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Peeking the contents on screen? How?You will have to forgive me for growing up on the C64, but I know I can peek the location of a character (1024 is top left from memory) and the peek …
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Is there a ZX Spectrum Hardware manual?I'm quite new to the ZX Spectrum world, looking for a definitive guide to the ZX Spectrum hardware so I can really start to understand what's going o…
... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000357"]"Spectrum Hardware Manual"[/url].
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Spectrom interface ?Hi all, I got 2 of this devices ... :) [img]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/spectrom/20151006_151428.jpg[/img] [img]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/sp…
... ). And a copy of Sinclair Spectrum (basic) rom! Interesting :)
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Beginners Basic Programming BookHi All, My son is interested in learing programming and I got him started on a spectrum emulator on my laptop. I've bought him a +2 (grey) 128 of Eb…
... your son wants to use Spectrum BASIC then the BASin IDE is ... to start.
Whilst Spectrum BASIC is powerful it does lack ... can be coded around in Spectrum BASIC but it is also useful ... the free version of BBC BASIC for Windows which can be ... -
O.T.L.A. - any tips?I've just started using the fascinating OTLA program and can get as far as a program appearing to load (borders, sound) but when it's finished... not…
... rapidly. Referring to the the Spectrum introduction manual (the orange one) the ... -
BASIC Tenliners 2016I would like invite all basic programmers to this year's BASIC Tenliners contest. You have to code a game in 10 lines of BASIC. For details please ta…
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BASIC Tenliners 2016I would like invite all basic programmers to this year's BASIC Tenliners contest. You have to code a game in 10 lines of BASIC. For details please ta…
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in 16k/48k ZX Spectrum BASIC requires 9 key presses (not ...
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BASIC Tenliners 2016I would like invite all basic programmers to this year's BASIC Tenliners contest. You have to code a game in 10 lines of BASIC. For details please ta…
... I'm not familiar with Spectrum and Spectrum Basic, and so I probably ... to adjust the rules for Spectrum for maximum comparability between ... fair option.
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Fuller FDS keyboardHi folks, Bit of a head scratcher for me since I found one of these whilst looking for dead Speccy boards and there doesn't appear to be a whole l…
... some replacement keyboards for the Spectrum (and ZX81) don't ... system used by Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers, uses the CPU ... the sockets on the Spectrum are properly making contact.< ... electrical layout (see the ZX Spectrum service manual) ;-)
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Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
You could do quite a lot with a Spectrum BASIC compiler back in the day. You had a limited instruction set, but with mcoder2 I managed to write a few nifty, fast games (all long lost now, of course...) -
Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
... back and changed about the Spectrum (er, pretend I have the ... from using BASin is that Spectrum BASIC is a lot more powerful ... do a great deal with Spectrum BASIC and the rather nifty screen ... Spectrum to shame.
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Simple bit of machine code not working [SOLVED]ishHi all. It's late and I'm tired and I have no idea why the following piece of code wont display a little smiley face [code]ld hl,udg ld (236…
... Variable TVFlag.
Check the "Spectrum User Manual" (Orange Book), and "The ... Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly" (book or PDF ... /docs/z80/um0080.pdf"]Z80 Manual PDF[/url] (This is a ... -
New version emulator ZEsarUX-4.0Hi I have uploaded a new version of my emulator ZEsarUX 4.0. You can download it from the project web page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/…
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Faulty M1 or no?Hi all, OK, so I've got an issue 4B which was pretty much untouched and appears to work fine (starts up OK, loads games, 23732 and 23733 both retu…
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In the original orange BASIC manual on page 118, there is ... -
Sinclair ZX Spectrum PLUS: NEW, IMMACOLATE, NEVER USED, THE BEST EVER on eBay!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/172236649430? Have a nice bid ;)
the BOX, I repeat, was stolen in a Warehouse and never selled.
So can be not perfect outside, but the Spectrum, cables, manual, AC adapter was NEVER used.
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A Spectrum emulator for the C64Recently I found this, a emulator that runs ZX Spectrum BASIC on a Commodore 64. It was made in 1985. I remember reading about it in a magazine. Curi…
... a full emulator, but emulates Spectrum basic preety good actually.
Can ... and its slower than original Spectrum basic, but it has very nice ... -
A Spectrum emulator for the C64Recently I found this, a emulator that runs ZX Spectrum BASIC on a Commodore 64. It was made in 1985. I remember reading about it in a magazine. Curi…
It doesn't appear to be an emulator, but a re-implementation of ZX Spectrum Basic in a Commodore 64, there is quite a difference between these two concepts. -
Why didn't I RTFM when I was a kid?!?!?!I've just been reading this: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXSpectrum128Manual/sp128p09.html And it got me thinking 'Why didn't I Read The F*%…
The Spectrum plus manual was pretty, but not a patch on the original. At least Amstrad used the original as Base for theirs. -
Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …
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Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... . Especially because MSX BASIC is so much different than Spectrum BASIC.
Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…
... -80 & Spectrum BASIC
Empire_ZX48_noREM.BAS Spectrum BASIC listing
... PRINT-USING.BAS BASIC listing for ... Empire_ZX48_VARS.TXT variables list for Spectrum version
Summary. ...bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …
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...bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …
... /2012/11/16/create-zx-spectrum-basic-program-tap-file-from-text ...Composite video ghost image on ZX Spectrum 128K +2Hi, I have a ghost image on the composite video out on my ZX Spectrum 128K +2 and have run out of ideas of what could be wrong. Does anybody have a…
... /48k machines (Ref: ZX Spectrum service manual) and is typical in the ...Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... REM to the corresponding ZX Spectrum line (which can't be ... /> * original Apple-II BASIC (green)
* my ZX Spectrum BASIC conversion (black)
BASIC lines by removing the proliferation ...Board schematic files.Where do I go to download Board Layout and Schematics these days?- All up to Issue 6a boards. It's time for some tinkering!
... /> The Sinclair ZX Spectrum service manual 1984 ( up to ... /> The Sinclair ZX Spectrum/ ZX Spectrum + service manual 1985 (up to ... .
Spectrum 128 service manual 1989
Sinclair service manual - ZX Microdrive- ZX Interface ...Optimizing numbers1. Is there automatic way to process basic program (huge), and replace all numbers with an VAR "number" ? 2. Same as above, but replacing numbers wi…
One thing I did was to write a small program in BBC BASIC for Windows that loads a Spectrum BASIC source file, removes a REM lines and write the new file out. This obviously reduces the program size down.
PaddyWhere does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
Thank you guys this definitely answers my question! I do know what UDGs are, I too typed in the listing in Spectrum +48K manual that gives you that little spider character :)Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... 've done a bit of Spectrum BASIC, a bit of Java and ...Spectrum ROMsHi Folks, Just wondering if there is such a thing as a bug fixed version of the standard 48K ROM? Not looking for extensions or entry point moves…
... the normal 16k/48k ZX Spectrum BASIC ROM. The bugs are documented ... a bug fixed, or improved BASIC ROM, then either try the ...
