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  • Circumspect - A Spectrum Emulator for learningThis is a project that I have been playing around with for a while. It must be said, I tend to have problems getting things finished where hobbies a…

    ... Spectrum (and perhaps BBC) BASIC might be interesting. The original ... past]apparently consisted of just 808 lines of BBC BASIC[/URL]. I ... Z80 emulation was aimed at speed rather than at perfect ... followed by the discovery that BASIC was printing every numeric ...
    zub zub April 2013 Emulators
  • SPECTRA - RGB SCART Interface for 48K SpectrumSince the launch of the SPECTRA interface back in June 2012, some discussion of it has appeared in the forums in the past (mainly [URL="http://www.wo…

    ... can be disabled using one of its onboard switches, thereby ...
    The ROM cartridge socket of the SPECTRA interface supports a ... couple of enhancements over the standard ... and implement support for new BASIC commands.[/LIST]
    Fruitcake Fruitcake April 2013 Hardware
  • SPECTRA - RGB SCART Interface for 48K SpectrumSince the launch of the SPECTRA interface back in June 2012, some discussion of it has appeared in the forums in the past (mainly [URL="http://www.wo…

    ... hence a bug-free version of BASIC would be instantly available. ... ://sourceforge.net/projects/sebasic/"]SE BASIC[/URL] ROM.

    BASIC commands. Another use of this facility could ... to supplement the Spectrum's BASIC ROM.


    Fruitcake Fruitcake April 2013 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... can be used for all of them (apart from the CODE ... to add an extra couple of dozen lines to work around ... files, with & without extended BASIC commands, and with & without syntax ... />
    The If.1 extended BASIC commands are not supported in the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • New game: Funky FungusHappy Easter folks! What's better to do during these Spring holidays than playing some new game on our Spectrums? ;-) And lo, here is... [center] [y…

    ... they do not recognize 128 BASIC commands and therefore they would stop ... , the problem is the 128 basic non recognized by DivIDE fw ... ...[/QUOTE]

    The lack of french version doesn't matter ... to make a french translation of your game and doc if ...
    bugpat bugpat May 2013 Brand new software
  • How to convert a .txt file (ASCII/PC) into a Tasword file?Short version: [B]How can I convert a .txt file (PC) into a Tasword file (ZX Spectrum)?[/B] Longer version: {Maybe I should first re-introduce mysel…

    ... solution is precisely the type of solution I might have attempted ... if the text is a BASIC listing, due to the slight ... that occurs after the entry of each line due to processing ... shortcut and modify the typing speed of the pasting operation, if the ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil May 2013 Games
  • Games written in White LightningI've just got my hands on the White Lightning package from Oasis (courtesy Bobs), and it seems to be a fairly powerful system with a comprehensive ma…

    ... advertised for the Spectrum, and BASIC Lightning for the C64 ( ... presume was just an enhanced BASIC for scrolling and sprites). ... Ocean came out with LASER BASIC and the LASER COMPILER, ... t really expect the BASIC side of LASER BASIC to offer any decent speed.
    joefish joefish May 2013 Games
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... too much choice in terms of games of various formats? When I think ... this game was the forerunner of 3D games... but no doubt ... games weren't always about speed back then; everyone had more ...
    Muppetboy Muppetboy May 2013 Chit chat
  • New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…

    ... Z80 asm, with a smattering of speccy basic.[/QUOTE]

    Have ... CGD editor entirely in Sinclair BASIC, running on a PC, without ... worry about memory limitations or speed, and without learning a new ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2013 Brand new software
  • Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…

    ... by AMS? The CPC version of the mouse included software that ... ZX-Spectrum, that implements new BASIC commands to help use the mouse ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2013 Development
  • Childhood moments with my SpeccyHey everyone. The other day I randomly came across a tumblr page called "Me and My ZX Spectrum" ([url]http://meandmyzxspectrum.tumblr.com[/url]) …

    ... I really liked the idea of loading programs in seconds ... went into 128 BASIC and tried lots of different PLAY commands. Everything sounded ... happy again...for the duration of the drive home. When ... the unexpected and abrupt end of my ZX Spectrum adventure. < ...
    memrah memrah July 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A new site for an old projectThe 'Interface 1bis' project site has been moved to: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/interface1bis/[/url] In fact, it's not only a simple relocati…

    One of the coolest things of the If1bis is that it ... uses the standard microdrive BASIC commands ... , so you can automate a lot of things. For ...
    Hernán Pablo Álvarez Hernán Pablo Álvarez July 2013 Announcements
  • BIFROST* example: "Knights & Demons DX" source codeA package containing the source files of our multicolor game "Knights & Demons DX" is now available for download [URL="http://www.mediafire.com/?hbch…

    ... soon, creating each one of these "new commands" is not difficult either ... tasks. This is one of the secrets of good programming :)

    BASIC commands like [B]PRINT[/B] and ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2013 Development
  • Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …

    ... with speed, however. Sinclair Basic is VERY slow for that sort of thing ... in as part of the game loading. Load the basic, load the ... />
    I speed test the compiler regularly, as part of a bug ... www.boriel.com/forum/zx-basic-compiler/topic385.html[/url]
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting Basic code into machine codeIm just interested to know if I can converter a game I've written in basic into Machine code, Is their a program that can do this??

    ... ]
    Previously I used HiSoft BASIC to write my games, but ... /ZX_BASIC:Released_Programs[/url]
    Some of them were released for CSSCGC ... 2013, but most of them are regular games.
    speed of copying memory:
    [CODE]ink ...
    LCD LCD September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... 47loader blocks into standard speed blocks. Turbo 47loader blocks ... constants to fit standard speed data. The averaging calculation ... TZX as a demo of a standard-speed load.
    [*] ... written in BASIC; my TZX files include turboloading of this BASIC block. ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... written in BASIC; my TZX files include turboloading of this BASIC block. ... ]; its BASIC housekeeping program does not use PLAY commands any more ... the game now takes advantage of the full RAM.
    ... your credit at the beginning of the loader counts double :-)< ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2013 Development
  • coding guruOk I'm looking for a to help me in my quest to do my first proper game. The 80's child in me thinks he can do it, But the 2013 man in me knows zip. …

    ... screen.
    4: do all of the basic opps (add, sub, jp ... the basic route. then when you need more speed implement parts of the ... a stinky ugly duckling of a basic listing into somthing pretty ... sexy.

    Most of all ...
    wibble wibble September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microdrives load & save routinesHello everybody! Who knows where i can find the machine language routines to load/save from/to ZX Microdrives? Many thanks in advance.

    ... /Spectrum/ProgTips/linerun.htm]Calling BASIC from machine code[/url] is ... can execute a piece of 48K BASIC code by simply pointing ... and calling LINE_RUN. Interface 1 BASIC needs to be called with ... all Interface 1 commands return via ERR_SP instead of a RET.
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microdrives load & save routinesHello everybody! Who knows where i can find the machine language routines to load/save from/to ZX Microdrives? Many thanks in advance.

    ... /Spectrum/ProgTips/linerun.htm]Calling BASIC from machine code[/url] is ... can execute a piece of 48K BASIC code by simply pointing ... and calling LINE_RUN. Interface 1 BASIC needs to be called with ... all Interface 1 commands return via ERR_SP instead of a RET.
    Saltor Saltor September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…

    ... the very early days of SE Basic. Graphics commands can now be used ... was and change the range of acceptable values for Y from ...
    chev chev October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…

    ... passion back for future development of se basic?[/QUOTE]

    It ... do a major overhaul. Most of the changes are to do ... to work on SE Basic after the end of the year so ... . It's already got 16 commands that weren't in the ...
    chev chev October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…

    ... this doesn't affect the speed of the animation. I just did ... could include some self-modifying BASIC code.

    The indentation ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…

    ... this doesn't affect the speed of the animation. I just did ... could include some self-modifying BASIC code.

    The indentation ... post a link to the Basic on the subreddit for non ... owners to download? Crediting yourself, of course.
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…

    ... a really underappreciated feature of ZX BASIC unfortunately (and unfinished in ... hideous abuse of channels and streams. Instead of parsing the ... same technique to add more BASIC commands without using the RST8 ... the PRINT command, which of course PLAY is. The ...
    chev chev October 2013 Brand new software
  • SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…

    ... to play MIDI notes from BASIC with the +DivIDE firmware ... find any way of getting 128 BASIC to work in ... BASIC with divIDE. There's always the risk of one of ... more easy of course, if it supports MIDI commands.[/quote] ... ESXDOS to get 128 BASIC support. But recently I ...
    chev chev October 2013 Brand new software
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    ... />
    ; THE 'MAIN PARSER' OF THE BASIC INTERPRETER
    org 0x1b17
    defb class_9 - $ ; drawing commands
    defb expt_exp - $ ; an expression ... follow
    defb class_b - $ ; tape commands
    defb class_c - $ ; class-1 ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • Why?I'm just wondering why people are here? Why are we working on or using old hardware? Why are some of you putting a lot of effort in upgrading the ha…

    ... both in terms of hardware and in terms of software; very much ... programs that were printed in various magazines, taking turns to ... familiar with the concept of Extended BASIC, which has haunted me ... language built in, let alone BASIC :lol:

    *After ...
    The_Bert The_Bert December 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IF1bis vs SpectranetSince I will shortly have access to both an IF1bis (which I've bought) and a Spectranet (thanks to a loan from cmonkey), I will be in a position to g…

    ... 1bis? ready before the end of this year.

    BASIC commands.

    On the ... collection, via the internet connection of a server machine.
    ... implemented, as a unique feature of the ?Interface 1bis?, supported ...
    Dan Antohi Dan Antohi December 2013 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... =slenkar;743559]Is AOwen's basic ROM faster?[/QUOTE]

    of optimizing BASIC, but if you want real speed you have ... compiler is Boriel's ZX BASIC: [url]http://www.boriel.com ... /en/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/[/url]
    chev chev December 2013 Sinclair Basic
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