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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Me hate Spectrum, Sinclair? Again just wrong conclusion. It ... the Spectrum or Sir Clive Sinclair here? ;) I assume it's ... up, you don't like Sinclair BASIC, you don't think Speccy ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... in C that did some basic stuff like string manipulation, ... 'd used (any version of) BASIC.
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... when I started programming in Sinclair BASIC), I would have given ... disagree with piters - I think Sinclair BASIC is an excellent language for ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... 't see the use for Sinclair BASIC (which is fair enough), but ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... like "I agree. BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... 's see. I said that Sinclair BASIC has uses because people are ... other hand you say that Sinclair BASIC is entirely useless; it's ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... other hand you say that Sinclair BASIC is entirely useless; it's ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... : everyone here accepts that the Sinclair BASIC is an old language which ... subjective arguments: does everyone think Sinclair BASIC is useless? No. Why? B ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... talk? Just remember QL, last Sinclair's machine (not counting handheld ... problems were later rectified, by Sinclair engineers, especially on Samsung produced ... But not so cheap that Sinclair not earn money with it ... really is about Pascal versus Sinclair Basic. -
Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
... constant and use VARPTR (if Sinclair BASIC supports it) to get the ... -
Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
... memory but not in 128K BASIC.
I would still use ... works just as well in Sinclair BASIC. (There are hundreds of versions ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... not the software driven ones Sinclair liked to make. Polled or ... have been more difficult as Sinclair didn't write the 48k ... on each line entry that Sinclair Basic does. I absolutely hate the ... text editor with the usual Sinclair syntax check on entry. The ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... not the software driven ones Sinclair liked to make. Polled or ... on each line entry that Sinclair Basic does. I absolutely hate the ... text editor with the usual Sinclair syntax check on entry. ... on a more expensive model) Sinclair probably makes more money on ... -
Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... ) pixel pos is possible in Basic - with PLOT for instance (very ... in machine code than in Sinclair Basic. -
Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…
... "stream".
Streams in Sinclair BASIC are in fact [i]the ... -
Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …
... to also size-code*. In BASIC.
Oh yes, I'm ... facility doesn't exist in Sinclair BASIC! By a sheer fluke of ... -
Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …
... facility doesn't exist in Sinclair BASIC! By a sheer fluke of ... 've obviously not upgraded your BASIC ROM with my clever "bitwise ... -
Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …
... that will be interpreted using Sinclair BASIC and writing the program in ... -
Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…
... data or graphics around).
Sinclair BASIC is... slow. There are compilers ... -
Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…
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Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…
... base for recursive function in Sinclair Basic.
Sub hanoi_start()
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... platform. I´m a simple basic programmer. I began with computers ... my TK85(brazilian clone of Sinclair ZX81). ( [url]http://www.old ... learned were brazilian portuguese and sinclair basic... :) Unfortunately I left one of ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... with some modifications from SE Basic Gosh Wonderful) to the Sparky ... OS that runs interpreted BASIC with no real enhancements.< ... />
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5) Sinclair Basic is not extensible. You can ... laptop) which boots a familiar BASIC, is more powerful, and ...Something I've been pondering on...... is why Spectrum BASIC includes both PRINT and LPRINT. Likewise, why include LIST and LLIST - When it appeared Sinclair were running out of space…
... Sinclair opted to introduce a bit of redundancy to make their Basic ... which shall not be named, Sinclair Basic gives you PRINT AT rather ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... 't backspace delete lines on sinclair basic (remember, basin is a modified ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... 't backspace delete lines on sinclair basic (remember, basin is a modified ...Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... defining whether we started from BASIC or directly (so i know ... 0, and somehow replicate the basic CLEAR), how do i safely ... "exit" to the basic editor?
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Sinclair basic in general expects you not ...basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... A GOTO is implemented in Sinclair Basic like so:
GOTO ...
