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Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
... wth compatibility when using SE Basic. There is quite a ... correctly without the original ROM in place so I am ... the bugs can be fixed in the new ROM but ... of which ROM is paged in. I'm sure there' ... to say out of all the basic languages, the spectrum basic is the ... -
Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…
... that it can be incorporated in homebrew speccys. A standard ... uses (assuming it's possible in software).
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Crash's poor attempt at an April FoolOn page 8 of Issue 63 of Crash (April 1989), there was an April Fool joke (see if you can spot it [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/ma…
... was a good April fool in ZX computing - A program which ... give 48K spectrums access to 128K of memory (because its really ... APR1 register with the correct OUT command in Machine Code!!
What should be the base address to set for my codeHi, I am new here and I have a simple question but one which I have not found an answer to. When I am developming my programs what should I set th…
... /> place CLEAR 32767 in your BASIC.
The BASIC is thereby limited ... below 32768.
When your BASIC grows to big (or uses ... /> give an OUT oF MEMORY error.
In that case you ... to make room for the BASIC.Zelda cloneHi all you Zelda fans! This game has been moved from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread because it seems to have enough people interested in helping wit…
... about getting 12 dungeons/quests in 128K though; that's not a ... /> [QUOTE]I should also point out that usually game design dictates ... are notorious for being influenced in reverse!). So perhaps, game graphics ... 't want to throw that out of the window. If ancient ...Zelda cloneHi all you Zelda fans! This game has been moved from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread because it seems to have enough people interested in helping wit…
... about getting 12 dungeons/quests in 128K though; that's not ... t want to throw that out of the window. If ... start dictating to other people in the team.
in any theme/setting you ... all end up running in different directions. Lets all ...Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello, Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back down to 48k bas…
It's a simple RANDOMIZE USR in Beta BASIC y'know. You can swap back and forth from the 48K and 128K editors to you hearts content. Although running your program in 128K mode will probably have disastrous consequences.Machine Code noviceHi, I'm starting to learn machine code and wanted to know if you have to use some sort of program to write machine code? Thanks,
... about my personal favourite? Write out the assembly program on paper ... , then write out the Z80 machine code for ... a series of DATA statements in Speccy BASIC, and poke them into ...Machine Code noviceHi, I'm starting to learn machine code and wanted to know if you have to use some sort of program to write machine code? Thanks,
... about my personal favourite? Write out the assembly program on paper ... , then write out the Z80 machine code for ... a series of DATA statements in Speccy BASIC, and poke them into ... /> You have of course missed out the all important step.
Atari to spectrum +2A joystick conversioni know this 2600 pinouts: _________________ \ o5 o4 o3 o2 o1/ \ o9 o8 o7 o6 / \___________/ pin # 2600 control 7800 control 1 WHT- Up…
... just use it - as normal - in a kempston interface? but yeah ... re-wiring to use it in the sincalir socket then "common ... i only had to work out which ones went on the ... . (see what results you produce in speccy basic like i did.... "oooh ...What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…
... adventure ones, were written in Sinclair BASIC. Here's a list ... Journey's End
Mined Out
Nightflite
Rebelstar Raiders ... many games written in a mixture of BASIC and assembler such ... that was written in a language other than BASIC or assembler ...Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... games which use the 128k models built-in RAM disk using z88dk ... to call a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new ...Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... to call a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new ... work with the 128 ROM in 128k mode.
Here ... code.
Keep in mind that Basic expects the IY register ... registers, for example). Also some basic commands will mess with the ...BenchmarksSomeone posted a link to a google or youtube video of various computers doing basic benchmarks (which I now can't find) but in the vid they said the…
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So even 48K BASIC will be slightly slower because ... checks on that flag. 128K BASIC is much slower. Alan ... Sugar said that 48K BASIC was a 'history lesson ... is worth using the debugger in SPIN etc. to examine ...Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... work with the 128 ROM in 128k mode.
Here ... C program, not the associated basic program).
Here ... code.
Keep in mind that Basic expects the IY register ... registers, for example). Also some basic commands will mess with the ...Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... a text only quiz game in ST Basic which doesn't (as ... to say that I missed out on the Spectrum scene as ... protection - lens lok?) and Quazatron in action when I was a ...How to load Dies irae (an exodus demo)?it sits in my harddisk over a year, it always hangs at RED loading screen. I tried it with more than 10 emulators but no avail. According to the poue…
I have got it to work, first you need to be on a 128k, but in usr 0 mode.
go to 128k basic, and type usr 0 *enter* the speccy should reset and start up back in tokenised basic, then just load"" and it should run :-)You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
... 128K Spectrum was 30% slower in 128K mode than 48K mode when running BASIC ... would be faster than a 128K Spectrum in 48K mode as the ... RAM.
All this in BASIC although many machine code programs ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... , and a lot used BASIC too - and for the ... for work in Pascal until Delphi came out, I did ... my A level project in it; BASIC ... the decent games written in BASIC seem fairly spaghetti-like ... is the assertion that BASIC programmers are tainted with ...You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
... 128K Spectrum was 30% slower in 128K mode than 48K mode when running BASIC ... . [/QUOTE]
Don't forget that every statement in 128k ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... TP is Borland were naughty in bring in the 'GOTO' statement ... s the foundations of BASIC layed it out as an interpreted ...
[FONT=Courier New]In 1982 BASIC was at it's height ... FORTH in this case) built-in. Quite remarkibly this machine came out in 1984 ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... duplicate that level of optimization in the compiler itself since ... instructions to complete some task in a basic block. I've read ... to encode asymmetric register usage in instructions to help the ... the global optimizers being tried out will help a little but ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... instructions to complete some task in a basic block.[/quote]
... encode asymmetric register usage in instructions to help the ... global optimizers being tried out will help a little ... While this is commonly discussed in the theoretical world, few compilers ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... language for absolute beginners is BASIC (not VB). You're ... a very small subset of BASIC too: LET, IF...THEN ... can't leave it out because the compiler expects ... functionally equal: no. ZX BASIC can't do pointers ... you can do pointers in ZX BASIC. What else do you ...You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
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128K BASIC had to be taken into ... 48K machine to the 128K machine via timings in BASIC, a valid point ...TZX filesI copied a spectrum tape program onto my PC as a .wav file and used a converter to convert it to a .tzx file. The DOS window appeared during conversi…
... concoction, programmed on the +2a(128k) in +3 BASIC. Does this matter, or ...Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…
... cannot imagine how streams work in programming.[/QUOTE]
Streams in Sinclair BASIC are in fact [i]the same ... There's something about horses in there too - I gather ... they breathe out, but that's not implemented properly in the ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... s code to draw everything in upper memory area, but ... workaround?[/QUOTE]
Basic will always draw to the ... dfile #2 (OUT $7ffd,...)
2. Use Basic to draw into ... code unchanged as well in step 2 but you' ... need a fast copy in step 4 which will ...External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
In other thread here, we concluded that no Basic commands ... for serial communication in 128K speccies. Port ... is used only for printers (in ...
Unfortunatelly, my 128K keyboard is complete disaster - after ...Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…
... it is easier to figure out!
Arrange the three ... the smallest disk one step in the chosen direction.
2 ... 't claim I figured it out myself.[/QUOTE]
And ... to end stack
In Sinclair BASIC just about 5 lines
