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  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    Why is the proportional print routine so fast? Sorry if this is a daft question but I would expect it to be slower than the standard Spectrum PRINTcommand. Very impressed.

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... ;537245]Why is the proportional print routine so fast? Sorry if this is ... slower than the standard Spectrum PRINT command.[/QUOTE]

    Could ... the thread. Because the standard PRINT command is continually checking to ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …

    ... ;539946]inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic ... is possible to have a fast raster font engine on zx ... ]

    Using RST10 to print a chracter to the selected ... to my versions of the proportional print routine. That can all be ...
    chev chev May 2011 Development
  • fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …

    ... to my versions of the proportional print routine. That can all be ... if we can print one line (max 64 characters) fast enough then ... ... we're fast enough. if not ... but then nice features requiring fast drawing (such as wysiwyg, ...
    tstih tstih May 2011 Development
  • Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…

    ... /> 2) The speed of the Proportional Print routine. Thanks to the efforts ... may be this is as fast as it gets? If only ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…

    ... Sinclair BASIC apart from the Proportional Print routine. The list selection screens ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Model Railway Timetable Version 1.4.12.0313...Hi Folks, Since November 2010 I have been working on my [B]Model Railway Timetable [/B]software. Thanks to the considerable help and patience of yo…

    ... help of WOS:

    * Proportional print routine (Tony Samuels)
    * Memory ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman March 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • 2007, and still no NIC and browser for the Speccy?I've started to read all the w.o.s. threads, starting by the ones that came up with the search function, using the keywords of the topics that intere…

    ... say that 42 chars (or proportional print) is maximum for basic comfort ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2007 Development
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    I adapted today Odins Proportional Print for ZXBC as SUB. It can write anywhere on screen, but without attributes. The sub is in the Boriel forum.
    LCD LCD June 2010 Development
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... . It comes with a nice proportional print routine, which should be easily ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... doing some prototyping with the proportional print routine and I have found ... . :sad:

    It cannot print on the bottom two lines ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... been trying to implement the proportional print routine and I have come ... calculate the length of the proportional string (containing the time) ... to the fact that the proportional print routine uses [B]OVER ... Ah ha I thought, just print some spaces first but this ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... to the fact that the proportional print routine uses [B]OVER 1 ... So you have to un-print the last thing printed before ... which is derived from the proportional print routine, clears the area it ... for use with the original proportional printing routine. Or you ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... . So you have to un-print the last thing printed before ... , which is derived from the proportional print routine, clears the area it ... for use with the original proportional printing routine. Or you could ... - but why doesn't the PRINT of spaces clear the image ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... screen you're about to print to, and optionally enables ... useful bits for the standard proportional print code:

    [code]; ... Based on Proportional Printing by Tony Samuels
    print.
    ret ;

    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…

    ... to be converted. With the proportional print routine there is no longer ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…

    ... BASIC (well apart from the Proportional Print routine) it is BASin that ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…

    ... but the addition of the Proportional Print routine transforms the machine IMHO ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Sys64 - bug foundI've found experimentally on real ZX Spectrum and on emulator that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008823"]Ron Seniscal's SYS…

    Hey, we're always interested in bug fixes, and there has been quite a bit of recent interest lately with font,UDG and proportional print routines, so yeah, we'd love to see your fix... And if you have a disassembly, thats even better :wink:
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sys64 - bug foundI've found experimentally on real ZX Spectrum and on emulator that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008823"]Ron Seniscal's SYS…

    ... lately with font,UDG and proportional print routines, so yeah, we'd ...
    mattsteel mattsteel September 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…

    ... being reset due to the Proportional Print routine which I believe uses ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman December 2011 Development
  • Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…

    ... ? it can just be the print section.[/QUOTE]

    Hi ... /> I did not write the Proportional Print Routine - it is the one ... a bit of data to print they take a while (probably ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Code optimisation - can you help?Hi Folks, I have been looking at the following code fragment for days and I have been able to improve its performance quite a bit. However, it is a…

    [QUOTE=na_th_an;607272]AFAIK, that LPRINTs call to an assembly routine to print 42 chars per line.[/QUOTE]

    Almost Nathan. It is actually the Proportional Print routine and the x,y are graphic coordinates.

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman March 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... ! I must also praise the Proportional Print routine that WOS refined and ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Stuff the Speccy can do but we all thought it couldn'tHey all, Does anyone have any good examples of stuff the speccy can do - graphically, sonically, etc that we thought it wouldn't be able to do? Che…

    ... ago when WOS "updated" the Proportional Print routine. I know this is ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How much space does a number take?Hi Folks, Could someone please remind me how much memory a number takes up in a BASIC listing. For example, if you had: [CODE]100 LET a=3000[/CODE…

    ... has put in a nice proportional print routine too.

    And ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • How much space does a number take?Hi Folks, Could someone please remind me how much memory a number takes up in a BASIC listing. For example, if you had: [CODE]100 LET a=3000[/CODE…

    ... has put in a nice proportional print routine too.[/Quote]

    MRT already uses the same proportional print routine.

    Many thanks ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • How much space does a number take?Hi Folks, Could someone please remind me how much memory a number takes up in a BASIC listing. For example, if you had: [CODE]100 LET a=3000[/CODE…

    ... /> MRT already uses the same proportional print routine.

    Paddy[/QUOTE ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • PCL / PS driver questionsDon't know if this ever happened to any of you. I've been searching but I've yet to find a practical, permanent solution. Let's say I have a 1.4M P…

    ... more than 30 minutes to print pages 1 through 4, 4 ... is to get it to print fast without errors. :)

    What ...
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2012 Chit chat
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