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  • What about a Universal Spectrum File Container Format for Emulators?A common problem of us Speccy Users is that we have various mass storage interfaces like Interface 1, BetaDisk, Disciple, Tape, divMMC, divIDE and mu…

    ... like a directory and give random access to the files if ... I suspect that even simple BASIC programs are going to be ... filenames, even when using standard BASIC loading routines.

    Ultimately ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2017 Emulators
  • Replaying games from Crash Issue 1Only a small conceit in the general scheme of things, but since Issue 1 of Crash was the first Spectrum mag I bought, and I remember wondering at the…

    ... seemed pretty random, as a quick check on the BASIC listing confirms ...
    Tan Coul Tan Coul September 2017 Games
  • ZX Spectrum keyboards : all and everything about them and how can the Speccy keyboard be improved? This discussion can include of all the main types of Spectrum keyboard from the past (inc addon / aftermarket) , their strengths and weaknesses , …

    ... want random text, I'm sure I can knock up a BASIC ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK November 2017 Hardware
  • How to run trd filesI am a noob. Can anyone help me? How do I run this demo : http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68730 I use Spectaculator and ZXDS, but the demo does…

    Ok next random thing, how to run tzx ... . Type USR 0 in 128 BASIC
    3. don't know ...
    danabnormal9000 danabnormal9000 November 2017 Chit chat
  • Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…

    ... [/img]

    Plasma creator Basic coming shortly.

    [/quote ... />
    I typed in the Basic you supplied though I had ... , tried some key presses at random, eventually had to BREAK it ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch December 2017 Development
  • The development of (possibly) the worst car in the world...which is of course the Morris Marina. For some reason, YouTube gave me this as a suggested video (I don't know why!). It was interesting at least.…

    ... 125 cc unit from a basic motorbike? It's obvious, isn ... Citroën 2CV to provide basic motoring. But Captain Slow does ... that was built out of random bits and pieces by a ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone January 2018 Chit chat
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... :) just having a rant about BASIC that gets very unBASIC sometimes ... if you come across a BASIC program and decide to rewrite ... of BASIC that is literally a sea of global variables and random ...
    AndyC AndyC May 2018 BASIC
  • im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.

    ... bit ago, based on a basic whatsit, but I don't ... recall where the basic was.


    http ... of it in Boriel's basic:
    [code]

    SUB ...
    Gedlion Gedlion July 2018 Development
  • Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…

    ... obviously it came with BBC BASIC. Even better, I bought mine ... they were thankfully rare) , a random thing here is the Elk ...
    spider spider August 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What PS4 game should I get next?Ahoy there Spec fans, Long time no see/type/text or what ever you type on-line. I'm afraid that you'll be seeing/reading a lot more of me now as …

    ... connect to it at a basic bare minimal kind of way ... , and them sending you something random you didn't want, but ... ', but they'll have very basic installation instructions, and a few ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek November 2018 Chit chat
  • Getting an even random numberWhat would be the best, simplest way to do this ? I was thinking of say: A = RND*100 Then a conditional along the lines of: IF A / 2 <> I…

    ... memory address X (practically a random value)
    2. Increase X ... implement it similarly in basic. I guess the random function is rather ...
    arttu arttu November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Getting an even random numberWhat would be the best, simplest way to do this ? I was thinking of say: A = RND*100 Then a conditional along the lines of: IF A / 2 <> I…

    ... use PEEK 23672 as a random number between 0 and 255 ... as a random number when it is included in a BASIC loop ... you´ll obtain an even random number between 0 and 510 ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... . . .255[/quote] in a [i]random [/i]order, but
    1 ... implementation is not easy for BASIC, could one reduce the x256 ...
    NRA NRA November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... rearranging a non-repetitive pseudo-random sequence, no buffer/check required ... a trick would do for BASIC.


    Sometimes I ...
    NRA NRA November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... rearranging a non-repetitive pseudo-random sequence, no buffer/check required ... a trick would do for BASIC.


    Sometimes I ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... it won't do for BASIC[/quote]

    As stated ... game. You will have 2 random points which will always give ... games. This works well in BASIC as in MC, even with ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... cannot generate truly random numbers. For a truly random number generator, ... the seed for a pseudo random number generator ;-)

    BASIC you can use the frames ... />
    To get truly random numbers, the extra hardware needed ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... actually go backwards as a random sequence of swaps looks the ... probably very slow in Spectrum Basic, and you will need a ... to get close to a random-looking result.
    Warning: untested ...
    i love the z80s i love the z80s December 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • procedural generationhi, is it possible for basic to program itself? i.e with a few pokes, as i know there are no commands for this.

    ... , random generation has been used since some 1978 no problem. In Basic ...
    NRA NRA December 2018 Development
  • random number generator without using rnd in basicwhat is the simplest way to generate random numbers in basic (0-255), without using the rnd statement? i also want it to always generate the same…

    ... are no true sources of random data, Mike, so all ... the pseudo-random number generators (RNGs) output completely ... used.

    In BASIC the RANDOMIZE statement seeds the ... these two kinds of pseudo-random numbers important?

    ...
    colonel32 colonel32 June 2019 Development
  • random number generator without using rnd in basicwhat is the simplest way to generate random numbers in basic (0-255), without using the rnd statement? i also want it to always generate the same…

    ... did look up random number generation in the Sinclair Basic (ZX Spectrum ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch June 2019 Development
  • Can I record binaries from any emulator with Basic commands, machine code, macros or something?Hello I do not know if this is the right place to put this question Normally with ZXSpin if I want to save a binary file, I'm going to: file ->…

    ... the only format the Spectrum BASIC can handle, therefore the only ... emulators can collect during a BASIC or machine code.

    random small files, there is really ...
    Timmy Timmy June 2019 Emulators
  • What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?

    ... basic 2 head mono machines had poor sound quality with random drop ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum August 2019 Chit chat
  • Maze Death Race - did it ever work?As a huge Rally-X fan I was always disappointed in MDR, but I cannot remember if that was just because it was a poor clone or if it was also because …

    ... (not simple random) you can do it in the BASIC part! Just ...
    Pgyuri Pgyuri October 2019 Games
  • Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...

    ... sat down an clicked the random button only find I've ... of games. Its all in BASIC, uses the cursor keys and ...
    Luny Luny October 2019 Games
  • random number generator without using rnd in basicwhat is the simplest way to generate random numbers in basic (0-255), without using the rnd statement? i also want it to always generate the same…

    ... simplest way to generate random numbers in basic (0-255), without using ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2019 Development
  • Son et Lumiere - a lightsynth from 1985.I wrote this back in 1985, inspired by Jeff Minter's Psychedelia; I think I was the only person who actually bought the Spectrum version! I wanted…

    ... that in turn drove a random number generator which created patterns ... sees as 'noise', well obviously Basic isn't up to the ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch April 2020 Software
  • Randomised data samplingHere is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested. Lets say we want to sample a subset of a larger population, we can do t…

    ... to take a series of random samples from that population set ... would that be done in BASIC


    [code]
    BASIC to sample random items from the larger ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2020 Sinclair Basic
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