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  • Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…

    ... are copied from that. Total saving of 32 bytes per sprite ... edit if there is insufficient room, or save changes if the ... of code with very little memory remaining, but it's fixed ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2009 Development
  • Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…

    ... run in a restricted memory space that needed room for the source ... a basic program has no need of it. The effectively infinite memory ... away the interpretter phase of basic program execution. The cross-compilers ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • 2007, and still no NIC and browser for the Speccy?I've started to read all the w.o.s. threads, starting by the ones that came up with the search function, using the keywords of the topics that intere…

    ... in as a block of memory. I wrote a game menu ... the network.
    * BASIC commands for loading and saving conventional Speccy files ... .

    (The BASIC support internally ... load the whole thing into memory.
    Winston Winston January 2010 Development
  • Urgent!!!! Need help with saveHi guys, This is URGANT! I am making a turning moment program that uses many arrays. Each array is of size 500 and there are about 6 of them. The c…

    ... , because a number in Spectrum Basic is stored as a 5 ... sometimes get within the Basic editor when the memory is so full ... and general weirdness long before saving).
    gasman gasman March 2010 Hardware
  • Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available!Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available! [IMG]http://mirror.viperfang.net/silentdevelopments/images/ent-preview1.1.zx.png[/IMG][IMG]http://mirror.…

    ... image exists as bitmap in memory, and bitmaps can be ... PNG, at least in Pure Basic (I do not know ... does allways redraw from a memory image, so redraw speed ... to convert the image in memory, excluding disk load (Image ... if there is no tap saving (as there will be ...
    LCD LCD March 2010 Announcements
  • Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available!Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available! [IMG]http://mirror.viperfang.net/silentdevelopments/images/ent-preview1.1.zx.png[/IMG][IMG]http://mirror.…

    ... to get more out of basic than 10 FPS but I ... CPU PC (2 GB DDR2 Memory) and P III 1000 (1 ... .5 GB memory, GeForce 6200) which are good ... have a slower but energy saving system.
    The P IV ...
    LCD LCD March 2010 Announcements
  • Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…

    ... from a simple Basic program. From Basic all you can ... conversion tools and small Basic and machine code routines ... [*] I've not implemented any memory management/heavy load management functionality ... after image conversion and before saving - the latter is not ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Development
  • Do you need to use a Pc for Development?Hi all im new here, I used to have a spectrum as a kid and was thinking of getting a 48k again to mess about with. I was thinking it might be fun t…

    ... /> Saving in a blank tape, just like you did with your BASIC ... , and leave you more free memory to work with.
    Metalbrain Metalbrain March 2010 Development
  • address 23760 etc.Hi all, Where could I find Spectrum 48 addresses, what's in 23760 for instance ? Thanks for advance ! -jp

    ... can be loaded anywhere in memory without needing any relocation adjustments ... to take a time-saving shortcut of saving the machine code out ... the area used by the BASIC system.

    On the ... address to be used by BASIC is 59999.

    Anything ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • machine code player routineHi all, Collecting all my courage to ask more (rather stupid attitude from me, but so difficult to ask questions and bother other people, don't unde…

    Exactly, there's no saving of any kind, the machine ... 've tried. And if Sinclair Basic is too slow I might ... only need to modify the BASIC program which "generates" the sound ... . This will save tons of memory.[/QUOTE]
    jukka_k jukka_k March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Beepola v1.00.00Beepola is a new multi-channel, multi-engined, tracker-style Beeper music editor for Windows (although it should also run perfectly well on Linux or …

    ... ! If you look at the BASIC loader after compiling a Music ... of the same player in memory.
    [/QUOTE]
    Good point ... make sure I still have room for additional sound FX like ...
    ccowley ccowley April 2010 Announcements
  • 1K ZX81 "Chariddy" games competition mate..I'm trying to put together a Cronosoft 1K ZX81 gamestape in the style of the old "JK GREYE" 10 games tape that I remember owning about 28 years ago. …

    ... is some sort of full-memory snapshot. Is this a suitable ... /> I presume that saving and loading the BASIC program containing the magic ... (can it even auto-run BASIC?) so the code would have ...
    joefish joefish June 2010 Games
  • Retro Machines and Clive on the beebI saw click on the beeb this morning - had a bit about the vintage computer festival and Clive was on too. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme…

    ... of manic miner. check the room name..hehe ;)

    I ... in basic,100% better reason to learn ASM and free some memory ...
    fog fog July 2010 Chit chat
  • Booting with a programIf you ever had a VTX-5000, you'll remember it booted to a menu. The menu itself was written in BASIC. When the Spectrum initialized, this BASIC prog…

    Maybe saving the program with SAVE "program" LINE 1: GOTO 1 would work? That would save the BASIC memory area in a way the next statement to run would be "GOTO 1", so when loaded it does just that.

    Or maybe I'm talking nonsense :)
    na_th_an na_th_an August 2010 Development
  • Loading BASIC programs stored as "bytes:"Hi all, I have a question regarding loading BASIC programs, that I managed to save as machine code (I suppose) when I was a child, as a result of e…

    ... standard starting address for the BASIC program is 23755, although ... 't be enough for the Basic interpreter to 'see' the ... of saving one massive Bytes: block spanning the screen memory, system ... had finished loading, the Basic interpreter was in just the ...
    gasman gasman October 2010 Development
  • Spectrum 128K RS232 to PC serial cableIf you have read some of my recent posts then you will know that I am eager to link my Spectrum +3 to a PC. This will be done by wiring a standard PC…

    ... with the Multiface 3, thus saving/loading to +3 disc. The ... 512 BYTES of the Z80 memory map (65024 to 65535) ... final Z80 code so no memory was modified, thus PUSH/POP ... 65023. 80 BYTES of memory are left to finish the ... will need a back to BASIC option too as well ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Hardware
  • emulatorsplease help can we see clearly which emulator emaulates which hardware is there any that has a pc function key for the mulitface nmi button and the +…

    ... pc in a usb memory card reader please ... This is important for saving data to the PC. ... I could then snapshot the memory to a .SNA file ... BASIC listing that pokes a machine code program into Spectrum memory ... tools, Romantic Robot not saving standard +3DOS files and ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Emulators
  • emulatorsplease help can we see clearly which emulator emaulates which hardware is there any that has a pc function key for the mulitface nmi button and the +…

    ... re-assemble and run from memory if I need to not ... and altering the code then saving the source and object code ... have the ability to transfer memory to a .SNA file so ... format I require such as BASIC program DATA statements... the possibilities ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Emulators
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... (then saving to micro-drive), a simple BASIC program would ... the calculation easy. The BASIC load filename may corrupt ... modifies the data in memory so no need for ... at the end of memory - the part of ... avoid the system variables and BASIC program area.

    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... function (then saving to micro-drive), a simple BASIC program would load ... make the calculation easy. The BASIC load filename may corrupt some ... screen area to make room for the basic. then a MC program ... do we need to preserve basic *safely* until we execute ...
    Arda Arda November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... itself. As there is no room for the last RLE code ... now packs to 40549 BYTES saving 1691 BYTES:

    [code ... : Z80 code to restore repeated memory (17 BYTES).


    ASM ASM November 2010 Announcements
  • Copying from divIDE+/Tape to +3 DiskCan it be done? Im about to place an order for some 3" disks and wanted to put my favourite games on them, but im having a hard time trying to figure…

    ... back into the Spectrum using BASIC.

    I'm ... mic port using the BASIC loader in the readme ... those files into the Spectrum memory to save to +3 ... from CF to the Spectrum memory/m: drive or a: ...
    I was planning on saving some of my favourite games ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Saving in SpinI couldn't find an extreme beginner thread so I'm posting this here. In Spin emulator after saving a Basic code by a command: save "filename" I am ha…

    ... /> - saving a snapshot -
    It makes a copy of whole Spectrum memory ... . You are using the same Basic commands (e.g. SAVE "MyProg ... you with real Spectrum when saving to real tape.

    Ralf Ralf December 2010 Emulators
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... reduced to achieve some memory savings.[/QUOTE]I understand ... still haven't seen many memory saving strategies employed in the ... local variables both consumes more memory and is slower. [...] Likewise ... confusing us to their compiled basic community. I can tell ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2010 Development
  • Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …

    ... I am getting zeros when saving the output file. The JSW ... from the original loading and saving blocks but maybe saved the ... adding/removing blocks within the room data. I forget that unlike ... not a fixes size in memory!

    You refer to ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz January 2011 Games
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... class Sabre Wulf as a room-em-up - a simple ... adults, it is the memory and nostalgiac factor of childhood ... occupies 5-7x as much memory as hand written code, ... ) demand a lot of memory of their own in order ... client/server model with a basic 48k, eg, acting as ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... 128K memory paging to make it friendlier for Basic programmers, ... to reference them by memory address and keep track ... of which memory page is paged in ... useful would be if saving files under user-specified ... probably just drop back to Basic to do that.
    gasman gasman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Is converting Microdrive formats possible???Hi. First post. I'm a long-time Speccy owner, was lost, but found my way home! :D I have a Disciple as well... Now to my question, but first the …

    ... code overruns the end of memory are you?[/QUOTE]

    Basic? If I knew that the ... used a proprietary method of saving files...

    [URL="http ...
    omelette omelette January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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