-
Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... CDS game which was written in Basic!"
No ... 8K or so of BASIC. It's kind of ... the language it was written in.
[quote]
in BASIC with a solitary machine code ... which appears to call the ROM sound routine at 949. ... -
How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... pretendous. Every who has posted in this thread has known and ... . It can be written even in BASIC. Is then relevent what CPU ... will kill us...
ROM - random overwrittable memory
RAM ... -
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…
... built in Basic compiler but it would definately require a larger ROM. I ... think the best after market BASIC compilers for ... more than would fit in an 8K ROM.
I think ... ROM space.
The best 8 bit BASIC *I've* seen in ... -
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…
Pascal and BASIC are both toy languages; they' ... extensions to BASIC in a 16K ROM though.
Sinclair BASIC wasn't ... a total shoehorn affair in terms of both ROM and RAM usage ... it passes the acid test in that there were a number ... -
Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... (vertical) pixel pos is possible in Basic - with PLOT for instance (very ... may draw standard characters from ROM to desired vertical pos - can ... what can be simpler made in machine code than in Sinclair Basic. -
128K memory testingDuring a mad half hour I decided to write a little memory tester program in BASIC using the information from the 48K service manual. Now I was wonder…
Problem with testing spectrum 128K ram in BASIC is that if any of the chips go tits up the computer won't boot. It would have to be machine code in a custom ROM only.
On the 48 if the bottom 16K is ok it will go into BASIC. -
Currah MicrosourceHi Anyone here got a Currah Microsource ? I have one, its one of the original eval units complete with 'draft' manual. Just interested to see how …
...
Try PRINT IN 11007 (or whatever exact address ... use to do the paging in (I will try your ... the paged ROM disabled interrupts once the paging in occurs. All ... variety of IN addresses and monitor the rom memory ... copy of the sinclair ROM in RAM. If they no ... -
Currah MicrosourceHi Anyone here got a Currah Microsource ? I have one, its one of the original eval units complete with 'draft' manual. Just interested to see how …
... a scan from BASIC doing an IN from port ranges ...
To test the ROM I have written a little ... (returning to BASIC with the wrong ROM paged in). I am ... page back in OR (b) save the MicroSource ROM to ... tape via a tape routine in uncontented ... -
Spectrum RAM Paks...This jogged my memory (excuse the pun!!) : [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CURRAH-32K-RAM-PACK-BOXED-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM_W0QQitemZ150057889352QQihZ005QQ…
... ]
Because the Basic ROM lives in a 64k memory space. It ... , which is what Basic does. No need to rewrite the ROM then. -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... to port the Sinclair Spectrum ROM to 32bit x86 assembler. It ... . Of course, with the interpreted BASIC being available from boot up ... current OS offers. As the BASIC will also serve as the ... that rewriting old Spectrum games in BASIC might actually be a reality ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... take a uITX motherboard in a nice looking case ... then flash a spectrum emulator in place of the BIOS. ... m pretty much all about BASIC. The only way to ... usable, fast BASIC is to port the ROM to x86 and ... remake could be written in BASIC without having to resort ... -
Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
[B]I`m making a Loader Maker and am having trouble ... ,x
Works in BASIC, probably would in M/C, but depends ... -
Jet Set Willy Guru Nedded UrgentlyNow I know these questions have probably been asked over and over and over again but I just want to make sure my memory is correct and I've actually …
There are only 83 items in the original JSW, and you ... single one. It's only in JSW II where you can ... the total number of items in the game.
The ... the only differences in #8000-FFFF, although the BASIC loader and the filenames ... -
Sam coup? - some questionsHi everyone. Got myself a sam coupé without any kind of cables. I was a bit suspicious about it's working condition. Hooked it to a pc at psu a…
... I mean, where is mapped ROM, where is the videoram and ... at the startup screen, or in BASIC right at the start, you ... have:
ROM0 in Page A (0-16383)
in Page B (16384-32767)
in]
HMPR set to ... -
Sam coup? - some questionsHi everyone. Got myself a sam coupé without any kind of cables. I was a bit suspicious about it's working condition. Hooked it to a pc at psu a…
... simple scroller using the ROM routines for placing characters ... scroller but not using ROM routines, writing all my ... smooth 2 pixel scrolls in Basic, be nice to achieve ... same effect in MC, but have the ... have a good tune in the background though to ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... the modulus of a division in BASIC? Alternately, [B]how would one ... pass the number to check in [B]a[/B], and the ... base number in [B]b[/B]. The function ... [/B] when not (barring any ROM and internal representation inaccuracy!).
Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... />
The idea is in the basic loader for your program, after loading ...EightyOne 0.43Hmmm, 'twas round about July I fell asleep and only came round t'other day - honest gov! Anyway, I thought I'd better whip out a quick release and p…
... in BASIC RAM? Older versions have been rock solid using the ZX81 ROM ... 2). National keyboard support is in the works though.
TZX with GACBig favour to ask - if I sent a Z80 of my Frontier of Warriors demo revision, could they make a TZX of it for me please? Thanks.. It's a GAC snapsh…
... - can I make up a BASIC loader with some text, save that ... tape as in step 4
2) Create your BASIC loader and save ... TZX tool) to insert the BASIC block before the main game.funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... description of their planned games in a text file, and we ... unfortunately, the +3 disk commands in BASIC are unequal to the task ... the necessary routines are in the +3 ROM and are well documented ... in the manual, but it was ...basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…
... I wanted to write a BASIC loader that says, for example:
in the future? Perhaps right-click ...DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... the compatibility issues, disabling 128k BASIC and enabling all other good ... machine directly in USR0 mode. Who wants 128k basic, can remove ... when EDITOR rom is in - is bad. this rom might be in when divide ... machines, except that poor 128k basic, and you'll be ...DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... I think the possible RAM/ROM extension should be a ... possible. In theory though, even with divIDE paging in 128k ROM enabled, ... maybe it would be possible to detect which ROM ... has caused a page-in (by examining ...DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... to keep the undefined bits in Control register reserved for RAM ... used for any other purpose in the future). So Control ... a good, feature-rich system. In future, when extensions are implemented ... define ext = 0 for ROM paging. If more ROM pages are needed, we ...DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... pressing (and holding) reset, and in this state, exchange the ide ... that two "val" bits select ROM page.
or, consider ... with number 0000, for fom paging. we can add another extensions ... , 0010 and 0011 for additional rom paging, but this can be also ...NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... a TRD and convert the BASIC loader to a TAP using the ... />
The asm loader is contained in the BASIC one so we need ... lowest in memory is at $66FF (26367) so our BASIC loader needs to ... />
In other words, we end up with a BASIC loader like this ...NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... break any basic loader and also break $556 loader from machine ... IX ; load address is in HL for trdos
... B is number of sectors in trdos, one sector = 256 ... br /> JP $556 ; load in the headerless block
loader in.
A lot ...New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …
... be to look for 'watermarks' in the game files.
PAW ... "A PAWed game o hacker" in the BASIC loader.
However, ... number of games with "PAWOVR" in their file, which would indicate ... example the adventures from Traveller in Black.
So, um, ...DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... is mixing of MB-02 paging using port #17 and DivIDE ... paging with #E3 port.
... SMD soldered) and 512kB ROM (29F040 PLCC in socket, address and data ... .
2. Q3 - when set in ROM/RAM mode, DivIDE traps are ...NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... the end of the loader, used it instead of ... in practice there was a slight problem in that the M/C loader ... embedded in the BASIC loader is ... is to use a BASIC loader if at all possible ... say it isn't practical in every case!
