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  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... to READ in multiple strings for a variable declared as a single ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... to READ in multiple strings for a variable declared as a single ...
    Matt_B Matt_B January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... fact that all the 22 strings I needed were exactly of ... multi-dim array that requires variable length strings to be handled during ... 't care about multi-dim strings). It was hanging up earlier ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... multi-dim array that requires variable length strings to be handled during ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …

    ... basically C code and have variable names like hl, bc, de ... also look to include short strings of bytes (e.g. treating ... you encode varying lengths of strings of bits? Or is this ...
    joefish joefish February 2010 Development
  • Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance

    ... data; especially given your strings may have a variable length. For example ... list of addresses)
    * the strings themselves

    For ... example, imagine we have three strings: "Mary had", "a little ... a fit". They are of variable length, so you may want ...
    Winston Winston June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • variable variable names with VAL$It's possible to make the RH-side variable names in a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the [b]name[/b] of anothe…

    ... ]the programmer[/i] knows the variable names when writing the program ... [/i] you need run-time variable assignment.

    Common ... the program is initialised the strings are set by reading them ... net/System/Library/BLib/Docs/Variable.txt]mdfs.net[/url].)
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…

    ... assigned and that memory is variable depending on the length of ... ) a 8x8 array of strings of variable length, usually 255 max length ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... allowed to pass a string variable for the gfx$ parameter) or ... are stored as bytes in strings (A$.MyStructElement style).

    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... variable function using this BASIC "swift copy" technique to copy strings ... used to assign a variable source string name on ... up to two (optional) string variable definitions (destination & source). ... assignments to the dummy strings, as their locations will ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... 60 will not copy the slice back again. This generates a ... will call Slicing from Stack Variable.

    However, if the ... LH destination variable was found in the DEFADD ... 33
    - will copy the slice back again.

    It ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... 60 will not copy the slice back again. This generates a ... will call Slicing from Stack Variable.

    However, if the ... LH destination variable was found in the DEFADD ... 33
    - will copy the slice back again.

    It ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…

    ... laid down.

    Those variable sized tiles plotted on a ... with a tile-based (or slice-based) map so that the ...
    joefish joefish May 2011 Development
  • Storing and displaying attributes...Hi Folks, I have a requirement to store and then redisplay a line of attributes from the screen. For example: 100 DIM a$(1,32) 110 LET line=10 120…

    A$ is a pseudo-variable; it doesn't take up ... , both the source & destination strings can be pseudo-variables. I ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Storing and displaying attributes...Hi Folks, I have a requirement to store and then redisplay a line of attributes from the screen. For example: 100 DIM a$(1,32) 110 LET line=10 120…

    ... ;540717]A$ is a pseudo-variable; it doesn't take up ... , both the source & destination strings can be pseudo-variables. I ...
    Fikee Fikee June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Storing and displaying attributes...Hi Folks, I have a requirement to store and then redisplay a line of attributes from the screen. For example: 100 DIM a$(1,32) 110 LET line=10 120…

    ... ;540717]A$ is a pseudo-variable; it doesn't take up ... , both the source & destination strings can be pseudo-variables. I ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…

    ... (or at least, the larger strings). This program would MERGE the ... the lines that generates the strings except the MERGE line itself ... your (new) program. The strings will be there, but there ... array with the strings. But accessing a single string variable might be ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…

    ... (or at least, the larger strings). This program would MERGE the ... the lines that generates the strings except the MERGE line itself ... your (new) program. The strings will be there, but there ... array with the strings. But accessing a single string variable might be ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... placement of a lastk char variable on top of the system ... variable to read lastk as a ... to merge strings together if some strings are substrings of longer strings. z88dk ... />
    printf(""%s %c", strings[2], strings[2][3]);
    [/code]
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2011 Development
  • Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…

    ... is the amount of variable to search trough. In ... program builds up the variable row in memory. The ... .
    Further, longer variable take more time as well ... br /> As for comparisons with strings the rules seems to be ... If not, then use a variable
    3) If not ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... of a lastk char variable on top of the ... system variable to read lastk as ...
    [code]
    char **strings = {
    "make it so",
    printf(""%s %c", strings[2], strings[2][3]);
    [/code]
    But **strings is not the same as ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2011 Development
  • z88dk hates me =(Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Under the power of darkness I was about to settle in and play with some SP1 sprite handling (as printf is simply NOT f…

    ... are reading the LASTK system variable).

    SP1 is a ... looking at the stdlib and strings code instead -- itoa, strcat, etc ... -- to form text strings. I saw you were using ... delimited strings so strtok may be useful ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2011 Development
  • DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …

    ... slower than straight PRINTs. Having strings in DATA statements does have ... obvious uses, as the system variable DATADD (PEEK 23639+256*PEEK ... 23563+256*PEEK 23564) secondary variable area to treat the DATA ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • 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.…

    ... "next nnnnn bytes" counter with variable length blocks rather than a ... what appear to be text strings, which would fragment the encoded ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2012 Development
  • type-ins in zmakebas formati were about coding some type-ins from MicroHobby magazine, and found that there are 'semanal' tape series available at http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... //

    To specify a variable saved with the BASIC at ... />
    Where v is the variable name (a$, a etc). Type ... /> NumArray(), StrArray(), NumFOR.

    Strings would be Quote (") delimited, with ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2012 Support files
  • 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 …

    ... fairly good characteristics given the variable size items. I do have ... ,strcasecmp_callee ; use caseless comparison of strings
    call asm_qsort


    ld l,a ; both strings ended simultaneously
    ld h ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2012 Development
  • 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 !

    ... "complete simple strings" where the space allocated to the variable may change ... a new copy of the variable and the old space reclaimed ... : PRINT INVERSE 1;"SEARCH FOR VARIABLE"; INVERSE 0;": of Type:"':
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... /> VAL$ instead treats a text variable like a string. Therefore:
    5. C's in music strings might be lower case as ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2012 Announcements
  • Screens and BasicA question about the ZX screens. I am using software to convert my own art and drawings to the ZX Spectrum. I have some tools to change .jpg files in…

    ... 3 characters wide or 30 (variable cc), and does it reasonably ... location pointer into s$(). Both strings would be set up separately ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2013 Sinclair Basic
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