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  • Couple of basic BASIC questionsPlaying around with BASin again in an effort to knock up a game and am wondering 2 things 1) Why when I run the program do my UDGs not always pick u…

    ... rather more a "Couple of basic BASin questions"?

    1 ... executed and the UDG system variable has to be set to ... the normal way....other than saving me time
    Wookiee Wookiee September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…

    ... with a CISC chip with variable length instructions than a RISC ... probably saves a heap of space over implementing the whole floating ... /> [quote]Shame the trend for BASIC generated a whole generation of ...
    chev chev October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • IF EXIST?In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not. There are any way to check it out from BA…

    ... of a directory is variable (and may be ... Filename (ASCII) left justified, space
    filled
    ... (ASCII) left justified, space filledd
    Bytes 11 ... right).

    In BASIC (using DOS)
    (after ...
    The_Bert The_Bert October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    [code]; --- BASIC LINE AND COMMAND INTERPRETATION ... A
    cp ' ' ; space?
    jr z, tokenizer_12 ; ... THE 'MAIN PARSER' OF THE BASIC INTERPRETER
    org 0x1b17< ... call look_vars ; variable exists?

    ; THE 'VARIABLE IN ASSIGNMENT' ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    ... call out_line ; print whole BASIC line
    rst print_a ... iy + _flags) ; suppress leading space

    org ... ld a, ' ' ; use space as cursor
    exx ; alternate ... ld (hl), e ; system variable
    ret ; end of ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    ... :
    call test_0_or_1 ; get variable
    set 7, (iy ... br /> call test_0_or_1 ; get variable
    set 3, (iy ... character
    cp ' ' ; space?
    jr z, renum_line_3 ; jump ... /> and %11000000 ; of BASIC?
    jr z, renum_line_7 ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • SCREEN$ bug fixI've been using the SCREEN$() function recently for reading data off the screen rather than taking up space with an array and I got fed up with the s…

    ... although I wrote a variable search routine some time ... ld a,$80 ;treat space as block space, in case it' ... in case not to BASIC
    ld a, ... /> cp $40 ;called from BASIC?
    ret nc ;no, ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... that every reference to a variable (or function) involves a sequential ... always causes the space to be reclaimed and the variable redeclared at ... declare a FOR...NEXT control variable just use "FOR a=SGN ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... that every reference to a variable (or function) involves a sequential ... always causes the space to be reclaimed and the variable redeclared at ... , how to work with the BASIC ROM rather than against it ... a lot longer than the space reclaimed.
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... 10 bytes shorter in the BASIC.) I'd always assumed that ... variable), and the workspace saved during evaluation is offset by the space ... lost in having a longer DEF FN statement in the BASIC ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... "+1"s are discarded. The BASIC is 19 bytes shorter as ... in the BASIC as well.

    A lot of space can ... each time they are referenced, saving over 700 bytes.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... /> As I pointed out, substantial space savings could be made by ... significant area in which both space & time could be ... saved with the BASIC. This would cut out the space overhead caused ... br />
    Another significant time saving could be made by putting ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... /> As I pointed out, substantial space savings could be made by ... significant area in which both space & time could be ... saved with the BASIC. This would cut out the space overhead caused ... br />
    Another significant time saving could be made by putting ...
    dmsmith dmsmith January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Which Emulator supports Betadisk48?Hi out there and happy new year, I'm looking for an emulator to run with my vision1.7 trdos-rom in 48 mode. Unfortunately most emus only support Bet…

    ... use almost all the space I / O is ... occupies the same memory space as the original EPROM ... can be accessed through BASIC, the memory area between ... EPROM DOS and disables EPROM BASIC. If = 1, otherwise.< ... BASIC program jumps up and down whenever loading or saving ...
    Jmk Jmk January 2014 Emulators
  • Turbo save?I'm doing some experiments with turbo loaders, and I don't know how to save turbo blocks on virtual tapes. Spectaculator and fuse don't seem to save…

    ... a how-to about saving/loading BASIC using custom loaders. The ... versions:
    - Original BASIC.
    - BASIC saved as CODE (published in ... /> - Compressed with zx7, BASIC hidden into BASIC.
    - Compressed with zx7 ... that don't take that space, so I'd like ...
    Zup Zup January 2014 Emulators
  • INPUT help?Hi folks. :) Brace yourselves, this is probably a very silly question, my BASIC knowledge is very... well, basic... Let's say, for example, I'm mak…

    ... match the name of a variable). The DIM only needs to ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • 48k memory dump to 128k???Having problems getting a 48k snapshot to load into 128k mode using ZX Spin. Tried saving 48k memory as a binary file and loading it back in 128k mo…

    ... program as a WAV file (BASIC loader, screen$, machine code data ... a huge chunk of drive space.




    saving it out in a TAP ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins May 2014 Development
  • ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…

    ... user or ZX-Spectrum BASIC (or Beta Basic?) programmer - give you ... a variable that looks like a keyword:
    There are Basic extensions ... were removed before saving. So I changed the saving routine so that ... the % sign if no variable follows that looks like a ...
    clausjahn clausjahn May 2014 Emulators
  • UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…

    ... The definition of the system variable [B][U]UDG[/U ... for instance, to save space by having fewer user-defined ... This is to tell the BASIC interpreter to leave the ... bytes of the system variable accordingly. It's easier ... half of the system variable, to jump in 256 ...
    joefish joefish June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …

    ... no bit-wise operations in BASIC, which is a pain when ... calculate the address in a variable first, so your PEEK and ... PAPER colour and printing a space.
    joefish joefish June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…

    ... variables of any BASIC program. A system variable called RAMTOP controls ... that has to allow space for any variable data the program defines ... still contain remnants of old BASIC variables and such like ... low that your BASIC program no longer has space to run.
    joefish joefish June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • analysing program variable usageIf I wanted to count the number of times each variable is referenced while a program is running (not the number of times each variable is referenced …

    ... would have space for 220 variable counters, which ... to each variable while a BASIC program is ... /> [code]
    ;count variable references at runtime
    ;initialise ... CheckMatch ;passed end of BASIC variable name
    bit ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…

    ... 127KB each). All standard Microdrive BASIC commands would operate as expected ... can read/write the 4MB space.
    [/LIST]
    Or ... (the ZXC3 allocates additional space after the new ZX Interface ... takes only 2-3 seconds, saving is slightly slower, and erasing ...
    Fruitcake Fruitcake August 2014 Hardware
  • Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…

    ... ]

    Here's the BASIC runner. g$() holds the colour ... with just PRINT p$. Press SPACE to restart from Generation 1 ... (I'm not using the BASIC RND but a faster one ...
    jp c,$0670 ;"2 - Variable not found"
    ld bc ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... + SYMBOL SHIFT, then followed by SPACE, and enter the command N1 ... of 1.

    [B]Saving the saver source[/B]
    SPACE, and enter the command SV ... code from memory
    BASIC - return to BASIC


    [B ...
    jp jp October 2014 Announcements
  • LOAD "" CODE in machine code/store 128 bank dataHow do you LOAD "" CODE from machine code? I have written the following MC routine that fits into a REM statement in a basic program. I want to cal…

    ... if you are using 128 basic:

    10 ... /> adress 23388 = BANK_M variable. used like poke 23388, ... "normal" configuration: that is BASIC ROM + RAM 0 (16 ... RAM 5 is the space between 16384 and 32767... ... may end overwriting the BASIC program and system vars. ...
    Zup Zup October 2014 Development
  • Retro GamerDoes anybody know when the next issue of Retro Gamer will be out? They told me to include an article about the Spectrum30 show in the News section an…

    ... , and they (IIRC) were so basic. So I've really like ... game's protection and/or saving them to a different media ... you don't have any space on your memory cards), how ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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