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Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplicationI liked Andre Adrian's 32-bit long multiplication routine so much that I decided to a decimal version. After all, 2^63 is only 9223372036854775808, a…
... /> 1001 PRINT " ";FN b$(V)+FN b$(X)+FN b$(B)+FN b$(C ... $(G)+FN b$(K)+FN b$(H)+FN b$(L)+
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Koch CurveNot tried it yet but it appears to have all the required components. Recursive curve program in just 69 bytes! [url]http://www.retroprogramming.com/2…
Not tried it yet but it appears to have all the required components.
Recursive curve program in just 69 bytes!
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MOVE_M Object Movement Manager for BASICAs moving things around on the screen is usually the slowest part of a game written in BASIC, I've been pottering around with this routine to handle …
... 12 CLEAR 62999: LET ORG=FN p(23730)+1: LOAD "MOVE_M ... /> LET DOTRAP=FN p(ORG): LET NOINT=FN p(ORG+2 ... ):
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SCREEN$ bug fixI've been using the SCREEN$() function recently for reading data off the screen rather than taking up space with an array and I got fed up with the s…
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dumping protected BASIC loadersI wrote this a few weeks ago but forgot to post it. It will load & list from tape/TAP/TZX any BASIC program which has been saved with SAVE, including…
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2 DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256 ... a: PRINT :
LET ps=FN p(bytes+11): LET bs ... =FN p(bytes+15): LET vs= ... *PEEK a+PEEK (a+1);":";FN p(a+2); PAPER 7 ... -
TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…
... commands in the range DEF FN (206) to COPY (255) which ... indent (currently set for: DEF FN, LPRINT, DATA, REM, FOR, INPUT ... -
PLOTTER - display file utilityI've been disassembling Gyron and needed something to help with working out where things were being put on the screen, so I wrote this program. I was…
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Decimal to Binary stringHi all, Anyone got a less labour intensive BASIC routine than this? Example:- take 170 and convert to a string "10101010" take 4 and convert to a s…
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New Game: COMPLICA DX<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal;"><img s…
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Chompston Mazes in SpecBASAfter the discussion in ASH-II's Pacman thread, I checked out the link there about generating 2D Pacman style mazes. This one was quite good fun, …
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30 DEF FN d=INT(mind+INT(1 ... +1 TO),l$=l$+CHR$ FN d:
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Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…
Hi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker but, in the end - I just learned how to use Soundtracker anyway (Thanks to ZXF for those tutorials!).
Function works in SpecBAS but not BASinSo, is there any reason why this user defined function works in SpecBAS but not BASin? [code] 10 DEF FN m$(a$,n1,n2)=a$(n1 TO n2) 20 LET a$="The…
So, is there any reason why this user defined function works in SpecBAS but not BASin?
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10 DEF FN m$(a$,n1,n2)=a$(n1 TO n2)
20 LET a$="TheManInTheMoon"
50 PRINT FN m$(a$,12,15)
60 STOP
[/code]Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
... /> 9999 LET t1=FN t(): LET t2=FN t(): LET t0=t1 ...SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
SMB 1.0- a little program for MB-02+ messies:-)Hello, hello, hello, probably the last thing from me for the near future. I sit at the ZXS for several days to write this Basic utility which should …
... to Busy for advice, for FN(C) function and brilliant 64 ...Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…
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320 POKE DEFADD,FN l(udg):
... POKE defadd+1,FN h(udg):
LET s ...
1311 DATA FN l(buf),FN h(buf)
... 1312 DATA FN l(512),FN h(512)
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POKE defadd+1,FN h(udg):
LET ...Need the title of the Sinclair Basic manual to look for itI had a copy but I've lost the USB chip it was on! I need it to look up commands because some Basic programs I looked at all used the command MOD and…
... Basic program that used DEF FN (A command I'm not ... yourselves:-
10 DEF FN M(N) = ((A / N) - INT ... LET O$ = ""
40 IF FN M(3) = 0 THEN O ... $ = "FIZZ"
50 IF FN M(5) = 0 THEN O ...While we're on the subject of BASIC Although my memory of the past still seems to be fairly reliable, memories relating to learning computer programming seem to have disappeared…
... potential of commands like DEF FN (DEFine FunctioN) now it seems ...Z80onDSK now compatible with +3e with ZXMMC or similarJust updated my utility to work on Spectrums equipped with +3e ROMs and IDE storage. I've tested this with ZXMMC at the moment but don't think there …
... user specified memory location
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║ 1 ...Writing faster BASIC programsThere was an article in INPUT years ago, that I thought I'd share again some of the tips from it and link to the article, as it contains some good ad…
There was an article in INPUT years ago, that I thought I'd share again some of the tips from it and link to the article, as it contains some good advice on ways of writting your BASIC programs that they run faster. Nothing earth shattering but would not ...
