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  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... rid of that damned 128k BASIC - so when choosing solutions ... the compatibility issues, disabling 128k BASIC and enabling all other good ... region 3d00..3dff. At some points, there's fully ineligible stuff ... machines, except that poor 128k basic, and you'll be ...
    zilog zilog January 2007 Development
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ... :

    1) Do crap basic games that I wrote count ... and Dash-it written in BASIC by me can be classified ... ) I converted 2 type-in BASIC programs from books to QUILLed ... />
    Arjun - to answer your points.

    1) If YOU ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Infoseek database
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... get it to cross specific points.

    I was really ... something more like the other BASIC.
    It's a simple ... games, simple 3D animation from BASIC and it takes less space ... LINE, DRAW or PLOT (Applesoft BASIC) statements.
    I've been ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Currah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …

    ... memory (in order to perform BASIC ROM calls) otherwise Woody's ... doubles the number of "entry points"), all of which would happen ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Emulators
  • TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…

    ... - if I run a small BASIC test program, which pokes 0 ... into a 48K machine, yet BASIC can read and write the ... it does not fail with BASIC, but the ROM cannot initialize ... lower 16K, so it all points to speed (AKA RAM access ...
    Marcelo Marcelo March 2007 Hardware
  • Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …

    ... is just as easy as Basic to pick up, incidentally, and ... (varchar(255))
    book_id (integer - points to an id from the ... less the same as the basic plain-text approach, except that ...
    gasman gasman March 2007 Chit chat
  • Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks

    ... work in case the stack points to somewhere else before load ... anti-merge and auto-run BASIC programs (most of them loaders ... protection was to load the basic program as a code file ... simple program to examine the BASIC listing and decimal contents of ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Time travel...Time travel is a very, very interesting concept. Surely everyone has dreamt of going back in time, to see how things used to be, or of going into the…

    ... ]To address some of the points you raise.

    Time ... or a distance between two points), but can it be proven ... Hawking).

    [quote]
    Basic physics states that matter cannot ... the Spectrum SE, and ZX BASIC SE :smile:

    [ ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Chit chat
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... , based on a simple Chess points system I read somewhere. It ... no loading screen (just a BASIC loader and the code), awful ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... , even smaller than Sinclair Basic. There is something like ... and string variables. Sinclair basic hides the distinction between ... declare numbers with the basic interpretter automatically converting to ... "int *pi" where "pi" points at an integer, adding 1 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…

    ... need to write a new BASIC from scratch that is syntactically ... plans to replicate is the Basic editor. As for being a ... just to confirm routine entry points, not to find out how ...
    gasman gasman July 2007 Hardware
  • Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…

    ... game generates "events" at certain points, eg collecting an item, a ... , and also at many other points such as the start of ... squares instead.

    Some basic object handling code is in ...

    It's pretty basic but hopefully should give users ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... (), p_VisitMapCrossTwo()[/b]

    If basic is your only background, you ... * something you could do in basic if so motivated (unlike most ... fit well with basic).

    There are several points in the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... tile (MSB = 0 if none) points at struct sp1_cs.attr_mask
    basic, but you should be starting ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • IY RegisterIve got a really bizarre bug, and I have only just started using the IY register. I seem to remember reading somewhere in a programming book, to neve…

    It points to the system variables, so changing it makes the system think to look elsewhere for its all important workspace.(for BASIC)

    mind explaining what the problems are, or give us an assembly listing?
    ghbearman ghbearman September 2007 Development
  • Wtf??I won this NZ auction earlier this week [url]http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=116509561[/url] and have been to collect the hardware th…

    ... you can write a simple BASIC loop to print out addresses ... been altered. The main entry points must have been maintained for ...
    Geoff Geoff September 2007 Hardware
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... that the template places seven basic time units into PTU, 0 ... post) so this memory address points at one of the player ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... also been curious why BBC basic is so generally well regarded ... (do they?).

    Sinclair basic is tortuously slow. That and ... program structure are its low points. The BBC had a 2MHz ... a 3.5MHz z80. BBC basic was efficiently implemented in comparison ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... do they?).

    Sinclair basic is tortuously slow. That and ... program structure are its low points. The BBC had a 2MHz ... 3.5MHz z80. BBC basic was efficiently implemented in comparison ... junk development path that Sinclair basic was treated to.[/QUOTE]< ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • A vexatious questionThis is kind of a follow-up to a question about RST #8 and hardware that I wrote in the development forum a while ago. To summarize that: certain ha…

    ... use the interface 1's BASIC extension vectors instead of trapping ... saving, and TR-DOS entry points. In other words, no :-(
    gasman gasman October 2007 Hardware
  • Where will Microsoft go after Vista ?If i were Microsoft, i would develop a media center only OS with no backwards compatability that would be able to be used on a Dual Booted pc running…

    ... to keep fetching and updating basic software. I wondered why the ... lower level interfaces from two points of view. The first is ...
    Laser Laser October 2007 Chit chat
  • Where will Microsoft go after Vista ?If i were Microsoft, i would develop a media center only OS with no backwards compatability that would be able to be used on a Dual Booted pc running…

    ... to keep fetching and updating basic software.
    [/quote]

    points of view. The first is ... C standard library as a basic library. As for kernel functions ...
    Winston Winston October 2007 Chit chat
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... the ZX80/81 as Geoff points out. In SLOW mode the ... for your programs and your BASIC interpretter. In other words, impractical ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2007 Hardware
  • Just nuked Vista on my new Dell laptop for XPHave had this laptop for about six months. It came with Vista pre-installed. No one in the house liked it. - Wireless networking is the last thing t…

    ... at all apart from the basic stuff for the laptop (battery ... />
    The rest of your points I agree with, but those ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2007 Chit chat
  • The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…

    ... br />
    Socket library entry points in the last page of ... address 0x0000.

    BASIC entry points that can be disabled with ... filesystem that is accessable from BASIC (I'm currently thinking of ... internet or off your LAN). BASIC traps (i.e. lower ROM ...
    Winston Winston November 2007 Hardware
  • New tape releases - 128K only?As Jon's new Egg-Head game is 128K only, and splATTR has also evolved into a 128K only game - both due to memory constraints - I was wondering if the…

    ... the I register so it points to 15359 (value 59)
    BASIC mode.

    About the ...
    na_th_an na_th_an December 2007 Games
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... 32x32 or 64x32 resolution from BASIC, and that was via a ... DEFADD (23563) system variable which points to the DEF FN function ... as they would appear in BASIC, then load the address of ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... additional look.
    The Sysvar points, as I said, to ... own code rather than BASIC you should set up ... somewhere in memory by BASIC and DEFADD set to ... number stored in the traditional BASIC format. To set an ... and calling the FN from BASIC. Just look at the ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • Vedic Maths Trick!So you don't have to learn your 11 times table. For any 2 numbers multiplied by 11, add them together and insert the answer between the multiple dig…

    ... will let you answer any basic math equation in your head ... really quickly (by basic math I just mean + - / x ... did were ridiculous with decimal points and reoccuring numbers in the ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2007 Chit chat
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... (both points being opinion), the Speccy had a much better BASIC, was ... my friends had Speccys (these points are all facts), plus the ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2007 Games
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