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  • WoSBridge for Spectranet - early previewAs it's been mentioned in the Spectranet thread, I thought I'd post a quick heads up about the WoSBridge for Spectranet. [B]What is it?[/B] Well, i…

    ... to write a JSON parser in BASIC?

    Change to a ... INPUT #4,a$
    40 PRINT a$
    50 GO TO ...
    Tuna Tuna September 2012 Hardware
  • BRAND NEW VTX 5000 MODEMSI have for disposal a number of BRAND NEW BOXED PRISM VTX 5000 Modems If tou would like to add one or more VTX 5000 modems to your Sinclair ZX Colle…

    ... Spectrum) but in the meantime here is some text which Brian has ... />
    VTX 5000 Cassette Inlay Text -

    Prizm VTX5000 User ... . Programs can also be sent in BASIC
    or machine code, ... code
    7F Hex for Basic program
    Error Detection: ...
    thelasernut thelasernut September 2012 Sales
  • Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…

    ... slow way to do it in BASIC without using any extra UDGs ... more efficient. It needs a print position option to be included ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Help needed...I am at my wits end with this pigs ear of a routine, can anyone simplify it and make it work as it should? Basically it should make the characters '…

    ... embedded print controls in the text, as with a plain text string ... setting AT (not needed in "scrolly", as it ... 7: CLS
    20 PRINT INK 6; PAPER 1, ... PAPER 6,
    30 PRINT AT 0,0;: RANDOMIZE ... which will scroll the text in the appropriate colours set ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Development
  • Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…

    ... .[/QUOTE]
    in fact, there is no big difference in number of calculations ... =b2-p2*256
    45 PRINT CHR$ (128+p2*4+p1 ... );
    55 NEXT c: PRINT
    70 NEXT b[/CODE]
    ub880d ub880d October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • smooth movement in basicWas trying to figure this out myself but i would like to be pointed in right direction now :-). How do I make something move in Basic without gettin…

    I coded quite a lot in BASIC back in the days. What I ... THEN LET x=x-1: PRINT AT y, x; "A ... " AND x < 31 THEN PRINT AT y, x; " A": ... THEN LET y=y-1: PRINT AT y, x; "A"; ... THEN LET y=y+1: PRINT AT y, x; "A"; ... order of execution. I print the new position and delete ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • smooth movement in basicWas trying to figure this out myself but i would like to be pointed in right direction now :-). How do I make something move in Basic without gettin…

    ... 'm also trying to use PRINT command and goto loops to ... position and printing blank space in previous is that correct or ... picture with the TV beam. In BASIC, you can do that by ... adding PAUSE 1 somewhere in the loop.

    To ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • smooth movement in basicWas trying to figure this out myself but i would like to be pointed in right direction now :-). How do I make something move in Basic without gettin…

    ... ]All true, that's why in BASIC you do a GOSUB 9000 ... too many IF statements and PRINT blank spaces (i.e. " ") to ... remove last print of player/ball, within the ...
    rustyredline rustyredline October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • smooth movement in basicWas trying to figure this out myself but i would like to be pointed in right direction now :-). How do I make something move in Basic without gettin…

    ... that to work out quicker in BASIC however I try it. Printing ... r,c;" "; but, from BASIC, PRINT AT r,c;" " {20246 T} ... 1D array could be used, in which case POKE p(rc1 ... rc1 needs to be factored in as well, and adding the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • REBELSTAR III've just finished playing Rebelstar II. Would it be controversial for me to suggest that it is actually superior to the first Rebelstar game? I fir…

    ... to think the original written in basic cost ?10.[/QUOTE]

    in BASIC, and for your tenner you got the game in a big ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2012 Games
  • Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…

    ... learning the basics would enjoy BASIC way more than Javascript ' ... our choices then were built in BASIC or nothing. I rapidly ... Because I spent years programming in BASIC on various machines, until I ... scars over the years, another big one was developing for 16 ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay October 2012 Development
  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    ... ; loaded separately, or embedded in BASIC as explained in "saving time populating large ... /> 9935 NEXT a
    9940 PRINT "Old size = ";t: LET t ... ,FN h(t)
    9944 PRINT "New size = ";t;" + ";x*3 ... ,2):[/color]
    [color=blue]PRINT a;TAB 3;a$(s ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …

    ... I was already advanced in BASIC programming and they were ... I remember but availability in the newsagents was hit ... And to the poster earlier in the thread, yes the ... meant 'graphic F'. Early in the history of SP they ... later used some other print out (not the ZX ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy November 2012 Games
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 2:9" error after the ... Austerlitz 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 22:1" error after the ... br /> [*]Starglider 128K: Missing text and graphics. [URL="http:// ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2012 Games
  • Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …

    ... . That was something that failed in my eyes - "single key ... each 'token' such as PRINT or LEN or RETURN took ... such as R or *. In the days of the 1K ... made a difference when programming in BASIC.

    If you ... did a lot of BASIC programming you got to ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy November 2012 Games
  • Machine code RST10 problemHello! After 27 years of playing with Spectrums I'm starting to look into doing assembly language properly. All went swimmingly well until I wrote …

    ... /> Thanks! That one will come in useful in future projects!

    text in one message
    [/QUOTE]
    big deal to write my own ... ! This book got me interested in assembly language programming 25 years ...
    snigfarp snigfarp November 2012 Development
  • Your Computer Magazine ScansPlease forgive my Intrusion. At the moment I'm trying to type in an Amstrad game called "Bomber" which was published in an issue of "Your Computer" O…

    ... Word Processor" which was published in the November 1984 Issue of ... Magazine has opted to print the program in smaller text to get more ... size smaller than the introductory text, it's difficult to read ... pages and can scan them in that would be wonderful. :)
    CP/M User CP/M User December 2012 Chit chat
  • They're here ! BASIC horror themed games[IMG]http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/q541/Rygarman/theyre_here.jpg[/IMG] Because its my birthday tomorrow (38 years young) I am making these ga…

    I must say I'm particularly impressed by Land of the Dead. Even in BASIC, and text only, it has such an atmosphere, and pretty fun to play as well.

    I've also seen the listing of it and I can only admire how you did it.
    Timmy Timmy December 2012 Brand new software
  • They're here ! BASIC horror themed games[IMG]http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/q541/Rygarman/theyre_here.jpg[/IMG] Because its my birthday tomorrow (38 years young) I am making these ga…

    ... Land of the Dead. Even in BASIC, and text only, it has such ...
    retromad retromad December 2012 Brand new software
  • Your Computer Magazine ScansPlease forgive my Intrusion. At the moment I'm trying to type in an Amstrad game called "Bomber" which was published in an issue of "Your Computer" O…

    ... out on my Mac WP (in Ritch Text) and it was using ... I changed it to Plain Text it was still the same ... it's in Plain Text. I picked up on that in Line 1030 ... being written for a 464 in BASIC 1.0. The later machines ... up the height of the text for the program and it ...
    CP/M User CP/M User December 2012 Chit chat
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... some questions, examples for differences in basic language. Maybe you can give ... +a(i): next

    print b

    instead of ... just adding: print a(1)+a(2)+a ... things like DEG and RAD in Basic...

    5. finally, playing ...
    lomax030 lomax030 December 2012 Announcements
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... kind of thing as using PRINT b$+c$ is way ... a clumsy replacement for PRINT USING found in other BASICs, or ... LET f=20
    30 PRINT VAL$ f$
    [/ ... /> 30 PRINT USING "#####",F
    [/CODE]
    in some other ... places though, with ZX BASIC's lack of an INSTR ...
    snigfarp snigfarp December 2012 Announcements
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 2:9" error after the ... Austerlitz 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 22:1" error after the ... br /> [*]Starglider 128K: Missing text and graphics. [URL="http:// ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2012 Games
  • calculator and sinusok, look at the Sysel's routine: [PHP]3 5b00 *s 4 5b00 tabsin = #7000 03 mksin 19.11.1995 Busy soft …

    ... /> 2 print a[/CODE]
    and then change Basic to bytes ... scheme from the numbers embedded in BASIC lines, to cover the ... The procedure for converting from BASIC format to code #34 format ... from code #34 to the BASIC representation:

    * look ...
    gasman gasman December 2012 Development
  • Checking for '+2e/+3e' ROMs via Sinclair BASICHi guys, I have a Spectrum +2A containing the '+e' ROMs (and a nice internal IDE interface with a CF card adaptor on it :) ) - If you are unsure wha…

    ... +3e detection fails, just print an error message and not ... in the final product.

    Although I'm OK in BASIC, Sinclair BASIC ... (or +3 BASIC) is a little ... familiar with Locomotive BASIC (the one built in to the ...
    woody.cool woody.cool December 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Psion 5 Spectrum Emulator probsI picked up a second hand Psion 5MX as I have gotten the text adventuring bug once more. I installed the Sinclair Spectrum Emulator version 4.0 by Pa…

    ... z80 of ghouls and ghosts in 128k or 48K mode I ... supported'. Agatha's Folly results in a garbled screen and then ... drive and it now appears in the extras menu. I have ... as I'm not a big text adventure fan nowadays.

    snigfarp snigfarp December 2012 Emulators
  • CAPS SHIFT on Spectrum+ ComputerI have just recently supplied a couple of replacement Spectrum+ keyboard membranes to a customer in Barby, Germany. Although something may have been…

    ... /> What make caps shift and . ? in basic I get E cursor this ... is when I load any big game and when press caps ...
    gorski gorski January 2013 Hardware
  • Deaf spectrum +3?I'm not having the best of luck so far. I've made a couple of poorly thought out impulse buys, and to date I've not really had much use out of any o…

    ... know anything other than 10 PRINT "Hello world", 20 GOTO ... owned a 48k back in the 80s). While loading ... very quickly either with "nonsense in basic" error, or a tape ... Centipod (and also SOS) in 48k mode too but ... a basic program to tape and loading back in. But ...
    gutted gutted January 2013 Hardware
  • Deaf spectrum +3?I'm not having the best of luck so far. I've made a couple of poorly thought out impulse buys, and to date I've not really had much use out of any o…

    ... know anything other than 10 PRINT "Hello world", 20 GOTO ... owned a 48k back in the 80s). While loading ... very quickly either with "nonsense in basic" error, or a tape ... Centipod (and also SOS) in 48k mode too but ... a basic program to tape and loading back in. But ...
    guesser guesser January 2013 Hardware
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