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  • Basic sourceAre there any utilities available that will extract Basic source to a text file, or insert it from a text file into any of the common formats lie z80…

    ... Properties.
    [*]Load the TXT2Emu BASIC loader from the TAP file ... binary" option to load the BASIC text file at address 'nnnnn ... program will switch to the BASIC editor and display the line ... stopped with a line of random characters and keywords in the ...
    rune rune September 2013 Emulators
  • Super Tin Foil Hattery - Why Time is Speeding up!I was looking for an image of a speeding clock and found this. Lol! [url]http://crisisboom.com/2011/07/19/why-is-time-speeding-up/[/url]

    ... rid off. Fundamental misunderstanding of basic biology going on there. It ... publishers, never mind lunatics piling random claptrap on the internet.
    joefish joefish October 2013 Chit chat
  • Snooker managerSo I seem to have a copy of this great game, so good in fact that they could not give it away. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id…

    ... somewhere (if this isn't BASIC then someone is writing some ... , whilst amazingly returning a completely random looking result out of the ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay October 2013 Games
  • Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…

    ... positive matches doing that. Spectrum BASIC files include a hidden 5 ... two different 48k programs) at random from the TTFn archive and ... use for that within a BASIC program.)

    As PLAY ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …

    ... a keypad for extended BASIC editing. UK: random mapping to [E] ... Spanish: a running calculator in BASIC. UK: standalone calculator (not ... usable with BASIC).
    Spanish: full screen ... : SPECTRUM command. UK: 48 BASIC menu option.
    Spanish: ...
    chev chev November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …

    ... a keypad for extended BASIC editing. UK: random mapping to [E] ... Spanish: a running calculator in BASIC. UK: standalone calculator (not ... usable with BASIC).
    Spanish: full screen ... : SPECTRUM command. UK: 48 BASIC menu option.
    Spanish: ...
    memrah memrah November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Lime Rick, like Snake but with gravity[B]Lime Rick[/B] by [url=http://www.kissmaj7.com/games/]Kissmaj7[/url] is an elaborated version of "I Left Myself Behind". It's a puzzle game with an…

    ... loading 20K of random nonsense, then returning to BASIC).

    I ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 November 2013 New game ideas
  • IX register - using/problemsAre there any rules on using the IX register? Are there any restrictions on the memory locations that it can access? Yes, I know it's slower than us…

    I think the basic interrupt accesses the sysvars via the IY reg so if you change it you gonna stomp random memory?
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter December 2013 Development
  • IX register - using/problemsAre there any rules on using the IX register? Are there any restrictions on the memory locations that it can access? Yes, I know it's slower than us…

    [QUOTE=Paradigm Shifter;739229]I think the basic interrupt accesses the sysvars via the IY reg so if you change it you gonna stomp random memory?[/QUOTE]
    That'll depend if your code uses ROM routines I suppose. If it doesn't then it won't matter.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler December 2013 Development
  • IX register - using/problemsAre there any rules on using the IX register? Are there any restrictions on the memory locations that it can access? Yes, I know it's slower than us…

    ... use IY without disabling the basic isr. Basic's isr is indexing ... to get data written at random locations.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2013 Development
  • Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…

    ... when you should see 3 basic lines.

    I opened ... "" which I learned from a random video I watched is what ... displays those three lines of basic that it mentioned, I type ... I've never used the basic in the emulator until now ...
    The_Bert The_Bert December 2013 Development
  • Spectrum Utility Routines Compendium (pending)I couldn't make up my mind into which section to put this, so it's ended up here for some tenuous reason. I haven't forgotten about this. I've been …

    ... HowTo, Mcode_Parameters, Numbers, Printing_Graphics, Random, Relocating_Mcode, ROM, ROM-routines, ... ** Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplication
    ** Print ... by 2 pixels
    ** Random point screen fill
    ** ... given length into a BASIC program
    ** ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Announcements
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... - in which the random and coded game don't return to BASIC.
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2014 Games
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... />
    But ideally I want random data not hardcoded data in ... array can be assigned a random value

    make sense ... 70 indented for clarity. Note: Basic is not my usual language ...
    David Jones David Jones January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... 70 indented for clarity. Note: Basic is not my usual language ... and max values for the random aspect but I can always ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…

    ... need to look at any random game page there and you ... programmed in most versions of BASIC and still run at a ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2014 Announcements
  • Game loopJust working on my first ever Spectrum game, and am struggling to work out what the game-loop should look like. I've got interrupts enabled (mode 2)…

    ... , etc?[/QUOTE]

    The basic principle is changing the state ... noise, the delays should be random. Noise frequency is inversely proportional ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2014 Development
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    ... one was a random block effort done in BASIC 30 years ago ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2014 Development
  • Spectrum Utility Routines Compendium (pending)I couldn't make up my mind into which section to put this, so it's ended up here for some tenuous reason. I haven't forgotten about this. I've been …

    ... /> Arrays, HowTo, Printing_Graphics, Printing_Text, QuickCopy, Random, ROM_routines, Validation

    The ... position/size
    ** Writing Faster BASIC
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2014 Announcements
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    ... previous routine, which does a random block reveal using a 10 ... offset = +768 bytes and then basic corrupts the display. If I ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    ... working. If I return to basic after the attributes are unpacked ... and then call (randomize) the random attribute reveal routine it works ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • Here comes the sunAnybody ever finish this? Theres almost no help out there anywhere for it. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006427[/url]

    ... )
    Changes to random events frequency
    Discarded random messages
    Various ... trap (CAPS+6 returns to BASIC)
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Games
  • Pentagon floating bus timingI wanted to take a little break from working on the ZXDS UI yesterday, so I added support for Pentagon timing instead, so I can finally enjoy the lik…

    ... perfect 25Hz flicker from a random behaviour of an analogue circuit ... intos that have the same basic accuracy. I actually meant for ... had time to get the basic facts together.

    I ...
    introspec introspec March 2014 Emulators
  • Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy?I'd like to know your opinion of them and your favourite. They have never been in my top ten list of fave games, though.

    ... cousin using RND statements to random poke values , insert ... cannot remember the actual basic code we used to ... 100 then use two random commands for the address ... n,
    A hundred random pokes would mostly break ... try and keep the random addresses close to other ...
    jammajup jammajup May 2014 Games
  • Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…

    ... , I got a screen of random flashing garbage.

    I ... and responds to keypresses and BASIC commands correctly. However, the screen ...
    Trafferth Trafferth May 2014 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…

    ... and follow the guidelines for random numbers, integers etc then you ... Upside... you can write your basic, compile it, test within 30 ... seconds, exit back to basic with everything intact and continue ... writing in basic without having to reload ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • What's going on with the 128 music in Madballs?I always remembered my copy of the (terrible) Madballs having a neat 128k tune, but for a long time now all the TZXs I've been able to find have only…

    ... be arsed to go into BASIC on the +3 to test ... which tune I got at random. So my guess is that ... as I did means the random seed is consistent, but different ...
    StuBruise StuBruise July 2014 Games
  • Manic Miner loading screen adjustmentHad half an hour spare earlier and wanted to try a few things. Always like to learn anyways even now. [URL="http://www.yellowspider.co.uk/speccy/Man…

    ... tweaks, instead of returning to basic we now expect a (headerless ... work and normally returns to basic after drawing it but because ... (see below)

    NOP ; random space for no reason, the ...
    spider spider August 2014 Games
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