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TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…
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BASIC has no support for these ... FAQ, but presumably system variables and BASIC start in the same place as ... than a few lines of BASIC you'll be putting funny ... -
TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…
... FAQ, but presumably system variables and BASIC start in the same place as ... than a few lines of BASIC you'll be putting funny ... can see your BASIC listing appear on screen in glorious pixel-o ... -
Speccy games that let you save your progress?beanz mentioned in another thread that he thinks he "[I]used to save after each 'game' day[/I]" in Lords of Midnight, which got me wondering. Aside …
[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;469235]Footballer of the Year[/ ... had a cassette icon for saving and loading, but forgot all ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... I wrote the routine in Sinclair BASIC to ensure I understood ... double height character routine in BASIC that is as quick ... around the method used in BBC BASIC MODE 7 i.e ... only downside of the BASIC routine is that it uses ... based on the set in the ROM. You could ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... I wrote the routine in Sinclair BASIC to ensure I understood ... double height character routine in BASIC that is as quick ... around the method used in BBC BASIC MODE 7 i.e ... only downside of the BASIC routine is that it uses ... based on the set in the ROM. You could ... -
Return to +3 BASIC from 48K mode.Hello Spec-Chums! I don't know if this trick has been posted before, if it has, i apologise, but i have not been able to find it. Anyway, here goes…
... SPECTRUM command to enter 48K BASIC mode, there is no way ... BASIC; however, i have found that provided the new system variables in the ... to embed colour control codes in the basic program, or if you ... any way back to 128K BASIC on the earlier 128K machines ... -
Return to +3 BASIC from 48K mode.Hello Spec-Chums! I don't know if this trick has been posted before, if it has, i apologise, but i have not been able to find it. Anyway, here goes…
... SPECTRUM command to enter 48K BASIC mode, there is no way ... BASIC; however, i have found that provided the new system variables in the ... to embed colour control codes in the basic program, or if you ... any way back to 128K BASIC on the earlier 128K machines ... -
Pretty CrashesTo make a 48K spectrum crash spectacularly and beautifully enter the following into basic. Also works on a 128k in 48k mode though not quite as prett…
... spectrum is "saving". This will inevitably be somewhere in the ROM ...
Setting a breakpoint in Spectaculator at address 1331 and ... would then load it in again and run it ... but after that loading in programs resulted in a E. Out ... Good or C. Nonsense in Basic. -
Location of variableHi everyone When basic makes an array how to you find out the location in the ram of where the data is stored. :) Also, does it store the values in…
... is written in BASIC and naturally is making use of BASIC variables whist parsing ... in the VARS area.
I believe, as you update variables in ... ZX BASIC, the modified variable moves to ... -
logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…
... Z80 instructions? (unless your variables would were all floating point ... CD_ADD
push hl ;in stack, so I recover it ... Make some space into the BASIC work area. DE points ... need to deeply interact with BASIC variables in a C/M program, ... -
logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…
I use scanning to move variables from BASIC to MC, like this
and then in MC at start
BASIC.
Another example used in the ZX ... -
logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…
... use scanning to move variables from BASIC to MC, like this ... separated by comma). Pointer returned in HL.
... to newly memory returned in DE.
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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…
... variables) to RAMTOP. Restoring this will put you back in ... variables or the machine & gosub stacks, so even if the BASIC ... either crash or return "Nonsense in BASIC" as the environment won' ... your program, minus any variables that might have been saved ... -
Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
... worse with the variables in place of constants because Sinclair BASIC is comparing ... floating point numbers when you use variables and ... integers when you use constants.
With a BASIC ... -
variable variable names with VAL$It's possible to make the RH-side variable names in a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the [b]name[/b] of anothe…
... RH-side variable names in a LET statement be ... content of the variable named in v$.
... code routine, but not in BASIC. Is there any method ... available for doing this in BASIC?[/QUOTE]
... not define a table of variables
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ZX-Editor, Blockeditor and Paintbrush 2.0 publishedDear ZX-Spectrum & Emulator friends, yesterday I've uploaded new versions of - ZX-Blockeditor - ZX-Editor - ZX-Paintbrush on my website at [URL="h…
... on testing my Beta Basic syntax checker etc. I ... file and then was in Basic editing mode and could ... new function of editing Basic programs in a [COLOR="Red"] ... COLOR](and SCREEN$ blocks in a [COLOR="red"]ZX ... if you select a Basic program/Variables block and a SCREEN ... -
ForthTrying to search for FORTH programs and FORTH articles within the forum is proving to be a complete nightmare!! If I search for FORTH in Infoseek I …
... compatibility.
My BASIC to Forth translator is on ... get "Transylvanian Tower" ready in time for Halloween, but that ... in the Forth language. I still need to finish off variables ... and arrays...
Out of the 6 games written in BASIC ... -
Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…
... of temporary variables (there aren't any true variables in assembler)
For example when you have in ... so on. Everything familiar to Basic users.
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The hardest thing in Spectrum assembler for a beginner ... -
Demfir d0.7b Iso not recognizedIn the manual it says: Works with iso9660 (CD-ROM image) directly from CD-ROM device or stored on ZIP drive, HDD or CompactFlash. I copied a ISO im…
... , but TAP file is in browser open as classic directory ... menu and Q=quir to basic. Demfir contain bug and ... SS+R in main menu. This reset initialise DEMFIR variables and ... clear buffers in DIVIDE ram.
In basic start ... -
Loading arrays in BASin...Hi Folks, I have been playing with loading and saving arrays from BASIC in BASin. By trapping the SAVE command the DATA can be saved to a .TAP file…
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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…
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Also, does the all in one tape saver sound a ... a matter of me saving a simple BASIC program along with the ... -
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:- …
... /> {on location of sp1 variables, in particular the update array}
variables, it's not just ... identify compiler-related space saving changes as I'm ... sp1_InvUpdateStruct); // invalidate all character cells in list
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Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... into some suitable free space in memory (addresses 60000 onward are ... the UDG or CHARS system variables[/url] to point to those ... code in BASIC. If this is an intellectual exercise in pushing Sinclair Basic as ... -
Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... the UDG or CHARS system variables[/url] to point to those ... code in BASIC. If this is an intellectual exercise in pushing Sinclair Basic as ... any way in BASin to assign them in the GUI? in the ... to know BASIC. i've programmed in QBASIC and Visual Basic the most ... -
Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... 252 different 8x8 graphics blocks in less than 2Kb. I ... which is coded in BASIC and compiled using HiSoft BASIC compiler: [url] ... loadpics=3[/url] (complete manual in english found here -> [url ... in fact if you take away the screen and the system variables ... -
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…
... so awkward in using them as system or user variables.
Or ... not the basic system.
Gaps always get in the way ... of the spectrum's system variables in the 1k hole but then ... they are now. The system variables area was also meant to ... -
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…
... for who? Surely not the basic system.[/QUOTE]
Surely no ... actually writes 35-40K monstrosities in sinclair basic :lol:
[ ... of the spectrum's system variables in the 1k hole but then ... least to 16K; now the basic Spectrum had 16K and... ;)
Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... there BattleBunny?!?!?!!... that could come in really useful!...[/QUOTE]
... a large chunk of data in BASIC. It occurred to me that ... I thought about the separate variables area used by user- ... code, following the examples in Toni Baker's book Mastering ...
