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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. …
[url="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pak21/spectrum/coroutines.html"]Coroutines in ZX Spectrum BASIC[/url] (with a large nod to [url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html"]Coroutines in C[/url]). -
MCODER III - PSS softwareDoes anyone here have any instructions/documentation for PSS software's MCODER III compiler?
... , you first load/code your BASIC program, put that tape, and ... like you did with your BASIC program: SAVE "name" LINE start ... 've found 99% compatibility with spectrum BASIC. Some of my old games ... /> a) too long: If your BASIC (just code, take appart variables ... -
Full size keyboardWhat way does the "Spectrum Harware Manual" recommend doing this? Thanks in advance for your help.
... the chapters in the book "Spectrum Hardware manual" deals with connecting a ... full size keyboard to the spectrum.
Full size keyboardWhat way does the "Spectrum Harware Manual" recommend doing this? Thanks in advance for your help.
List of RANDOMIZE USR code effects?Hi chaps, Does anyone have one of these please? Thanks.
... hold the ROM for the Spectrum BASIC. A RANDOMIZE to such an ... do a piece of the BASIC. Since the variabels for running ...bowling on zxplease help me to find all games about bowling on zx-spectrum
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BOWLING from the Videopac on the Videopac-emulator for the Spectrum (my highest score ever 285!)
And I made a ONELINER from this same BOWLING game in Spectrum BASIC."Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... of 'technical' betters on the spectrum?..dont tell me..more memory ... C64 has 16 colours, the Spectrum has 15, the disk drive ... implementation??? Naah.
The Spectrum Basic was miles better the C64 ... basic. Writing anything for the ..."Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... 'technical' betters on the spectrum?..dont tell me..more memory ... C64 has 16 colours, the Spectrum has 15, the disk ... ??? Naah.
The Spectrum Basic was miles better the C64 ... understand how you can say spectrum color implimentation was better ...bowling on zxplease help me to find all games about bowling on zx-spectrum
... the Videopac-emulator for the Spectrum (my highest score ever 285 ... this same BOWLING game in Spectrum BASIC.
[/quote ...Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…
i looked through the basic manual on the site but it isn't very informative on techniques you should be using if you were to make a game etc.Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…
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i looked through the basic manual on the site but it ... talking about the 48k programming manual (ie, the Orange Book) then ... to program a game in BASIC. It tells you how program ...Adding commands to Spectrum BASIC?Are there any articles on how to do this? I think it could be done by making the error trapping routine point to your own commands, but not sure exac…
... : Extended BASIC, Multitasking BASIC Extension
In the Your Spectrum section: BASIC at a ... the ZX Computing section: Extended Spectrum BASIC, Spectrum Extended BASIC (If.1)
which ...Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... you're going to allow Spectrum BASIC to use - leaving higher ... />
So a simple BASIC loader might look like this ... ://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/"]http://www.geocities.com/ ... andrewbroad/spectrum/[/url]
[ This ...PGD game endingsHi all! My game 'Brian Vs. The Bullies', created with PGD Explorer for the Cronosoft Cassette 50 compilation, is about 98% complete. The actual game …
... , BASin includes the complete speccy BASIC manual in the online help, which ... 're thinking of dabbling in BASIC.
D ...Spectrum Key Codes?Hi guys, I have just been reading up about the Sinclair Keypad that was released to accompany the 128K. I read this on the a website, this was refe…
.... I get the feeling you are following me .... ;)
Nah just kidding. Thats great. Cheers mate. Reading the BASIC manual now :)hmmmmmmmThis forum used to astound me with feats of technical prowess and stuff i never understood these days its frequented by peeps who cant run mame or b…
Ha... I can program a Spectrum (Basic and a bit of mcode), ...A deeper exploration of the SpectrumI've been reading a lot of posts in the BASIC and development forums and they've really intrigued me. Although my knowledge of the deeper working of …
... 've read through the 48K BASIC manual several times as a child ... a very good understanding of BASIC.
Like I said ...After roughly 22 years can you help?Hi, A long one this but here goes. Roughly 22 years ago (i was 14 if i remember right) i got a 48K speccy for christmas of my dad it was awesome an…
... the Spectrum stored assembly instructions in a tokenized format, just as Spectrum Basic ... does for Basic Programs. So it's ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... also still have my first Spectrum BASIC game - a simple Space Invaders ...Books!I am after as many books as possible for the sinclair book preservation project. If you have any *duplicate* copies of sinclair related books that y…
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The Spectrum ... br /> Understanding Your Spectrum - Basic and Machine Code Programming< ... br /> Super Charge Your Spectrum
David Webb - ...What happens during a reset?I always used to wonder about this, but only thought a bit more about it last night when noticing after all these years what actually happens. Obvio…
I think it's because there's no Z80 instruction corresponding to 02 (at least according to the back of the BASIC manual).
That's only a guess though.
Necros.What happens during a reset?I always used to wonder about this, but only thought a bit more about it last night when noticing after all these years what actually happens. Obvio…
... to the back of the BASIC manual).
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I ... don't have my BASIC manual handy, but the copy on ...What new game to write...Now that Dominetris is out I'm wondering what to set about coding-up next... ...So I'm asking what kind of new games are people wanting to play? A …
... -emulator on any standard ZX Spectrum.
Since most games ... run soon on any ZX Spectrum.
The FORTH-emulator ... mentioning its full name ;) ) ZX Spectrum BASIC-emulator. It can run the ...Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
... then translated it onto the Spectrum. Basic laziness really.
With ...Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
... wth compatibility when using SE Basic. There is quite a bit ... any future versions of SE Basic that I work on. As ... out of all the basic languages, the spectrum basic is the best one ... get a line wrong then BASIC will tell you straight away ...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... /> I've been a ZX Spectrum fan since around 1988 when ... pathetic attempt at getting a spectrum to load something was across ... encoder and decoder written in spectrum BASIC, which has to be the ... slowest basic ever in the history of ...TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…
... wrote a new version of Spectrum Basic, that had all the original ... the map.
The Basic would be compiled into machine ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... has crashed). In the Spectrum it was used to implement ... NMI interrupts because the unexpanded Spectrum has no means to ... interrupts. This is the mode Spectrum Basic runs in and the ROM ... z88dk/libsrc/sprites/software/sp1/spectrum-customize.asm?revision=1. ...Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…
Bear in mind that Spectrum BASIC doesn't do integer numbers - all numbers are floating point by default.
