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  • "Monty Hall" problem in Spectrum BasicFollowing a rather odd conversation with my wife regarding the probability puzzle "[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem"]The Monty …

    ... ":

    [code]
    10 REM Monty Hall Problem
    20 ...
    40 CLS
    50 REM initialise counts. S = Swap, R ... s=s+1
    360 REM prevent Scroll? message
    370 POKE 23692 ... /t*100;"%)"
    410 STOP
    420 REM print the doors
    mroshaw mroshaw April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... space on the screen, a "scroll?" message appears that not only prevents ...
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... /> 80 POKE 23692,0 : REM suppress Scroll? message
    90 NEXT N
    100 GOTO 30 : REM repeat message
    110 DATA "Your message goes here... "
    Colin Williams Colin Williams April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum +3 Lightgun helpHi everybody, I've a light gun for Spectrum +2A/+3 never tested. Can someone write here a small ZX-BASIC test program helping me to understand if it …

    ... /> 30 POKE 23692,255: REM No "Scroll?" message
    40 GOTO 10
    John Elliott John Elliott June 2008 Development
  • Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…

    ... /42))
    360 REM
    370 REM Stop Scroll?
    380 REM Display Counter, Random ... REM
    560 REM Slow
    570 REM
    580 STOP
    590 REM
    600 REM MCODE
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman December 2011 Development
  • How to avoid paging (scroll message)After 22 lines, the Spec asks if you want to scroll or break. I want to avoid that message and what the program to go on and produces lines on the sc…

    After 22 lines, the Spec asks if you want to scroll or break. I want to avoid that message and what the program to go on and produces lines on the screen without stopping for this message. Is there a trick?
    georgedb georgedb May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... : LET C=14
    125 REM GRAPHICS IN 130
    130 ... ","BEFORE YOU CRASHED."
    410 STOP
    1000 FOR N=0 ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Arkanoid Hack - Your Sinclair Smash TipsRemember that Arkanoid hack in YS Smash Tips that didn't work? It does now... [CODE] 10 REM ARKANOID HACK 20 CLEAR 65535: LET C=1: LET D=23295 …

    ... br />
    [CODE] 10 REM ARKANOID HACK
    20 CLEAR ... ERROR IN BLOCK ";C: STOP
    60 LET C=C ... 98,181,178,-2200: REM NO START MESSAGE
    280 DATA ... 25,98,222,181,-1611: REM ... DATA 117,52,180,999: REM END MARKER[/CODE]
    ...
    jp jp October 2011 Development
  • SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…

    ... quite ... wrap properly
    REM splitting is bugged - so has ... fix
    Forcing a SCROLL? prompt with a large font ... screen might have caused a Scroll? message after all
    CASE ... one, which resulted in erroneous "Scroll?" prompts
    [/code]
    ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • FZX ScrollI wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44088"]FZX[/URL] fonts.…

    I wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, using [ ... . Feel free to use FZX Scroll.

    The [URL="http ...
    TK90XFan TK90XFan June 2014 Development
  • CONTINUE weirdnessJust watched this http://gizmodo.com/we-only-just-cracked-a-33-year-old-zx-spectrum-challeng-1701174225 and it got me thinking about the other cha…

    ... every line until you get scroll? message
    2nd, 3rd, 4th...eventually ... to press BREAK to stop the program.
    STOP then RUN and ... the first line and OK message.
    One program, three different ...
    SnazzyParrot SnazzyParrot June 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... /> 50>REM TEST
    5 REM TEST
    1 REM TEST
    2 REM TEST
    3 REM TEST
    SCROLL? message you get when the screen ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... me of that poke to stop the Scroll? message. I still think ZX ...
    Colin Williams Colin Williams April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... POKE the system variable to stop the scroll? message coming up.

    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... *8]; // bitmap of current scroll message
    uchar *message; // message string
    uchar *m_ptr ... this version, the program can stop the scroll immediately by setting "m_ptr ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... im2 library. The library will stop running isr routines in the ... d_ScrollStop() is called to stop scrolling. The message to be scrolled is ... (void)
    {
    g_scrollPos = 0; // scroll message pointer at zero prevents scroll_isr ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... select one and start the message scroll
    3. start a timer ...
    5. stop the timer
    6. stop the message scroll
    7. if ... spaces to end of message for looped scroll
    d_ScrollStart(); // start scrolling ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Porting 8k Adventure to SpectrumSomeone has tried to help me port 8k Adventure over to the spectrum. Here is the code thus far. It doesn't seem to work with the verbs, however. I tr…

    What's a good way to stop the "scroll?" message?

    Paul
    Paul Panks Paul Panks May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Porting 8k Adventure to SpectrumSomeone has tried to help me port 8k Adventure over to the spectrum. Here is the code thus far. It doesn't seem to work with the verbs, however. I tr…

    ... 's a good way to stop the "scroll?" message?

    Paul[/QUOTE ... number of lines until another scroll (+1) poke a big 8bit ... this whenever you want to stop scrolling for a while
    sparkes sparkes May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Noob needs helpSorry gents but decided to have a play with basic...see if I could knock up a shonky as hell space invader type game I seem to have gotten myself co…

    ... : INK 4: CLS*
    15 REM a and s are for ... AT a,s;"\::"
    2000 REM the checking bit
    2010 ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • RND CommandsExactly how random are they? Reason I ask is I'm using 4 of them to generate a random number, the value of which then assigns movement commands to f…

    ... br /> 540 PRINT "\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::\::"
    550 REM the player
    560 INK ... e,r;"\::"
    610 REM the purple bad guy< ... t,u;"\::"
    630 REM the green bad guy< ... ;"SCORE",j,
    660 REM the checking bit
    ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…

    ... [/url] to again as the message from the programmer is worth ...
    bd89: ld ($d8f7), a ;stop tank attack
    Bandit Bandit July 2013 Infoseek database
  • a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…

    ... were a poke to quit "scroll? " message in basic??

    where ... similar info?!

    [ This Message was edited by: Javier Alca ...
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz September 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What are the names of these games? -DONE-Time travels ... may I be let off at the next stop? [ This Message was edited by: Skarpo on 2005-11-25 02:02 ]

    Time travels ... may I be let off at the next stop?

    [ This Message was edited by: Skarpo on 2005-11-25 02:02 ]
    Skarpo Skarpo November 2004 Games
  • Captain Slog faulty?So ... saw this game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000815&loadpics=3"]Captain Slog[/URL] mentioned in another thread and th…

    ... listing (well, you get the "scroll?" message but it doesn't work ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman April 2011 Games
  • Screen2StringFurther to writing that BASIC one-liner to redirect CAT to a string I thought that I'd do a general redirection routine for anything which normally p…

    ... 3 CLEAR appropriately
    REM 23563=DEFADD; 23631=CHANS; ... 23730=RAMTOP
    REM so=standard channel 'S' ... 100
    10 REM -----------------------
    REM start redirection
    ... sd): RETURN
    REM stop redirection
    22 POKE ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS 0.747 Now available!Hiya folks - it's update time again! SpecBAS has had a load of new fixes, as well as some new additions! Firstly, as you all wanted it, SpecBAS can…

    ... /> Bugs Fixed:

    The "Scroll?" message appears as it should do ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Get a listing to .txtI am messing with an old Spectrum game which was written in Basic for the 48k Speccy (not compatible with 128s). I get an error in the begining of th…

    ... course!).

    In the Scroll? message I press BREAK and I ...
    Pyjamarama Pyjamarama September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... POKE USR "r"+x,y: REM Stop Symbol
    196 NEXT x ... ,102,0
    209 REM ******************************************************************************
    250 REM ***DEFINE VARIABLES AND START ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
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