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  • Need help with keyboard scanning ?After getting frustrated with learning ASM for a while I'm back into it. The little listing below is using the ROM's PRINT AT routine to draw me a sp…

    ... key it should exit to BASIC but it just stays there ... assuming this should work because in BASIC if you do
    10 ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 November 2017 Development
  • Isometric enginesWhilst taking a breather from Chess development I've been playing around with a little isometric 'room' building idea. Just wondering what sort of…

    ... usually done with dirty rectangles in a buffer off screen, ... isn't much bigger in bytes than actually reading ... plus you can save in areas where masking isn't ... Duel on the MSX? Although in Basic and very slow, its ... same on Speccy, but in Z80, and obviously a ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • How can I make a UDG rotate?I designed a set of UDG's that can be used for making shapes or letters. Trouble is that my circle - for example - consists of 4 pieces and it would…

    ... . This is to be done in Basic and ideally it would be ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch November 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Other than using attributes what other ways to detect collisions, when using char based movement?So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whet…

    ... using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whether and ... to check whether something in front of my ball ... Here's my version of BASIC's ATTR function. What you ... to return from subroutines in assembly with a return ... than storing them somewhere in memory.
    ivanb303 ivanb303 November 2017 Development
  • I feel like such a moron having to post this but stillI started out to write a simple cursor move program to demonstrate how easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right. I started by setting…

    ... easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right ... one - later I put in a CLS to get rid ... />
    I tried putting in a PAUSE thinking that for ... . I triple checked everything in case I'd made a ... wouldnt work and the Sinclair Basic manual wasnt much help ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch December 2017 BASIC
  • The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…

    ... #7 (active while we’re in BASIC)
    ld bc,$7ffd
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore February 2018 Development
  • is there a way of seeing what is on the +3e hdd by using graphics?i want to develop a disk drive mapping system like you get on the c64. unfortunately it seems like this all has to be done in code. can it be done wi…

    ... it be done with pokes in basic?. i want to see if ...
    digital digital March 2018 Development
  • is there a way of reading characters off the screen and turning that into a string? this has to be done in basic. i know it would have something to do with peeking memory (maybe screen memory) but would this change due to programs r…

    this has to be done in basic. i know it would have ... change due to programs running in the memory? i also need ... command to program a commander in basic for the +3e.
    digital digital May 2018 Development
  • Have I got a mystery for you!All morning I worked on this set of 12 UDG's to draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginn…

    ... 's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginners after ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Books for the lay public?I always wanted a book where they explain to newbies how to approach and code classic favs such as XONIX, TETRIS, SNAKE, ARKANOID, PACMAN and so on--…

    ... or not available not only in BASIC, but also Speccy, not to ...
    NRA NRA May 2018 Books
  • im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.

    i know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
    digital digital July 2018 Development
  • Max Pickles I - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.World XXI Soft announces the release of Max Pickles I, an action arcade with puzzle flavors, and the first in the Max Pickles saga, and his tragic st…

    ... flavors, and the first in the Max Pickles saga, ... remake of unreleased games designed in 1988-1990.

    - 100% written in Basic, except M/C routines in loaders.
    - Optimised ... .

    Available in [url="http://www.worldxxisoft.com ...
    worldxxisoft worldxxisoft August 2018 Brand new software
  • "Good" Games?Hello all, just a quick question. Were any "good" games ever written in Basic alone? Yes I know it's hated and shunned because it's so slow, b…

    Hello all,
    just a quick question. Were any "good" games ever written in Basic alone?
    Yes I know it's hated and shunned because it's so slow, but really. was there ever any fun games that are purely coded in basic?

    Thanks
    SpeccySteve SpeccySteve September 2018 Games
  • ZY10, a tool to store and display some small bitmapped imagesZY10 Builder ============ Download at: https://www.sendspace.com/file/rncgbo ZY10 is a file format/tool to store some small images on the Spec…

    ... The conversion is a very basic colour guessing conversion, so ... the images.

    * in BASIC:
    POKE 49157, : RAND USR ...

    * or in assembly:
    ld a,
    in it.

    ...
    Timmy Timmy November 2018 Development
  • 21UDGS Graphics PlotterHello everyone, Enclosed is a dropbox link to the latest version of my 21UDGS program 1.03 which allows you to plot 21 User Defined Graphics on sc…

    ... use multiple banks of UDGs in BASIC too.

    Please run ... .
    I've included the BASIC 21udgs103bas.szx and 21udgsbas.tzx ... />
    Information can be found in 21UDGS.txt

    https ...
    Phil2 Phil2 November 2018 Software
  • im trying to get the name of a simple puzzle gameit has a really small game area, about a quarter of the screen and it is on a white background. you play a smiley face that moves around and collect …

    ... it could have been written in basic
    digital digital January 2019 Games
  • Book: Giant Book of Spectrum Arcade Games by Tim HartnellDarn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :( I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF. This book has games written in BASIC with machine code ro…

    Darn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :(
    I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF.
    This book has games written in BASIC with machine code routines and hopefully will help bolster my learning of machine code.
    LevelUp LevelUp January 2019 Wanted
  • Fuller FDS Keyboard schematicAnyone have a schematic for that? Mine is randomly triggering BREAK on powerup or Symbol Shift in BASIC. I guess it comes down to one of the CD4016 …

    Anyone have a schematic for that?
    Mine is randomly triggering BREAK on powerup or Symbol Shift in BASIC. I guess it comes down to one of the CD4016 having gone bad, but a schematic would certainly help pinpointing the issue.
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 January 2019 Hardware
  • border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …

    ... />
    i even wrote one in machine code.

    are ... border effects can be done in basic and can someone explain how ...
    digital digital May 2019 BASIC
  • Missing XFAWorld Software games?I finally got around to looking at the PC compilation "Spectrum AllStars - Volume 1", and discovered several games by XFAWorld Software that are not …

    ... all appear to be written in BASIC, and are truly dreadful, but ...
    Mousey Mousey May 2019 Infoseek database
  • binary mirroring in basicsame as last question, really. only this time i want to mirror an 8 bit decimal number

    same as last question, really. only this time i want to mirror an 8 bit decimal number
    digital digital October 2019 Chit chat
  • Beta-Loader (boot Loader for Betadisk) updated to v3Hi, I´ve updated original Version from unknown author of "Beta-Loader". This is a program written in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk / TR-DOS Disk…

    ... ". This is a program written in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk ...
    Luzie Luzie January 2020 Software
  • Amiga chit chat (sorry but it never really was a commode designed machine)I wish there was a forum like this for the Amiga, perhaps there is but I tried a few and they mostly seem pretty moribund and lots of the links at Am…

    ... most of them are duds in my opinion, so I ended ... have - and barely struggled by in Basic, it was always hopeless to ... graphics capability that attracted me in the first place. However I ... images that had got scrambled in transmission and needed massaging until ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch February 2020 Chit chat
  • Should I get a NEXT?Despite my having wanted one almost since I heard about it, I'm beginning to wonder whether it would be an extravagance, 'cos its sure to cost a fair…

    ... hand the fabulous improved Basic would in theory give me the ... to the days of when Basic was used to run ... surely that would mean the Basic would also be less ... and moving backgrounds and sound in Basic if - as it would ... here on my own out in the wild with no ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch March 2020 Chit chat
  • Randomised data samplingHere is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested. Lets say we want to sample a subset of a larger population, we can do t…

    ... something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested.< ...

    This short BASIC program fills a population table ... then prints this distribution out in coloured 'O's - Red, ... numerical array because eache element in a numerical array takes ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • im just getting c nonsense in basic when i try and use the adventure builder systemit does this after its says collating data. ive tried all the different versions too. https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011404

    it does this after its says collating data. ive tried all the different versions too.

    https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011404
    digital digital May 2020 Development
  • Computer Haiku (converted from C64)[url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Haiku_1983_CES]Here's the original C64/PET program - "Computer Haiku" by Commodore Educational Software, 19…

    ... the original program was written in BASIC, I thought I'd examine ... look like the original, just in different colours. More system variables ... round from line 1000 in the original (660 in this version), to ... the equivalent of a PET in this case). This involved ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Arkanoid / Batty clones ?Although there is an old 2008 topic [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16532/best-worst-arkanoid-clones/"]here[/url] , I felt a new …

    ... or care if its written in Basic, compiled or otherwise!, if it ... good. :)


    Thanks in advance for suggestions! :D
    spider spider October 2020 Games
  • How Historically Accurate Were ZX Spectrum Battle Games?And I do have a game in mind to "kick this one off". It is "Vikings?" (Challege) 1989 .This set of 3 battles comes with a manual included . and it d…

    ... I do have a game in mind to "kick this one ... ?) So why were they put in the game as "heavy cavalry ... had a good chunk written in BASIC , so maybe they can be ... - they come with a manual in English so you can see ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio November 2020 Games
  • Success or FailureSuccess or Failure is here...the brand new Football Management game for the ZX Spectrum. Do you long back to the days when Football Management gam…

    ... games were simple games written in basic, where you could start a ... abilities as a Football Manager in this brand new game written ... game, including features never seen in any Football Management games before ...
    Frankie Frankie December 2020 Brand new software
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