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Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…
... which let you create +3 disk versions of several Level 9 adventures ... a Spectrum +3 version of the game on one of you own blank ... & Magik
(Jewels of Darkness and Silicon Dreams were ... into an emulator, go into +3 Basic and type LOAD "UPGRADE".
Request for help (Z80 gigascreen loader)Although I'd attempted to stick to keeping things simple in Image to ZX Spec now I've implemented Gigascreen (8x8 only) I've found the BASIC Gigascre…
... 'm the generation of developer who started with Spectrum basic at ~9 ... years old in '87, TI82/3 basic in 1993, Java in 1997 ... project when there are plenty of more highly skilled individuals in ... the existing (non gigascreen) version of Image to ZX Spec already ...Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... a list of addresses (HiSoft BASIC).
MCoder 3 produces slow ... some sort of half-way between interpreted BASIC and machine ... Sinclair BASIC accepts. I had to fix some of my ... 3 is the best choice. It takes the biggest subset of Sinclair BASIC ...Old man give me back my spectrum.......Did anyone's parents have a shared interest in their Speccy? My folks didn't and they still don't own a computer and the internet is alien to them! …
... dad was a huge fan of that one as well. Start ... game as it was soooo basic but was brilliant back then ... dagger and then the pair of sahuagins which I had no ... got stuck in a loop of 3 rooms where there seemed to ..."Video games cause rape" - Fox News[COLOR="Red"]"[I]Bulletstorm, a violent new video game released on 22nd February, could turn players as young as nine into rapists[/I]", says US 'new…
[QUOTE=Modge;524426]3 squire meals a day all payed for.[/QUOTE]
so the right to food and drink, one of the basic human rights, check!Spectrum +3 Help pleaseI bought a +3 from a bootsale today, and when I got it back it didnt work (shock!) However after working out the +5V line on the PSU line was about …
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In terms of benefit +3e ROM's allow ... up to 65,535 partitions of 16MB - the 8bit IDE ... interface can only use half of an ATAIDE device (i ... giving you the full size of the device. Obviously you ... functions to the +3 BASIC, and fix some of the bugs in ...Spectrum +3 Help pleaseI bought a +3 from a bootsale today, and when I got it back it didnt work (shock!) However after working out the +5V line on the PSU line was about …
... be spending my next bit of pocket money on =)
... functions to the +3 BASIC, and fix some of the bugs in ... to develop a form of Dopus for the Spectrum ... well as a groovy new basic command "DOPUS" that would ... />
Thats very kind of you Paul, I am very ...Compatibility problems with Rallybug and Spectrum +2??I am just starting to play this game by Jonathan Cauldwell (Cronosoft) on my Spectrum +2A, and I noticed 2 things: There is no music (im loading it i…
... , just USR0 will do in +3 Basic, then LOAD"" as usual.
Yes, thanks, I realized of the mistake I made by ... to corrupt itself after level 3.1.
Thanks very ...So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…
... judgements here... It seems most of us here seem to be ... effectively to the widest range of modifications possible for improvement... Not ... (7 hours, 0 minutes)
+3 Basic / +2A: 1562448 (8 hours, 40 ... faster.
In terms of the best machine to get ...The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... ]Is there a list of protection methods for +3 disks anywere, and ... /> The only one I know of is Andrew Barker's [url ... [/url] also recognises a number of +3 disk protections, though I'm ... sector). Most other protections use basic sector tricks, though some still ...Saving in 48 mode to diskAs thread title. I did a little search but was not able to find anything, but you cannot really search for 48. Simple situation, I prefer to write b…
... ]I prefer to write basic with the original editor ... has the same number of bugs as +3 BASIC.
[ ... if I started in +3 basic then switched to 48 mode ... easy sensible way of saving a basic program to disk ... a version of the 48 ROM called 'Disk Basic' which ...How much have you spent on your hobby?Time for a new thread... 1) How much have you spent in total on your hobby (can be Sinclair only), or other retro computing stuff over the years ? …
... 1000 hours developing SE Basic when I could have ... found your running out of storage space in your ... was.
[b]3) Does she whinge and wine ... about the amount of space you have allocated ... releasing the open version of SE Basic. Please pledge now:
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... light pointed towards the solution of other similar cases :)
... a .Z80 snapshot grabbed under +3 emulation.[/QUOTE]
... standard. Just a copy of the basic loader in machine code. ... the +2A/+3 has different syntax for paging in basic. The ...Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…
... replaces the 128 BASIC ISR (which keeps track of the editor, RAM ... disk and +3DOS hooks in the +3 ... />
[i]"Switches from +3 BASIC into 48 BASIC, maintaining any program in ... is no switch back to +3 BASIC. Note that ROM/RAM switching ...Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…
... it's only a matter of having a 100% fresh RAM ... ]can[/I] return to +3 BASIC from 48 BASIC (albeit I can't ...Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…
Hehe...wow! Loads of confusing tech-speak for semi- ... if I type SPECTRUM into +3 Basic, and then load it from ...Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…
... =deadpan666;542593]Hehe...wow! Loads of confusing tech-speak for semi ... if I type SPECTRUM into +3 Basic, and then load it from ...Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... incompatible with all sorts of games.As a kid ... and a whole host of games like Roboccop that ... could go in to +3 basic and type Print USR 0 ... - then load from 48k basic for more compatibility)
... though that the encore release of Paperboy never worked on ...Most difficult Spectrum game/sIs there a certain Spectrum game (or more than one) which you found difficult/impossible to complete? I always used to find Chuckie Egg 2 extremely …
... 48kB mode:
Goto 128 basic (+3 basic), and write command OUT 32765 ... ram page in high 16kB of ram. Some ZX48kB games will ...Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
... using the old DOS version of RealSpectrum; the options might be ... new program disk
* In +3 BASIC, format "a:", then do a ...Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
... and then save that from +3 BASIC as a SCREEN$ to a ... regular +3 disk (ie. not the special ... -line overlap between the bottom of the view window and the ... top of the border.
Another ...Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... code is stretching the performance of Sinclair BASIC. :smile:
... Software
130 REM 3.1 Began: 18-Jul-2011 ... "8": LET i4=VAL "3": LET i5=z: LET i ... "8": LET i4=VAL "3": LET i5=o: LET i ... (2)Upper
680 REM (3)Integer
690 REM (4 ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... column multiple of 16) in the previous routine, just like in Sinclair BASIC ... "COMMA" (jump to next column multiple of 16)
cp 0x06 ; ... " (print spaces until reaches column multiple of 16)
cp 0x06 ; ...Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... has to convert a sequence of digits into its numeric representation ... in runtime, instead of calculating it in advance and ... . Of course, that is, I'll say "difficult", in 128/+3 BASIC but ... for 1, INT PI for 3 are also often used.Problems Flashing DivIDE with FatWare.Hi. I've recently purchased a DivIDE and it appears to be working fine, however the firmware on it is 0.12a and I am having trouble flashing it to a…
... FIRMWARE SELECTOR is only easy BASIC program with short machine code ... ZX ram to DivIDE ram. Basic after select system open TAP ... main menu then write in basic command OUT 227,128. This ... contain basic line 3. If you remove REM command from begin of this basic ...Streams - File HandlingHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am attempting to write a Z80 / Snapshot Launching program that is based on a category of files # - Z whereby each f…
... always result in a multiple of 128 and that [B ... any guess work or peculiarites of PLUSIDEDOS
C Nonsense in BASIC, 160: 1
[/code ... 03/08)[/b] and of course [b]ZXSpin (Version ... /> Although in the case of ZX Spin, I was running ...Kobrahsoft DB1 - doesn't work?Hi, I've tried loading [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^DB1$&pub=^Kobrahsoft$&loadpics=3"]DB1 by Kobrahsoft[/URL] into two …
I tried doing an RZX of the loading procedure, but it ... ; runs independently of the DB1 disk. Just select +3 BASIC then LOAD "T ... starts off displaying the directory of whatever's in drive A ... and transfer them to real +3 disks. Presuming that you have ...Empire! Help neededCan anyone convert the listing in the Tipshop to Multiface pokes? Im having a hard time with this game, over 15 years playing it, now I could do wit…
... up (with hack) into the +3 and Multiface it to disk ... mode unless i start in +3 Basic and type spectrum, but like ... are made before a couple of block move operations that start ...making a menuI a making a menu for my games that i am going to transfer down form tape to disk. I have got a few games on the disk so i thought i would knock up a…
... have to have the bulk of your code in ASM , due ... />
if your after a basic menu,
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not tried any +3 basic yet.. so dunno how valid ...AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…
... contribute with my version of the BASIC bitwise operators:
... ld a,(de) ;Code of operation
cp CODE_AND ... es/~rodriguj/readkeys.sna]BASIC demo program[/url] ... keyboard and can show multiple keypresses. The assembled ...
