values can be stacked from BASIC; eg:
    LET a= ... hope for is a "Nonsense in BASIC" error.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…

    ... looking at examples

    BASIC is just slighty possible to ...


    The most difficult thing to me was learning how ... colors each(this results in color clash in some games)
    The ...
    slenkar slenkar February 2014 Development
  • R.E. in school.I was thinking about this the other day. In RE in secondary school in the 90's the curriculum over the 5 years consisted of. 1st day: discussion on …

    ... enough to avoid the most boring teacher in the school, having instead ... an effort to make things interesting; making it at least a ... 'm put off the whole thing.

    I think ... door to a little kid in a suit spouting the ... up either of us in that position.
    joefish joefish February 2014 Chit chat
  • DLT trial, not guilty...[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1211154/dave-lee-travis-not-guilty-on-12-charges[/url] find it quite interesting how in this (and the ken barlow coro…

    ... />
    find it quite interesting how in this (and the ken barlow ... in a situation where the accuser says "the defendant did this thing ... t!" which is, basically, what most cases of this nature come ... culture and public interest in salacious gossip in the way we ...
    Zagreb Zagreb February 2014 Chit chat
  • New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…

    ... do multi-colour border effects in BASIC. To be honest, it ... do the same thing to the attributes in machine code.
    in Your Sinclair magazine. They also ... chip, the processor spends most of its time actually refreshing ...
    joefish joefish April 2014 Brand new software
  • Harlequin clone...PCB manufactured!Using Chris Smith's detailed schematics and project notes from the Harlequin... a Speccy fan in the United States by the name of Don (Superfo) has de…

    ... for own useful programs). The most familiar extension for instance is ... 'm looking now for the most interesting replacement of the Sinclair ROM ... -LED) and your favored BASIC-Rom, sitting in the Harlequin, which is ...
    HZJ HZJ April 2014 Hardware
  • Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …

    ... been driving the activity seen in the development side.
    There is one thing I know for sure. If ... still check out the forums most days.

    ... about lack of originality in Spectrum games. It ... they were both written in BASIC. A good game is ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Are OpenSE BASIC and SE Basic IV incompatible with Plus D?Hello, I'm considering Andrew Owen's impressive [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/sebasic/]OpenSE BASIC[/url] and [url=http://cheveron.github.io/…

    ... best thing about zxuno is that you can run SE Basic ... that out of OpenSE BASIC and then juggle the ... to hand the OpenSE BASIC project over to anyone ... no support for data files in BASIC). I hope esxDOS will ... a priority in the to-do list (I suppose most divIDE ...
    chev chev September 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Android memory questionErm, I was sure there was already a thread about this before but I couldn't find it, perhaps it's deleted or something. So I'm asking this again. I …

    Android (and most other mobile OSes) are ... use of memory. The basic design concept is "unallocated ... and it is a good thing in the context of a ... with mainstream apps on Android in my experience). When an ... they are hanging around in memory until something better ...
    ccowley ccowley September 2014 Chit chat
  • Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…

    ... like top parts of missiles in level one, the background ... does same thing in horizontal scroll level.[/QUOTE]

    Interesting - seems ... artificially low. Then again, most of what I remember ... backgrounds drawn and scrolled in whole characters using the ...
    joefish joefish September 2014 Development
  • The official CSSCGC 2014 threadJust to announce that the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2014 is now open. It's home for the year will be; [url]http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/c…

    ... , but that wouldn't be in BASIC any more.

    The ... screenshots, which look more interesting than most of the actual entries, but ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Games
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... [/QUOTE]

    Most spectrum sw is very simple ... using message passing (like in smalltalk) which makes ... next game. Then most of the above list ... /> I think the only thing wrong with recursion is the ... be implemented in only a few lines, even in Basic. But ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2014 Development
  • Things you only figured out after all these years.Its funny isn't it when for almost all your life you believe something to be true, and then after all these years realize it's not true, or never hap…

    ... doing his own thing.


    In any case ... pathetic and people schooled in valuing only what something ... 't even made a basic attempt to get oneself ... that was going on in the world - political ... reading the myths that most modern fiction when it ...
    dmsmith dmsmith January 2015 Chit chat
  • Funny Incident's With Your Old School's/College Computers.Reading a few threads on the WoS forum's got me thinking of the old computer's that we used at my primary/secondary school, and the sometimes very fu…

    ... first thing about BASIC but me and my mates would type in a ... allowed to use it, someone in the year above comically muttered ... anyway, which proceeded with the most awkward 5 second pause from ... changed the subject.

    In secondary school which for me ...
    festershinetop festershinetop March 2015 Chit chat
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    ... like this could be done in BASIC on the Spectrum using Arrays ... /> Yes thats the sort of thing. It would have taken me ... I thought it gave an interesting effect like underwater.

    in BASIC to keep it running fast ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …

    ... /> Fixing infoseek is the most important thing now that the forums have ... it would be interesting to see their css ideas in the compo ...
    hikoki hikoki June 2015 Chit chat
  • BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…

    Interesting. I've used PyGame before ... start it's a nice thing to start with.
    ... be, if you were proficient in BASIC, then you don't ... functions (GOSUB/DEF FN) than BASIC.

    As for ... currently using Python and not BASIC for writing simple code ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend-me-do - memory card devicesSo, both myself (with a +3 that has a dodgy drive) and my friend (with a +2) are looking at the various options for loading from memory card. What…

    ... That LD5 source is most interesting, like most of your IF1bis ... yet) to run in 128k BASIC mode, after loading ... t very stable situation, but interesting.

    ... does not show up in a Mac? When ... in that.

    Thanks for the support, and most ...
    zPasi zPasi September 2015 Hardware
  • Cap'n Rescue One Version 3.0Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that I've updated my ZX Spectrum platformer Cap'n Rescue to bring it in line with the graphical style of the…

    ... Sinclair User to learn about BASIC programming.

    When ... a space to work in for most of the day, and ... people - perfectly capable of programming in high level languages - refer to ... art'.

    The most bemusing thing is that the person who ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Brand new software
  • SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM ULTRA JOBLOT!!! 4400 BACKUPPED TITLES, all FROM 1983 to 1993!!!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172108866599?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D172108866599%26_rdc%3D1 D…

    ... /> I use to buy it, in some cases, for restoration of ... anymore because I'm just in the preservation team of other ... just written me that are interesting for restoration.

    The ... free of copyrights, the most important thing is the MIA that need ...
    ranma_simon ranma_simon February 2016 Sales
  • ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …

    My initial basic thoughts on Extreme Passive Cooling ... the ZX -Uno:-

    Most of these ideas came from ... ideas to the ZX-UNO in a big PC power ... br />
    But the first thing in this process is to fit ... cooled (with a hole in it for the chip to ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio June 2016 Hardware
  • Had enoughAfter approaching another weekend full of enthusiasm towards WoS and how it's heading, and spending most of it fighting spam and online abuse, I have…

    ... one of the better communities in the entire web getting banned ... get from stating a few basic, common-sense facts feels like ... remain in the past as a funny 'mass psychosis' kinda thing
    most important thing for a potential WoS maintainer ...
    Hikaru Hikaru July 2016 Updates
  • Who read announcements?Had 23 views about a new issue of our magazine in two weeks, which really disappointed me. Maybe the announcement section is not the right place to "…

    ... since 1983! We are working in the background to make PDF ... were not PDF existing, so most of the mags need to ... informed what is going on in the Spectrum World. And do ... cheaper TAP, but in fact the more interesting thing is that we convert ...
    Speccyman Speccyman July 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…

    ... recoup memory lost to basic when the program was ... loaded with a small basic loader. You would then ... to do your own thing, that's good too ... data into banks needed in basic before the C program ... nearly complete (most things will work) and most library functions ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2016 Software
  • Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…

    ... was made on BASIC. Then, most people realized that BASIC was slow ... code mixups (ranging from most BASIC with machine code helpers to ... utilities included the source code in assembler) and some times ... if everybody did the same thing the speccy scene would ...
    Zup Zup September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Change of career/doing something different!!I've been working in IT since '97 where I got my first 'proper' IT job as a junior systems engineer for a big engineering company in Walsall. SInce …

    Interesting thread. I've always ... use DOS and program in BASIC when I was about ... them through most of childhood. I like working in IT, but ... that cramming people together in a noisy, distracting environment ... , and 'decided' to work in digital TV, and 'decided' ...
    chriswyatt chriswyatt September 2016 Chit chat
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... it quite bluntly and harshly most turn out terrible, full of ... /> Sad thing is even though this game was written in 1987, it ... />
    It's blatantly written in basic, which has either been compiled ... time of release guess) a basic knowledge of German (Oooo ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2017 Games
  • ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…

    ... 's 8 sprites in 16x24 sprite mode. Most users use 16x16 ... a very reasonable compromise for most users. Of course, some AGD ... own program together in the same way you would in BASIC.

    interesting to see if many third ...
    jonathan jonathan January 2017 Development
  • c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…

    ... It will probably load in emulators without problems. But ... not check block length in DE register before ... vary in length.

    The best thing would ... be to make loader from BASIC, so ... one of the most exciting thing on speccy ever:-)
    Hood Hood March 2017 Announcements
  • c compiler benchmarkingI am going to have access to a number of commercial z80 compilers for a time for benchmarking, namely Hitech C v750 MSDOS (abandoned when Hitech was …

    ... be way off what most people would probably code ... vaguely game logic operations type thing.

    [quote]
    most valuable optimisations. Sprite manipulation, ... erase like you do in basic but otherwise the engines ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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