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Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... hits the bottom of the screen.
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10 ... TO LEN A$
40 PRINT TAB 2;A$(N)
50 PAUSE 2
60 PRINT
70 PAUSE 2
print column while leaving the current ... -
What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
10 PRINT
20 PRINT
30 PRINT
40 PRINT
50 PRINT
...this ... extremely happy when the PRINT stayed on the screen :D )
What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... platform game out of get, print, if and then statements. I ... a dot jumping around a screen. Very primitive.
Single ... screen thrust game, levels designed in ... painfully long to draw each screen though. That was my last ...What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... of text appear on the screen one letter at a time ... NEXT loops and the popular PRINT command.
Sometimes to ... make weird pictures on the screen. I made use of colour ...Alphacom 32 printer with Spectrum +2Can the printer be made to work other than in 48 BASIC mode? When the +2 is in 128 BASIC, the printer won't seem to respond to LPRINT or LLIST. The…
... then you can use this SCREEN$ to list programs or parts ... br />
Just save the SCREEN$ continuously on your utilities tape ... br />
CLS : LOAD "u2" SCREEN$ : PRINT USR 16384
will ... "Chess" allow you dump the screen
to the Alphacom 32 ...LCD televisionsHas anyone here got an LCD tv ? I went into my local Sony Centre today to have a look at some and of course they had both LCD and CRT screens on disp…
... and there is absolutely no screen blur in games like UT2004 ... on my teeth?"
10 PRINT "Doctor Who, Saturdays, 7pm, BBC1 ...print at line 22 and 23I have a faint recollection of POKES to allow print at 22,x and 23,x, anyone know what they are? (rather than using the print #0 #1 stuff..)
... 24 lines in the upper screen.
No error report must ... POKE 23659,0
30 PRINT AT 22,0 ; "Hello"
40 PRINT AT 22,31 ' "World"
screen' error would be generated so ...PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
... /> When using RST 16 to print you should first select an ... USR address
the upper screen is used.
In ... your example the lower screen would be used in such ...PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
Start with PRINT USR in stead of RANDOMIZE USR and you will print in upperscreen.
On return you will however get the value of BC on the screen.
You can avoid it with PRINT "" AND USR STARTPRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
... faster way to print a character on the screen? It has only ... lower right edge of the screen.)
regards, Rickard128 ramdisk loaderanyone got a program which will save the contents of ramdisk to tape in one go, rather than saving each file seperately then loading them and save!in…
... /> 40 IF X = 0 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"Tape error ... 30
50 LOAD !"Whatever" SCREEN$
etc...
[/code]how do i read the keyboard in assembly? here is the code i tried writting to find out the value of a key call 28f (hex) loop: ld a,255 cp e jr z loop ld (50000),e ret notes from what i …
... you.
i'll print myself out a copy of ... the spectrum works.
screen +255 for the line in ...The incredible shrinking screendumpIn this topic I stated that I would be impressed if the screendump could be smaller than 37 bytes. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewt…
... is used to print a controltable and the screen.
The controltable ...BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…
... the low resolution used by PRINT.
Highres runs ... 100,100 - but you cannot PRINT to 100,100.
... 0,-50
30 PRINT AT 21-(y/8),x ... the one that converts - PRINT AT takes the format Y ... .
Because the screen is 22 characters high, you ...Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
... program that writes to screen RAM every bit pattern, ... ) and copies it to screen RAM, hence testing write ... rom. Spectrum initialized and screen looked just like in ... How should I read the screen?
If ... text. When I made PRINT PEEK 23732+PEEK 23733*256 ...Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…
... (PLOT x,y) around the screen using up down left right ... ) pixel and make the program print "hit" when you steer the ...Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…
... the game has a loading screen etc., this version will go ... can still do a loading screen without the need of an ... each game to print some simple graphics/text on screen, and voila ... ! You have a loading screen, although it won't look ...Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…
... the game has a loading screen etc., this version will go ... each game to print some simple graphics/text on screen, and voila ... ! You have a loading screen, although it won't look ... /> By definition a loading screen is a screen which is displayed whilst ...Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... 1 to print "Bytes: MONASTERY" over the loading-screen so ... 80 LOAD "Luddite"SCREEN$
90 OVER 1: PRINT AT 1,0 ... 5: CLS
110 PRINT "2.GOODNITE LUDDITE"'"------------------"
... : POKE 16888,16:
PRINT " Smith)"'"? SOFTWARE PROJECTS 1984,"'" ...SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
... can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines ... /> If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start ... , you let the program print the screen and it contains the SAVE ... "x" Screen$ command but WILL NOT prompt ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... place it in middle of screen initially
sp_MoveSprAbs(sp_phantomas, ... (game_on) {
// update screen -- everything drawn at once
print the sprite using the ... the sprite definition to print the sprite facing left ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... you could use a set, print with it, and select another ... ; switch to the font charset, print the text" don't work ... , what's already printed on screen also changes.
... located somewhere which decompresses a screen into video memory @ 4000h, will ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... can print these "large tile" strings at any point on screen and ... , what's already printed on screen also changes.
[/quote]< ... is inside sp_UpdateNow when the screen is drawn. Whatever the tile ... store an entire Spectrum-size screen in memory (6912 bytes) ...PGD game endingsHi all! My game 'Brian Vs. The Bullies', created with PGD Explorer for the Cronosoft Cassette 50 compilation, is about 98% complete. The actual game …
... finished, along with a loading screen for the CD version, with ... RANDOMIZE USR 32771
180 PRINT AT 10,11; "GAME OVER ...print at line 22 and 23I have a faint recollection of POKES to allow print at 22,x and 23,x, anyone know what they are? (rather than using the print #0 #1 stuff..)
My way to print at line 23:
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10 POKE 23659,0 : IF YBASin release 12b available for downloadOk, there were a few nasty bugs in the last release, so in fine SPIN team tradition here's a new release that possibly fixes those errors. In this r…
... a direct command such as "PRINT" or "LIST". This will ensure ... way of printing to the screen where the Input text appears ... manual just says you cannot print to the input line.
Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…
... 'm agreeing with Phil, quick print this out before I edit ... bandwagon asking for Snapshot, JPG, Screen and many other blocks. Seemed ...After roughly 22 years can you help?Hi, A long one this but here goes. Roughly 22 years ago (i was 14 if i remember right) i got a 48K speccy for christmas of my dad it was awesome an…
... contents of the accumulator and print the corresponding ASCII character i ... will display 'A' on the screen. Is there anything more to ...After roughly 22 years can you help?Hi, A long one this but here goes. Roughly 22 years ago (i was 14 if i remember right) i got a 48K speccy for christmas of my dad it was awesome an…
... it is also used for screen position.
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RST #10 ; PRINT "A" AT COLUMN 5, ROW ... attribute of each character you print.
Basically just experiment ...ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... clear page margins - when I print pages out some of the ... this magazine is meant for screen or print - the text is incredibly ...
