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MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... switch to RESIDOS this basic commands:
POKE 18711,237: POKE 18712, 65: POKE 18713 ... RST 0 and switching to RESIDOS from ZX basic/BS-ROM will ... , good point. I'm used to running ResiDOS on interfaces where ... /> I'll put this in to the next release. -
IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …
... only thing we need to get from the BASIC loader is the ... are better implemented using a POKE or two.
... . All we have to do is POKE 23606/7 with the ... /> 20 FOR i=0 TO 1200:POKE i+32768, PEEK i: ... /> 30 FOR i=15616 TO 16383: POKE i+32768, PEEK i:NEXT ... -
What spectrum game had the best ending.In the good old days of the Spectrum, lot of games did not have an ending. Once you completed the game you went straight back to the start again. Lik…
... there is nowhere to hide - nothing can be done to prevent a ... cruel ending - a novel alternative to the usual ?well done? ... official? poke fix. Willy is dragged conveyor-belt-like to the toilet ... JL: Worst endings are difficult to judge because so many games ... -
UDG's and BASinJust a noob question about BASin or Basic in general When I try and create UDG's using POKE USR "a"+0,BIN 10111100 etc. After the program is run, it…
... there is a valid case to choose your UDG output format ... - even if you want to go for the POKE USR "a"+0 ... - send as DATA to BASIC (hex or decimal), send to tape, poke to memory, send ... -
It's Smokin'I like to start the day with one of Nick's highlighted video's and today's is a wry look at the Zee Ex Spectrum from over the pond. [url]http://vide…
... never really occurred to them that the Basic keywords they were ... programming with were supposed to roughly correspond to ... the use of English in Basic is just bizarre. What has ... why the correct pronunciation of Poke (of DigiSID fame)'s ... -
'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…
... was a way to do it built into basic or some quick ... way to do it at ... assembly, so I wanted to do it in basic. In the end ... y and load 2 loading screen$ in to see them blended together ... -
'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'm ... didn't exist. With 128K BASIC, who knows what obscure commands ... y and load 2 loading screen$ in to see them blended together ... 't seem to write directly to the second screen using ordinary BASIC PRINT ... -
'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…
... /> [QUOTE=Woody;293374]Not within BASIC, Mr. Dunny :)[/QUOTE]
... br /> I think BASIC commands can only write to the main screen ... This could allow you to have "loading strips" of lots of ... different colours througout your loading screen without the overhead ... -
Bandersnatch Development Disks FoundFound these 5.25" disks in my loft at the weekend and thought you guys would be interested. I'm in the process of extracting the stuff that is on the…
... word "Cain" was added to the loading screen as people would know ... Cain was doing all the loading screens at Imagine at that ... going to start using the "Creative Technology Group" as a trading name ... whole host of supporting graphics to drip feed into the forum ... -
Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…
... BASIC was sitting there waiting for you to tell it to print your name ... ; if you want to program then you have to go looking for ... now I'd have killed to own when I was about ... -
Ultimate loading screensAs I'm replaying some of my youth favorites, a question arose today that -- funny enough -- I used to have also back in those times. Maybe someone kn…
... that -- funny enough -- I used to have also back in those ... did most all of their loading screens so that they were ... that's really hard to draw on from BASIC?
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Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…
... some experience with different BASIC compilers and the general outcome ... seems to be the only one capable to compile almost any BASIC ... start your next BASIC program with HiSoft BASIC in mind and ... own data storage using PEEK/POKE. You can get commercial ... -
Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
Hi, @jp: Tried loading the game without doing ... @Digital Prawn: Finally got round to taking off the interface 1 ... 10 FOR a=16384 TO 65535
20 POKE a,255
to POKE to somewhere I shouldn't be ... . Isn't there a POKE/PEEK that tells you if ... -
Help to run Abu Simbel in a +2A SpectrumI bought this game some weeks ago, but the version is the old one. When I loaded it in the emulator, I had to switch the keyboard issue to 48Kissue.…
... seems to be transferred to 65302
-Some code stays near Basic area ... we can add a command to poke 49861 with 187 before the ... , if we're going to create a new Basic loader, it should ... code, creating a very small Basic loader shouldn't be hard ... -
Help to run Abu Simbel in a +2A SpectrumI bought this game some weeks ago, but the version is the old one. When I loaded it in the emulator, I had to switch the keyboard issue to 48Kissue.…
... will then convert it to a nice little Basic program.
to make it easier). It's just fake loading for the BASIC ... 1200
LDIR-transfers loader to original address
CALL 24100 ... LD (HL),187-POKEs memory to solve incompatability problem with +2A ... -
Defender of the crownI have checked recently the Spectrum version of this well known, great game and the Spectrum version is strange. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org…
... original version. Intro is simplified to two loading screens without music. There ... 'm not sure about its name, but the blue background). ... PGyuri wrote. After Mirrorsoft decided to release the game we contacted ... br /> The Cat is the name of our team (lately we ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
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* Contributed routines from SE Basic to the Sparky eZX project
name Open82 and its sourceforge project page to the OpenZXROM ... /> * Worked out how to add six TOKENS to Sinclair BASIC on codes 0 ... -
Murkwood / Red ShiftI have a tape (no inlay) called "Murkwood" by "Red Shift" 1984 I can't find it listed anywhere, and I wonder if it is an expansion pack for a game a…
... 's how it's supposed to be.
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basic way to hide the
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Your best Type-ins gamesType-ins games bring me great memories. A whole evening typing a program from a magazine, after some hours I typed RUN and... an error message! After…
... think the problem is that Basic is sooo slow that it ... was very hard to work up any enthusiasm too ... a routine that typed my name with a big pen on ... Miner 2 was not going to be done in basic. -
Your best Type-ins gamesType-ins games bring me great memories. A whole evening typing a program from a magazine, after some hours I typed RUN and... an error message! After…
... think the problem is that Basic is sooo slow that it ... was very hard to work up any enthusiasm too ... a routine that typed my name with a big pen on ... 2 was not going to be done in basic.[/QUOTE]
Not ... all type-ins were in BASIC. I remember there was a ... -
Cheat Mode BookHi all, I'm considering making and releasing a book of game cheats - it would cover the C64, Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum. It would feature PO…
... : the JSW atic bug poke) come to be made? What about pokes ... that had to work around complex protection systems ... went out of their way to hide the lives counters? How about ... hackers? The race between hackers to find pokes first? The development ... -
Why does the speccy make you hear loading?Always wondered this, of all the 8-bit 'puters I have owned, only the Speccy makes you listen to the loading sounds from the tape, why??? I assume it…
... up those who tried to hum loading noises into a tape recorder ... , and just generic game code loading - which is a bit sad ... sound of system variables, UDGs, BASIC... :grin:
When I ... why do we enjoy listening to loading noise so much. :-P I ... -
Newbie Loading IssuesSo I just bought some [I]new[/I] games from the internet to bolster my new spectrum collection but I have having trouble loading a couple of them: F…
... you want to load machine code rather than a BASIC program - thats ... - what the Spectrum is about to load is a block of ... code.
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SCREEN$ 1.9e Released!And here's another update! [url]http://paul.dunn.googlepages.com/SCREEN_1.9e.rar[/url] There's a few new things in this release, but it's mostly bu…
... . I can hear the loading noise and the two triangles ... the Spectrum border, reacting to the loading noise, but there's ... Config: BASICCount=10
Config: BASIC=0
Config: CLS=1 ... scanlines surface
Render scanlines to scanlines texture
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Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... quite often to check BASIC programs behaviors and compare them to the ones ... is what I try to do with ZX BASIC. To use ROM routines ... code variables from Sinclair BASIC using PEEK and POKE, but this is ... program, it won't return to BASIC unless you use END or ... -
Ultimate! Time WasterThis used to bug me big time 25 years ago.:mad: In the early 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games Jetpac Cookie Trans am there are three …
... the the last loading block and try to run the ... work. It was done to stop people MERGEing the ... the three small ones) to make an illegal copy which ... end of Bytes: 3 loading and the RANDOMIZE USR ... protect those who want to POKE stuff between loading Bytes: 3 and ... -
Hard drive gamesWill they ever happen? The hardware exists in the real world. Not many have it though. Those that want to play games in the real world therefore o…
... gasman;355769]Another barrier to hard-disk based games ... existing IDE interface firmware to do something useful ... use-case of 'loading a TAP file off ... The solution is to write games with BASIC Uniloader for games. ... So we only need to ... -
Need to read code start and length from a +3 diskso i can transfer them to my internal ZXMMC interface and my mind has died as to how to do it (i know how to for a tape) any help or a general kick i…
... complete, you still need to make the basic loader,
load ... program again and select 4 basic setup program
Select ... and finally you see the basic listing (just follow instructions ... name part before numbers (use cat to see files). Save basic loader to ... -
Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... a BASIC app runs on the spectrum that saves a file name to ... "tape" (an audio connection to a PC running ... REM request to the server). The BASIC program then attempts to load (via ... Spectrum would be easy to write in BASIC, and a simple ...
