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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. …
... I wrote the routine in Sinclair BASIC to ensure I understood ... height character routine in BASIC that is as quick ... the method used in BBC BASIC MODE 7 i.e. ... only downside of the BASIC routine is that it uses ... could use your own font by simply pointing CHARS to ... -
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;489251]Often BASIC is fine for 75- ... to produce programs mixing BASIC and Assembly since it ... />
I think our font editor [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ... user interface is implemented in BASIC Sinclair (which is very productive ... -
T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
... see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by ... chunks.
The additional BASIC commands of the TS2068 were ... if you use a 6x8 font. TMX Portugal also wrote some ... for almost all Timex and Sinclair machines from the ZX80 to ... -
T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
... if you use a 6x8 font. TMX Portugal also wrote some ... a cart that had TS2000 BASIC running in a 64 column ... /> So please don't relate Sinclair products' features with a fact ... -
Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/ZX-ALFA_Fonts. ... font...[/QUOTE]
You can extract it from the SE Basic ... * the Mortal Kombat font
* the font from Elite on the ... * a monospaced version of the font from Syndicate
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Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... someone wants to test a font from Elite or Lords of ... in BASIC are available [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games ... -
Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... ;530092]Because Clairsys a horrible font.
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... main purpose is to make BASIC listings easier to read (hence ... to draw a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC I would have come ... ).
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Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... main purpose is to make BASIC listings easier to read (hence ... stops reminding anyone of the Sinclair typeface.
[quote] ... to draw a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC I would have come ... my own 40 column font based on the Sinclair one, and made ... -
This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…
... run programs written in Sinclair BASIC, but there's ... are* going to need OpenSE BASIC.
[quote ... hugely expanded version of Sinclair BASIC for Windows and Linux, ... of the ZX Spectrum font is, but the ...
The ZX Spectrum font is (c) 1982 Amstrad. ... -
Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... to draw a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC I would have come ... task to design a new font for continuous text (like for ... -
Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... challenges (a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC and one for an adventure ... -
Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
[QUOTE=Paul van der Laan;532505]Thanks! I surely would love to give both challenges (a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC and one for an adventure game) a try again.[/QUOTE]
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Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…
... confirmation option refined
* Number font used in the Set Time ... )
* Created a new Spectrum font for use in BASin - just ... much about the Spectrum and Sinclair BASIC. Also using BASin has been ... -
BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…
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RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... =Gedlion;576858]That's awesome font work.[/QUOTE]
Thanks ... the 64 column font code for Boriel's ZX Basic?
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So easy to use.Back in the 90s I was off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my boredom I dusted off my old speccy+ and the manual, and got my head …
... font!
Seriously, if you are interested in coding in Sinclair BASIC ... it is a compiler (?) for Sinclair BASIC in the traditional sense i ... -
new game ......[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFaUth_DKoQ&feature=channel&list=UL[/url]
... tape version with loader in Basic to Tr-Dos disk version ... it's enough to change Basic commands.
The other ... 40 files on the disk - font, cursor, sounds, all in separate ... a real Spectrum made by Sinclair or Amstrad, either directly from ... -
Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…
... looking for a font for coding (such as Basic listings) or ... reliance on caps for Basic keywords already makes a big ... at designing a new font for Sinclair Basic which I called [url ... =http://type-invaders.com/sinclair/clairsys ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
... I was already advanced in BASIC programming and they were pretty ... in the thread, yes the Sinclair Programs graphics input rules were ... the ZX character set or 'font') which was clearer but couldn ... -
Serious SpectrumHas anyone here used their Spectrum for anything other than gaming and programming back in the eighties? I see all these business and productivity ap…
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[FONT="Book Antiqua"][COLOR="Blue"][SIZE="3"]"Sinclair timing" - by ... results were determined with the Sinclair. And the school triathlon ... on a laptop with Q-basic 6.0, what took a ... Windows 98 because otherwise Q-basic does not work.
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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…
... machine code.
[*]Chloe font specially designed for maximum legibility ... licensed).
[*]Geneva Mono font suitable for 32 or 40 ... its own in all existing Sinclair, Timex and Amstrad models ... .
[*]More room for BASIC programs.
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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…
... ]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/DesktopFontEditorFZX_Fonts.png[/url ... ]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/DesktopKud1FZX_Fonts.png[/url ... ;759851]along with some basic characteristics (this font is x pixels high ... -
Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
... /> Have you fixed the editor font issue where the scrolling does ... there are natural problems of sinclair basic, you can write pretty funky ... -
Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
... a find and replace on Sinclair? Guess not... Right?
... the string in the array. [FONT=Courier New]PRINT f$(n ... is the one that contains [FONT=Courier New]SPECTRUM f$(n ... )[/FONT]
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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…
... . If you have a large font and print a lowercase "b ... book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair as the source text. The ... be neat to write a basic e-reader program when the ... -
Video ZX Spectrum+ 48k<span>Good day ... is a bit of time that I try to fix my zx spectrum ... I replaced the ram 4116, all electrolytic capacitors ... but the monitor loo…
... game, or a typed in BASIC program, but due to your ... when laying out the PCB, Sinclair swapped address or data lines ... -
Code tags againHi Foggy!<div><br></div><div>Got the code tags to work. Sort of. Turns out, if you paste in an announcement from any other forum, you have to turn on…
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2015 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2015 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewh…
... * The 20th comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition thread ... /> Sixteen Skirmish (Roguelike, BASIC)[thread]
by R ... Diamond Digger (Boulderdash like, BASIC)[thread]
by davepierce07 ... Weird Island (Text Adventure, BASIC)[thread]
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2015 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2015 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewh…
... * The 20th comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition thread ... /> Sixteen Skirmish (Roguelike, BASIC)[thread]
by R ... Diamond Digger (Boulderdash like, BASIC)[thread]
by davepierce07 ... Weird Island (Text Adventure, BASIC)[thread]
by textvoyage ...
