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Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…
... a UDG designer made in Basic with QAOP-Space, over 1 ... in x1 and x2 size, but that program was lost a long ... time ago. If someone knows of ... /> I also have a collection of Speccy icons (16x16) that you ... -
Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…
... a UDG designer made in Basic with QAOP-Space, over ... of INKEY$) and real-time preview in x1 and x2 size ... , but that program was lost a ... long time ago. If someone knows of ... between x1 and x2 size for the entire Spectrum ... -
Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... erm crap to learn to program. What's the other link ... Commodore's choice of choosing Microsoft to write their BASIC's for ... stand about the Commode (BASIC asside) was the size of the pixels. I ... know the Spectrum only does monochrome most of ... -
A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... the memory past a given size (which you can set in ... ) will stop the program with a Sinclair BASIC Out of Memory error (the ... address and compile your ZX Basic program with a higher ORG address ... -
LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…
... takes 52secs and a same size text file takes 30secs. I ... was doing several out of bounds checks before doing the ... need to do the out of bounds checks if the characters ... , as I've got loads of space. I've allowed 30k ... ; plus there's a little BASIC program. -
SAGE gamebook project newsThat's the Spectrum Adventure Gamebook Enhancement, that is (for the time being, anyhow). I've updated the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg2…
... program but, although the algorithm can be written in 13 lines of BASIC ... , the main array has to be dimensioned to the square of ... the "edges" (the number of connections between ... , which is a reasonable size for a Spectrum adventure. -
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... copyright owner) to World of Spectrum if required.
basic ramtop until 65535 (depending on the program size)< ... br /> load relocator program at 16384
load 1000 bytes of program ... after the end of the relocator< ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.2.1 releasedDear readers and friends of ZX-Spectrum emulator stuff! Today I released the version 2.2.1 of ZX-Paintbrush with interesting new features and many b…
... important for me that the program is used by somebody. : ... the mouse to select the size of the selection rectangle.
< ... the copied elements just the size of the visible paste-selection.
of producing some META code (let's say Basic keywords ... -
SUPER INPUTA couple days ago I searched for an "INPUT string" routine that I could use in Assembly programs and supported multiple lines, but I found none. Thus…
... Assembly program to invoke an Assembly routine passing parameters through a BASIC ... and BC the address and size of an initial string, then invoke ... and BC the address and size of the resulting string at the ... -
ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 releasedDear ZX-Spectrum emulator fans, yesterday I've released ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 which now comes with several interesting news that were long needed: ZX-…
... HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of _LOCAL_MACHINE.
[*]When editing or modifying a Basic program (via ... changed automatically to the new size(s).
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program, also in the coming soon ... -
Tutorial: ZX-Paintbrush and BIFROST*The latest version of [URL="http://www.zxmodules.de/"]ZX-Paintbrush[/URL] now supports editing multicolor tiles as used in [URL="http://www.worldofsp…
... in a certain memory area of a program. Another method is to ... extract tiles directly from a program screen, as I will ... finished editing it, change "raster size" to 8 pixels (clicking on ... tape, press BREAK (the BASIC version of the BIFROST* demo allows breaking ... -
More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !
... simplest method to reduce the size of the BASIC is to define literals ... hundred bytes in any large program. Use string arrays to hold ... repeatedly. Once a program is running the location of DATA lines isn ... the program only needs to be a few kb in size before ... -
Omitting LETAn untested thought. Changing: [code]1B34 SUB $CE ; Reduce command code by $CE to ; give 00 to 31 for comman…
... allows us save one byte of program code, 4 positions on ... PRINT with "?" does not save program size, requires only one extra keypress ... word 'PRINT' when the program line was listed, which was ... in some other old versions of BASIC; this would leave status quo ... -
WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... contents of the directory, well, directories can be read from BASIC too ... using %opendir/INPUT #. A similar BASIC program can be written to look ... />
...hmmm, come to think of it, there is an omission ... to return the type and size of an entry.
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ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... t make the integrated decompressor of post [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ... how to assemble any version of the decompressor at any address ... another 3 bytes, the total size was 116 bytes.
< ... 't forget to adjust your BASIC program to use the new addresses ... -
BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
... OLDSP to (STKEND)+130+(length of tokenised line). The ROM routine ... as the program expands the temporary stack stays ahead of it all ... 26kb is the maximum (tokenised) BASIC program size which can be loaded on ... -
128 BASIC-compatible way of loading BASIC as code?On a 48K Speccy (or from 48 BASIC or USR 0 mode on a 128K machine), one can do a silly trick like this: [code];; load a 4000 byte BASIC program ld i…
... RAMTOP but minimises the file size by shifting down RAMTOP close ... /> ret
;load a BASIC program as headerless CODE
; test ... /> LD HL,7000 ;line number of BASIC return
ld a,1 ... -
Basic sourceAre there any utilities available that will extract Basic source to a text file, or insert it from a text file into any of the common formats lie z80…
... , get the exact byte size of the BASIC text file. I usually ... Properties.
[*]Load the TXT2Emu BASIC loader from the TAP file ... " enter the exact byte size of the BASIC text file then ENTER.
program will switch to the BASIC editor and display ... -
Basic sourceAre there any utilities available that will extract Basic source to a text file, or insert it from a text file into any of the common formats lie z80…
... , get the exact byte size of the BASIC text file. I usually ... Properties.
[*]Load the TXT2Emu BASIC loader from the TAP file ... " enter the exact byte size of the BASIC text file then ENTER.
program will switch to the BASIC editor and display ... -
Basic sourceAre there any utilities available that will extract Basic source to a text file, or insert it from a text file into any of the common formats lie z80…
... given the correct exact byte size of the input file and ... is given the wrong size then it will drop ... gets to the end of valid BASIC, but everything before that ... so don't load a program which uses line 1. ... it tried to return to BASIC, unless the line which ... -
IF EXIST?In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not. There are any way to check it out from BA…
... out from BASIC (without breaking the program if it ... FILES function in Liberty Basic.
That said, ... />
Since the size of a directory is variable (and ... right).
In BASIC (using DOS)
(after ... -
SCREEN$ bug fixI've been using the SCREEN$() function recently for reading data off the screen rather than taking up space with an array and I got fed up with the s…
... without interfering with the running of the program.
Realising ... the UDG set variable size I might as well ... others to be variable size as well, as then ... /> cp $40 ;called from BASIC?
ret nc ;no, ... -
Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... BREAK only works in BASIC. If we only could ... has changed. So the program VER now will show ...
LD BC,last1 -addr1 ;size of code
LD DE,dump1 ... -
Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…
... search from the beginning of VARS (or PROG) ... start of the relevant area as possible. Once the program ... size."[/QUOTE]
Yes, how to work with the BASIC ... ROM rather than against it. I guess most of ... the gap, and the size of the block move may ... -
DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... screen..!
..And of course there's the friendly ... double speed and an eighth of the size within 24 hours...
There are loads of tools ... window containing your one line BASIC program:
[IMG]http:// ... -
DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... screen..!
..And of course there's the friendly ... double speed and an eighth of the size within 24 hours...
There are loads of tools ... window containing your one line BASIC program:
[IMG]http:// ... -
Media player recommendations please?What's a good media player that plugs into a TV, has a remote control, and can read files from a USB stick, please? Being able to play DVDs too woul…
... to transfer large amounts of data from machine to ...
Halves the file size of an .avi file without looking ... to be a great program, and one to recommend ... the slightly useful bonus of playing some really great ... but it is very basic (no thumbnail picture, file ... -
Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... the bottom of PROG (at 23755) and RAMTOP. Less the program variables ... RUN), any space which the program might need in WORKSP & ... bytes for a BASIC program. (VARS)-(PROG) gives the size of the BASIC:
Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... ;749125](VARS)-(PROG) gives the size of the BASIC:
DEF FN ... simple basic program to clear/load/depack/run from my basic menu instead of ... too little mem remaining for basic.
At the moment ...INPUT help?Hi folks. :) Brace yourselves, this is probably a very silly question, my BASIC knowledge is very... well, basic... Let's say, for example, I'm mak…
... simplest way to restrict the size of a numeric field is ...
of a variable). The DIM only ... anything other than a maximum of four digits 0-9 ...
