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  • BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;464497]Hi Andrew,

    ... have something like:

    [FONT="Courier New"]10 CLEAR 64000 ... PEEK 64000
    60 STOP[/FONT]

    The machine ... /> RET[/FONT]

    Would this work?

    Paddy[/QUOTE]
    chev chev August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;464847]Hi Folks,

    ... looks like:

    [INDENT][FONT="Courier New"]LD BC,1400h ... . it seems that [FONT="Courier New"]JR NZ[/FONT] is not recognising ... the [FONT="Courier New"]DEC BC[/FONT].

    Am ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;465248]Hi Folks,

    ... BASIC program:

    [INDENT][FONT="Courier New"]100 CLS
    230 NEXT c[/FONT][/INDENT]
    [/QUOTE]

    bobs bobs August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;464497]Hi Andrew,

    ... have something like:

    [FONT="Courier New"]10 CLEAR 64000 ... PEEK 64000
    60 STOP[/FONT]

    The machine ... /> RET[/FONT]

    Would this work?

    Paddy[/QUOTE]
    GReW GReW August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;471324]Hi Folks,

    ... . You could use your own font by simply pointing CHARS to ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting 50ths of a second to hours, minutes and seconds...Hi Folks, I have written some code to convert the interal Spectrum clock from 50ths of a second to hours, minutes and seconds. The following code s…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;472451]Thanks guys. One ... and reference the variable [FONT="Courier New"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]temp ... [/COLOR][/FONT] twice rather than do ... [/COLOR][/FONT] twice.

    Many thanks

    Paddy[/QUOTE ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;474536]Hi Paul,
    < ... planning on adding proportional font support to SpecOS? If ... Spectrum one? The QL font is rather nice - could ... /> [/QUOTE]

    Font support is already in there ... - the default font is actually a memory ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;481290]I ran your program ... I use the [FONT="Courier New"]REM fast[/FONT] mode - am I ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;484023]
    OK, did some ... BASin and found that the [FONT="Courier New"][B]LET d ... =a+b[/B][/FONT] line actually slows things down ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;489251]Often BASIC is fine ... .

    I think our font editor [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2010 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;489589]There is too much ... DE,(CHARS) ; DE=start of font
    LD H,0
    ADD HL,DE ; HL=>font for character

    ; Print ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston November 2010 Development
  • Character Printing routines - 27/32 lines?There are lots of extra character-per-line routines out there for 42,51,64 even 85 characters. Are there any that do 7/6 pixel rows - and do 27 or 3…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;492601]Hi Gedlion,

    ... whole, though, I think the font it ends up with is ... 't given it a go, Paddy, since it makes the language ... /> print at 10,10;"Standard Font"

    Isn't really ...
    Gedlion Gedlion November 2010 Development
  • Spectaculator... is it worth the money?Hi Folks, This is a genuine request for feedback. I have used the demo version of Spectaculator and it seems a very good Spectrum emulator. Lots o…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;500644]
    1) Don't ... % scaling, other sizes means the font looks corrupted.
    [/QUOTE]
    Arjun Arjun December 2010 Emulators
  • Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;513363]Hi Folks,

    ... /> Paddy[/QUOTE]

    [FONT=Courier New]PAUSE = 1 byte[/FONT]
    [FONT=Courier ... ] bytes[/FONT]
    [FONT=Courier New]RANDOMIZE = 1 byte[/FONT]
    [FONT=Courier New ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair advertising font...Hi Folks, Does anyone know the name of the font that Sinclair used in their QL and later advertising? Many thanks Paddy

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;525144]Well I have been ... if it is a specific font created by Sinclair Research?[/QUOTE ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair advertising font...Hi Folks, Does anyone know the name of the font that Sinclair used in their QL and later advertising? Many thanks Paddy

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;525306]Thanks Andrew - yes that is definately the font.

    font?

    Paddy[/QUOTE]

    I ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Random numbers...Hi Folks, I am not an expert when it comes to random numbers. If I have the RANDOMIZE statement the beginning of a program and then proceed to gene…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;532359]Hi AA,


    [FONT="Courier New"]xx10 RANDOMIZE PEEK ... 23672+256*PEEK 23672[/FONT]

    there is ... get to:

    [FONT="Courier New"]x100 LET a ... =1+INT(RND*100)[/FONT]

    With ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Random numbers...Hi Folks, I am not an expert when it comes to random numbers. If I have the RANDOMIZE statement the beginning of a program and then proceed to gene…

    ... Paddy Coleman;532359]

    OK, changed the code to:

    [FONT ... PEEK 23672+256*PEEK 23672[/FONT]

    there is ... get to:

    [FONT="Courier New"]x100 LET a ... .


    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;532373]
    I have a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;534413]Thanks BB - I will ... possible to use your better font with the LPRINT version?[/QUOTE ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;534981][B][Edit] [/B]Andrew - ... for a 12 pixel deep font though, to have proper ascenders ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;535497]For adventure games though ... : DEFW 0
    CRADR: DEFW font-352 ; was 256
    WIDTH ... HL
    RET

    font:
    defb %00011111
    defb ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;537251]Yes I think you ... mind the extra space the font will take up you could ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;539948]Using one byte for ... ]

    that would limit font width to max 16 pixels ...
    tstih tstih May 2011 Development
  • fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;540036]Oooh that is clever ... does save 95 bytes per font (32-127) which is great ...
    tstih tstih May 2011 Development
  • Speeding up select processing...Hi Folks, I have the following code in my program and it works fine but is rather "sluggish". I have even moved it to the beginning of the program …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;545185]Mmm, not sure I ... is printed using the proportional font so the first digit can ... p$(2 to ).

    Paddy[/QUOTE]

    The P ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • A Pointless Propotional Font demoSomething I've made the last couple of days, which is probably completely pointless, but might be a bit amusing. It's also not worthy of posting thi…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;558224]Calm down Dear, it ... the program that creates the font file.

    [url]http ... .

    Paddy[/QUOTE]

    Thank you Master of the Font ! ;)
    Ricket Ricket August 2011 Development
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;629498]Personally I prefer Buddy ... 'd stick with the new font. Do you prefer the old ...
    chev chev May 2012 Development
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;629499]Gorgeous.

    Paddy[/QUOTE]

    I agree, ... still prefer Buddy though. The font from the original looks nicer ...
    retrogod retrogod May 2012 Development
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;629940]Very nice.[/quote]
    < ... wedded to having a proportional font, which makes the whole thing ...
    chev chev May 2012 Development
  • Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;637104]I am no expert ... a general "proportional" font routine and associated font files. Some of these ... . by simply "loading" a different font file?[/QUOTE]

    ... .

    Any other font could be converted to Muffin ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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