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BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
... it gives a spurious "Nonsense in BASIC" error when it's finished ... address in the stack entry addressed by (ERR_SP). The loaded BASIC runs ... the 128k Editor ROM 0 routine for syntax checking, so it ... it returning cleanly to the BASIC Editor prompt.
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They Sold A Million - Denied ?Pretty sure these were not denied before although devoid of the denied games. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011371[/url] Fi…
... was after the built in (apparently) saver routine. The basic present when its ... or an extra bit of Basic as some Speedlock did to ... -
BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
... Buffer and associated variables in RAMpage 7, which ... to trap the "Nonsense in BASIC" error that's produced ... Room for BC Bytes?" routine at ROM0:$3F66 fails ... which will include the BASIC loader with the restart ... a separate insert/test routine so that I can ... -
Timex undocumented video modesHi people. Please check my assumption about the functioning of the Timex in undocumented video modes: D2D1D0 wr #FF 0 0 0 - ZX color mode, the base …
... column bytes, so in this mode the BASIC displays condensed characters with ... line with only 32 used in BASIC unless you use different PRINT routine. -
Timex undocumented video modesHi people. Please check my assumption about the functioning of the Timex in undocumented video modes: D2D1D0 wr #FF 0 0 0 - ZX color mode, the base …
... column bytes, so in this mode the BASIC displays condensed characters with ... only 32 used in BASIC unless you use different PRINT routine.[/QUOTE]
Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…
... 128k models. I tried in my +2A and in the emulator, and ... dro soft versions after loading in 128k mode and are available ... s a problem with the scroll routine after you reach the exit ... insomuch that the scroll routine continues causing the glitch in the video. < ...File comparitorI thought Taper might do it but its not quite what I was after. Unless I misunderstood that shows if tapes are identical or not but not the differenc…
... advanced version of my earlier routine. It reads the blocks from ... the controlling routine; the external GOSUBs refer to routines in my [url ... ] library. It's too slow in BASIC, but it gives an example ... complicated. The full listing is in the [url=http://www.users ...First polyphonic beeper tuneWhat was the first game on the 48k Speccy to have a polyphonic tune? By this I mean a proper 2 (or more) channel tune, not the "lots of really fast …
... I put two note harmonies in. The sound note loop ... Spectrums. In the end I used the same routine to synthesise ... / pink noise and faked speech in some cases ?[/QUOTE]
... sure Tim Follin used samples in his tunes, hence the ... not as good, obviously) in BASIC.128k Basic used much ?Hi - I was wondering if there were many,if any, games programmed in 128k basic? I was also thinking of doing one myself as I wish to make a text heav…
... /> Here's what I use in [url=http://www.users.globalnet ... a DOS_VERSION routine, but as it's not available in earlier models ... it can't be used in a simple generic test.)
in BASIC fairly easily. To reference a particular bit 'n' in BASIC:
Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
... a fan of the scrolling in [I]Astro Marine Corps ... - one is to scroll some data in-memory or on-screen ... works by having a scroll routine with a different list of ... the screen to any point in the map. The disadvantage ... the data for each block in turn.
...Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
... methods - one is to scroll some data in-memory or on-screen ... [/I] works by having a scroll routine with a different list of ... Corps is the ultimate arcade in the Spectrum, graphically, technically ... seen in the Spectrum. Never had any problem with the scroll and ...Works in Fuse & SpecEmu, not ZXSpinI decided that I wanted to change the scroll routine which I was using for compiling the Trailblazer maps, as I'd just copied it out of Andrew Hewson…
... I didn't like that scroll routine one bit. Here's ... ;HL=start of lowest pixrow in this LOOP23 pass
... the pixrow
;scroll down corresponding pixrows from previous ... ;DE=start of lowest pixrow in this LOOP23 pass
...FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... /> (for those who dont use basic, so dont have print#4 ... way to use this driver in assembly is as follows:< ... appears before comment "PROPORTIONAL PRINT ROUTINE" in my ASM file), then assembly ... without using channels. In this case, the routine above will look like ...Last of my +3 disks and....a Wafadrive! Anyone actually ever use a Wafadrive back in the day? [url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/millys-pigdog/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_t…
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If the programs are in Basic, you've got no problems ... from Basic, a printer channel driver,
a de-initialise routine and ... "]a single wafadrive image[/URL] in the archive - so someone ( ... for sale...[/URL] over here in NZ
[IMG] ...Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... avoid the tile attribute clash in smoth scroll games (horizontal and vertical ... an online emulator with hardware scroll support:
[url]http ... ", "OUT 32571, 10", etc... in BASIC (3rd link) to try the scroll yourself.Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplicationI liked Andre Adrian's 32-bit long multiplication routine so much that I decided to a decimal version. After all, 2^63 is only 9223372036854775808, a…
Doing it in BASIC using STR$ then it's ... 're concerned with the value in binary if you're printing ... it in decimal. If you're using a routine which handles ... able to print it out in full, so the length of ...Math problemI'm trying to solve/model a science problem, and I thought a simple BASIC program might help me, but I struggle to write it. Goal: Given a length of…
... /> The problem with using Sinclair BASIC to solve it is that ... item[n]), they're all in the right order.
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The random number generator in basic is probably OK for this ... /> Thanks for explaining the bubblesort routine. That will help a lot...soundfx with BEEP or assemblyhas anyone got any soundfx they have made with BEEP this one does a fart noise BEEP 0.003,5 BEEP 0.003,7 BEEP 0.003,9 BEEP 0.003,7 BEEP 0.003,5 BEE…
... , freq2, ofset
The routine is fully relocable - i.e ... shoud work.
demo in BASIC
[url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... call the PRINT USR 61440 routine any junk is cleared. ... CARRY flag affect values in the register in a circle, from ... one other kid in school who actualy programmed in BASIC all the rest ... soiled underpants. ADC still resulted in full soilage...
...MC LPRINT 23681Having problems with this routine to print large on the screen using LPRINT, it works ok in BASIC, but cant seem to get it to loop for some reason in…
... ]Having problems with this routine to print large on ... LPRINT, it works ok in BASIC, but cant seem to ... to loop for some reason in MC, and the colours ... always ends up the same in each column.
in the 48K ROM
...The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…
... the business was back in those days when we ... all just kids buying in to the fantasy of ... seems to be saying the scroll routine would scan this and ... that the scenery exists only in the live screen memory - ... have been drawn that frame in the game. The sprites ...Break into programIs there any way of stopping people using the break option in my software productions so they can list the code.
Here's the previous routine all in BASIC; GOSUB 9993 to enable; GOSUB ... USR call to the trap routine as it is called by ... jump back to the current BASIC line+statement and resume running ... trap, save standard error return in 23680/1
9992 REM ...coding guruOk I'm looking for a to help me in my quest to do my first proper game. The 80's child in me thinks he can do it, But the 2013 man in me knows zip. …
... -D 4-way map scroller in BASIC a while ago, here:
routine.
I see that ...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…
... for future development of se basic?[/QUOTE]
It was ... or another. The new keyboard routine in v4.1 freed up enough ... time to work on SE Basic after the end of the ... 16 commands that weren't in the original ROM and it ...SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…
... you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B] ... "U") and call this routine for emulation PLAY. Then with ... modify this code for use in range address #2000-#3FFF ... (divide ram page) ?
In 48basic(usr0 mode) is PLAY ... as UDG char "U" in basic line. CPU see this char ...What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […
... . That way they could scroll downwards just by moving the ... notoriously difficult to get right in platform games, though if ... [I]Gauntlet[/I] type game in BASIC. Maybe something like that (or ... I could perhaps write the basic graphics and joystick input engine ...Issue 3 board with strange piggy-back boardIn case you are interested. I?ve never seen something like this before. I have an Issue 3 board here. When I opened the case and found a strange pig…
... ! Hadn't touched the stuff in years!
Well, sure, ... However, what's the point in disassembling the interface ROM? If ... need to isolate any particular routine from that?
... in BASIC) and test the upper 32k in conjunction with an IN 255 or IN ...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…
... this routine permits the directory to be catalogued in a ... required, this
routine is re-called with the ... for the directory, this routine can be
... /> (right).
In BASIC (using DOS)
(after USR ...LOAD "" CODE - Blind Alleycame across [B]Blind Alley[/B] in the archives, and both tzx/tap versions only have Bytes header, no Basic loader with autostart - please, anyone, ho…
... LOAD "" CODE and it overwrites BASIC and continues from the point ... 's an old trick common in the very early years of ... stack so when the load routine in ROM returned, it effectively called ...
