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  • No more BravoWell I didn't see that coming. :( After 26 years Bravo closed this morning at 4AM. Sheesh.... they were one of the better sat channels :( Well that…

    ... to see. They could have a string of programs, say one based ... /> We could end up with a range of intelligent, relevant, interesting ... the current few programs, where a presenter who is (usually) obviously ... doing this job until a place on a travel or telly-sales ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2011 Chit chat
  • Spanner seeks helpHello, and HNY, all. I am presently writing a game in BASIC. It's a bit - a lot - crap, but I'm enjoying it! Anyway, a couple of questions, if you …

    ... previous advice to ensure a "C" but I ...
    Jared,

    A question.
    You ask for ... /> 10 INPUT A$ : REM ANY INPUT IN A STRING
    20 ... FOR F = 1 TO LEN A$: IF (A$(F) >= "a ... ") AND (A$(F)
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Spanner seeks helpHello, and HNY, all. I am presently writing a game in BASIC. It's a bit - a lot - crap, but I'm enjoying it! Anyway, a couple of questions, if you …

    ... ]Jared,

    A question.
    You ask for ... a solution, but what is ... /> 10 INPUT A$ : REM ANY INPUT IN A STRING
    20 ... FOR F = 1 TO LEN A$: IF (A$(F) >= "a ... ") AND (A$(F) 96 AND ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • ShoppingI when clothes shopping with my wife today as for Christmas we received a ?60 next voucher. My gawd what is it with High Street chain store close s…

    [QUOTE=mile;506943]a man should only have 3 ... round in your pants & a string vest
    Morkin Morkin January 2011 Chit chat
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... sprites then, rather than just a blit operation?[/quote]
    ...
    Every 50th of a second, the display is composited ... graphic for which will be a string of bytes (width*height ... thought - how about a transparency setting? Or a hue+saturation setting ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... thinking. Either storing a pointer to a graphic (which would ... only being allowed to pass a string variable for the gfx$ ... stored as bytes in strings (A$.MyStructElement style).

    ... background (or a background window) and open a transparent window on ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... manipulation commands, like creating a temporary bitmap and pasting multiple ... like in each element of a string array, and pass that ... , if your sprite is a 15x15 targeting crosshair, you ... clipping/wrapping was a setting to make a sprite automatically wrap ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... , but conversely, such a command might also make ... If Im rotating a spaceship in asteroids, a hotspot command would ... a set of instructions determined by a simple set of commands in a string ... for controlling, animating or passing user control to a ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Converting a decimal number to binary...Hi Folks, Been thinking about ways to convert a decimal number to 8 bit binary and came up with the following: [CODE]100 REM ----------------------…

    ... examples you seem to use a string after the BIN command. I ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting a decimal number to binary...Hi Folks, Been thinking about ways to convert a decimal number to 8 bit binary and came up with the following: [CODE]100 REM ----------------------…

    ... examples you seem to use a string after the BIN command. I ...
    gasman gasman February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting a decimal number to binary...Hi Folks, Been thinking about ways to convert a decimal number to 8 bit binary and came up with the following: [CODE]100 REM ----------------------…

    ... you seem to use a string after the BIN command. ... thought that BIN was a function, but reading the ... indicate the base of a number, and the ... ; beginning with BIN, '.' or a digit.
    ; Note that BIN ... is really just a notational symbol and not a function.
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Recommend a dev environmentIt's been a while since I last wrote any Z80 assembler - must be over 20 years, and since I wrote any spectrum Z80 assembler more like 25 years. I n…

    ... this inspection. Maybe there is a system for naming -- hopefully ... number base out of a string being parsed from a file. Let's ... . For example, to reuse a random number generator you need ... facility available places a limit on how complicated a project can ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2011 Development
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... First, load everyting into string array (one row each), ... screen with a single PRINT statement, using a single string.
    ... a rudimentary character-level "vertical scrolling" for free (by using string ... slicing on a string that's bigger ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2011 Games
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... screen with a single PRINT statement, using a single string.
    ... Just have one huge string for the entire map ... a rudimentary character-level "vertical scrolling" for free (by using string ... slicing on a string that's bigger than ...
    R-Tape R-Tape March 2011 Games
  • Skool Daze TAPIn the entry for [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004549"]Skool Daze[/url] in the database, the first two download links are f…

    ... 't be found by doing a string search on the TAP file ... Microsphere release too: there are a couple of bugs in it ...
    SkoolKid SkoolKid April 2011 Infoseek database
  • Assembly help: EQUCan anyone explain in duffers language the purpose of the EQU term in assembly? I found this info in another thread: EQU: Equate a name to a specif…

    A 'macro' in a compiler or assembler is a string of instructions that are ... . You could even have a sequence of pushing certain values ... then calling a subroutine defined as a macro.
    < ... example of how to define a parametrised macro, but it ...
    joefish joefish April 2011 Development
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... occurred to me that a string assignment of the form LET ... to send that stream to a string, but that didn't ... the display file as a string so I could use ... could use a LET from a non-existent string variable which ... to copy that to a real string variable in the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    Regarding string slicing, it will ... eg:
    LET a$=a$(TO 2048 )+s$+a$(4097 TO)
    ... call Slicing if it encounters a "(" after a string name.
    * For ... m$() could handle both string slicing and free RAM slicing ... as when a$|b$ is a letter, then a|b could be ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    [QUOTE=Battle Bunny;525787]Regarding string slicing, it will work with ... call Slicing if it encounters a "(" after a string name.
    * For ... FN m$() could handle both string slicing and free RAM slicing ... ; as when a$|b$ is a letter, then a|b could be ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... result of a string function to the free RAM pseudo-string a$ (eg. ... /> The complication arises because the string function will probably use some ... so the result of the string function will be put in ... up (in effect) by DIMing a string at the start for workspace ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…

    ... />
    I've saved a snapshot in BASin which does ... If I save it as a .bas it just saves the ... suggestions. It's just a pity that BASin doesn't ... save everything in a .bas file.[/QUOTE]
    ... that BASin does save, like a string array. See Battle Bunny' ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS 0.646 now available.Yay! Here's another round of bugfixes and additions to the Program. Not so much of the extract coding features, but more back-to-basics this time: […

    ... READ has multiple uses as a command not available in standard ... , and then converts it to a string - so you can only use ... it with a string variable. That way you don ... 'm sure someone could find a use for it :)

    Dunny Dunny May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    OK, a useful routine for a proportional printing function is ... to calculate the length of a string (so you can centre it ... =0
    120 FOR a=1 TO LEN p$
    a)-32)*8
    140 ... +PEEK address
    150 NEXT a[/CODE]

    The ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... some thought. Good pointer. A good approach would be - ... store them with the string? This means you do ... example, you could have a string with the following format:
    string
    Byte 2 = ... slice point and display the string.

    I ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... equ 23645
    char: defm "a$:" ;63970
    sadd: defw ... ;63973(IX+0) absolute a$ start address
    posn ... ;63975(IX+2) relative a$ current pointer
    wi ... to 0. When printing a string linewrap would be called several ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... equ 23645
    char: defm "a$:" ;63970
    sadd: defw ... ;63973(IX+0) absolute a$ start address
    posn ... ;63975(IX+2) relative a$ current pointer
    wi ... to 0. When printing a string linewrap would be called several ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • KindleI was thinking of giving a kindle for my GF as an engagemente gift cause she's been talking for a year now on how cool it is, and she would love to h…

    ... x, or to search for a string that contains numbers, etc, so ... has a great battery life). It has a built in dictionary (a great ... http://calibre-ebook.com/[/url] ), a very good, freeware, ebook converter ... using ebooks. Actually it's a disadvantage, as it might ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2011 Chit chat
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... is part of the current string being printed (and thus should ... being printed in any particular string. For the first character should ... distinguish the first character of a string.

    What do you ... /> It would STILL leaves behind a trail of partial "n"s.
    Timmy Timmy May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... routine:

    FOR a=50 TO 70 STEP 2 ... : PRINT #4;AT a,50;"nop": PAUSE 50: ... distinguish the first character of a string.

    What do ... It would STILL leaves behind a trail of partial "n"s ...
    Thanks for that. For a moment I thought there was ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... distinguish the first character of a string.

    ... flag the start of a string. After dealing with ...
    LD A,(ATFLAG) : AND A : JR NZ,GETXP< ... but there's one sma-a-a-all problem ...
    < ... but that is admittedly a rather artificial example.
    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
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