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not much gear and absolutley no ideaIm looking for some help with two spectrums that i have just dug out of storage and are both unfortunatley faulty. I had always regreted that during …
... to program anything for them in basic so i decided to turn ... clock back and teach myself basic for these two machines. I ... located a book in a charity shop that coverd basic for numerous ... the basics of basic.Unfortunatley about two weeks in several of the ... -
The point of fixing a QLHi All Recently picked up an old QL that was in pieces, all the screws are missing and the keyboard membrane is shot, but it does work. Gave the me…
... an old QL that was in pieces, all the screws are ... games werent written by amateurs in basic years later, any good demos ... waste, especially as twenty quid in Australian pesos would get you ... -
XgamestationI was flipping through an old edge magazine from 2003 and in the news section there was a story about the iminent release of a diy console kit that y…
... edge magazine from 2003 and in the news section there was ... kit that you could program in basic and c. At the time ... -
Name the game : double impactHi i'm looking for name of two games. 1) the first is na old arcade adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves about …
... adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves ... . i think there was review in crash.
so, your ... -
Syntax Eraok so they've changed the name to Micro Men. Scottie came up with two alternative names, can you do better than his:- Tape Loading Era and See No…
ok so they've changed the name to Micro Men. Scottie came up with two alternative names, can you do better than his:-
Tape Loading Era
and
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David Hewlett aka Dr Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantisis one of us! He's on holiday visiting family in Good Old Blighty atm... [url]http://twitter.com/dhewlett/status/4157322916[/url] "Found old Sinc…
... 's on holiday visiting family in Good Old Blighty atm...
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New beeper music editorsInformation for those people who interested in 1-bit beeper music on ZX Spectrum 48K. As you probably know, there was no beeper music editors with t…
... year of beeper trackers - in less than half year, three ... All these trackers were made in Russia, but they are available ... the file operations are done in Basic), and they has english ... plays sampled drums (8 built-in samples). Unfortunately, the editor ... -
Implementing goto on error condition...OK, so when I'm reading a file or directory on a network filesystem, when I reach EOF, it's not actually useful at all for ZX BASIC to stop the progr…
... at all for ZX BASIC to stop the program ... it ends with C Nonsense in BASIC. If you hit BREAK during ... course) then prints C Nonsense in BASIC. It's almost like ... can't just trace it in an emulator!)
in BASIC itself to interpret a ... -
Old peripherals on the Spectrum +2I have a Wafadrive and an Alphacom 32 (ZX Printer clone), neither of which work in 128 BASIC, but both of which work flawlessly when you run them in …
... clone), neither of which work in 128 BASIC, but both of which ... work flawlessly when you run them in ... 48 BASIC mode. The Wafadrive makes ... software to make it work in BASIC (even if you have to ... -
Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…
... at a clunky conversion written in BASIC and using UDGs. The pixel ... readily observed by frame-stepping in MAME. Pacman moves one ...
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This ties in with the recent discussion here ... about frame rates in Spectrum games. A game ... -
Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... .
Where games written in pure machine code or was ... those early and obvious written in BASIC games) - but have seen some ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
I remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input ... you would POKE each square in the 8X8 character.
< ... br /> Am I right in thinking that only 21 letters ... 's graphics like this (but in assembler) where more characters alterable ... -
The ZX App StoreI was watching one of those iphone adverts and got to thinking Hmmmmm what if you could do something like that for the speccy. Ok heres the idea, if…
... little usefull program you wrote in basic then you could upload it ... chance to show off your basic skills -
Spectrum +3 suspected memory faultHi, I've been using my +3 for the first time in a while and found that some games have problems with the display becoming corrupted and sometimes cr…
... +3 for the first time in a while and found that ... 've tested the first 48K in BASIC by poking and peeking, and ... -
Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
... i hope im putting this in the right place ...
... a little about zx basic programming but this problem ... I would like to write in Basic, a routine that can choose ... as random as spectrum basic can), a series of ... to store them in an array in the order they ... -
Z80 'EXX' ConfusionI was working on a little Z80 routine last evening, and, having run out of registers, resorted to sticking one of the values into a memory location a…
... alternative register bank instead (something in my short Z80 life, ... I was getting a 'Nonsense in BASIC' error when it had ... minimal code gives a 'Nonsense in BASIC' error!
Here' ... [/CODE]
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Would someone make me a rom?Hi I'm really hoping here but is there someone that has all the equipment / software to make speccy roms that would do a cassette for me if I send it…
... . Its a game I wrote in basic years ago that I would ... -
Screen to vector?I've found old topics covering this subject and even spoke to Geoff about this, but still want to ask a few questions. I've been playing with vector…
... 've been playing with vectors in BASIC (yes, I know it's ... images by using a small BASIC program to trace lines on ... 'm assuming such routine, either in BASIC or m.c., would have ... -
Spectranet updateWell, I've not put an update in here for too long, so here's a summary of what's been developing ... * A snapshot manager module. Basically, you can…
... in ROM.
* Support for TCP sockets from ZX BASIC using ZX BASIC ... client programs can be written in BASIC.
* Filesystem abstraction layer - allows ... going to want a BASIC programming guide in addition to the ones ... -
Mass storage - why backup battery?I wasn't sure to post this under "hardware" or "development", but here goes: There are these mass storage devices for ZX Spectrum, and on many desig…
... some additional commands for use in BASIC, to access files, maybe ... technique called bank switching comes in. Any experienced coder will ... is used for that too, in the form of CompactFlash, ... ve seen this mostly mentioned in combination with software called ... -
How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
... about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do ... -
Problem with Spin 0.7s +3 file I/OI'm currently trying the +3 disk functions in z88dk. I've based my work upon the simple snippet Winston posted a while ago, but doing the contrary. H…
... a simple loader written in BASIC which sets RAMTOP to ... that it works flawlessly in Spectaculator from the ... in the main menu and loading it manually from +3 BASIC ... , but it doesn't work in Spin ... [/b] without parameters in +3 BASIC. The emulator goes ... -
Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
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New member here. And a spider! :)Hello everyone. My name is Sekrets. I'm quite a lonely individual, searching for a digital home where I might find fellow speccy enthusiasts to adopt…
... a kid learnt to program in Basic- nothing very advanced, but enough ... assembler in an emulator, I have learnt to do some really basic ... -
Networking using EAR and MICI know this is an old topic and was mentioned before in books or magazines, but I need some advice. I'm considering the possibility of creating a Bat…
... topic and was mentioned before in books or magazines, but I ... of creating a Battleship game in Basic with some machine code routines ... -
ISO ROM 128 with TR-DOS 5.05(cz)This is new correct version of ISO ROM for ZX + BETADISK. Some extra basic command is designed specially for use in conmination with TR-DOS 5.05(cz).…
... extra basic command is designed specially for use in conmination ... registers ...)
= (show basic info - ramtop, used memory, ... commands can be writed in basic line after char "!". ... RESET - return to basic (if basic variables is bad then ... -
Code breaker by Paul DobieHaving a sort out over the rainy Bank Holiday and in the bottom of a box from the depths of a cupboard found an old C15 tape. On it is 'Code Breaker…
... the rainy Bank Holiday and in the bottom of a box ... and their order etc) written in basic judging by how slow it ... experimented with old tape deck in the back of the PC ... -
How do you make a CV shine without actually lying?My CV has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese, and it looks pretty rubbish quite frankly. I am pretty good at my voluntary job at the Citizens Advic…
... 2 days a week in a classroom/glorified broom ... />
I was in continuous employment between 2002-2007 ... did a City and Guilds in Basic Numeracy for adults.
... down that I did Basic Numeracy on a CV? ... I got an A-level in English Literature and Language ... -
A few ZX Spectrum books.Programming your ZX SPECTRUM Tim Hartnell and Dilwyn Jones (tutorial in BASIC) The Spectrum book of games Mike James, S. M. Gee and Kay Ewbank (that…
... and Dilwyn Jones
(tutorial in BASIC)
The Spectrum book ... /> (that's a book of BASIC type-ins.)
Easy ... and Robin Jones
(tutorial in BASIC)
The Orange Manuals ... -
Balfron the BraveHas anyone heard of a game called Balfron the Brave that came out in around 1983/1984? I remember playing in as a child but on a tape that my dad's f…
... the Brave that came out in around 1983/1984? I remember ... playing in as a child but on ... and seemed to be written in BASIC. It may have been primitive ...
