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  • 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…

    ... "Nonsense in BASIC" error because the ROM processes the variables on the ... to see why the "Nonsense in BASIC" error occurs.

    ... destination variable was found in the DEFADD area then ... instead of "=" the "Nonsense in BASIC" error is generated.
    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... "Nonsense in BASIC" error because the ROM processes the variables on the ... to see why the "Nonsense in BASIC" error occurs.

    ... destination variable was found in the DEFADD area then ... instead of "=" the "Nonsense in BASIC" error is generated.
    ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman 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…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;526828]I've got a basic program listing in BASIN which ... back in (to BASIN or SPIN).[/QUOTE]

    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…

    ... literally...

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;526828]How do I save ... depends on how you define 'saving to one file'.

    Basic program load first, and auto-run (which is achieved by saving ... loading it to screen and saving it to ramdisk from there ...
    gasman gasman April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... the available memory. Memory was in the end, not a problem ... are only four possible enemies in the final game though, is ... allocation can overwrite the system variables and BASIC loader without any problem ... Mister Beep's larger tune in.

    At four ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Brand new software
  • 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. …

    ... start learning how to program in BASIC?[/QUOTE]

    I'll ... "Basic for kids" (in Spanish). The first three chapters dealt with PRINT, variables ... br /> 20 PRINT "YOU ARE IN A DARK FOREST"
    30 ... PRINT "YOU NOTICE A HOLE IN THE FLOOR.": PRINT "GOOD YOU ...
    na_th_an na_th_an June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…

    ... ) would be arranged in the correct binary sequence ... see how it helps in BASIC, which doesn't have ... two numbers into two BASIC numeric variables. That's what ... get a program working in BASIC and then rewrite the ... slow bits in assembler.

    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    ... /> ; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; LOCAL VARIABLES

    AT_FLAG:
    [/CODE]
    In BASIC, type [B]CLEAR 64860[/B ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 Development
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    ... ; done!

    ; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; LOCAL VARIABLES

    AT_FLAG:
    defb ... addresses, as follows:

    In BASIC, type CLEAR 64868, then compile ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 Development
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    ... ; done!

    ; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; LOCAL VARIABLES

    AT_FLAG:
    defb ... addresses, as follows:

    In BASIC, type CLEAR 64871, then compile ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2011 Development
  • Streams - File HandlingHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am attempting to write a Z80 / Snapshot Launching program that is based on a category of files # - Z whereby each f…

    ... not handled or implemented correctly in +3e DOS

    ...
    9999 CLS:
    PRINT "Saving Program, Please Wait":
    SAVE ... />
    [code]
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 160: 1
    [/code]

    Although in the case of ZX Spin ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... the program before any other variables are assigned then the arrays ... a few seconds in BASIC, depending on how many variables have been assigned ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • User Defined GraphicsCan someone please give some very simple code for a displaying a UDG at a location on screen? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely…

    ... ;"a"

    Char "a" in line 30 must be writed ... in graphic mode (press SHIFT+9 ... "a" to "u" can be in basic signed with codes 144-164 ... change with POKE to system variables. This enable use more than ...
    velesoft velesoft 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…

    ... t do much with built-in Basic, it is not enough even ... faced with minutes loading and saving time (not to mention ... like Basin (Basic), Boriel's Basic compiler (for compiling basic programs), z88dk ... ZX its was programmable in both BASIC and Machine Code? Would ...
    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…

    ... (or PRINT in Joefish's example) is just BASIC syntactic sugar... ... which you'll find stored in BASIC programs as comma separated lists ... with still needing to cover BASIC and everything before touching ... Zeus, when it comes to saving what I have wrote, how ...
    meow meow September 2011 Development
  • saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …

    [QUOTE=Jimmy;565983]Beta BASIC v3 onwards had the ... a program or just the variables. Examples include: [..][/QUOTE]
    ... to add multiple ranges and saving variables without making the routine bigger ... />
    I see that variables-only were saved as DATA ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …

    ... allows multiple saves and saving of variables; even so, it' ... assembles the m/code in situ, so after the ... it will already reside in the DATA line (although ... same names as those used in the routine itself. The ... +2) which is constructed in the next DATA item. The ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Need help with tzxing once again :)You people helped me so much in this thread witch a custom loader: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36109[/url] Maybe we…

    ... course have 8 different bytes in basic (may be variable area ones ... blocks should match the ones in the pilot tone (yours are ... -line parameters for the some variables for the "special" blocks: length ... "pairs", the number of bits in the last byte (sometimes there ...
    lfaria lfaria October 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…

    Battle Bunny, how do you think, would this routine fit ok for screen switching in BASIC? Namely, saving current screen and restoring it later? (*hints at Devil's castle et al*)
    NRA NRA November 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…

    ... have to find somewhere (preferably in high memory) to put ... don't try returning to BASIC, especially on a 128.< ... in that grabs extra memory space and moves the system variables or BASIC ... around may mean that the CLEAR statement in your BASIC ...
    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…

    ... have to find somewhere (preferably in high memory) to put ... don't try returning to BASIC, especially on a 128.< ... in that grabs extra memory space and moves the system variables or BASIC ... around may mean that the CLEAR statement in your BASIC ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2012 Development
  • Is there a limit to the numberof variables you can have in BASIC..... Reason I ask is I've got an idea....but using my "lowest common denominator" approach to code I fear that I'…

    ... you are having lots of variables, I think you need to ... RESTORE commands in basic they allow more complex use of variables and are ...
    SKR SKR January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…

    ... in this book but I'm not sure how this "no variables ... , but in fact, machine code provides greater freedom for storing "variables" than BASIC ... , as any location, or series of locations, in RAM ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • stuck on recursive functionI want this function to PEEK 'l' bytes from memory starting at 's' and return them as a string, but however much I fiddle about with quoting and pare…

    ... it should have been "stuck in ...". Yes, better much would ... and an exiting bit; in this case these being ... why I get "Nonsense in BASIC" more often than not ... its version of the variables plus extra stuff gets ... stack every time. Fortunately in this case although I ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • WANTED: Britain Invaded! instructions[deleted]

    ... you can generally get the BASIC listing of any speccy program ... it into an emulator and saving it in SNA format, then using ... other similar programs available and in fact BASin might also work ... the current unit one square in the specified direction.

    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn February 2012 Wanted
  • 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…

    ... to hold single letter variables outside of VARS is ... then normal BASIC assignments won't work but DEFADD variables will ... as SCANNING deals with DEFADD variables differently and doesn't call ... destination, thus giving a "Nonsense in BASIC" error when the "(" is ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... to hold single letter variables outside of VARS is ... then normal BASIC assignments won't work but DEFADD variables will ... as SCANNING deals with DEFADD variables differently and doesn't call ... destination, thus giving a "Nonsense in BASIC" error when the "(" is ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…

    ... an assembler listing, a BASIC listing of the test runner ... parameters from assembled constants to variables, so at present it runs ... usage:
    PROG -> 27099 : BASIC
    27100 -> 33999 : ( ... although this part is still in BASIC and is rather slow.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2012 Development
  • ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…

    ... /> Micky[/QUOTE]

    hey, in esxdos there are 2 slots ... only a second is for saving only. so try it as ... /> 1) boot esxdos
    2) in basic cmdline enter: .tapeout simsave.tap ... auto loading it)
    11) in simcity menu find and execute ...
    ub880d ub880d April 2012 Announcements
  • ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…

    ... basic commands.[/QUOTE]

    I see as you write about variables ... ... then I add next info about use char. variables in other ...
    velesoft velesoft July 2012 Announcements
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