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  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... would never get rid of any of them!

    of the kind of hardware Amstrad ... br />
    The basic specs on the Mega-Drive ... processor with a clock speed of 8mhz depending on who ... background colour) although some of the video settings support ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • designing a computerHi everyone! I am designing a 4 bit computer and i need some advice, is this a good instruction set? [CODE] BINARY OPCODE DESCRIPTION 00000 nop…

    ... with a nice description of the new computer!!![/QUOTE]< ... to define the complexity/number of CPU instructions. SISD (single ... remember reading about the clock speed of your intended CPU?
    ... have mastered and gained knowledge of basic computer design, you can ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Chit chat
  • Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…

    ... to find MC equivalents of BASIC Commands and realising it takes a ... to equate it with BASIC and not seeing any ... have to understand it of course but there's not ... and write the game in BASIC based around those. Then ... start with a mix of BASIC and Calls to MC ...
    Turkwel Turkwel October 2010 Development
  • Spectrum 128K RS232 to PC serial cableIf you have read some of my recent posts then you will know that I am eager to link my Spectrum +3 to a PC. This will be done by wiring a standard PC…

    ... every BYTE of the Spectrum memory map while keeping BASIC alive. ... development and also the hassle of trying to transfer Spectrum ... system do?

    Transfer speed of 57600 BAUD using Amstrad 128K ... .
    Quit back to BASIC providing you have not run ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Hardware
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... improving their existing Spectrums with various hardware upgrades.

    ... obviously a limit to the speed of the original Z80 as it ... a little more RAM and speed although its impressive to ... in tweaking the Spectrum from various members then why doesn't ...
    velesoft velesoft December 2010 Hardware
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... quote]

    The number of people who actually want more ... mass storage can address gigabytes of data.

    [quote] ... in tweaking the Spectrum from various members then why doesn't ... to develop an open version of SE Basic.

    [url]https ...
    chev chev December 2010 Hardware
  • ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …

    ... .

    Boriel sort of did the quick and dirty ... ? Getting a 2:1 speed increase with everything in floats ... faster draw routines over Sinclair basic's rather slow ones ... see some quite significant speed improvements. Hisoft Basic requires the same ...
    Gedlion Gedlion December 2010 Games
  • Saving in SpinI couldn't find an extreme beginner thread so I'm posting this here. In Spin emulator after saving a Basic code by a command: save "filename" I am ha…

    ... -
    It makes a copy of whole Spectrum memory and stores ... . You are using the same Basic commands (e.g. SAVE "MyProg" LINE ...
    Ralf Ralf December 2010 Emulators
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... br /> [quote]So SE Basic is the most optimised version ... lines of Super BASIC?[/quote]

    Yes, SE Basic ... of software does work with SE Basic. It's not like Super BASIC ... and a few new commands to deal with ...

    Lots of info about it here: [url ...
    chev chev December 2010 Hardware
  • Android emulatorsso, bear with me, im reasonably new to mobile phones and especially games and emus on mobiles I'm sure its been mentioned before but im not sure what…

    ... think. A long press of the menu button displays ... works much better for typing BASIC commands.

    [QUOTE]
    of options and buttons that ... owt and no way of getting to a usable ... dots at the bottom of the display in Xpectroid ...
    ccowley ccowley December 2010 Emulators
  • Android emulatorsso, bear with me, im reasonably new to mobile phones and especially games and emus on mobiles I'm sure its been mentioned before but im not sure what…

    ... , I think. A long press of the menu button displays the ... works much better for typing BASIC commands.


    If you ... red dots at the bottom of the display in Xpectroid are ...
    mel the bell mel the bell December 2010 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... that takes a lot of BASIC a long time to ... top of everyone else, etc), with list-like commands to ... is a "remake" of sinclair BASIC. It's available here ... shitloads of enhancements, but it's Sinclair BASIC at ...

    The BASIC editor needs some work, as ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... in terms of speed are high), and the lack of implementation of ?stand-alone ... instance, BBC Basic).

    (4) A bit of your BASIC code will ... is handled cleanly, the storage of BASIC programs is entirely linear. Hence ...
    RST#08 RST#08 February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... /> I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy ... was thinking about how to speed them up without completely write ...
    gasman gasman February 2011 Development
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... but programs gain 3-25x speed. It loads itself onto ... possible with a list of addresses (HiSoft BASIC).

    MCoder ... speed. If you want to keep on the Speccy, HiSoft BASIC ... It takes the biggest subset of Sinclair BASIC while being relatively fast ...
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2011 Development
  • Roulette for T/S 2068Wrote a simple roulette game for my T/S 2068 years ago with some graphics and sound effects. Can anyone tell me how to save it so I can share it her…

    ... 't see any specific TS2068 Basic commands, therefore it should run on ... archive to have an idea of dimensions and resolution), obtain the ... game, I'll take care of the preservation and return it ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2011 Development
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... , it prints stupidly fast for BASIC and you even get a ... it by reading a BASIC listing in one of those 1980s speccy ... /> I'm quite fond of these BASIC platformers, I've been playing ... [/URL] bit recently so the speed of this one is pretty decent.
    R-Tape R-Tape March 2011 Games
  • Amstrad CPC Discussion Thread (or superthread)The CPC was the first computer I ever owned, getting it back in Christmas 1984.. I had tons of games for it and subsequent CPC machines, but the one…

    ... as having many of the best versions of isometric games, ... />
    What was CPC BASIC like? Was it fast, did ... the slow speed of it's otherwise very good BASIC, and even ... if the C64's BASIC was fast (I don ... the CPC had good BASIC that was also fast then ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Amstrad CPC Discussion Thread (or superthread)The CPC was the first computer I ever owned, getting it back in Christmas 1984.. I had tons of games for it and subsequent CPC machines, but the one…

    ... was the slow speed of it's otherwise very good BASIC, and even ... .
    [/QUOTE]

    Locomotive BASIC (what you get on the ... probably second only to BBC Basic when it comes to functionality ... if you like a bit of BASIC.

    [QUOTE=ewgf;523591 ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2011 Chit chat
  • The c64 threadOK, I don't want to compare the systems, it's been done to death and I really really don't care. But - there's great games on the Speccy that were pa…

    ... remake contains modern hardware. Instead of 64kB working memory, to ... Atom D525 with a bell speed of 1,8GHz, a strong improvement ... 6510-processor with a bell speed of 1MHz, which in old C64 ... dollars produce, whereas C64x the Basic with 2GB must produce memory ...
    HonoredShadow HonoredShadow April 2011 Chit chat
  • Minigamecompo 2011 ??????In the Minigamecompo 2010 I received only a handfull of votings. So I started a [URL="http://minigamecompo.weebly.com/forum.html#/minigamecompo-2011…

    ... had:

    loader Basic block - 20 bytes
    ... you load another part of the code with in ... the second header becomes part of the allowed bytes.
    of the linenumber but not with all commands.
    of the BASIC. Since your code ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    Here's an updated version of FN m$() which handles string ... ] longer than before, but half of it is comments, examples, definitions ... 's only 1/4 the speed of the original simple example in ... 's still all done with BASIC.

    [code]
    2 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…

    ... on the real machine and speed things up without breaking compatibility ... be the possibility of adding custom routines to speed up applications too ... on a hugely expanded version of Sinclair BASIC for Windows and Linux ...
    chev chev May 2011 Emulators
  • This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…

    ... [/QUOTE]

    Part of the problem with doing that ... order to take advantage of some instructions in the ... run at the original speed you're going to ... to run at the full speed of a PC, wouldn't ... produce a Sinclair-esque BASIC language which could use ...
    AndyC AndyC May 2011 Emulators
  • This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…

    ... you run at the original speed you're going to run ... to run at the full speed of a PC, wouldn't it ... to produce a Sinclair-esque BASIC language which could use the ... PC hardware without the limitations of the original machine?[/QUOTE]
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2011 Emulators
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... for every possible combo the speed of the printing routine will suffer ... noticably slow down the SE Basic 42-column code, because ... channel must be created below basic
    ; so look at ... ; the difference between the start of
    ; the channels area ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXDS questions...Hi Folks, I am hoping someone on here knows something about [B]ZXDS[/B]. I have downloaded the program to my daughters [B]DSi[/B] (for testing purp…

    ... 't include the press of the Caps Shift, which ... to use this type of controls to navigate the ... think of many other uses - if you were editing basic, ... buttons, so holding either of these while using the ... The next issue is the speed of loading from tape. Whilst ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak June 2011 Emulators
  • Saving and Loading from tape in MC?I'm actually having problems with saving and loading from the ROM routines for the interpreter... I'm currently using the following codes for saving…

    [QUOTE=Timmy;546807]Page 32 of that same book. 0x0970 does ... not wrong, people add new basic commands by that method.
    Arda Arda July 2011 Development
  • Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …

    ... of times but I always give up on it for various ... read pretty much most of this thread and I ... click installer form for each of the most popular distros. ... , and
    * Let the speed of the emulator be controlled with ... with KDE installed on top of it). I wasn't ...
    Diondeville Diondeville July 2011 Emulators
  • Simple 128 toastrack testingHi are there any simple tests/commands to test out an toastrack model to see its fully functioning,it powers on,displays and keys work fine,i just wa…

    ... , then it's surely that basic functions are working.

    BASIC commands, as:
    [CODE]PLAY "c ... cassette with a loading screen of your choice and run this ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2011 Hardware
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