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  • DivIDE QuestionHi all, I've been trying to work out how the DivIDE works and after reading and re-reading the DivIDE programming model document by Zilog I think it…

    ... , if I wanted to display text on the screen as part ... /> for example, to print a string using the BASIC ROM:
    Winston Winston August 2009 Development
  • MIDI-out disassembly?Does anyone have the disassembly of the MIDI-out routine or understands how text strings in PLAY commands are converted to a MIDI stream? I'm assumin…

    ... level languages have very similar string functions and tools at the ... file.txt spits out a text file), before the script takes ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2009 Development
  • I just picked up a free Atari 520stJust got a free 520ST, (no cables or leads) and a small box load of games. :? dunno what to do with it, but it was being thrown out, so I grabbed it…

    ... an impressive demo with rotating text that was a clone of ... useless) one was vertical hardware scrolling by 8 lines, by shifting ... a bit of screen pointer scrolling too, which a lot of ... -cycling to simulate a parallax scrolling background pattern too, rather than ...
    joefish joefish September 2009 Chit chat
  • Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…

    Some compressed text routines which support PRINT AT ... need the text & control codes to be in a string variable ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …

    ...
    d$ - string to be processed.

    The text is automatically ...
    Geoff Geoff January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... including disk files or text output depending on what ... z88dk supplies two different text terminals for text output. One is ... you would printf() a string containing that escape sequence to ... to affect text output. Again you would printf a string containing ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Games
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    ... back buffer or render the text each frame from the original ... ASCII/UDG text?
    - What part of the ... how I put the stuff (text?) there in the first place ... store the map of the scrolling area in memory. I've ...
    polomint polomint February 2010 Development
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    ... scroll routine I wrote for scrolling the entire screen up or ... . I use it for a text file viewer.
    I know ... table.

    [CODE]
    ;Scrolling routines for UP/DOWN
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s February 2010 Development
  • Corrections1.[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007023]Spell Of Christmas Ice[/url]. -Year of the release should be 1984, not 1989. -Not s…

    ... " is definitely not type "Adventure: Text", despite the opening screen of ... text with multiple choice selection.
    < ... , not by entering text commands. The game has a scrolling playfield, and ...
    Mousey Mousey March 2010 Infoseek database
  • Corrections1.[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007023]Spell Of Christmas Ice[/url]. -Year of the release should be 1984, not 1989. -Not s…

    ... " is definitely not type "Adventure: Text", despite the opening screen of ... text with multiple choice selection.
    < ... , not by entering text commands. The game has a scrolling playfield, and ...
    mheide mheide March 2010 Infoseek database
  • I want to see if a file exists. in CIs this what they call a lockfile? I'm trying to write some software that translates from one language to another (as some of you probably know, I …

    ... than scripted?)

    For string wrangling, you aren't going ... language which is built for text processing (not to mention all ...
    Winston Winston April 2010 Chit chat
  • Games that made your jaw dropThere were some games that really 'wowed' you the first time you ever played them - those games that made your jaw drop in disbelief. It might have b…

    ... it being a fairly huge text adventure for its time - I ... racing game. I thought the scrolling was nice and smooth and ...
    STeaM STeaM May 2010 Games
  • Games that made your jaw dropThere were some games that really 'wowed' you the first time you ever played them - those games that made your jaw drop in disbelief. It might have b…

    ... it being a fairly huge text adventure for its time - I ... racing game. I thought the scrolling was nice and smooth and ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley May 2010 Games
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... of text you are printing?
    c) Have a seperate Attribute string ... that is the same length as the text you ... doubling the size of the text)?

    How do you ...
    Turkwel Turkwel June 2010 Development
  • The Spectrum screenshot odd-one-out round - easy skill levelYou know how in the (British) program "Have I Got News For You" they have an odd-one-out round, where they show you four photographs, and you (well…

    ... , platform game, isometric game, and scrolling shooter, respectively), so that no ... left WTSS listed in the text file I'd written :sad ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2010 Chit chat
  • 'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…

    ... /> or, as an embedded string:
    [code]text: DEFB 16,1
    string such as:
    [code]text: DEFB 22,16 ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…

    ... upper screen
    ld hl,text point to textstring
    loop ... ready, back to basic
    text defb 22,8,14 ; AT ... /> call 0x1601
    ld hl, text
    .loop
    ld a ... to write a null-terminated string print routine :)
    Winston Winston June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Euro sign in TZX info blocksI grabbed the TZX info block for Invasion of the Zombie Monsters from Infoseek and noticed that the Price field has the HTML style &euro; string for …

    ... field has the HTML style € string for the currency sign which ... ISO Latin 1 for the text fields in TZX files[1 ... alternative except maybe for the string EUR (UKP is used in ...
    mheide mheide July 2010 Infoseek database
  • Infoseek as a web serviceFollowing up from [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30438"]this thread[/URL], what sort of abilities would emulator and ot…

    ... /> Nope
    6.5
    Text Adventure



    Seleuco Seleuco July 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OCR'd magazine scansHi all, I've been working on OCR'ing some magazine scans over the last few weeks, and combining the images together into a searchable, indexed PDF f…

    ... a reflowable document as the text is tied to the page ... doing a fair bit of scrolling.

    If you copy ...
    cartz cartz August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Developing on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)Ok, so I decided to install Ubuntu as my main OS, but keep XP as a bootable partition just in case I err mess up Ubuntu, :) I also have XP VM in Virt…

    ... . PT3s have 256 bytes of text info that can safely be ... on fast moving sprites or scrolling.
    chev chev August 2010 Development
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... the ability to import ascii text listings?... This could perhaps be ... if "ZXBASIC" is the first string, if it is, then continue ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... the ability to import ascii text listings?... This could perhaps be ... if "ZXBASIC" is the first string, if it is, then continue ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... /> Secondly, the BBC B has text based screen modes, which are ... bitmaps when printing or scrolling large bits of text. This alone can ...
    AndyC AndyC August 2010 Games
  • ula bookula book is here: [url]http://www.zxdesign.info/book/[/url] can i post sam coupe stuff here - she kind of is a speccy if you stuff the speccy rom i…

    ... ]has anyone seen the hardware scrolling the orgininal cpc had(not ... does have hardware scrolling which is geared towards scrolling a text screen vertically ... capabilities, allowing for very smooth scrolling.

    As to the ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2010 Hardware
  • 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. …

    ... ). This one will reverse a string.

    [CODE]110 DIM ... Parms
    120 INPUT "Enter string: "; LINE p$
    125 PRINT ... :
    155 REM p$(1)=Text
    160 REM b$=Temp ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    ... ). This one will reverse a string.

    [CODE]110 DIM ... Parms
    120 INPUT "Enter string: "; LINE p$
    125 PRINT ... :
    155 REM p$(1)=Text
    160 REM b$=Temp ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Obscure great games......Having recently received an old PC, I've transferred all my Speccy roms over to it off of my mums PC where they were previously stored, and have been…

    ... [/i] - absorbing Greek mythology themed text adventure
    [*][i]Spitfire '40 ... [i]Jetpac[/i] but with scrolling landscape and a pogo stick ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2010 Games
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... AutoIT script for autotyping ascii text into SpecBAS seems to be ... />
    - QBASIC style Logo-like string command... Seems simple, but you ... the start of such a string, a command to rotate everything ... or two added to the string...

    ..whatever you ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... string ID byte followed by 4byte length marker followed by the text ... br /> - QBASIC style Logo-like string command... Seems simple, but you ... the start of such a string, a command to rotate everything ... or two added to the string...

    ..whatever you ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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