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  • Q about Atari ST Emulators and anthoer Q about JoysticksEnough of this talk of this Comode Amiga... Phah!! I may have asked this before but can I stick my Atari ST disks in my PC and run them in an ST Emu…

    ... ST would be:
    Carrier Command
    Civilization
    Formula 1 ... you needed an ST to play back in the day because it ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2008 Chit chat
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... />
    I think I said in my first e-mail to ... changing the text in BASIC games and letting my friends play them.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sudoku on ZX Spectrum 48KZX Spectrum 48&#1050; Sudoku game 25 years Spectrum and 300 years Leonhard Euler anniversary. 6000 (and more) puzzles, 8 levels. [url]http://www.t…

    ... solutions took 02:30:33 in BASIC (that's hours, minutes and ... :11 in the compiled BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    I'm currently play-testing ... solver which managed that grid in 6 seconds flat. :-o
    bobs bobs July 2008 Games
  • Best strategy gameWhat are your favourite strategy games? And don't say Stonkers, although it was fun for a little while in those early days. Mine's Desert Rats. A tr…

    ... and scenarios. You can only play on the allied side, however ... doesn't take long to play but is a tough little ... 's extremely primitive, written mostly in BASIC, and only supports two player ... forces each side have to play with allowing you to create ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2008 Games
  • Best strategy gameWhat are your favourite strategy games? And don't say Stonkers, although it was fun for a little while in those early days. Mine's Desert Rats. A tr…

    ... played, and made you type in commands in some weird code, all ... extent that you can even play Laser Squad entirely with a ... Viking Raiders. Despite being written in BASIC, having a silly theme and ... without getting too bogged down in the game mechanics which are ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2008 Games
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... 8 in the ROM is the error routine. Anytime a BASIC line ... have to parse some Nonsense in BASIC to get to it.[/QUOTE ... RST 8, not just nonsense in BASIC. For example, "Invalid I/O ... if you enter an OPEN # command to something other than the ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2008 Development
  • post your preferred 'up-down-left-right-fire' keys redefinefor me, and for some reason it was Emlyn hughes back in the day that got me attatched to this, from then on and to this day I will always redefine my…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;289624]O P Q A ... the speccy scans keyboard presses in blocks of 5. This is ... numbers mentioned above. In BASIC you could use the IN command IIRC to do ...
    The Starglider The Starglider July 2008 Games
  • Sinclair Computer Club???We've nearly finished setting up the Commodore Computer Club (UK) - [url]www.CommodoreComputerClub.co.uk[/url], and I have the domain name for [url]w…

    ... basis in most circumstances unless stated in the club ... re asking this question in a retrocomputing forum?? ... useful in many ways indeed. The ZX80 can play ... a few games and you can program it in BASIC ... . Whatelse can you use it for? Can you plug in ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    Quick question - How do I flip between screens in Basic again? I've forgotten the command .
    mulder mulder August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... flip between screens in Basic again? I've forgotten the command .[/QUOTE]
    command to flip between screens from 128K BASIC? I am ... into second screen (Very slow in BASIC - takes a few minutes. Hint ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... well be a built in BASIC command to do this. I ... t exist. With 128K BASIC, who knows what obscure ... wanted to do it in basic. In the end I did ... be done well enough in BASIC for most applications I ... second screen using ordinary BASIC PRINT and graphics commands. ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... [b]OUT[/b] command isn't actually needed in BASIC!

    ... second screen can only be in bank 7 - hence ... , and performs the OUT command for us. I can' ... will see that even BASIC is capable of very rapid ... flipping.

    In (m)anual mode, press a ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …

    ...
    i implemented dda in 8 bit integer arithemetic, pseudocode ... fact that everything is kept in register. perhaps with massive ... DRAW x, y, arc command with specific parameters (i think ... implemented in basic will draw circle a bit faster than CIRCLE command ...
    Fikee Fikee September 2008 Development
  • The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…

    ... File". It was written in BASIC and was pretty nifty ... complete nitwit trying to play the game with ... this utterly boring (in hindsight) text adventure ... been critically acclaimed in the speccy community for ... astounding gameplay! Everyone should play it IMO. It ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2008 Games
  • "The arcade is done. Game over."Nice little article on the death of the arcades. [url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/explore/chi-arcades-end-0605jun05,0,3830088.s…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;300438]I think you're ... ). The most games they can play are 6. I think you ... is over 100meg. They came in 4 different flavors: 1,2 ... had a memory card readers in the front that you could ...
    chop983 chop983 September 2008 Games
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... an immediate command or in a program generates a Nonsense in BASIC error and ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Emulators
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... an immediate command or in a program generates a Nonsense in BASIC error and ... commands that have no use in BASin :-p

    Actually ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2008 Emulators
  • Games in basicIs there a definitive list of published games written in Basic, I'm particularly interested in Text adventures.

    ... spent months to play it.
    Other RPG in BASIC was "The Seven ...
    LCD LCD October 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • How would you make Cybernoid a better game.Following on from the Cecco thread, it might actually be quite interesting to hear people?s views on how they would improve the recognised ZX Spectru…

    ... ]. 48k made a cybernoid editor in basic, he got the ball rolling ... lack of variety in its design makes the game play repetitive after ... adding a basic puzzle solving elements to the game play - a ... classic Cybernoid shoot-fest game play would take the game to ...
    zxspecticle zxspecticle October 2008 Games
  • Whoa - someone gave Match Day 50% on release![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8502/Pages/SinclairPrograms850200017.jpg]Sinclair Programs review[/url]. M…

    [quote=Nonsense in BASIC;314825]Yes, but that doesn' ... And Run was fun to play it could hardly be compared ... to FIFA 2009 in terms of realism.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler November 2008 Games
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... an immediate command or in a program generates a Nonsense in BASIC error ... Now type in CAT ! (silicon disk) as an immediate command. It ... [/quote]

    Fixed. +3 BASIC isn't supported by BASin ... - try (as a direct command, with the printer window open ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2008 Emulators
  • Please help an absolute novice with some simple(ish) programming.I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, for my GCSE Astronomy coursework [quote] Use a spreadsheet and/or a graphing package, or write a com…

    ... /> There's no ellipse command in Sinclair BASIC. You can approximate a very ... crude ellipse using the DRAW command ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…

    ... which is used widely in BASIC, but in its most arbitrary form ... .

    In most respects, the HiSoft BASIC compiler is the ... the most comprehensive support for BASIC commands. However MCoder 3 ... Other compilers could come into play if you've got differing ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    Try [CODE]PLAY STR$(USR(7962))[/CODE]On ... Out of range". In BASin it reports Nonsense in BASIC and you lose ...
    Jimmy Jimmy December 2008 Emulators
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    ... time :

    Type in
    [CODE]10 CAT !< ... [/CODE]
    Then type in RUN
    Press CAPS ... /> If you type in an immediate command like "RUN" or ... work at this point. PLAY for example also fails ... rather odd use of the PLAY command, that is...

    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... /> You cannot use the COPY command to make a screen dump ... . Instead use the command
    RANDOMIZE USR 63696
    in BASIC' error message. This is perfectly ... br />
    It works though in FUSE, with "Emulate Printers" and ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Games
  • Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…

    ... 0 the speccy from 128 BASIC, it goes into 48k mode ... and available in 48k mode. Whereas if you select 48 BASIC from ... menu or use the SPECTRUM command in 128 BASIC, the bankswitching features are ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • [BASin] Bug report and question[B]1. Bug report:[/B] BASIC Editor behavior I'm using a variable to store the contents of the BC register. But the BASIC editor works strangely. I t…

    ... Type some line numbered USR command in the BASIC editor
    3. ... Open Assembler, type in something and assemble ... the program" icon on the BASIC editor window
    9. ... You no longer can type in the BASIC editor, the emulator gets ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz January 2009 Emulators
  • Cro S2008Hi everybody!!! I hope this is right thread? :-) I want to share with you my new project. I call it ?S2008?? The idea was to build Spectrum48K clo…

    ... change TAP files only from basic, not exist comfortable NMI menu ... that it's purely written in BASIC.

    Oh, and of ... with IDE device only from basic command line.... [/QUOTE]

    ... and native files from the command line (and loading Z80 or ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2009 Hardware
  • Spectrum +2 sound problemsI recently bought an RGB Scart cable for my grey Spectrum +2 - it has a mono 3.5 jack that goes into the sound output and a DIN plug for the RGB pict…

    The 128k Play command IS quieter than the beeper ... />
    I think as the play command is three channel a single ... play note should be about a ... it's volume settings from basic).

    I recently had ...
    thingley thingley January 2009 Hardware
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