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'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…
... increase the accessibility of the "shadow screen" from BASIC.
... ourselves to a 100% pure BASIC program). I could presumably use some ... change, the ocasional roll of the screen and the odd ... implement the exact analogue behaviour of an old TV set ... -
Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... to knowingly infringe the copyright of the Logan/O'Hara book ... logic into the Royal Courts of Injustice and look forward to ... were pulled there is a BASIC program in the ZX81 manual to ... code from when the number of sides increased incrementally and this ... -
Loads of stuff for sale AgainHello everyone . Im selling off my stuff again .I have listed sabre wulf on Fleabay and two realy nice people seem to want it .God bless em [url]ht…
... give them an idea of the size of the box.Its not ... feedback , minus a couple of hickups, but for the amount ... members of WOS have bought off me on a regular basic ... bidders that win any of my auctions are reported ... dont like my conditions of my sales dont bid. ... -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
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Is there a list of games that are awaiting reviews ... after one review for each of the three remaining tape mags ... embedding into the tape mag BASIC program and the reformatting to fit ... - I never saw an RZX of CGC entry before :) ) -
Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... mutually exclusive in the Sinclair BASIC world. Let's face ... speed don't use Sinclair BASIC !! It's friendly and ... struggle with BASIC? Comparing BBC Z80 BASIC and BBC 6502 BASIC gives ... GOSUB subroutines at the TOP of the program (opposite to most implementations ... -
Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.
... - nice game. The BASIC program has a length of 3788 bytes, so you ... -
Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.
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Is it BASIC? I thought Matt_B had made ... -
Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... ;304005]Due to Sinclair Basic allowing GOTO/GOSUB non-existant ... a small tool to parse basic "text". But when generating ... of oneliners :)
this is the program. It parses Sinclair basic ... , it saved 2 kbytes of 20kb basic program which is not bad. ... -
Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... to basic listing which normally not a main part of your program but ... it can be run before or after the program ... -
Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.
... used by a lot of versions which is particularly ... going to get the better of it. :-)
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Also the actual size of the C code is about ... but then from BASIC to MC. The most BASIC MC Othello ... exactly the same as in BASIC) was only 450 bytes ... -
Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.
... compressor does reduce the size of the tables, but probably ... then from BASIC to MC. The most BASIC MC Othello ... exactly the same as in BASIC) was only 450 bytes ... that used a couple of library functions and I ... effect on the compressed size was rather less drastic ... -
Print ATHello, Can someone please tell me how to do a Print AT command? Thanks,
How about a BASIC program that pokes a machine code program into memory, which when the mcode is run then the mcode pokes that basic listing of dunny's into the basic area then runs it, :) -
Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
... can view the listings of most BASIC titles without even having to ... ]snaplist[/b] to view the BASIC listing.
In fact ... loader, rather than the main BASIC program - as the loader is typically ... -
In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…
... evidence for this refinement of software development of which you speak? ;)[/ ... PC software (an unverified estimate of mine, of course, but I think ... been in the area of AI instead of graphics then wow! ... IQ in a five line BASIC program), but it would still be ... -
Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
... kind of "still-BASIC-mode" would be to have a BASIC program that includes ... make an almost similar copy of the ROM loader, but with ... -
Problem upgrading 16K SpectrumHello Spec-chums, I've been a long time Commodore user, but also a long-time Speccy admirer (and emulator user). I've recently got hold of a Issue 2…
... 16K machine needed a couple of 74LS* chips in addition to ... can write a memory test program to find the bad chip ... , I think someone posted a BASIC program that'll do a quick ... -
Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…
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Reminds me of my early BASIC coding attempts. I remember ... its variant of BASIC by inputting ZX BASIC code and ... seeing what it did. I wrote a program ... that was some sort of tipping point in my ... of missing the point IMHO. I don't use ZX BASIC ... -
Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
... me 2 hours of fruitless Googling. Do either of these utilities have ... the ability to save a game's BASIC ... as I attempt to learn BASIC.
Edit: Never ... printed output or a listing of your program (with syntax highlighting and ... -
Interlace demoSorry to reference another thread like this, but in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=313428#post313428[/url] …
... run the prior BASIC program with the digit 0 instead of the checkerboard ... very slight, on the order of single digit percentages at most ... -
Acorn Computers help...Hi, I've got an Acorn coming, not sure if its the A5000/A4000/A3010, but it should be here beginning of next week... Now... Does anyone know of a …
... goes I do remember basic was available from the ... probably a ridiculously advanced version of basic - including an assembler and ... debugger! (Their version of basic from the eighties did - ... to bother trying to program anything with it! -
What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…
... first BASIC program to draw the Indian flag with the help of my ... father was one of those "oh my ... had given me an idea of what I could do or ... just how some simple lines of code on a simple home ... -
ZXSpectrum +3 - New SoftwareHello, This is my first post here on WOS, i'm very glad to be here and be a part of this community. To make this short, i've been programming on the…
... copy program "Pirata1" was portuguese or spanish?[/quote]
[FONT=Verdana][SIZE ... version could be the adaptation of the program to Portuguese, because a ... discovered an English version of that program in an old tape.[/SIZE][/FONT] -
A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…
... a 4-way scrolling version of the program.
Download snapshot ... direction of starfield.
Press X to exit back to BASIC ... spacecraft sprite in the middle of the screen). :D
< ... HL,STARPOS_X ; store X position of star
ADD HL,BC ... -
New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
... to co-exist with the program. This could be the first ... compiler can do if a program is reliant upon their exact ... compiler that turns any Sinclair BASIC program into something that'll run ... exists, however, the main benefit of it would be integrating the ... -
New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
... compiler that turns any Sinclair BASIC program into something that'll run ... exists, however, the main benefit of it would be integrating the ... library- :P )
and of course, it's all down ... finish it in a couple of days and start working on ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... (Uses Microdrive syntax in the BASIC program and reads the Interface I ... load a copy of its own machine code program from microdrive, ...
Luckily, the "copy code" program is also in the tapefile ... there instead.
Program does not use loading screen ... -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... that made heavy use of Boost::Spirit in order ... . It's the translation of BASIC to z80 - the best ... re accessible from BASIC even after your program has been ... the compiled code - expansion of strings will be fun ... there be a method of figuring out which should ... -
Pre ANN: GarageBEEPGarageBEEP 3 is now available in the WoS archive.
... design problem in sinclair basic. It's very hard ... subroutines in the beginning of the program, thus you always ... most commonly at the end of the program.
... convenient and made sinclair basic a little bit faster ... only keeps the length of the line and ... -
ZXSpectrum +3 - New SoftwareHello, This is my first post here on WOS, i'm very glad to be here and be a part of this community. To make this short, i've been programming on the…
... most of you know there was already such a program made in BASIC ... for Microhobby. I disliked this program (no offense, it just ... nothing really new about the program, basically has the same ... window that shows the status of the program. Some options are not ... -
Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... USR 0 in 128 BASIC evaluates the function and effectively ... 0x0000. Since the 48 BASIC ROM is paged in, ... used to store bits of BASIC and other banks are ... memory), but with none of the behind the scenes ... and still run the same program (as Shadow Maker said ...
