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  • Ram test / diagnostic software for 128k?I need a ram test program urgently (as I have to bring this machine into the party place tomorrow) yet I couldn't find any in infoseek by typing "ram…

    I need a ram test program urgently (as I have to ... infoseek by typing "ram test" :) And most of the test suites based on ... .

    Are there any ram test suite which runs from ...
    Arda Arda December 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum + with WHSMITH Computer Program Data Recorder and box of casettesHi I'm selling a ZX Spectrum + with WHSmith Computer Program Data Recorder and a box of casettes. I held onto this hoping I'd have the time and incl…

    ... ZX Spectrum + with WHSmith Computer Program Data Recorder and a box of ...
    charlie charlie September 2009 Sales
  • Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…

    The RAM test that the ROM program does is just to work ... area in RAM to store return addresses and other temporary data. This ... use the "upper" RAM. So sometimes the ROM program gets as far ... "upper" RAM fault causes the CPU to read incorrect data, and the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK April 2014 Hardware
  • Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…

    ... QUOTE=1024MAK;764954]The RAM test that the ROM program does is just to ... in RAM to store return addresses and other temporary data. This ... the "upper" RAM. So sometimes the ROM program gets as far ... "upper" RAM fault causes the CPU to read incorrect data, and ...
    Brian Brian April 2014 Hardware
  • Still stuck with BREAKOkay now I'm getting desperate! Can anyone rustle up a small 128kBASIC routine/working example to prevent the 128kBASIC program from stopping when a …

    ... 128 BASIC:

    POKE (PEEK 23613+256*PEEK 23614), 0: POKE (PEEK 23613+256*PEEK 23614 ...
    Marko Marko July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Zx Spectrum 48k vertical black lines on boot problemHi all! I've just bought a Zx Spectrum 48k one eBay: all it was working goof but I made a mistake: I've extracted the Kempston interface before pl…

    ... , I made the Ram test with

    PRINT PEEK 23732 + PEEK 23733 * 256 ... the ULA and not the Ram...

    [quote="harriusherbartio;913704 ...
    AmintaSpectrum AmintaSpectrum July 2017 Hardware
  • Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …

    ... of RAM, I used POKE to set it to various values and PEEK ... up memory test works. The relevant section of the ROM program is ... initialise the rest of the BASIC environment.

    Given ... into upper RAM. I assume that system variables and data structures etc ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2012 Hardware
  • ZX-81 Ram Pack problemHi! I know this is a ZX Spectrum forum, but I am hoping someone here might be able to help me out... I have posted this to c.s.s. but noone was able…

    ... is probably normal since ram
    test takes a bit more ... original
    Sinclair ZX 16k ram pack issue 3 .
    basic (as if I didn ... I did a small memory test program above RAMTOP like this : ...
    30 POKE N,A
    40 IF PEEK (N) A ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ...
    To prevent "Program: foo" or "Bytes: bar ... poke:

    POKE PEEK 23633 + 256 * PEEK ... /> ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    ... you want to test only if a ... appropriate return data lies. Try ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... use the typically ZX81 BASIC definitions of integers ... was that these save RAM (particularly in 1K ... the Brain 8 character data)? Is it via inline ... nice Artillery game. (To test it: BREAK the game ... (POKE&PEEK) system variables for speeding up the program ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... knew this:

    Suppose BASIC encounters a variable reference while ... address where the variable's data is.

    Does the ... it just plain text, and BASIC has to search a table ... 't it be faster to PEEK/POKE values at an absolute memory ...
    GOC GOC September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …

    ... to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it ... can be merged into a program and then used to save ... /> DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+fg*PEEK (a+1)
    9990 ... =l1:
    LET l1=PEEK a0*fg+PEEK (a0+1):
    LET ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…

    ... ]"Switches from +3 BASIC into 48 BASIC, maintaining any program in RAM. There is ... ]

    From a quick test, this appears to be true ...
    POKE 49152,123
    OUT 32765,17
    PRINT PEEK 49152 ...
    gasman gasman June 2011 Games
  • machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…

    ... saving the top chunk of RAM in the CODE block. ... second one with the program code should be saved as ...
    Then to test it, create a simple BASIC loader:
    [code ... area is used for program data then it can easily ... know what the PlusD POKE is to stop the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…

    [QUOTE=ewgf;579158]Thanks for this, Dunny, but is there an archive of programs I can try for it?[/quote]

    I shall pop an archive of demo programs up for you. Here you go:

    [url]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/demos.zip[/url]< ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... or reference the RAM directly via PEEK & POKE or indirectly via ... becomes unavailable for the main BASIC program unless you're very ... from BASIC, apart from saving extra BASIC, CODE & DATA files ... be needed again. So program & data need to have a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Development
  • Flashing coloured blocks - diagnosisHiya, hope this is the right place for this... Was given an Issue 2 48K by a someone yesterday that hasn't been powered on in 20 years, which works …

    ... :

    PRINT PEEK 23732 + 256 * PEEK 23733

    ... be passing the initial test carried out by the ... in some of the BASIC system area and this ... it interferes on the data bus when it shouldn' ... able to, try the RAM test program I created and post the ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2013 Hardware
  • Confounded DEF FNCan anyone see why this is going wrong? I've been tinkering with it since tea time and got nowhere. [code] 2 DEF FN t$(n,t,d) =STR$ INT (n/t)…

    ... DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256*PEEK (a+1):
    CLEAR ... ): LET k0=NOT PI:
    DATA a+65,14,k0,k0 ... /> REM The RND is for test; normally that byte would be ... ")": RANDOMIZE UDG:
    POKE 23563,PEEK 23670: POKE 23564,PEEK 23671
    [/code]
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Corrupt paper on zx spectrum 48kHi. When I power up my spectrum (issue 3) I get the light grey border, but the paper is black and it switches between thin red vertical lines and thi…

    ... infoseekid.cgi?id=1000328"]RAM Turbo interface[/URL] ... Sinclair/Interface2/Cartridges/Interface2_RC_New_RAM_Tester.htm"]RAM test program[/URL].

    ... a bad RAM chip without using the peek/poke routines? ( ... of the address, data and control bus lines ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2013 Hardware
  • Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…

    ... variables/info by POKE/PEEK, return from called program by it finishing naturally ... , by keeping graphics data seperate from the program code and loading that ... the BASIC area, you can pretty much use all the RAM.
    Pobbit Pobbit June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Peeking the contents on screen? How?You will have to forgive me for growing up on the C64, but I know I can peek the location of a character (1024 is top left from memory) and the peek …

    ... to this chunk as 'Contended RAM' because it holds the screen ... is the remaining 32K of RAM.

    Now, the ... is stored, then comes your BASIC program, and somewhere above that the ... address above that to POKE and PEEK whatever data you like. CLEAR doesn ...
    joefish joefish August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... also had a ZX81 POKE (or, more probably, PEEK) once which would ... K, so "16" if the RAM pack was on and "1 ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…

    ... this prototyping session was to test my concepts of the execution ... fooling it into thinking upper RAM is being accessed. (This ... 's normally illegal in BASIC into a program.

    The idea ... particular CALL instruction on the data bus (i.e. decode CALL ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Hardware
  • Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…

    ... to actually edit the loading BASIC program somehow. I have found ... are 2 "BASIC" blocks, the first one (Program Data after PROGR "CHUCK2 ... VAL "65520": POKE VAL "23624", VAL "0": POKE VAL "23693", ... "BASIC" block at the end of the file (second Program Data) ...
    maiki maiki March 2008 Emulators
  • Strange behavior of program compiled with HiSoft BASICA while ago I experimented with HiSoft BASIC 128 (1.2) and compiled [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=683349&postcount=140"]…

    ... ago I experimented with HiSoft BASIC 128 (1.2) and ... -13[/URL] as a test. All the emulators I ... a listing of the BASIC loading/calling program several times before ... />
    I did not test it on the +2 but ... is invoked. However HiSoft BASIC 1.2 supports PLAY, ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2013 Development
  • POKEs on 128K "upper RAM"?I've been working lately with some 128k games, and I've got this question about RAM in games. I guess most games use RAM pages 5 and 2 to store the …

    ... 've got this question about RAM in games.

    I ... the main program, and other RAM pages are used to store data (levels ... that needs POKEs placed in RAM pages 1, 3, 4, 6 ... , Multiface III, anything that could POKE memory) choose what pages to ...
    Zup Zup October 2013 Games
  • Seriously weird Issue 2 issue... (RAM-related)Hi guys; I have been trying to fix up my Issue 2 and have run across a bizarre issue that I haven't seen elsewhere in the forums. Hopefully one of …

    ... PEEK 23732 + PEEK 23733*256
    UPRAM85 = POKE 32768,85 : PRINT PEEK ... 32768
    UPRAM170 = POKE 32768,170 : PRINT PEEK ... MEMCHK returned 32767, upper RAM fault. UPRAM85 returned 93 ... and red bars" RAM test appears, after which ...
    Trafferth Trafferth August 2014 Hardware
  • JHCon 2014Hello, not sure if this is the right category but JHCon 2014 will take place[B] from 28. to 30.11.[/B] at usual place - gymnasium in Jindrichuv Hrad…

    ... completation of [B]ZX Basic megademo named Cowina[/B ... (in BASIC, surprisingly)
    --- type a BASIC program and save ... BASIC program must be LOAD ""
    --- usage of machine code (USR to RAM, POKE, PEEK ... allowed. POKE to modify your own BASIC program is also ...
    Factor6 Factor6 October 2014 Announcements
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