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Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…
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Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…
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Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…
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Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…
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... guess you could build up a string of arbritary length containing game ... might try to use such a ridiculous dirty trick to achieve ...How Spectrum changed our livesHave you ever thought about how Speccy changed your lives? Just imagine all of us in our youth age without Manic Miner or Knight Lore, without that…
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