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  • 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…

    ... are ways 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][/QUOTE]
    < ... it. Some of the tricks that speed up interpreted BASIC will have precisely ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... my post became a trainwreck of not knowing what I ... humour. So I deleted most of it

    Thanks ... they execute quicker. But the speed of the assembler will be determined ... to be slow on some of the LD mnemonics for ... to program it in BASIC all the same.
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... 't just compile any old BASIC program? Things have to be ... exactly the same as Sinclair BASIC, but then you always had ... to get a decent speed boost out of HiSoft BASIC which is probably ... think if you declare all of your types as integers and ...
    chev chev December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • 128k gamesHi. I've come to World of Spectrum for advice. I'm a Commodore guy OK, please be nice to me, as I seek your wisdom! I love the Commodore 128, and I'…

    ... />
    In terms of C64 resources, there' so much ... off by references to BASIC in the programmer's ... from the first couple of chapters it's all ... character editors, but thinking of moving to CC65/CA65 ... logic in C for speed of trying different ideas out, ...
    dryjoy dryjoy January 2014 Games
  • 128k gamesHi. I've come to World of Spectrum for advice. I'm a Commodore guy OK, please be nice to me, as I seek your wisdom! I love the Commodore 128, and I'…

    ... />
    In terms of C64 resources, there' so much ... off by references to BASIC in the programmer's ... from the first couple of chapters it's all ... character editors, but thinking of moving to CC65/CA65 ... logic in C for speed of trying different ideas out, ...
    polomint polomint January 2014 Games
  • C+VG Type InOdd one. I'm after an old issue of C+VG or a listing of that had a type in adventure game called "The Sultans Curse" I remember it at the time as i…

    ... when I have a bit of free time. Failing that I ... game, although my memory may of been playing tricks, we'll ... Basic commands although these days I guess that won't be much of ... around to doing some more of (5 done / 18 to start ...
    spider spider January 2014 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... uploaded a much-modified version of that BASIC assembler. The good news ... part of the assembler; I just use it to load BASIC ... /> To get any further substantial speed improvement the main table would ... /> In practice this program in BASIC has no practical use as ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • 128k gamesHi. I've come to World of Spectrum for advice. I'm a Commodore guy OK, please be nice to me, as I seek your wisdom! I love the Commodore 128, and I'…

    ... />
    In terms of C64 resources, there' so much ... off by references to BASIC in the programmer's ... from the first couple of chapters it's all ... character editors, but thinking of moving to CC65/CA65 ... logic in C for speed of trying different ideas out, ...
    Pegaz Pegaz January 2014 Games
  • SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…

    ... not Specbas and those commands seem to work fine ... the Sinclair BASIC commands intact. SpecBAS is Sinclair BASIC on a ... much more powerful platform and takes advantage of ... newer hardware - and because the original BASIC gave commands and ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…

    ... the Sinclair BASIC commands intact. SpecBAS is Sinclair BASIC on a ... much more powerful platform and takes advantage of ... newer hardware - and because the original BASIC gave commands and ... bit per pixel) those commands made no sense in ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…

    Oh, I thought this thread was about someone moving from BASIC. So approaching the speed of machine code would be bad how?
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter January 2014 Development
  • Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…

    ... about someone moving from BASIC. So approaching the speed of machine code would ... is about someone moving from basic to machine code, as that ...
    Marko Marko January 2014 Development
  • Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…

    ... 1244 bytes between the bottom of PROG (at 23755) and RAMTOP ... . (VARS)-(PROG) gives the size of the BASIC:

    DEF FN ... just 344 bytes for those various elements
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Development
  • Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…

    ... ](VARS)-(PROG) gives the size of the BASIC:

    DEF ... just 344 bytes for those various elements[/QUOTE]

    Thanks ... /depack/run from my basic menu instead of loading the code directly ... too little mem remaining for basic.

    At the ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James January 2014 Development
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    Impressive BASIC there!!!... but I still say, "thank God for the speed of machine code!!!!"... ;)
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2014 Development
  • doom on 128ki see a youtube video of doom being played for the spectrum, is this designed to work stright of a tape and onto a spectrum without the divide thing …

    ... overwritten while running the first BASIC loader routine (the second one ... page 7 (for the sake of one byte - the timeout counter ... 4 in flags when the BASIC ROM is loaded, this has ... called unconditionally - and some common BASIC commands cause the Syntax ROM to ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2014 Games
  • IF1Bis problems. The Edge of the Spectrum...Advice is sought from the learned on WoS. I just bought an Interface 1Bis from sunny South Africa. It arrived fast, but unfortunately doesn't work.…

    ... . I've spent most of today (Sunday) walking through ... Try the 'quick press' of the button test. That's ... original 48k+, with none of this extra 80k malarkey ... means. I tried various CAT commands as listed in the ... happened is that one of the ROM transfers actually ...
    Amplitude Amplitude March 2014 Hardware
  • quick RAM copy using LET in BASICI'm in the process of reviewing, revising and refining all the programming tips & utility routines which I've posted on this forum over the last eigh…

    ... this, as the remainder of the BASIC can be entered manually to ... /+3/+3e. The standard RAMdisk commands are interpreted correctly. It uses ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Harlequin clone...PCB manufactured!Using Chris Smith's detailed schematics and project notes from the Harlequin... a Speccy fan in the United States by the name of Don (Superfo) has de…

    ... illegal to use a copy of the original ROM in the ... , and I have various versions of your various versions of SE BASIC, so there are ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK April 2014 Hardware
  • TransversionJust been playing Transversion, and on Level 7, this happened:[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9160090/Misc/Transversion.png[/IMG] szx here:[…

    ... , I think) for the new BASIC commands SPECTRUM and PLAY. If you ... prints the command names instead of the graphics. As far as ...
    Prophet Prophet April 2014 Games
  • +2 Grey Composite question.Hello all, Long time reader first time poster and all that...... Probably a daft question which has been asked hundreds of times, even though I ca…

    ... frames. The vast majority of old home computers and consoles ... specification for the sake of simplicity of design. They were designed ... observe as changes in the speed of the dot crawl.
    < ... the 48k - I was doing various tests when writing chromatrons to ...
    rga24 rga24 April 2014 Hardware
  • How much would you pay for this FPGA clone?...given that a mint 128 goes for around ?125. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/chloe280seboxed.jpg[/img] Features: [list] [*]100%…

    ... poured into the SE Basic part of it... I still ... project which came out of various usenet discussions on comp ... 2012 there was SE Basic IV. Many people have ... Andy Wright (author of Beta BASIC and the SAM Coupe ... ', the Chloe logo, 'SE Basic', and '280SE', in much ...
    chev chev May 2014 Hardware
  • Why do modern computers go slow?I'm not so much thinking of home PCs slowed down by viruses, more the extent that modern programmers think about the speed of their code. For exampl…

    ... modern programmers think about the speed of their code.

    ... - I use a lot of different software related to instrumental ... . Over a large number of samples this really adds up ... Not that Sinclair BASIC is the fastest around of course![/QUOTE]
    spectrumlinux spectrumlinux May 2014 Chit chat
  • Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…

    ... Speccy, I got a screen of random flashing garbage.
    < ... board and noticed that one of the wires from the ... keypresses and BASIC commands correctly. However, the screen has duplicate versions of whatever ... is being supplied with out-of-spec voltage so that ...
    Trafferth Trafferth May 2014 Hardware
  • Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…

    ... and BASIC commands correctly. However, the screen has duplicate versions of whatever ... operate correctly, but with corruption of the display, which is ... is a problem with one of their power supplies, though ... symptoms are not typical of a lower RAM fault.
    Zorn Zorn May 2014 Hardware
  • BIN2TAP: a new utility for converting binary files into *.tap imagesI just knocked together a simple command line program to convert binary files into ZX Spectrum tape (*.tap) images. There is an old program BINTAP wh…

    ... I needed to create my BASIC loader directly in assembler. This ... have some asm code inside of the BASIC loader or if you ... *.tap file with an appropriate (BASIC) header. Neither BINTAP, nor bin2tape ... on a precarious chain of various components that explode when a ...
    guesser guesser May 2014 Development
  • Currah ?Speech channelIt seems to me that it would be nice to be able to send words to the ?Speech with PRINT #5;"Speak English to me, Jimmy" or some such. There really i…

    ... PRINT # channels, as a way of expanding BASIC...[/QUOTE]

    It ... /> There's an optimized bit of code to do it in ... use them to add new commands as I did with SoftPLAY ... (which provides a software version of the 128 PLAY command that ...
    chev chev June 2014 Development
  • Best 128k Speccy?Hi Which 128k Spectrum is the best from the point of view of the operating system, hardware design etc. Reason I'm asking is that I read on here th…

    ...
    Nothing a length of wire can't sort, though ... version of 128 BASIC, actual EDIT, DELTE, and RENUM commands ... with parameters, a full screen string editor, permits use of ... embedded codes in 128 BASIC, permits use of reserved words in 128 BASIC ...
    chev chev June 2014 Hardware
  • NEW CRONOSOFT RELEASE: Captain Drexx (128K)Hello all. It's been a while but there is a brand new Cronosoft release this week, CAPTAIN DREXX which is a 128K only Tower Assault type game. P…

    ... annoyance, as I've got various superb ZX81 releases just sat ... think with the slow loading speed of ZX81 stuff, that it would ... will get onto the authors of the VIC games too - hopefully ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2014 Brand new software
  • MISSING M1 LINE ON +48????I was posting questions about my DIVMMC enjoy not working on one of my +48`s and have now got round to testing if its cpu related.Trouble is the one …

    ... just so happens that some of the most popular expansion interfaces ... ). In order to interface new BASIC commands and functions to the existing ... Sinclair BASIC, an external device may use ... ROM into the memory map of the CPU and at the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2014 Hardware
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