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  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... and sound, reliable loading and saving (from cassette, which was all ... then), a great version of BASIC which many of us mastered ... it's very economical in memory terms given how it's ... needed to work out the memory address or a pixel look ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... and sound, reliable loading and saving (from cassette, which was all ... then), a great version of BASIC which many of us mastered ... needed to work out the memory address or a pixel look ...
    TVzombie TVzombie February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …

    ... you can use to save memory is to have two programs ... the name of your main BASIC program, whose line numbers must ... 't have to be present, saving code memory.
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …

    ... you can use to save memory is to have two programs ... the name of your main BASIC program, whose line numbers must ... 't have to be present, saving code memory.[/QUOTE]

    No ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…

    ... , so it's a basic game from a basic concept, but it ... ridiculous carry on with the saving, insert the rumblepack or whatever ... it on the carts internal memory dickhead![/QUOTE]

    Yep ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Minigamecompo 2011 ??????In the Minigamecompo 2010 I received only a handfull of votings. So I started a [URL="http://minigamecompo.weebly.com/forum.html#/minigamecompo-2011…

    ... I had:

    loader Basic block - 20 bytes

    memory needed. For the ZX Spectrum ... 23766, the start of the BASIC. Since your code runs at ... your loader. I had enough room to do this since your ... , but I had so much room.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2011 Games
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... code has moved around in memory slightly, due to the bug ... ]
    Bugfixes:-

    The BASIC loader now sets the INK ... /> been fixed.

    In room 15 "The Back Garden", the ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Brand new software
  • Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;526828]I've got a basic program listing in ... Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How do I ... save the screen(s) in memory to one file?


    Tried saving it as a BASIC file instead? That's ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…

    ... File options or from Spectrum BASIC.

    Anyhoo, ... below shows one method for saving the current screen & ... BASIC. The standard SAVE "program" saves the variables in the base memory ... but not stuff saved in extended RAM; and saving ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…

    ... the screen(s) in memory to one file?[/QUOTE ... on how you define 'saving to one file'.
    ... Basic program load first, and auto-run (which is achieved by saving ... it to screen and saving it to ramdisk from ... of the memory for that purpose. Your Basic program will ...
    gasman gasman April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…

    ... of included a new 48k basic like the 128k toastie. While ... fool just formatting them and saving programs to them.. I will ... while not the published of memory contention models it has better ... /> 2x 128k +2 (need repairs memory / power)
    1x Spectrum 128k ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Problems etc.Hi Folks, Paul has asked me to open this thread to document any outstanding issues that we find within BASin. No guarantees that Paul can/will fix …

    ... />
    Because BASin has no BASIC interpreter built-in, it relies ... non-encoded REM statements for memory-saving code commenting is a good ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…

    ... complicated, you have to POKE memory to change colours! yaghgh!
    room I would make you an ... . I never found the quirky basic programming to be unfriendly. I ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • saving arraysHi. So i'm working on a small program. I'm almost finished, but i just hit a problem by the end. I would like to save (and load back later) four arra…

    ... $() , depending on whether you are saving a number array or a ... /> It's in the Spectrum BASIC manual, [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ... , and then - if there is room for it in the computer ...
    polomint polomint September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... restore unsaved changes by your memory, because you surely forgot ... and some amount of memory is always occupied with ... faced with minutes loading and saving time (not to mention ... like Basin (Basic), Boriel's Basic compiler (for compiling basic programs), z88dk ...
    meow meow September 2011 Development
  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... few minutes, and more room for tools in memory).

    I ... made some games in pure Basic, then with pieces of hand ... in assembly code. With pure Basic you at least don't ...
    Shiru Shiru September 2011 Development
  • hisoft basic compiler - saveAnd yet another question. I'm sure spamming forums a lot hehe :) Is there anyone expirienced with hisoft basic compiler? I'm working on small program…

    ... and check that adress from basic to what to do, like ... saving, compiled program copies the array to the somewhere in the memory ... .


    For your info, MCODER III shares basic ...
    Arda Arda September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... Speccy so they occupy consecutive memory locations. In this case 32768 ... Joefish's example) is just BASIC syntactic sugar... You've got ... with still needing to cover BASIC and everything before touching Machine ... Zeus, when it comes to saving what I have wrote, how ...
    meow meow September 2011 Development
  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... with still needing to cover BASIC and everything before touching ... /> [/QUOTE]

    ZXSP is saving a snapshot (.z80) that represents ... to go back to Basic. From basic you can run that code ... have an assembly program in memory at the default address (O ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2011 Development
  • FN nesting error?While playing with FN functions that call assembly, I've found something weird. Check out this code: [code]10 DEF FN f(a,b)=a+b 20 PRINT FN f(FN f(…

    ... found (the ROM scans the BASIC code searching for a matching ... ), call MAKE-ROOM to open a space in memory and LDIR the ... /> [B]Systems affected:[/B] ROM BASIC in ZX Spectrum 48K / 128K ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • FN nesting error?While playing with FN functions that call assembly, I've found something weird. Check out this code: [code]10 DEF FN f(a,b)=a+b 20 PRINT FN f(FN f(…

    ... snapshot with patched ROM and BASIC test code[/url]
    ... sp ;Make HL bytes of room in stack
    ld ... .

    - Allocate stack memory by decreasing SP so that ... RST 18h routine for allocating memory.

    - Push to ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • How to join 2 basic programs? having no luck with basinHow do you join two programs together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made to a basic text base…

    ... you said it was a BASIC program. There's a certain ... will give an "Out of memory" error if there's insufficient ... latter by doing CLEAR before saving and merging each program.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…

    ... memory) to put the stack. And don't try returning to BASIC ... 65021, leaving me just enough room beneath the table for a ... grabs extra memory space and moves the system variables or BASIC around ... the CLEAR statement in your BASIC loader fails. But then you ...
    joefish joefish January 2012 Development
  • How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…

    ... memory) to put the stack. And don't try returning to BASIC ... 65021, leaving me just enough room beneath the table for a ... grabs extra memory space and moves the system variables or BASIC around ... the CLEAR statement in your BASIC loader fails. But then you ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2012 Development
  • storing machine code in BASICA couple of years ago I posted a routine for storing machine code between PROG & VARS, based on an idea in Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code". Thi…

    ... new code block and makes room for it.

    As ... breaking or joining lines of BASIC is something which I do ... . I'm doing something with saving & restoring overlaid windows at ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Generating a constant of 2?Hi Folks, Through "The Wizard of WOS" I learnt that you can generate constants as follows: [B]NOT PI=0 SGN PI=1 INT PI=3[/B] Is there a quick way …

    ... assignment counteracts any space saving (unless it's ... =Battle Bunny;604861]Another saving can be made by using ... me quite a bit of memory.

    [ ... sad:

    Spectrum BASIC never ceases to amaze me ... shown me what Sinclair BASIC can really do.
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Willy's Guide to the GalaxyJust starting out, trying something a little different. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/DaRkSiDe74/WGttG-BabelFish.jpg[/IMG] The idea i…

    ... "Disaster Area" screen. If room permits the side-speakers will ... Screen 6:
    Krikkit Warrior (Basic animation)
    Chesterfield Sofa (not ... - still have plenty of room for more sprites but should ... one of them. Unlike Space, memory on the Speccy is sadly ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi March 2012 New game ideas
  • type-ins in zmakebas formati were about coding some type-ins from MicroHobby magazine, and found that there are 'semanal' tape series available at http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... ]
    // RUNTIME VARIABLES SAVED WITH BASIC //

    To specify ... Quote (") delimited, with normal BASIC quote-in-quote rules
    VARS memory space, and use something like ... /> at "compile" time. Similarly, saving to .bas from BASin will ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2012 Support files
  • Hidden Spectrum emulator discovered in Goldeneye (N64)Commence ewgf's mind being blown in 3...2...1... [url]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770288[/url] [url]http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread…

    ... 16kb of the Spectrum's memory. On the original Spectrum, the ... (the BASIC programming language, functions for loading from and saving to cassettes ...
    Asure Asure March 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hidden Spectrum emulator discovered in Goldeneye (N64)Commence ewgf's mind being blown in 3...2...1... [url]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770288[/url] [url]http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread…

    ... 16kb of the Spectrum's memory. On the original Spectrum, the ... (the BASIC programming language, functions for loading from and saving to cassettes ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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