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  • printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…

    ... trying to get the graphics character 'a' to display. ... jr nz,L3
    call PRINT
    inc de
    ... res 7,a
    call PRINT
    ret


    ;PRINT ROUTINE
    PRINT: push de
    ld ...
    digital digital August 2018 Development
  • printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…

    ... ’t use any other print modifier tokens or character codes with it ... , as these will just print as ...
    colonel32 colonel32 September 2018 Development
  • Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…

    ... with 8 bytes per each character, which is like the font ... .e. you print a single line (byte) of a character and go ... each line of a single character, which I think isn't ...
    Hikaru Hikaru December 2018 Development
  • Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…

    ... character (code ≥ 0x20)?
    jp nc,not_control_code ;go ahead and print ... br /> jp prop_printer ;fetch next character

    LF cp ... the base address of character
    add hl,bc ... br /> and 7 ;does the character straddle a cell boundary?
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore December 2018 Development
  • Random GRASSHello guys, Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE. It seems that PRINTing a string$ combin…

    ... UDG character using the same idea of leaving spaces between pixels, PRINT ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Random GRASSHello guys, Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE. It seems that PRINTing a string$ combin…

    ... of the array index.
    print at y,x;g$[random ... CHARS back to the ROM character set.
    Luny Luny February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…

    ... I make them the full character width, which colours worked best ... it all quickly using
    PRINT AT y,x; TAB z ...
    patters patters March 2019 Brand new software
  • Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…

    ... it all quickly using
    PRINT AT y,x; TAB z ... a "crater" (this is, a character space); the explosion itself will ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic March 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... (e.g. the Brain 8 character data)? Is it via inline ... is much fast that doing PRINT AT; INK; BRIGHT; etc. And ... game, type CLS, then type PRINT a$; for starting again the ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... a character space '.', and start a new line under the last print ... 4,4. And you can print off the right-hand side ...
    joefish joefish April 2019 Brand new software
  • is there a way of bypassing the rom and having 64 columns mode running all the time?i have tried various 64 column print routines but none of them seem to do this. i would like it to do 64 column mode for listings, typing, editing, p…

    I did a 64 column print routine back in the day < ... /> I simply designed 2 4x8 character sets
    one of LEFT ... from the left of the character cell (bits 4-7)
    character was in an even or ...
    SKR SKR April 2019 Development
  • is there a way of adding a define procedure command to zx basic?i know you can add things like renumber, using randomize usr to call it, but this would have to be keywords. this would be so helpful in basic as you…

    ... statement' must have an underline character followed by the
    required ... /> 9020 MODE_4: STIPPLE_6
    9030 PRINT A$
    9040 ENDPROC_DISPLAY
    the correct character size. Line 9030 prints the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Stuck again! Please help meI'm in the process of making a little game, eventually it will become rather more sophisticated (I hope) but I am testing out routines one at a time.…

    ... ).

    So when a character or letter is drawn on ... all 64 pixels of that character are set to either on ... , for every pixel of the "@" character, there will already be one ... will erase the character.

    Interestingly, you can PRINT some text ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2019 BASIC
  • How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…

    ... the PRINT statement will act as if they are using a character ... just have a series of PRINT statements, followed by RETURN, ... )

    ...

    5000 PRINT "You are in a dank ... winding path.": RETURN
    5020 PRINT "You have reached a dead ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2019 BASIC
  • How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…

    ... a number of fixed length character “lines” with a fixed ... (number of character(s)), then BASIC will print all of them ... you can’t print the whole lot with PRINT a$() for ... .

    To print all of the lines, use ... TO 5
    30 PRINT “*”;a$(c);”*”
    40 ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2019 BASIC
  • SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…

    ... to forbid it to enter character positions?
    If ... />
    Because (using the PRINT MOVE command) text can be ... restrict things to "attribute" or character squares.

    Your ... (which would signal an invalid character like a line).
    ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • 'Mike's' moon lander in SpecBAShttps://youtu.be/1mjwLD6juB8 As modified and turned into a video by Dunny. I put my name in single quotes because it really is only thanks to Dunn…

    ... join seamlessly. Then a few character combinations could make a nice ... advantages of being movable by PRINT statements.

    Another way ... allowing pixel moves instead of character jumps. So theres going to ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch September 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • 'Mike's' moon lander in SpecBAShttps://youtu.be/1mjwLD6juB8 As modified and turned into a video by Dunny. I put my name in single quotes because it really is only thanks to Dunn…

    ... too.
    3. Any font character (or UDG) can be placed ... PRINT AT, use PRINT MOVE to specify a pixel location instead of character ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • PAPER&INK: screen/character differenciation?So I was looking at a type-in listing earlier and I got to wondering how the Spectrum differenciates between knowing that the PAPER/INK commands need…

    ... memory locations for the current character PAPER and INK colours (e ... they are part of a PRINT statement the temporary colours are ...
    LevelUp LevelUp September 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • How does OVER work?I've found a short program that shows an example of the OVER command and it has me puzzled. The listing sets OVER to 1 then plots a point and draws a…

    ... something is written into a character position it completely obliterates what ... , as in this program to print out German letters - an 'o ... =1 TO 32
    30 PRINT "o"; CHR$ 8;"""";
    40 ... br />
    (notice the control character CHR$ 8 which backs up ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch December 2019 BASIC
  • How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…

    ... memory will be ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS like character set

    ... image
    2) Print like normal printing characters ( ... of characters and your print can be as fast ... this

    print at Y,X;"ABCDEF"
    print at Y+2,X;"NOPQRS ...
    maeloterkim maeloterkim February 2020 Development
  • Mighty Maths ProgramsIn a break from typing in listings from 37-year-old magazines, I had a sudden urge to write a maths-related program, as I do, occasionally. Some, suc…

    ... so that there's two character spaces for input integers from ... probably emulated) ZX80 - losing the PRINT AT commands will be tough ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Zynaps scrolling - anyone ever reverse enginnered this?Zynaps has IMO some impressive scrolling - it utilises 18 character rows of the display file, so quite a large active play area, and scrolls 2 pixels…

    ... , there's a number of print routines for different widths to ... sprites are first broken into character-line wide strips in a ... checks the status of each character-sized square according to its ... ' sprite/bg data. If a character already contains another 'new' sprite ...
    Hikaru Hikaru July 2020 Games
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