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  • z88dk : FIle Handling in C on the +3e environment under Win 764bitHello my fellow WoSers! I am wondering if someone can help me solve this little pickle of z88dk / Windows using +3e Filesystem. So a little inf…

    ... />
    here is the basic of basic C code

    [ ... file created\n");
    }
    return 0;
    }
    [/code]
    to and read from this space in BASIC, by ... Created". and exits safely back to BASIC - sadly no output on the ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 June 2017 Development
  • Custom Menus on the ZX Spectrum +3Today, my Friends, i have the pleasure of presenting a program i have written which gives a set of custom menus on the +3. The main features of my p…

    ... the user to use the Calculator without leaving the +3 BASIC editor ... the same as [b]+3 BASIC[/b] in the standard menu ... to enter 48K Mode via the [b]SPECTRUM[/b] keyword, and to return to ... +3 BASIC with [b]RANDOMIZE USR 23354 ...
    The_Bert The_Bert October 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Ad LunamHi folks, here is my latest effort: [b]Ad Lunam,[/b] a simulation/management game created with [url="http://zxbasic.net"]ZX-Basic[/url] inspired t…

    ... ="http://zxbasic.net"]ZX-Basic[/url] inspired to the Lift Off board ... a manned spacecraft and safely return to Earth within 1976. Although it ... ever project made with ZX-Basic, and as such, I ... br />
    Instructions on how to assemble the game from the ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2019 Brand new software
  • Are 128K games more likely to crash than 48K ones?Hey, guys. I've been doing some experimenting with various games and even some music demos and apps, and I'm beginning to reach a conclusion that …

    ... , and I'm beginning to reach a conclusion that the ... seem to be the main culprits) seem to be more susceptible to ... 48K counterparts, most usually resetting to BASIC and the AY chip sustaining ... lives (and have to start again), resetting to a corrupted version ...
    Swevicus Swevicus February 2022 Games
  • writing gameswhats the best games writing software/package for the speccy?i heard white lightning is good but it seems very difficult to me,apart from that and hu…

    ... would recommend your friend trying to write an update of a ... using the likes of Blitz Basic/Dark Basic, etc.

    ... />
    But if she wants to write a game specifically for ... Speccy then she really needs to learn assembly programming which a number ...
    Vampyre Vampyre August 2002 Games
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... IMO.

    Now BASIC - that's a bit old ... that it's easy to do assembly directly with a good ... I'm not saying ditch BASIC - I'm saying have ... a keyboard layout designed to optimise one finger typing ... of application).

    To collect on some of those ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... VRAM is thusly written to by EPaging to FF and writing pages ... fiddle with the RAM then return to the game. A GUI interface ... high res modes.
    The basic idea is that the default ... video counter is then incremented to point to next Pr.

    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    ... then press 'r' to return. Where Genie says input ... then follow the instructions to reset the spectrum (press ... Now press R to (R)eturn to game. Start the ... hexadecimal for 255) and return to the game. Restart the ... back

    Return to the game and you will ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... i actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as high ... level as basic but it's still ... , JP=Jump , RET=Return ... etc etc. knowing basic helps cause you can ... if i were to do this in basic it would be ... it is high level like Basic, and has a bunch ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…

    ... any program. Hence when exporting to BASIC you could have each statement ... however because obviously you can return to the next point in a ... generate a line numbered minimal BASIC program - which may or ... d fill 9999 lines of BASIC without first running out of ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2003 Development
  • Another Free Ebay Day ;- Link to 300+ ?1.50 all in[url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cornishdavey&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200&rdir=0"]http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/w…

    ... br /> Chimera
    Down to Earth
    Helicopter
    Return of the Jedi
    ...
    Microsphere
    Back to School

    Mikro ... />
    Parker
    Return of the Jedi

    Intro to Basic Prt. 1 ? No Inlay< ...
    Cornishdavey:)) Cornishdavey:)) January 2004 Sales
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... bet is to have buy one of those Speccy 'learn BASIC' books ... if u want to learn BASIC. or pick ... ' tutor books if u want to learn assembly language. u'll find ... for a learner's guide to assembly language, do check out Cyborg ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2004 Development
  • Why Hex in place of Denary?Ok - most MC books / tutorials advocate the use of hex instead of denary. But the Speccy doesn't actually have a Hex converter so you need to write …

    ... point at which it returns to BASIC. So PRINT USR 30000 ... address 30004. 117 translates to an opcode LD (HL), ... it will not return 117. The routine to do that is ... the contents of BC) will return 117.

    So ... is the address you want to PEEK

    [ ...
    monty.mole monty.mole March 2004 Development
  • Help accessing menu on 128k +2Hi, I recently dusted my old 128k +2 speccy off, and got it up and running. I am having one problem though - I can't access the menu! When I turn i…

    The [I]Edit[/I] key will normally bring up the menu, if in 128 BASIC. If in the Tape Loader, you will need to press [I]Break[/I] twice to return to the main menu.
    monty.mole monty.mole August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ...

    I want to check the Dragon out more ... late eightees I remebember goin` to a kinda `posh` mates ... mags... I never did return to look at the computer, ... to be achieved you ask, well, with the four basic ... was the missing link to his 128 bit Mega- ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…

    ... animation) unless you fall back to z80 assembly.

    [quote]< ... PC and the Amiga - Dark BASIC, Blitz BASIC etc etc.

    BASIC game to a software house are ... Delphi - and pascal is close to BASIC. It's compiled, but I ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2004 Games
  • How do I poke a Spectrum?I've forgotten how to do it. Does anyone remember?

    ... /> (hehe)

    Really. From basic:

    POKE address,value ... the fly. That, you have to figure out depending on the ... pokes? And how do I return to the game once I have ...
    Sabre Man Sabre Man October 2004 Games
  • How will be the (real) new Speccy "thing"?I read about hundreds of cool and wacky ideas to get Speccy bring to new life. I know (and I adore) this new era of the speccy - new magazines, new g…

    ... be problematic because of how Basic/assembly addresses the RAM ... but there ... the world aren't going to get a consistent way of ... the OS is there for - to provide a memory abstraction system.
    cyborg cyborg November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... z88dk somewhat lacking in the basic matters of being a good ... very good if you want to utilise assembly to its fullest (you cannot ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • New Development WSS Site OpenOk, I have created this site [url="http://pearmain.dotnetpanel.net/default.aspx"]http://pearmain.dotnetpanel.net/default.aspx[/url] Lots to do, but…

    ... look in to that.

    Anyway, basic plan is to have a ... /> I thought:

    BASIC
    Assembly

    Anything else, also ...
    robpearmain robpearmain May 2005 Development
  • ArmalyteI am sure a lot of folks here remember Armalyte, the fabulous C64 shoot-em-up that almost came out on the speccy. I think there was a demo on some of…

    ... little level editor in BASIC some time back. Its ... in BASIC.

    Q,A,O,P to move ... whole level - press another key to return to the editor.

    to OR this tile with ... Click / Save Target As /rename to EDITOR.SNA

    ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Games
  • Programming MC challengeIn the 80-ies I got the following assignment for a programming course. 2 16-bit values stored in #8000 and #8002 must be added together and stored i…

    [quote]
    On 2005-08-22 20:11, AndyC wrote:
    Wasn't in the spec. ;)
    [/quote]

    Well with an exit was ment a return to i.e BASIC
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2005 Development
  • Programming MC challengeIn the 80-ies I got the following assignment for a programming course. 2 16-bit values stored in #8000 and #8002 must be added together and stored i…

    ... exit was ment a return to i.e BASIC
    [/quote]

    Annoyingly now I'm back to 19 bytes.
    AndyC AndyC August 2005 Development
  • horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …

    ... thought it would be in BASIC. :(
    [/quote]

    < ... [/B] completely pure, non-compiled BASIC!
    but... just [I] ... - but some of them could return to previous point, some of them ... .png"]text scheme[/url] to be more exact what I ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup October 2005 Development
  • TLOTRD - compiling problemsOk guys! A new demo for 'The Legend Of The Red Dragon' is nearly finished (just need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm using sample images from the …

    ... , and you may still need to use it in a cetain ... way to get your program to compile or run ... these need an exit to Basic, and then a return to the machine code ...
    mulder mulder October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • A deeper exploration of the SpectrumI've been reading a lot of posts in the BASIC and development forums and they've really intrigued me. Although my knowledge of the deeper working of …

    ... really love to learn assembly. I already know about a few basic things ... about it e.g. basic arithmetic and printing text on ... the screen, and I want to learn more. Is there a ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton November 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • ROM paging questionAssuming the Spectrum 128 memory map and port addresses, but two custom ROMs in place of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient way …

    ... :
    after_page2:
    RET ; return to calling routine

    ... TO ROM0 HERE
    after_page2:

    [/code]

    The basic ... idea here is that when you page from one ROM to ... RET it will return to after_page2 in ROM1.< ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2006 Development
  • Advice needed - Xbox EmulatorsDoes anybody have experiance of using a speccy emulator with an Xbox ? My intention is to install Linux and then try and run an emulator (most like…

    ... the virtual Spectrum was in BASIC entry mode, not that that ... would end the game and return to the title screen, as it ... for the emulator to emulate the Kempston joystick to, of course, ... />
    KEMPSTON RIGHT

    to the forty possible keys that ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2006 Emulators
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... interest - how slow is BASIC for what I am ... of the video buffer to the various block locations, ... raw Z80 is than BASIC. Copying such data would ... quite a long time for BASIC to to its interpretation (as well ... you need to learn assembly for what you want to do. I ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2006 Sinclair Basic
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