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  • Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…

    ... I don't want the lines to be cleared in the ... re-PRINT the data using BASIC! :)
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…

    ... I don't want the lines to be cleared in the ... re-PRINT the data using BASIC! :)[/QUOTE]

    A ... you couldn't reprint in Basic. :)

    [QUOTE=Winston; ... way to go. In Basic I have so many letters ... MC what I did in Basic.[/SIZE]

    So, ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Questions about registers, stack, etc.I was told that if I wanted to export code and create unprotected versions of games I should do the following: 1-Find the starting address by using …

    ... to the start address from BASIC, whenever possible. It also makes ... :) ). No color codes, no 0 lines, no anti-merge, no bragging ... who cracked it in REM lines, no encryption, no compression. That ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …

    ... -data noise block (Blue/Cyan lines) may be to do with ... put together a multi-load (BASIC header/machine code) TAP or ...
    SteveP SteveP January 2009 Emulators
  • TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …

    ... -data noise block (Blue/Cyan lines) may be to do with ... put together a multi-load (BASIC header/machine code) TAP or ... as you did with the BASIC program except you need to ...
    Fred Fred January 2009 Emulators
  • TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …

    The BASIC+variables and CODE have to ... .

    PS.
    A BASIC program + CODE (+ UDGs + character set ... . is embedded within program lines within the BASIC program area - eg. as ... restricts which lines can be EDITed or LISTed from BASIC; so it ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2009 Emulators
  • [BASin] Bug report and question[B]1. Bug report:[/B] BASIC Editor behavior I'm using a variable to store the contents of the BC register. But the BASIC editor works strangely. I t…

    I'm working on the tentative release 15, Dunny posted recently.

    File->New clears my BASIC lines. Was hoping for something that didn't. But its ok. I can just save.
    rahtgaz rahtgaz January 2009 Emulators
  • updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…

    ... . It's not only traditional BASIC loads that will suffer, but ... 3456 bytes(24 lines) or 2304 bytes(16 lines).[/QUOTE]

    baze baze January 2009 Development
  • Biggest gaming disappointmentsThe biggest let down I can remember was Matthew Smith's type-in Andre's Night Off. Surely there would be some magic in those few lines of code you ty…

    ... lines of code you typed in? So what if it was BASIC ... , was vastly inferior to the BASIC stuff even I could knock ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2009 Games
  • Wireframe GraphicsI'm trying to get my head round 3d / wireframe graphics and not really having much luck. I've had a good look on google, but mostly come up with wir…

    ... /> 2) Have an array of lines. Each line is represented as ... lines.

    I would advise to start in 2D. The basic ...
    baze baze January 2009 Development
  • Wireframe GraphicsI'm trying to get my head round 3d / wireframe graphics and not really having much luck. I've had a good look on google, but mostly come up with wir…

    ... - try the 2d approach in basic and get some points rotating ... . Clipping points is easy, clipping lines is a little harder, clipping ...
    evilpaul evilpaul January 2009 Development
  • Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…

    ... if you read between the lines you should know inheritance is ... that Delphi was like Visual Basic and other oddities. I did ... reply that I enjoyed Visual Basic very much. And in fact ... Visual Basic put more food on my ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz January 2009 Chit chat
  • Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…

    ... ;331903]And in fact Visual Basic put more food on my ... you make "reading between the lines you shouldn't use inheretence ... , ever read *that* between the lines. Indeed, I have found inheretance ...
    Winston Winston January 2009 Chit chat
  • Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…

    ... you make "reading between the lines you shouldn't use inheretence ... , ever read *that* between the lines. Indeed, I have found inheretance ... go back please to more basic chat, me and Miles cant ...
    psj3809 psj3809 January 2009 Chit chat
  • Wireframe GraphicsI'm trying to get my head round 3d / wireframe graphics and not really having much luck. I've had a good look on google, but mostly come up with wir…

    ... VU-3D. Everything was in BASIC. A pixel-sized cursor was ... join certain points together with lines. It was slow and used ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2009 Development
  • Wireframe GraphicsI'm trying to get my head round 3d / wireframe graphics and not really having much luck. I've had a good look on google, but mostly come up with wir…

    ... is even possible under ZX BASIC - it doesn't differentiate between ... tables even in BASIC. Maybe something along the lines of 4xy = (x ...
    baze baze January 2009 Development
  • A question for the older programmers of WOSWhen did the debugging tools that allow you to highlight the flow of execution within code and track the values or variables become available. Was t…

    ... ;333103]Surely it was Visual Basic which first allowed you to ... (a debugger capable of displaying lines of code as written by ... -level debuggers (which show assembly lines). And these last *always* provided ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz February 2009 Chit chat
  • MultichromeIt turns out that multichrome, and other screen modes, are emulated in Fuse and Eightyone via ZX Spectrum SE emulation (which is similar to the TC214…

    ... again to set the odd lines to green and the even ... lines to red.

    In ... attributes on a per line basic

    Whether this looks ...
    evilpaul evilpaul February 2009 Development
  • MultichromeIt turns out that multichrome, and other screen modes, are emulated in Fuse and Eightyone via ZX Spectrum SE emulation (which is similar to the TC214…

    ... attributes on a per line basic

    Whether this looks ...

    Then prepare the lines rBrBrBrB in screen 0, and ...
    gasman gasman February 2009 Development
  • "POPIE" Spectrum Game from 1984While trying out some old microdrive carts on my real Speccy I came across this game which I had written on the loading menu as "never released". It…

    ...
    To MERGE a BASIC program in on microdrive you ... />
    MERGE the BASIC loader in using MERGE *"m ... />
    Save the BASIC program to tape.
    Make ... destroy the bottom 2 lines. A quick way around ... almost certainly overwrite Beta Basic so do a RANDOMIZE ...
    Jimmy Jimmy March 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • A tattoo with "Sinclair ZX Spectrum" :)[url]http://8bitcollective.com/images/TransparentPurpleTrip/ZX+Spectrum+tattoo/[/url] I thought I'm a big fan of Spectrum but I must admit I'm not s…

    ... gone for a whole ZX BASIC program listing on his back ... bug on one of the lines !
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Your best Type-ins gamesType-ins games bring me great memories. A whole evening typing a program from a magazine, after some hours I typed RUN and... an error message! After…

    ... Cycles (July 83 Sinclair Programs) basic lines but exciting Tron style game ...
    SteveP SteveP April 2009 Games
  • "POPIE" Spectrum Game from 1984While trying out some old microdrive carts on my real Speccy I came across this game which I had written on the loading menu as "never released". It…

    ... allows me to Jump to BASIC. I'm not sure how ... snapshotting. The save lines were in the BASIC which allowed me to ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker April 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…

    ... database, which was written in BASIC (hope they didn't pay ... typed in hundreds of DATA lines for newly-acquired books. And ...
    Danforth Danforth April 2009 Games
  • Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…

    ... shapes as polygons (or continious lines) and draw them in one ... tool which can export as BASIC listing. Perfect. After the memory ...
    Arda Arda May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…

    ... I have code that generates BASIC thus (excerpt):

    [CODE ... 'm only loading in 2500 lines (approx) before memory runs out ... need to compress approx 15200 lines of code like the above ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…

    ... on. The problem is that BASIC is only enough to load ... past identifying everything as straight lines (y=mx+c) because I ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…

    Its because every number in spectrum BASIC uses 5 Byte. If you store the coordinates in REM lines as byte, you can make bigger pictures.
    LCD LCD May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…

    [QUOTE=LCD;351049]Its because every number in spectrum BASIC uses 5 Byte. If you store the coordinates in REM lines as byte, you can make bigger pictures.[/QUOTE]

    Can you give an example of how to do this?

    Thanks!
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pera Putnik's RGB interfaceI am sure some (if not many) of you will have seen Pera Putnik's RGB interface [URL="http://members.tripod.com/%7Epiters/uvyrgb.htm"]circuit diagram…

    ... termination with reason - it is basic thing, and it not reduces ... low resolution. Tiny. colored vertical lines are much better visible on ...
    piters piters May 2009 Hardware
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