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  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    As far as I'm aware there is no way to change the colour of the loading stripes from BASIC. To do so you would have to write your own custom loading routine in machine code.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... colour of the loading stripes from BASIC. To do so you would ... one in ROM using a BASIC loop, and modifying it to ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…

    ... speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or ... start machine code with minimal BASIC knowledge?
    [/quote]
    ...
    Sinclair BASIC isn't too heard to ... required to call M/C from BASIC") anyway.

    [quote ...
    Arjun Arjun November 2007 Development
  • The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…

    ... W5100 - only programs running from the DivIDE in the Spectrum ... address 0x0000.

    BASIC entry points that can be ... network filesystem that is accessable from BASIC (I'm currently thinking of ... drive from a server on the internet or off your LAN). BASIC ...
    Winston Winston November 2007 Hardware
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... in 32x32 or 64x32 resolution from BASIC, and that was via a ... at my old code (extracted from an old 3" disc) the ... as they would appear in BASIC, then load the address of ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... call the routine from your own code rather than BASIC you should ... they would be if called from BASIC. As an example, say you ... number stored in the traditional BASIC format. To set an integer ... called, and calling the FN from BASIC. Just look at the address ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... in 32x32 or 64x32 resolution from BASIC, and that was via a ... provide socket library calls to BASIC. Although returning buffers would have ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Development
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... the loader code in our basic programs? is loader code relocatable ... /saving code you can use from BASIC.

    The code ... you can either start from scratch with your BASIC loader using the ... how to turbo load/save from BASIC with "turbobot.csw" being the ...
    Woody Woody December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • New Spectrum GameAs some of you may be aware I've been busy working on a Shoot-Em-Up Designer utility for the past few weeks. As the program is pretty much there now…

    ... encourage people's first steps from BASIC to machine language, maybe?
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington February 2008 Games
  • BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…

    ... commands that can be called from BASIC is a kludge, and you ... have two expansion boards with BASIC extensions. None of this is ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Chit chat
  • BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…

    ... (so for example, opening files from BASIC would work whether you were ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Chit chat
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... [/B] faster than BASIC?[/quote]

    Since BASIC is continuously interpreted ... can even skip floatingpoint notation from BASIC and work with integers in ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy's most popular countries?I always wanted to know which countries had the most love for the Speccy (I'm petty like that) so I spent a while trying to get info, as far as i can…

    [QUOTE=snigfarp;259149]Apart from the CoCo, of course (ironically ... ), it used the full 64K from BASIC (RAM Drive?) and it had ...
    JamesD JamesD April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interface 1 emulation issuesFor Virtual Spectrum v3.0 I am implementing virtual Interface 1 and Interface 2 options! The I/F2 ROM option works already, and I have got the I/F1 s…

    ... ,x wouldn't do anything from BASIC (the VM code would just ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • Data ExportIs there a tool or emulator that would allow me to export a block of data from a TZX or even a tape, to a format readable by a PC? This is for an ar…

    ... .

    (proper answer)
    From Basic, CLEAR 25000. LOAD "my_block"CODE ... a block of memory starting from 25000 and the appropriate length ... (which you can find out from your emulator's tape browser ...
    gasman gasman April 2008 Emulators
  • Interface 1 emulation issuesFor Virtual Spectrum v3.0 I am implementing virtual Interface 1 and Interface 2 options! The I/F2 ROM option works already, and I have got the I/F1 s…

    ... loading more files than the BASIC listing shows ;)
    I must ... ,x wouldn't do anything from BASIC (the VM code would just ...
    jp jp April 2008 Emulators
  • Ripping a fontIs it possible to rip a font from a machine code game using Spin?

    ... issue those POKEs from BASIC, then all your work from then on will ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2008 Emulators
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... can OUT between both systems from BASIC but it would extend user ... ->RESIDOS):

    1) From BSDOS nmi menu 2 RESIDOS ... /> 2) From BSDOS nmi menu 2 RESIDOS- with jump to basic (normall ... jump to BASIC as it exists already ...
    Hood Hood April 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... no sequential access to files from BASIC at the moment, although this ...
    glancaster glancaster April 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... no sequential access to files from BASIC at the moment, although this ...
    velesoft velesoft April 2008 Development
  • Look what I just got...[url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/images/8/8e/Protopcb.jpg[/url] More news ... later

    ... all the gory hardware details from the programmer, including things like ... ROM routines, and hopefully access from BASIC.

    I need to ...
    Winston Winston April 2008 Hardware
  • Porting more adv games to the ZX SpectrumIf anyone is up to the task, I'd love to see a port of some of my other games on the ZX Spectrum. I myself need to find a manual for Sinclair BASIC b…

    ... because it's short. Converting from basic to C in general is ... not easy because basic programs tend to lack structure ... TO VLINE"

    Sinclair basic allows expressions in GOTOs and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2008 Development
  • Microdrive CATIs there a way in Basic to obtain any more useful info on the contents of a Microdrive? File size, head info for example? Also, is it possible in ge…

    From BASIC you can also examine the ...
    Geoff Geoff June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • [WANTED] ASM routinesHi there, 1.) i really need 5-6 working and well commented routines, showing assembler capabilities. They should be simple, but not too much complic…

    ... routines - it is made usually from Basic.
    Download TAP files with ... all Basic code and some pictures for specific effect from site ... commander can extract TAP file from GZ archive. After it may ...
    piters piters June 2008 Emulators
  • Porting more adv games to the ZX SpectrumIf anyone is up to the task, I'd love to see a port of some of my other games on the ZX Spectrum. I myself need to find a manual for Sinclair BASIC b…

    ... because it's short. Converting from basic to C in general is ... not easy because basic programs tend to lack structure ... QUOTE]
    Some of the BASIC adventures I looked at are ... TO VLINE"

    Sinclair basic allows expressions in GOTOs and ...
    JamesD JamesD June 2008 Development
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... yet supported, and I doubt BASIC programmers will need it)
    BASIC streams are attached to which ... having to concatenate the result from INKEY$# and the subsequent ... overwhelmingly[/b] prefer all access from BASIC to the socket library to ...
    Winston Winston July 2008 Development
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... have removed the exponentiation operator from the bitwise calculations.

    from BASIC.

    (Hint: never use ... the exponentiation operator in Sinclair BASIC where it can be avoided ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... upper memory screen.

    From what you are saying I ... accessibility of the "shadow screen" from BASIC.

    I had ... ourselves to a 100% pure BASIC program). I could presumably use ... 3 systems use different syntax from the standard 128K system.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Sound Upgrade to C64Would it be possible to interface in a seperate C64 style SID sound device to the ZX Spectrum to make existing ZX Spectrum games sound like their C64…

    ... multi-colour text and UDGs from BASIC in 8x1 attribute mode?[/QUOTE ... .

    Doing it in BASIC would be slow by the ...
    Quazar Quazar September 2008 Hardware
  • Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.

    ... to force a win right from the first move. It won ... Othello but then from BASIC to MC. The most BASIC MC Othello (exactly ... the same as in BASIC) was only 450 bytes in ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2008 Development
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