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  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... is held as a six-digit ASCII string, so I could ... with the address of this string in the BC register ... d have to build up a string by peeking the six addresses ... PARAMB with IF always produces a true result. I've ... when you move you leave a ghost image in your ...
    mulder mulder April 2008 Development
  • Sunday roasti thought id treat my brid to a roast chicken on sunday. my mum used to do it all the time, so how hard could it be. so on the menu was roast chic…

    ... 's pink and black with a hint of furry and smells ... . Give the guy a string, couple of paperclips and a paperbag full of ... he'll give you back a fully operational steamengine which sometimes ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman April 2008 Chit chat
  • Trying to read in a list of items from DATA statementsThus far I have: data "cherry","apple","banana","grape","orange" But when I read it in using this: FOR X=1 TO 5: READ n$(X): NEXT X It only reads…

    ... ...

    [code]a$="apples and oranges "
    b ... $=FN (a$)

    result:
    a function that removes a variable amount ... of spaces at the end of a string?
    netraider netraider May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Trying to read in a list of items from DATA statementsThus far I have: data "cherry","apple","banana","grape","orange" But when I read it in using this: FOR X=1 TO 5: READ n$(X): NEXT X It only reads…

    ... way...

    [code]a$="apples and oranges "
    b ... $=FN (a$)

    result:
    a function that removes a variable amount ... spaces at the end of a string?[/QUOTE]

    Yes ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Places to Picnic this bank holidayMy wife has suggested we go on a picnic family picnic this weekend. We live in South Harrow in NW London and want to get out of town for the day. A…

    ... I'm happily married to a beautiful, intelligent and kind woman ... (or is it two) and a string of girlfriends already I would ... know why you have a read face and a big chin, its ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk May 2008 Chit chat
  • Places to Picnic this bank holidayMy wife has suggested we go on a picnic family picnic this weekend. We live in South Harrow in NW London and want to get out of town for the day. A…

    ... I'm happily married to a beautiful, intelligent and kind woman ... (or is it two) and a string of girlfriends already I would ... know why you have a read face and a big chin, its ... absolutely love chocolate cake but a bit of Cheesecake on the ...
    beanz beanz May 2008 Chit chat
  • Worst driving behaviours....?Can anyone explain to me why most drivers in the UK seem to think it's ok to sit in lanes 2 and/or 3 of a three-lane road despite the fact that the i…

    ... br />
    Being stuck behind a woman or an elderly turning ... you're contintental/American) onto a main road.

    ... my own it's usually a string of obscenities with regard to ... person wants.

    On a few occasions in Australia where ...
    Vertigo Vertigo June 2008 Chit chat
  • Microdrive CATIs there a way in Basic to obtain any more useful info on the contents of a Microdrive? File size, head info for example? Also, is it possible in ge…

    There's also a true cat utility in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000235"]this[/URL] book. IIRC it uses a routine that can dump stuff from a stream into a string variable.
    jp jp June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Microdrive CATIs there a way in Basic to obtain any more useful info on the contents of a Microdrive? File size, head info for example? Also, is it possible in ge…

    ... that it can only use a 512-byte microdrive buffer and ... .
    You can send a CAT to a stream e.g.
    a string or array using INKEY$ #4 ...
    Geoff Geoff June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... only for "in de middle" string assignations:
    [code]
    ... Let a$(3 TO 5) = "a"
    [/code] will put "a--" in a$(3 ... to 65535 bytes long). When a string is changed, its block is ... garbage collection[/i]. When a string is declared in a function scope: it ...
    boriel boriel June 2008 Development
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    I want to define a string array containing the first 8 ...
    mulder mulder June 2008 Development
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... 280026]I want to define a string array containing the first 8 ... ?[/QUOTE]

    Well, string arrays are not exactly the ... BASIC ones. Here each string might have a different length. Also ... /> Or you can declare a single string and use string [i]slicing[/i ...
    boriel boriel June 2008 Development
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... port will need converting from a string to a 16 bit int)
    string and then make the necessary ... />
    Things get a little hairier with a server program because then ... got data, the difference between a listening socket and the accepted ...
    Winston Winston July 2008 Development
  • The Official Christmas 2008 Thread113 days to go - anything in shops or catalogues out yet? The Xmas in July stuff on Freeview is now just a cheap, plasticky, tacky, faded memory. 1…

    ... it, unless you've had a shit year and want to ... start a clean slate.[/QUOTE]
    < ... 're in the middle of a string of good things.

    a milestone you can grab onto ... in order to make a start on a big push to make ...
    NickH NickH September 2008 Chit chat
  • Amiga/Atari ST Emulator?Right, I already have Spectrum,SNES,NES,MAME,N64,Megadrive,ScummVM on my computer... I now want to venture into the Amiga/Atari ST Emu Scene!!! (Reli…

    ... I hint that I'm a bird, then Karingal might ... well send me a Pandora, in the sad ... him finally getting off with a bird, like those sad gits ... some bloke pretending to be a bird, who gets loads ... the subject of a joke. I can't reverse a car, or drive ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Chit chat
  • Amiga/Atari ST Emulator?Right, I already have Spectrum,SNES,NES,MAME,N64,Megadrive,ScummVM on my computer... I now want to venture into the Amiga/Atari ST Emu Scene!!! (Reli…

    ... I hint that I'm a bird, then Karingal might ... well send me a Pandora, in the sad ... him finally getting off with a bird, like those sad gits ... some bloke pretending to be a bird, who gets loads ... the subject of a joke. I can't reverse a car, or drive ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2008 Chit chat
  • i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…

    Anyone know a site that tells you what ... the year? I just did a search for "What was the ... top 20 for december 1990", a year and month of that ... play she may have had a string of awful hits that year ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2008 Chit chat
  • i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…

    [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;301335]Anyone know a site that tells you what ... the year? I just did a search for "What was the ... top 20 for december 1990", a year and month of that ... play she may have had a string of awful hits that year ...
    mile mile September 2008 Chit chat
  • Midi codes for the Speccy +2Does anyone have a full list of the zx spectrum code for midi i know a few but there are many more but i cannot remember them Y is midi channel …

    ... the N command used in a string.

    e.g. ... ,
    Y = Followed by a number from 1 to 16 ... turns on a MIDI channel.
    Z = ... Followed by a number sends that number as ... effect in any string.
    X = Followed by a number 0 to ...
    FrankT FrankT September 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... x$ as a string expression, so if a$="hello" and x$="a$+a$" then VAL ... ". VAL(x$) would give you a Nonsense In Basic error.
    gasman gasman September 2008 Emulators
  • Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…

    ... would address first:

    (a) Find out why it frequently ... so it doesn't require a displacement field for indexed operands ... happens to find in a string constant as a comment marker - defb "foo ... />
    Then you're a hell of a lot more tolerant of ...
    kickaha kickaha October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…

    ... run multitasking OSs, with a Frankenstein mess of different ... that can, even for a very short time, ... leave the PC to perform a string of mundane tasks.
    a real revolution.

    a leap, except for portability. ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…

    ... leave the PC to perform a string of mundane tasks.
    [/ ... />
    If you had a computer smart enough to recognise ... br />
    But a scripting language is a formalised language, reasonably easy ... give dumb but precise computers a set of instructions to ...
    Winston Winston October 2008 Chit chat
  • Check your spam-boxCos it may well be 75% empty. According to [url]http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online_scams_a.html[/url], a ma…

    ... "dictionary attack"; they have a massive list of common names ... a username) and one created using a throwaway QBASIC program to generate a string ... (probably as the result of a dictionary attack, at first), ... got loads more spam as a result (as any experienced ...
    robert@fm robert@fm November 2008 Chit chat
  • Help with WindowsOn my Windows XP Service Pack 2 PC I today ran CCleaner, then Super Antispyware and AVG Virus Killer. I told them to delete what they found, as usual…

    ... agree that using Linux sounds a much more intelligent idea - it ... " I mean "wage slave to a string of apathetic job engencies") since ... it first appeared it caused a lot of trouble, justifying my ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2008 Chit chat
  • Name this game (idea)...Who here used to play conkers? I did. I Have a crappy little shield for winning my conkers championship at Cubs back in 198 ...(cough), back in th…

    Thing on a String?
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey November 2008 Games
  • PING:AlvinSince I archive my emails offline I am prone to losing people's email addresses.

    ... to be printed on, uses a mask bit (as suggested by ... but it makes printing to a given co-ordinate tricky (since ... />
    Ah, ok so printing a string is made fast but coordinate ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2008 Development
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... Fixed - Expression evaluations timeout a lot sooner now - typically after ... insert either a SPECTRUM or PLAY token into a string.
    ... program changes from a 128k to a 48k compatible program, ... numbers after a $C4 (BIN Token) inside a string were getting ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... a single READ to read it as one single string ... and did some string slicing as ... ]
    REM code amended a bit from original for clarity ... routine to find a string match from input in a$
    ... the FOR-NEXT loop for string match (listed above) ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Keyboard routinesI'll ask here first - since this must be a long-ago solved problem, and hopefully I can avoid re-inventing the wheel... I need a keyboard routine th…

    ... key or are you expecting a line of input? If ... something in rather than press a single key then you' ... as they are to get a string of input, like the ... If somebody comes up with a good solution then I'd ... it is crying out for a decent keyboard routine. If it ...
    Jimmy Jimmy January 2009 Development
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