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  • Legal Sinclair clones?Are any of the cloned Sinclair computers legal, other than the original Timex machines? Are the QL Clones legal? Could a legal clone be produced with…

    ... from disk and use BBC Basic (which can be distributed in ... the work. The first team reverse engineered the BIOS and determined ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…

    ...

    This is the basic char output routine that stdio ... -byte parameters are stored in reverse byte order. So it looks ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • ZX SpinIs it possible to use the Z80 Assembler in spin as a means of entering mcode? I'm struggling on some of the basics like SCREEN EQU 4000h. It keeps …

    ... , you can save it from BASIC:

    SAVE "mycode" CODE ... />
    Hope that helps!
    Marko

    [ This Message was ... edited by: Marko on 2005-03-18 01 ...
    Marko Marko March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • plus3dos headersThe plus 3 manual states that bytes 15...22 contain +3 BASIC header data. Which on the whole seems to be true, however I've never seen bit 22 being a…

    ... /> I'm writting a very basic app to strip the headers ... />
    (which was written to reverse tapcat:)

    [url="http ...
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2005 Development
  • Still stuck with BREAKOkay now I'm getting desperate! Can anyone rustle up a small 128kBASIC routine/working example to prevent the 128kBASIC program from stopping when a …

    ... , either in 48 or 128 BASIC:

    POKE (PEEK 23613 ... mode.

    HTH,
    Marko
    Marko Marko July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …

    ... 2005-07-16 02:54, Marko wrote:

    No plans ... time was written in Visual BASIC and hence was crap and ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2005 Emulators
  • what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…

    ... Popeye has something like a reverse screen loading - first it loaded ... from Proxima have a unigue basic header - it doesn't load ... the screen, but the basic oader is big around 8 ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 October 2005 Games
  • Just brushing up on old skills...Ahead of XLR-8 I thought it best I get a little hacking practice in after all these years ;) Chose Op Wolf 128K to pick on this fine evening! lol […

    ... loader incorporating Marko's rather cool method of leaving BASIC :)

    Woody Woody November 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... to find a way to reverse each 8x8 square so the ... last wrote anything in speccy basic so I am quite pleased ...
    miskox miskox February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

    ... became painfully obvious that Sinclair BASIC was in fact superior ... to Amiga BASIC.

    From there ... a collaborative project involving myself, Marko, Woody and Damien Guard), ... Delphi-like IDE for Sinclair BASIC. I've also programmed ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2006 Chit chat
  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

    ... to get into programming in BASIC and machine code although the ... selectively sticking a battery charger (reverse polarity) across important devices like ...
    xenomorph xenomorph April 2006 Chit chat
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... my (and Woody's and Marko's and Damien's) hard ... RZX problems instead of Sinclair BASIC in here, then you can ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... shot. Really fast, interactive like Basic but also more cryptic and ... m fairly sure that the Reverse Polish Notation calculator is the ... br />
    COMAL - A hybrid BASIC/Pascal language. It never caught ... likes of BBC or Locomotive BASIC.

    BCPL - A ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... that the argument applies in reverse.

    [quote]
    You ... here accepts that the Sinclair BASIC is an old language which ... arguments: does everyone think Sinclair BASIC is useless? No. Why? B ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ForthSo would it be worth my while learing Forth, can I write crap games with it?

    ... and more compact than interpreted BASIC. However, it's no faster ... than compiled BASIC and probably not that much ... (all mathematics is done in reverse Polish notation) and consequently has ... much steeper learning curve than BASIC.
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […

    ... ] that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy." (emphasis ... else; it usually means the basic story was his, but some ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2007 Chit chat
  • TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …

    ... and a short machine code reverse scroll routine to make a ... cool spreadsheet like program in BASIC. It scrolled up and down ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... lifts will be problematic in BASIC, so I am thinking of ... must be a way to reverse engineer the ammo box, mace ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... . Both will be slow in BASIC.
    3/ additional problems if ... must be a way to reverse engineer the ammo box, mace ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... I stored the bits in reverse order so that the rightmost ... -bit wall byte. The reverse keeps the basic simple whilst plotting the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... be used generally by a basic program) so when I want ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... . You can poke values to reverse HL and DE so that ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... . You can poke values to reverse HL and DE so that ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... ) ive never done anything outside basic sinclair basic stuff. So I don ... , let alone integrating it into basic).

    Is there an ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... . You can poke values to reverse HL and DE so that ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum 128+ problemsHello!I recently purchased and got myself a spectrum 128+ from ebay.The item did not have an original power supply so i got a power supply of 9volts …

    ... when you drop into a BASIC.

    Connecting the power ... include a diode to prevent reverse polarity damage, but he didnt ... up placeholder page).

    "Reverse polarity destroys the regulator almost ...
    Womble Womble July 2007 Hardware
  • Emulating the Plus3e in SpinHi. At the weekend I finally got my ass in gear and started to go through my many +3 discs, with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF…

    ... a utility which does the reverse of tape-to-disc, that ... have to load up each BASIC file independently and SAVE"" it ...
    icabod icabod July 2007 Emulators
  • Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…

    ... 'img2mgt.pl' to do the reverse.[/QUOTE]


    I ... . All I know is Spectrum-Basic and also Z80 Assembler.
    Speccyman Speccyman October 2007 Emulators
  • ZX Spin assembler - where am I going wrong?I'm trying to use the assembler in ZX Spin, but I'm getting error messages. Here's a screenshot of the first simple program I'm trying to get workin…

    ... />
    Then back to Sinclair BASIC and 10 PRINT USR 61440 ... !!) or if it's like Marko's then it'll run ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2007 Development
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