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... ] in that time, patched the ROM, etc... :o
When ... High School (Electronics Technician at last 8-), was 19) I took ... ability to return 8 as PRINT VAL ("5+3") over VB ... -
Broken SpectrumJust found out that both of my +3s have died. :( Seems to be the same problem with both, that the disk-drive just doesn't want to spin anymore. An…
... a memory location passes the ROM test (assuming it does?) it ... reset the puter, and type PRINT USR "A" in 48 AND ... you move it?
Last question (honest) does it crash ... -
Who is Andrew Pennell?According to the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/whatsnew.html"]What's New[/URL] page, Andrew Pennell has granted distribution of his software. …
He also wrote 'Print Utilities' for Sinclair Research and ... issue of the Interface 1 ROM. His permission letter mentions his ... ]
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compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …
... speed to a Basic compiled PRINT (probably faster) but then PRINTing ... screen functions for
drawing lines, plotting points and doing circles ... times
faster than the ROM (which compiled Basic tends to ... -
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... read a key, fputc_cons to print an uninterpretted character, puts_cons to ... not rely on the spectrum ROM or interrupts, and scans ... -contained and independent of the ROM. A fast function.
... the keyboard and stored the last keypress in system variable LASTK ... -
CLEAR does not RESTORE the DATA pointer??According to the Spectrum manual, one of the things that a CLEAR command does RESTORE the DATA pointer. Either it doesn't actually do this, or some…
... are more an indication of last-minute changes than any poor ... -
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…
... not going to utilise the ROM routines (and thus lose the ... code your own routines for PRINT etc. Assembly language programs required ... /> Even if using lot of ROM calls MC is much faster ... speed by parsing program lines, command interpreting etc. Print via RST 16 ... -
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…
Try to draw grid lines with displacement multiple of 8 - ... ).
Of course that Print to desired (vertical) pixel pos ... may draw standard characters from ROM to desired vertical pos - can ... -
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 …
... trying to extract the 8Kb ROM from the MicroSource to look ... /> This came up on CSS last year. It may have been ... the same?
Try PRINT IN 11007 (or whatever exact ... -
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 …
... This came up on CSS last year. It may have ... same?
Try PRINT IN 11007 (or whatever exact ... the fact that the paged ROM disabled interrupts once the ... IN addresses and monitor the rom memory against a copy ... of the sinclair ROM in RAM. If they ... -
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…
... thing.
you can print one digit on char position ... of char (it is seven lines) and the bottom will ...
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10 print at 0,0;"0":poke ... last time we display last line of "0" and then first 7 lines ... and next time all 8 lines of "9" will be ... -
Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... The examples in the spectrum rom seem to use the register ... makes sense. Then a PRINT#n can be used to ... parameters.
One last method to quickly mention is ... me to manually page in ROM 3 and RAM 0, ... converter if you don't print longs?). There are such ... -
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…
... as
10 PRINT INT (.5 + .5)
ROM has minor bugs but loading ... forms. If you bring the lines to the lower screen then ... -
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…
... 512kB ROM (29F040 PLCC in socket, address and data lines are ... In DivIDE mode, last 8kB of the 32kB ROM is used (unless ... traps are enabled with selected ROM/RAM banks. This disables ... the internal ROM permanently and provides custom ROM contents with ... -
basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... *would* require bank switching a ROM which is a project in ... map. To introduce indexes to lines or variables and caches of ... RAM and would be the last optimization I'd try... however ... and then directly making the ROM call.
Take out the ... -
basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... you need the original ROM. No way around it ... in the ROM WITHOUT interfering with common ROM calls. Once ... t need to renumber lines. That stuff can be ... without interfering with common ROM calls. The stuff that ... BASIC to get those last few games to run ... -
TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
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Did just that last week. Remember Pyjamarama from Greece ... same problem, everything checked out, rom z80, ula, ram everything. When ... paper with thin red horizontal lines moving. 1 or 2 times ... -
On a 48K issue 6A......how can i isolate the 32K block? I want to test if there is any fault on the 4116's , leaving the 4532's out of the equation. Will removing the …
Phew!
For the last 2 hours or so, i' ... of each ram ic to rom, logic, ula and cpu. Every ... , black paper, thin red vertical lines but then it froze. some ... -
SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... only a few screen attribute lines to show the status of ... last block is loaded... loading speed is the same as normal ROM ... -
How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
... getting much further than the last time I tried this.
lines and -e... /bin/grep
ROM images... we supply them
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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// s = string to print
// n = max number ... of chars of s to print
// buf = destination ... ; // next letter in message, last to initialize (see isr)
ROM isr so basic can coexist ...Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... , then a CHR$(14) and last, five bytes for the real ... of the number that the ROM uses for calculations. The line ... such a line, the internal ROM representation is removed and recalculated ... , some POKEing to get ZERO lines, and you're on your ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... anyway. You could simply randomly print a new biscuit every 10 ... 've been thinking along these lines myself. As tricky as it ... for INK 7), erase the last position even if it didn ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... in the standard ZX Spectrum ROM. I have just checked ... the fixed GROOT ROM, and with the TK95 ROM.
ROM, though then we can ... ROM bug I've come across in as many weeks (The last ... and LN, IIRC.
"PRINT (-2)^2" shows that one.)Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... ROM bug I've come across in as many weeks (The last ... EXP and LN, IIRC.
"PRINT (-2)^2" shows that one ...Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…
... PRINT-A routine in the ROM (that's where we print ... of the current channels print routine (yes, the ... the address of the print routine for the selected ... lines of the screen I need to find the address in ROM ... to print there, and poke ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... SPIN with the standard ROM for the last few program edits, so ... a line of code to print relevant variables out onto row ...
