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  • is there something special about the left hand column on the screenSo.... I've noticed that when I move my player round when it bumps into the left hand side of the screen (print at 5,1;"X" etc that the controls rev…

    ... left hand side of the screen (print at 5,1;"X" etc ... right hand side of the screen (say print at 5,19;"X ...
    Wookiee Wookiee February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…

    ... on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www ... /bob.zip]BOB the Screen Builder[/url]". There's ... much room as possible for screen definitions (there's about ... in the game to print the screens directly from ... able to read the print controls in the DATA ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • The INPUT command routine ($2089)I was looking at the INPUT routine with a view to modifying the intro so that I could pre-load the workspace and edit an existing value, rather than …

    ... syntax, check the INPUT for
    JR ... position in the lower screen.
    2174 IN ... screen display after returning from EDITOR when the input ... line is already displayed in the lower screen ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Development
  • editing strings with INPUT LINEHere's the latest in my unpredictable series of utility routines. This one I needed for the SAGE game editor; it emulates INPUT LINE l$ but with the …

    ... /> ldir ;copy l$ to INPUT workspace
    NOTEXT: ex de ... set 5,(iy+$37) ;FLAGX: "INPUT mode"
    call $0f2c ;EDITOR ... /> ld (DF_SZ),a ;reset lower screen to 2 lines
    call ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • INPUT LINE and STOP in INPUTWhat was the reason for the ROM Editor routine causing "down arrow" while in an INPUT LINE to cause the "H STOP in INPUT" error report? Why doesn't i…

    ... arrow" while in an INPUT LINE to cause the "H ... STOP in INPUT" error report? Why doesn ... trap to copy the Input buffer into a string ... didn't lose the current screen of data whenever I ... this effect with a plain INPUT command, although actually typing ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • INKEY$ giving me troubleHello, I have been using BASin (great program by the way...) Sad though it seems during the typhoon here I have been re-learning my spec-skills an…

    ... program, same with the help screen.

    2/I ... how to do the fancy screen$ but that's trying ... ": PRINT AT 2,2;"\* WIBBLE 2012 VER 0.1": INPUT AT ... /> 29 CLS
    30 PRINT "WILL YOU NEED INSTRUCTIONS ON ... FROM ME?"
    105 PRINT "YOU CAN MOVE AROUND BY ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... is you design a screen then break the program then ... save SAVE "wibblebibble" SCREEN$ (I know BASsin has ... input correctly? or could it be the position checking for the screen ... I=2
    40 PRINT AT L,C;"*"
    ... GO TO 50
    60 PRINT AT L,C;" "
    ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…

    ... 300dpi image, so if you print it at its original size ... as CVBS and the video input of the modulator box (if ... copper processor to ease split screen implementation, or raster effects, hardware ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix August 2012 Hardware
  • Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…

    ...
    [code]
    20 LOAD "" SCREEN$ : PRINT AT 20,0 : LOAD "" CODE ... these

    LOAD "" SCREEN$

    This is loading ... /> [/code]simply, like the SCREEN$ loading statement this loads the ... saved and is read for input.

    to ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 January 2013 Games
  • Good games where time based input isn't required?I'm looking for games that can be played on a tablet (7" galaxy Tab 2), and since I hate touch screen controls (I just can't get used to them), I wan…

    ... ), and since I hate touch screen controls (I just can't ... ), and just play games user input isn't too critically timed ... can adjust to using touch screen input in real time.

    ewgf ewgf July 2013 Chit chat
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... assembly/machine code... No fancy screen shinanagins, just data storage and ... the specy (with a load screen and perhaps even a turboloader ... $=""
    30 IF A$="" THEN INPUT A$
    40 LET Y ... has returned, you type in PRINT USR 61440 (or whereever you ...
    wibble wibble August 2013 Development
  • SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…

    ... be used in INPUT the same as in PRINT
    Sprite ... /> Fixed:

    Certain embedded PRINT commands were evaluated in the ... the very bottom of the screen might have caused a Scroll ... s window, not the overall screen display
    String slicing with ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Using even ports for input?I've been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher interface. I understand that the spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input p…

    ... considers A0 when decoding its input port for reading the keyboard ... a small basic loop to print the result of IN 65280 ... lines are deselected, the EAR input is only used for loading ...
    Basher Basher January 2014 Hardware
  • INPUT help?Hi folks. :) Brace yourselves, this is probably a very silly question, my BASIC knowledge is very... well, basic... Let's say, for example, I'm mak…

    ... number, then I have an INPUT command asking the player to ... (1+999*RND)
    20 INPUT "Can you guess the number ... like "IF a$=number THEN PRINT "Correct!"", but that doesn't ...
    GreenCard GreenCard February 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • GEDit syntax highlighting for Boriel's ZX BasicHi! I just tailored this syntax highlighting code and would like to share with he community. Suggestions are always welcome, though the file works w…

    ...
    poke
    print
    randomize
    ...
    hex16
    input
    GetKey
    MultiKeys ... /> print64
    printat64
    screen


    ...
    pkersey pkersey February 2014 Development
  • TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…

    ... FN, LPRINT, DATA, REM, FOR, INPUT, PRINT, IF).
    [*]Display file used ... tape data block, then the screen is erased and formatting continues ... to match any original on-screen formatting.
    [*]Uses TXT2Emu {..} hex ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • misunderstanding screen addressingHi I am just reading mastering machine code Toni Baker: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/MasteringMachineCodeOnYourZXSpectrum…

    ... the “print position”
    for any point of the screen, and ... /> consider the point whose PRINT AT co-ordinates are 5 ... of the address of this print position are
    40. ... appeared on
    the screen is, in fact, at ... the 5,4 in the PRINT AT example.

    username username April 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Block RoutineHi Folks, I want to draw a block on the screen dependent on providing the X,Y,W,H values. I came up with the following: [CODE]100 LET l$=" …

    ... draw a block on the screen dependent on providing the X ... =";x
    120 INPUT "Y=";y
    130 INPUT "W=";w
    140 INPUT "H=";h
    150 CLS : PRINT AT 0,0 ... i=y TO y+h: PRINT AT i,x;l$( TO ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Double Buffer UtilityHi Folks, I've been experimenting with double buffering on a 48k Speccy for a small project I'm working on. After reading lots of good advice here…

    ... error checking or validating of input. This means that you ... to python v3
    value = input(msg + ' [enter = ' + defaultValue + ']: ').strip() # ... to screen
    class ScreenPrintBehaviour:
    def doPrint(self,text):
    print ...
    KrazyKattapilla KrazyKattapilla August 2014 Development
  • SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…

    ... COPY to override behaviour
    SCREEN$ - as from Sinclair BASIC, ... which output graphics primitives (CIRCLE, PRINT etc) can now use alpha ... in a loop
    INPUT now uses the current scaling ... the initial position of the INPUT prompt
    DELETE past ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…

    ... REM *** start of main composer screen ***
    405 PAPER 7: ... STEP 2: REM Draw middle screen 'grille' effect.
    ... /> 1300 REM Draw bottom right screen 'speaker' graphic.
    1310 ... HERE *** Print the variables in their relevant places on screen
    ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Screen artifacts problemsHi I have some problems with my zx spectrum. the spectrum belongs to my father and have been stored in his garage in about 20 years. Since I don't h…

    ... don't have any RF input on my TV, I decided ... , but the colors on the screen is not working properly (see ... capacitors can make problems like screen artifacts.

    Any answer ...
    retrocollector retrocollector July 2016 Hardware
  • Simple program why doesn't it react to keyboard input?[code] 10 FOR x=16385 TO 22527 20 POKE x,255: POKE (x-1),0 30 IF CODE INKEY$=119 THEN BORDER 0 40 NEXT x [/code] If you press the m key while r…

    ... input. What's going on ? I used similar keyboard routine with PRINT ... presses. I don't need INPUT INKEY$
    ivanb303 ivanb303 November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • how to fix instructions on screenI have a problem with my sequencer. I want the top half of the screen to stay fixed but allow the note values to print without pushing the instructio…

    ... the screen to stay fixed but allow the note values to print ... without pushing the instructions off screen. I would ... rather they print horizontally 2 digits ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • ROM PRINT routine issuesHi all, I am using the ROM print routines a lot in my assembly program and I'm experiencing issues. I am changing the system variable DF CC to po…

    ... resuming as normal, knocking subsequent PRINT commands off by 1 character ... . I'm assuming the ROM print routines are updating other system ... check what 1/3 of screen is being written to but ...
    CALL 11747. PRINT CONTENTS OF BC TO SCREEN

    Any ...
    Kevin_C Kevin_C December 2016 Development
  • Issues with Spectrum 48K on SCART input of LCD displaysHi *! I'm new to the forums, but not new to ZX Spectrum. I have bought a ZX Spectrum 48K in 1983 and own it since. It was stored some 20+ years on…

    ... CRT and use a flat screen instead, I tried connecting the ... 2 different devices with SCART input without real success.

    Kolli Kolli March 2017 Hardware
  • SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…

    ... /> Added ITALIC and BOLD commands. PRINT embeddable, but BOLD is only ... now be used instead of PRINT
    Due to popular ... bottom edges of the screen
    Fixed INPUT freeze after finishing user ... in Linux versions
    PRINT and TEXT could cause a ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • I live and learnThanks to Einar's ZXDB link I found under the Books folder and English sub directory a PDF file named 'The Century Computer Programming Course for Z…

    ... ."
    20 INPUT a
    25 PRINT a
    30 INPUT b
    40 PRINT b
    45 INPUT c
    50 PRINT c
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch June 2017 BASIC
  • High score table routineI wrote this general purpose high score table routine. It stores 5 scores and displays them alongside the player names, which are 8 characters long. …

    ... /> CALL WAITING ; wait for keyboard input

    LD A,(LASTK ... ; clean the screen

    LD DE,POS_1 ; print first player's ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2017 Assembler
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