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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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Saving a further 9 BASIC characters. (It was a throwback ... now a generous 55 BASIC characters left before scroll? limit is reached ... to find later that more BASIC space could indeed be recovered ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... [b]d_PrintDoubleW()[/b]. The pixel scroll routine requirement has changed (the ... double width characters for the scroll. So a little later ... on, after the new scroll routine is incorporated, I' ... anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should be ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
The speed advantage of BBC Basic has little to with the ... AY, and getting a smooth scroll out of the 6845 requires ... main way in which Sinclair BASIC could have been improved was ... -
Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... opinion that programming in Visual Basic (especially VB.NET) is closer ... # than to Zx Spectrum Basic or some PC Basic from 1992.
scan keyboard. If you have only ... -
Anyone program on the speccy and still program?I messed around with Spectrum basic in the 80's mainly doing drawings that I created using basic commands. I then learnt Z80 Assembler for a collage …
I used to program in BASIC on my Speccy +2A. Couldn' ... about the WOS document/book scan archive - I was able to ... download a machine code book scan from WOS a few months ... -
Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…
... paged in using the OUT scan process that suggested earlier in ... number by entering the following BASIC statement on the command line ... -
Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…
... rightmost boundaries on each vertical scan line. Very kind in memory ... C and libraries to create BASIC-ready routines which may come ... handy to many BASIC programmers. Thank you
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50Hz on PC?Hi, do you know of any emulator for PC that can switch monitor refresh rate to 50Hz or closest possible and sync ZX interrupt with monitor refresh?…
... emulated for "some time" (a scan line, a frame, etc.) before ... my nerves even for typing BASIC listings! -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... different processors based on their basic interpretters' performance is very ... same unless you compare a BASIC that supports INT variables ... 't. The CP/M BASIC probably does and Applesoft doesn ... the original thread... the scan of the original benchmarks was ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... having ground my teeth with BASIC and then been promised 'Once ... post as well.
[CODE];scroll down 1 pixel at a ... repeating the pixel scroll
dec b ;one scroll less to go ... ;otherwise continue with another pixel scroll
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help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... and pop. So the fastest scroll you'll get is by ... display
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help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... iy is saved as the basic isr claims a monopoly on ... /> And this doesn't even scroll the screen in pixel row ... is to hard code the scroll in a single monolithic code ... -
Spectrum Ethernet update...in which a toastrack 128K machine prods a machine outside of my LAN for the first time. [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_eve…
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[*]$0b (Nonsense in BASIC)
[*]$0e (Invalid Filename)
scan it yourself (see the IF1 ... just copied this bit!)
[*]Scan the line for your own ... to BASIC_STMT_NEXT ($1bf4) in the BASIC ROM. Job done.
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New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
[QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]
Looks promising!
Notice that instead of this:
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First multiload gameWhile writing the review of A View to a Kill for the Speccy review book, I commented that it was one of the first multi-load games for the Speccy. D…
... video register at the appropriate scan line. It's also not ... avoid even attempting a full scroll of the game area.
First multiload gameWhile writing the review of A View to a Kill for the Speccy review book, I commented that it was one of the first multi-load games for the Speccy. D…
... video register at the appropriate scan line. It's also not ... avoid even attempting a full scroll of the game area.
Emulators on the ZX SpectrumHaving released a Spectrum 16K emulator for Spectrum 48/128 machines as part of CCG2008, I was wondering if anybody knows of any emulators which actu…
... : There was a BASIC-Loader for the ZX81 BASIC, but that needed ... alterations for specific ZX81 commands (Like SCROLL ...New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... ] ), it's a scroll game implemented 100% in BASIC and it's ...IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …
... following :
[INDENT]BASIC loader
Screen$
CODE ... Sinclair routine - either to scan the keyboard or update FRAMES ... will cope with Interrupt, Keyboard scan and Beeper routines).
... at address 32768. The BASIC bit above copies the first ...Pedro 1 - Quick and dirty translationHi, here is quick and dirty translation of Ultrasoft's Pedro 1. [url=http://www.edisk.cz/stahni/45586/pedro1EN.sna_48.23KB.html]pedro1EN.sna[/url] …
... . I did not touch keyboard scan routines so for example [ANO ... . Just click on the link, scroll down, fill captcha and click ...Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... from a magazine scan) and gives a 'Nonsense in Basic' error. After ...Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... from a magazine scan) and gives a 'Nonsense in Basic' error. After ...Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... type-in projects and aid Basic programmers as well. We could ... section to analyze on a scan.
Just a thought ...Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... type-in projects and aid Basic programmers as well. We could ... section to analyze on a scan.
Just a thought ... for Retro-X (OCR for Basic and OCR for Hex-Sequences ... to use the standard Sinclair Basic language as BASin does, but ...48K games that don't work on a +2Not sure if there is already a thread about this but recently I've noticed some old 48K games will not run on my +2 - even in 48K mode. Examples are…
... " at the top of a BASIC program).
[I]On a ... modified the IM1 routine, key-scan and INKEY$ routines (not an ... " SCREEN$. This will only affect BASIC programs.
13) The ...Would you buy Apples latest OS for your pc if you could ?If Apple released their latest OS for the PC would people who use Windows buy it, because i am sure if they did they would get a significant percenta…
... and i gave him some basic advice, eg for what he ... would normally always go to scan.co.uk , they still have ...
