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  • Interesting tip to speed up user experience...Hi Folks, I suspect many of you will already know this but it only dawned on me a couple of weeks ago. Whilst trying to improve the speed on my XIN…

    ... . Whilst trying to improve the speed on my XINPUT (full screen ... changing the REPDEL and REPPER System Variables. I thought that lowering the ... Set REPDEL & REPPER to speed up keyboard response
    1010 ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Loading basic from basic?Hi Guys, Could you please help me. I want to create a menu on my plus 3 disks. If I use the line below I just get "c nonsense in basic" if inkey$…

    [QUOTE=leespoons;708106]Does SAVE "prog": GOTO 10 work too? I ... saving a CODE block including system variables, as the PPC, SUBPPC, CH ... ADD variables... would be reloaded and the ...
    Black Hole Black Hole June 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... if they add extra system variables. Use the system variable PROG (23635/23636) to ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... 0 mode.
    [*]Optimized for speed.
    [*]OVER support in 80 ... start guide, including memory map, system variables, flags, and command summary.
    [*]User system variable space accessible via IY ...
    chev chev October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... /> ld de, kstate ; start of system variables to DE
    sbc hl ... /> ld (prog), hl ; vars and prog
    ld (hl), end_marker ; store variables end ... to HL
    ld de, (prog) ; prog to DE
    push de ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…

    ... the new ZX Interface 1 system variables) and so the solutions would ... ]What is the read/write speed like?[/QUOTE]

    The ... actually operates at very similar speed to a real Microdrive, so ...
    Fruitcake Fruitcake August 2014 Hardware
  • Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…

    ... how it directly updates the system variables S_POSN & DF_CC to move ... characters, even though the scrolling speed is much the same.)
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2014 Development
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... would account for the increased speed when typing (as the BASIC ... specified by the REPDEL/REPPER system variables).

    It would also ...
    balford balford November 2014 Hardware
  • Return to basic from sna created by Z80 compilerHow can I go back to basic when running sna created using Z80 Assembler ([url] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/utilities.html#crossass [/url])? For e…

    ... a consistent set of BASIC system variables from 23552 to 23733.
    PROG) or a $80 end marker.
    [*]The system variable (CH_ADD ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2015 Development
  • I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…

    There's PROG, which points to the start ... swap out most of the system variables, the framebuffer, and go into ...
    Veltas Veltas July 2016 Development
  • I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…

    [quote="Veltas;869317"]There's PROG, which points to the start ... swap out most of the system variables, the framebuffer, and go into ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2016 Development
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... :
    * The three 'V.' variables used are pre-declared so ... & E_LINE areas.
    * System variables used:
    (23627)=VARS; ( ... 1020 RESTORE 10000: PRINT "PROG ends","= ";FN p(23639):
    PROG ...
    1026 PRINT "VARS ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…

    ... , managing variables accordingly to speed it up, and extended use of system variables... Hope ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic March 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... using POKE/PEEK for variables for improved speed?[/quote]

    I ... in those lines in which speed is not essential, since those ... In the lines in which speed must be optimized, I use ... , I use (POKE&PEEK) system variables for speeding up the program ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…

    ... downside of this change was speed as it is much slower ... and page/bank 7 for system variables, the Stack & 3DOS. After ...
    TomD TomD May 2019 Development
  • What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…

    ... next reply was about my speed too! Just a dot moving ... is reserved for BASIC, the System Variables etc. Gradually you will start ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2020 Development
  • run statement clears dimensional arraysis there any way round this? id rather not type goto 1 all the time, to stop this

    ... program which prints a few system variables and puts some related values ... (a+1)
    1012 DATA "PROG","23635","VARS","23627","ELINE","23641 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Speed comparison of BASIC CommandsHi everyone, I reactivated my account (thanks Lee!) due to starting to code some BASIC with my daughter. In the tips and tricks thread there is a …

    ... if you are worried about speed looking at alternatives like C ... can speed up the emulator itself.
    Or use the FRAME system variables ...
    48K 48K July 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…

    ... 23296. After this we have system variables.
    From my old + ... I already knew that the system variables the +3 ROM used started ... 48k and found that the system variables start at KSTATE, 23552, ... such a gap unless more variables were planned for paging - ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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