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RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... 5 bytes for channel below BASIC area
call ...
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In BASIC, type [B]CLEAR 64860[/B ... , use [B]PRINT #4[/B] to print text in 64 columns, for ... -
Streams - File HandlingHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am attempting to write a Z80 / Snapshot Launching program that is based on a category of files # - Z whereby each f…
... br />
9999 CLS:
PRINT "Saving Program, Please Wait":
CLS:
PRINT "C:STREAM4.BAS Saved Complete ... />
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C Nonsense in BASIC, 160: 1
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text file from standard DISK ... -
Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…
... 't do much with built-in Basic, it is not enough even ... also special programs for creating text games.
If you ... are ready to start something big, PC tools are the way ... the ZX its was programmable in both BASIC and Machine Code? Would ... -
Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…
... bet is to type in some BASIC games from a ... get an idea of the BASIC commands, what's possible ... hand into numbers, then in BASIC use the POKE command to ... with a PRINT USR nnnnn command from BASIC. That's ... the memory. Plus your text version of the program ... -
IN or INKEY ?just curious which is better to use.. I have a menu done.. and use 6/7 to go up down it + space to cycle thru the options (using inkey).. obv. if I w…
... keys?
(OK in INKEY$ this will lead ... />
Notice the " ;) " in my post.
Of ... as reading full typed text, the IN way may become ... lack of bitwise operations in BASIC. But for simple OPQA ... detection in your game, it's not such a big ... -
BASIC menus for PlusD discsIs it possible to use BASIC to code custom autoloader menus for PlusD discs? For instance, I can make a disc copy of Dizzy Collection and could make…
... (in BASIC):
[CODE]10 PRINT"Disc Menu"
20 PRINT""
30 PRINT ... listing half-an-hour ago in Speccy basic but it didn't ... do a loading screen of text.
I'd rather ... -
Tricked into buying/playing a game!Have you ever been 'tricked' into purchasing a game by the advert (looking completely different to how the game played out) or a review or an inlay c…
... and realised it was written in BASIC as that kind of ... game can be good in BASIC. I spied it on ... being was a bog standard text adventure which wasn't ... as much fun as other text adventures. Plus it cost ... of the time. A big disappointment though no where near ... -
LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…
... br /> PROG -> 27099 : BASIC
27100 -> 33999 : ... RUN, enter length, text flag, print flag (defaults 2048,1 ... ,1). If text=1 and print=1 then the ... the screen; if text=0 and print=1 then the ... will print statistics, although this part is still in BASIC and ... -
30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectr…
... have to give a big thumbs up to the ... thanks to its version of BASIC which, although limited, was ... that my dad wrote in BASIC back in the late 80s/ ... into machine code using HiSoft BASIC :-) I also compressed ... completed version of my text adventure The Legend Of ... -
ANN: SpudACE v0.302A new SpudACE is now available, either from [URL="http://bit.ly/wuIaI5"]here[/URL] or [URL="http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk"]www.jupiter-ace.co.uk[/URL]…
... think I owe you a big thankyou for helping me ... variation of zombpot or astar in BASIC while a teenager?... Perhaps ... COW!!!... Theres a built in Keyboard Spool feature included!?!?!?!?!... THAT ... and writing programs from ascii text files!!!... WHY can't more ... -
ANN: SpudACE v0.302A new SpudACE is now available, either from [URL="http://bit.ly/wuIaI5"]here[/URL] or [URL="http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk"]www.jupiter-ace.co.uk[/URL]…
... think I owe you a big thankyou for helping me ... variation of zombpot or astar in BASIC while a teenager?... Perhaps ... COW!!!... Theres a built in Keyboard Spool feature included!?!?!?!?!... THAT ... and writing programs from ascii text files!!!... WHY can't more ... -
Keyboard issuesI'm getting back into programming in BASIC, but I'm finding using a PC keyboard to emulate 48k or 128k BASIC tiresome due to the mapping of keys, esp…
... have to program anything in BASIC, Id be tempted to ... then inputs that clipboard text into the keyboard buffer, ... which then "types" the text into the emulator... Its ... of it, say, "10 PRINT A$", then run UnReal, ... then type the text into the BASIC editor for me... ... -
ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... in zx rom.
i have no big experience with BASIC ... "What do you want to print today?", 13
defb ... BIN/ directory with filename PRINT. then boot esxdos and you ... could use .print command for example: .print "Hello world"
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... won't be a limitation in SE BASIC 4 on the Spectrum ... UDGs will still work as in SE Basic they're not stored ... of them seem to print the text slower in 64 column mode than ... screen size is 480x192. In SE BASIC the draw commands will only ...80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... t be a limitation in SE BASIC 4 on the ... will still work as in SE Basic they're not stored ... them seem to print the text slower in 64 column mode ... screen size is 480x192. In SE BASIC the draw commands will ... s slower or faster, basic 64 in 64 column channel uses ...BASIC games on GameBoy Advance emulators? Possible ???Does anyone know is there any way to make ZXAdvance or FOON play BASIC games ? The game I want to convert is my own game which I quickly reprogramme…
... white text input screen.. the buttons I allocated typing as in BASIC ... but ... ZXAdvance) the screen is not big enough to display all of ...Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…
most emu's have a "print to text" file option for the printer ... on c64 there was a basic compactor which would join lines ... /> you might find redoing it in c would be beneficial , some ...Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…
... quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then ... spectaculator to 128K mode and in basic type load "" with the .tzx ... so it can print to a normal printer or text file or ... as emulator and ZX_editor as text editor, both under Windows 7 ...Bottom 4 lines of the screen fileI'm wanting to save the bottom 4 lines of the display memory (AT 20,0 to #0; AT 1,31) 23168 is the start of the attributes and its length will be 32…
... pixel rows in the bottom four print lines. In BASIC I would ... have done a "PRINT AT ... 23295[/code]
In m/code the display file ... there's graphic data in those four lines on ... there's just ASCII text then 896 bytes could ...Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…
... correcting the line length in the auto-run line, ... will fail with "Nonsense in BASIC". For why, I'll ... prog+3,hilen
20 PRINT "Loaded": STOP
... ]
So, if a big number is poked into the ... and gives a "Nonsense in BASIC" error. Attempting to auto ...Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…
... to select an icon, writing text in 64 columns and
[/ ... 64 column text")
Which will print the text at location ... I said in the Berksman tutorial,
10 Print "Hello ... World"
Is a perfectly valid ZX Basic ...File comparitorI thought Taper might do it but its not quite what I was after. Unless I misunderstood that shows if tapes are identical or not but not the differenc…
... ] library. It's too slow in BASIC, but it gives an example ... simple byte comparison; comparing narrative text files efficiently is a whole ... : REM no diff = no print
19 PRINT : LET set=+kFG: REM ...
IF ch1=ch2 THEN PRINT " ";: RETURN: REM if pair ...Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…
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I enter something in BASIC like:
[CODE] ... /> 2. Asking the Spectrum to PRINT something.
When ... pattern in the first column disappears and the desired text appears ... , during which the Spectrum will print a "?" to the screen, ...Scrolling TextI've being trying to find a simple basic way of scrolling some text on a single line, My method is ridiculous, I've been using the print statement fo…
In BASIC?
[CODE]10 LET a$=" Hello everybody, this is scrolling text... "
20 FOR N=1 TO LEN A$-31
30 PRINT AT 0,0;A$(N TO N+31);
40 PAUSE 5
50 NEXT N[/CODE]Modern printer with the ZX SpectrumJust curious: If for some reason I wanted to use a printer with my Spectrum, are there any modern printers that would work with it?
... HP ones) will print plain text (without it needing to ... want to do is print plain text, you can do ... ZX BASIC, and sending what you want to print down ... the newly opened BASIC stream. In other ... ip.of.printer",9100
PRINT #4;"Hello, world!"
Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…
... /> ld a,FKText_YouHaveFound
call print
ld a,FKText_Object_Cheese
text in English can I get any ... to other languages? The basic Finders Keepers text is about 4k uncompressed ...Changing the font in z88dkEither I've got this backwards or the documentation is incorrect... :smile: "[URL="http://www.z88dk.org/wiki/doku.php?id=platform:zx"]The standard Z…
... definitely big endian in the code. It's using big endian ... interpret a lot of print position chars (eg cursor ... screen, it mixes the text onto it so you ...
That embedded asm in the global space (the ._font ... .asm file as described in the beepola thread. I ...Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…
... ()
[*]Z80commands.bas : the big test file
[*]Assembler-vtest ... the main program with the big test file loaded
[*] ... just use it to load BASIC text files quickly.
In practice this program in BASIC has no practical use ...Which Emulator supports Betadisk48?Hi out there and happy new year, I'm looking for an emulator to run with my vision1.7 trdos-rom in 48 mode. Unfortunately most emus only support Bet…
This thread is a big telling off for ... 48 notes I found in an old text file. Some of ... can be accessed through BASIC, the memory area between ... uses 112 bytes of RAM in BASIC variables (23734 to 23845) ... uses *133 bytes of RAM in BASIC variables (23734 to 23866) + ...How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... i remember doing udg's in basic, but it's so ... you put a string of text into it and have ... to print "
I remember the basic principal lol ... a newbie help!"
20 Print a$
30 REM ...
