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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 …
... to many implementations of memory pools). Saving free-blocks info within the ... fast and easy for little memory systems -e.g. embedded ... ) It's faster than "Make ROOM", from the ROM, and it ... , I guess but takes more memory.
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FAST and SLOW .TAP loading in RESIDOSWhy is in RESIDOS this TAP file loaded always too slow ? (with lines in border area). Other TAP files on my drive is fast loaded, but loading this fi…
... external memory and use original ZX rom data for saving.
BASIC (eg Gosh Wonderful, SE BASIC). These are ... because the modified versions of BASIC that ResiDOS contains cannot be ... for safety. Only the BASIC ROMs are patched to enter ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... I just put this pure-BASIC screen-flipping demo together.
Download BASIC demo screen flipping snapshot here ... [/b]: CLEAR the BASIC area, reserving room for the screen2 in ... screen is paged into high memory area
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VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... table MSB. Despite the 3T saving on each instruction, changing it ... in the 2-3 minute BASIC speed test, but every little ... speed from the lack of memory mapping. -
Step by step instructions for putting PGD games together needed.I'm a bit thick, almost as a thick brick, and slightly dumber than the official definition of dumb. So, bear with me but please help me out. I need…
... with three blocks - a BASIC loader, a SCREEN$ file ... choose "Insert Tape For Saving" from the menu and ... /> Then, write a Sinclair BASIC loader program like this:
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Basin feature requestsI know dunny does not ask for those requests, and he is mainly coding basin for himself, I still want to list my requests here, in case if he's bored…
... . PROJECT SAVING:
Making snaps only saves memory. Making ... tapes needs extra work (save/load functions in basic ... ). Basin needs a general project saving option ... /> [quote]
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Games disk collection[url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/gamesdisk.zip[/url] There you go. No good to anyone :p I was just testing out a new util of mine and…
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[quote]Basic documentation would suffice, its mostly ... loading in an emulator, then saving two binary blocks: 23296, ... more sector to display memory which is always the ... filesize), unpacks it upwards in memory from 23296, copies the ... -
Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.
... [/URL] but ran out of memory and time. Still, at least ... that wouldn't leave much room for any code.
[/quote ... but then from BASIC to MC. The most BASIC MC Othello (exactly ... the same as in BASIC) was only 450 bytes in ... -
BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …
... for the help with this BASIC sound routine.
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Memory is a little tight on ... .
Adding the extra BASIC scroller and BEEP routines used ... this one having slightly less room for text than previous editions ... -
Memory and BasicQuestions 1. How much memory is available for Basic Progs? 2. How do I check how much is left? 3. How much memory does an array take up?
... to write a game in Basic, which use's lot's ... , I'm wondering how much room I'll have left for ... the data in as less memory possible. -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... I can save it to BASIC and make it available for ... data to the memory by "poke"ing and saving as CODE, then ... -
updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…
... . It's not only traditional BASIC loads that will suffer, but ... breathing room. After all, it's not the idea of memory swap ... system. If it works without memory swap, bingo, who cares. If ... -
2 commands in 1 lineHi all, this is my first post although I have visited the web site many times, and I find it great. English is not my mother tongue, so I will try to…
... could never guess there was room enough in ROM for all ... takes some more space in memory...
Getting back to ... question of how to return BASIC after program loading, I think ... restores the control back to BASIC. The argument 255 specifies Report ... -
2 commands in 1 lineHi all, this is my first post although I have visited the web site many times, and I find it great. English is not my mother tongue, so I will try to…
... could never guess there was room enough in ROM for all ... takes some more space in memory...
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"POPIE" Spectrum Game from 1984While trying out some old microdrive carts on my real Speccy I came across this game which I had written on the loading menu as "never released". It…
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To MERGE a BASIC program in on microdrive you ... />
MERGE the BASIC loader in using MERGE *"m ... />
Unfortunately when saving to tape the "press any ... a different area of memory. Try LOAD *"m";1 ... Basic so do a RANDOMIZE USR 0 to clear all memory ...DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... Another option is to load basic together with string variable ... br />
Sinclair Basic is saving basic program together with variables, ... code inside one file. Basic autorun after LOAD is ... to the Spectrum graphics memory model suitable for loading ...Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... DATA but as bytes in memory. Here's how.
BASIC you add extra DATA lines ... you wish.
[B]Saving Loading[/B]
You can ...Need to read code start and length from a +3 diskso i can transfer them to my internal ZXMMC interface and my mind has died as to how to do it (i know how to for a tape) any help or a general kick i…
... 's a lot of room for improvement, but I ... =0 THEN PRINT f$;" BASIC ";PEEK 40018 + 256 ... ;
; Switch to +3DOS memory configuration
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ld bc ... ; Switch back to the 48 BASIC ROM.
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finish ... rather than returning them to BASIC
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...Windows Vista?I'm having real trouble finding a decent spec. laptop that has Windows XP on it, it's all Vista Vista ****ing Vista. I've down (well, let's be honest…
... making good use of that memory, then all is well and ... the OS with a few basic programs is taking up 3gb ... . Lets leave a bit of room for a game that runs ... or Autocad that gulps up memory?...and not 'land grab' the ...Windows Vista?I'm having real trouble finding a decent spec. laptop that has Windows XP on it, it's all Vista Vista ****ing Vista. I've down (well, let's be honest…
... OS with a few basic programs is taking up ... leave a bit of room for a game that ... or Autocad that gulps up memory?...and not 'land grab ... was a single resource, memory was limited, virtual address ... address space is limited, memory is abundant and the performance ...BIN shorter than NOT PI?Some time ago I checked many loaders and want to ask why coders are using BIN and not NOT PI? NOT PI is only 2 Bytes, BIN would be better if it would…
Yes. Spectrum BASIC doesn't attempt to convert ( ... revealed by PEEKing the program memory, or by reading the value ... /> There are obvious circumstances when saving six bytes is useful to ... /> In terms of optimised Spectrum BASIC, [B]BIN[/B] is a ...ANN: ResiDOS v2.25 and +3e ROMS v1.38 releasedA major new release of ResiDOS, v2.25, is now available! The most important new features are commands and functions allowing new extended streams an…
... ;367559]Garry: Use RESIDOS memory paging often ? Is possible write ... loaded(or saved) from virtual memory on HDD. DivIDE support ... from HDD/CF to DivIDE memory. This operation is very ... of calls to BASIC (delete existing program, create room). For each file ...rollback/snaphost protectionis there any way how to protect game in emulator against rollback and snapshots ? (i have unclear idea of using disk system to write down game state…
... level or moving from one room to another. almost perfect results ... .
[quote]Snapshots saves memory content and cpu state.[/quote ... to implementing whole machine state saving in Fuse, it [i]will ...New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... say, numbers, upper case and basic punctuation. There are then some ... ASCII - I want to save memory, but not at the expense ... gets you down to 43 saving 168 bytes.The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…
... and NMI, there's only room in the Spectranet CPLD for ... with any other extension to BASIC. %aload is different, because on ... kind of container somewhere in memory.
As for tape ...Renumbering routinesI sometimes modify programs that either I or others have written and sensibly renumber them - usually 10/10, to make future alterations easier and ma…
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You can ditch the BASIC loader and use the SCREEN ... only uses screen memory then there is always room to load it ... .
This doesn't handle compressed BASIC ... 's fully compatible with 128K BASIC.
Try it online ...z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…
... code program with RANDOMIZE USR memory-adress, but does that " ... remember some troubles with large basic programs.
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< ... stack, which "grows" in memory and can trash your graphics ... to the ROM: "No more room beyond this point" and protects ...z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…
... machine stack, which "grows" in memory and can trash your graphics ... you're not careful. The BASIC, if it gets large enough ... to the ROM: "No more room beyond this point" and protects ... that and handled by the BASIC operating system?The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…
... from adress 1 on divide memory can help. After create new ... can be blocks saves from basic, but after reset this file ... bytes. On ZX emulator same saving work correct and tap file ...The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…
... away from the idea of Basic being the "default" operating mode ... modules, using the full available memory - and at that point, Goldfinch ... was already thinking about snapshot saving...
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