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CSW2CDT, new tool suite for tape encodingGood evening. I'm much more active on the CPC than on the Spectrum, but today I released the first version of CSW2CDT, a set of three tools whose pur…
... be really helpful when a tape is being really ... I tried to establish a formal list of Speedlock ... public research on the topic? A while ago, the website ... parameters for the flag "--custom A B C D E F G" ... margins. Sometimes it just a matter of opening the CSW ... -
z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…
... FASE you have a bunch of macros. A couple do ... "]ideal 8x8 multiply by a constant[/url]. That's ... defines and understands a screen update as a sequence of non ... multiply" might be a candidate for a macro if it's ... of tiles named A,B,C,D" might be a good way to ... -
I live and learnThanks to Einar's ZXDB link I found under the Books folder and English sub directory a PDF file named 'The Century Computer Programming Course for Z…
A bit simple:
10 INPUT a,b,c,d,e
20 LET s=a+b+c+d+e
30 PRINT "Sum is: ";s;" and the average is: ";s/5
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are there any machine code to basic converters?i know it sounds stupid but for amature programmers like me it would be great. i could speed up the basic on an emulator and it would give me more of…
... 's the core of a BASIC loop which does OR ... [code]
1001 DEF FN b(a,b,c,d,g,v)=g:
a/2): LET e2=INT (b/2):
LET ... ba=a-e1*2: LET ... bb=b-e2*2:
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ZX Spectrum Z80 Development Environment on WindowsHi Folks, Just wondering what the recommendation is for a ZX Spectrum Z80 Development environment on Windows? Getting fed up with hand coding Z80…
... spectrum itself.
A lot of spectrum development is ... "]The "flexible syntax" is a terrible idea by the way ... let's say ADD A and not ADD A,A (as if you ... the (one liners) of 'LD A,B,C,D,E,F: PUSH AF ... assemblers used syntax like 'LD A,+0(IX)'. This is ... -
ZX Spectrum Z80 Development Environment on WindowsHi Folks, Just wondering what the recommendation is for a ZX Spectrum Z80 Development environment on Windows? Getting fed up with hand coding Z80…
... like z88dk and sdcc - without a linker / librarian it would be ... code bases. Even without a large code base as motivator ... let's say ADD A and not ADD A,A (as if you ... the (one liners) of 'LD A,B,C,D,E,F: PUSH AF ... or is it "LD C,IXL; LD B,IXH"? Because the former ... -
New Game: Astrosmash! ZXHello Spectrum fans! It's been a while. After a few months of health issues and larger projects getting put on the back-burner, I decided to work …
... you can make a (un)cast function between a string variable and ... a sum of 8-bit ... all the operations involved with (A+B+C+D+E) plus adding cosmetic ... -
"In nihilum reverteris": a new big text-adventure 128K in English languageHi guys. "In nihilum reverteris" - another text-game / interactive novel by Yerzmyey. Platform: ZX Spectrum 128K or higher. (C) 2018 by H-PRG.…
... the text UP/DOWN.
A,B,C as "ACTION KEYS" - at the ... -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
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DEFPROC name() is like a GOSUB
well why ... it x,y,z or A$,b$,c$ can all be done ... if you store a value in a variable or array ... on in brackets.
having a
10 DEFPROC plot1 ...
you set up a PROC for a bolt
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Vega Spectrum KeymapsHi everybody, I am new on here, so apologise if this is int the wrong category. I have searched the forums and can find some keymaps for the vega …
... the vega for a few days it seems a but more logical ... ; 2; A; B; C; up; down; left; right; fire; select; 1; 2; A; B; C[/i ... /> I see I've had a couple more replies since writing ... for those.
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Short unattended type-in'sThis follows a similar topic on the BBC/Acorn forum (said topic can be found [url="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14919"]here[/url…
... /> 110 FOR B=USR "A" TO USR "A"+7: READ C: POKE B,C: NEXT B: DATA ... DIM A(5): FOR B=1 TO 5: READ C: LET A(B)=C: NEXT B: DATA ... 66,86,116,101,104
130 LET B ... /> 150 POKE 23693,A(B): PRINT "\a";: LET B=B+1: IF B=6 THEN LE… -
Tracking down a favourite Spectrum Adventure gameHello everyone - a new joiner here - looking to pick the collective Hive mind. I was an avid Spectrum gamer, and owned one of the very first 48K e…
Wow - what a fast response!
I ... spending many hours on Adventures A, B, C, D etc ... very basic parsing ... -
Need the title of the Sinclair Basic manual to look for itI had a copy but I've lost the USB chip it was on! I need it to look up commands because some Basic programs I looked at all used the command MOD and…
... numbers b and c (b divided by c), you have to use FN a(b,c). Check ... the example attached.
10 DEF FN a(b,c)=((b/c)-INT(b/c))*c ...
20 INPUT "Numerator",b
30 ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... rendering the Artillery landscape as a multidimensional string array as ... opposed to a very simple numeric array ... positions and attributes, stored in a$,b$,c$,d$ variables. This is much ... type CLS, then type PRINT a$; for starting again the game ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... 0 is 10, then A,B,C... are 11,12,13 etc ...
Everything is drawn to a back-screen, so then the ... skip over a character space '.', and start a new line ... of all!
A warning - I make positions 0 ... you can start printing a larger sprite off-screen. ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... positions and attributes, stored in a$,b$,c$,d$ variables. This is much ... care whether each line has a different number of characters, ... the increment size and give a smoother more accurate curve, even ... was remaking does plot a pixel at a time for instance, even ... -
Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
In a simple speed test, one letter ... more letter variable...
A 2 letter variable is just ... a bit faster than 3 and ... is why I always use a,b,c... z, defining them at the ... -
Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
... is why I always use a,b,c... z, defining them at the ... -
Dunny - help!I fired up SpecBAS, it automatically loaded the last program which was ASH2's background for the lander program. I pressed RUN and it ran fine then …
... br /> 18 READ a,b,c,d: IF a=255 THEN GO ... TO 60
19 IF c ... THEN FOR f=0 TO a: LET x ... =(INT(RND*9))*5:
DRAW 8+b ... it wouldnt come back in a normal window,.
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Matchpoint ball algorithmAnyone has any idea how Psions Matchpoint ball algorithm works? Are they calculating the balls' parabola (floating point for just the ball doesn't se…
Following a parabola is not complex, ... working out screen coordinates involves a division but you can do ... :
1) Make a table of various z values ... and turn your division into a multiply. You'd use ... is just (ax, by + cz) (a, b, c could be 1 as well ... -
What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
... F: Eye of Bain is a good one. I played it ... a few years ago and commented ... solve. It’s part of a series (A, B, C etc) but I don ... br />
If you want a real challenge (and it’s ... Touchstones of Rhiannon is worth a try.
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What was your Best/Worst school subjects?Bit of nonsense but.. Yeah well, what was your best/worse subjects at school?
... to go out and buy a calculator since that's what ... syllabus (the maths teacher made a big thing about buying Casio ... that GCSE A,B,C were equivalent to O Level grades A, B, C etc but ... you'd likely get a GCSE A-C or a different one for D ... -
What was your Best/Worst school subjects?Bit of nonsense but.. Yeah well, what was your best/worse subjects at school?
... go out and buy a calculator since that's ... (the maths teacher made a big thing about buying Casio ... GCSE A,B,C were equivalent to O Level grades A, B, C etc ... 'd likely get a GCSE A-C or a different one for ... 's something I haven't a clue about.
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