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  • Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…

    Hi,

    Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic?

    What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 50000,100?

    Thanks

    Derek
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Super Tin Foil Hattery - Why Time is Speeding up!I was looking for an image of a speeding clock and found this. Lol! [url]http://crisisboom.com/2011/07/19/why-is-time-speeding-up/[/url]

    I was looking for an image of a speeding clock and found this. Lol!

    [url]http://crisisboom.com/2011/07/19/why-is-time-speeding-up/[/url]
    Scottie_USA Scottie_USA September 2013 Chit chat
  • Speeding up programs by hacking the SysVarsPositively pleased to properly discover this area of the forum! I have a couple of recent tricks that might be of interest - they're probably old hat…

    ... them here.

    First up, you can temporarily hack the ... -prog-with-nxtlin-to-speed-up-basic-loops/"]Hacking PROG with NXTLIN ...
    Robsoft Robsoft August 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... I've ever seen a BASIC program scrolling the screen that ... did write a utility for speeding up BASIC graphics you might like, you ... on a hidden screen with up to 64 pre-coloured UDGs ... that background. It also speeds up printing multi-line objects from ...
    joefish joefish April 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…

    ... I've ever seen a BASIC program scrolling the screen that ... did write a utility for speeding up BASIC graphics you might like, you ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • 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 …

    ... a slightly optimised format, but BASIC still has to check what ... as it could be. Sinclair BASIC doesn't have any way ... awful. There are tricks for speeding up BASIC programs slightly, but if you ...
    AndyC AndyC July 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 …

    ... ;968841"](..) There are tricks for speeding up BASIC programs slightly, but if you ... an emulator you can speed up the emulator itself.
    Or ...
    48K 48K July 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Ideas for speeding up this BASIC routine?This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 105…

    This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, ... % of that time being taken up by lines 1055 (50 secs ... suggestions on how to speed up those two parts (other than ... 't take up much time; it's just the BASIC that I ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Speeding up select processing...Hi Folks, I have the following code in my program and it works fine but is rather "sluggish". I have even moved it to the beginning of the program …

    ... lines if you press cursor up/down. If you press ... is not left/right/up/down and ENTER then ... [B]Line 310 [/B]- if up/down is pressed and the ... original attributes using the cool basic memory move routine and ... know to speed the code up.

    Many thanks ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... can be resolved just by speeding up the emulation a bit. < ... : PROG size= 31,923; VARS size= 6,693; free RAM ... in Z80 form
    AKALABETH_ZX48-VARS.TXT notes on variables in ... of conversion
    TXT2Emu.ZIP BASIC text->emulator loader
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... you use the typically ZX81 BASIC definitions of integers e.g ... amp;PEEK) system variables for speeding up the program in many forms ... VARS system variable.

    Let me share my thought about speeding up ... /> Glad to discuss about our BASIC programming!
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 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…

    ... the variable i$ in the vars area; since I am using ... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... me share my thought about speeding up your Artillery game: for the ... speed since I can follow up the "expected" trajectory VS the ...
    patters patters April 2019 Brand new software
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…

    ... instant pasting/exporting of BASIC programs from text ... speeding up code whilst debugging
    Profiling of your BASIC ... expressions in speccy BASIC. Can use any BASIC construct and variable. ...
    Assembler/Debugger - very basic at the moment, but should ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2005 Emulators
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…

    ... instant pasting/exporting of BASIC programs from text ... speeding up code whilst debugging
    Profiling of your BASIC ... expressions in speccy BASIC. Can use any BASIC construct and variable. ...
    Assembler/Debugger - very basic at the moment, but should ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • speed upHas anyone else tried turning the speed up in an emulator to make a slooooow game more playable? If so which ones actually got "enhanced" rather than…

    ... else tried turning the speed up in an emulator to make ... come across any games worth speeding up????
    ASpec.
    alanspec alanspec January 2006 Games
  • How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…

    ... light on a way of speeding up loading code in a fairly ...
    Laser Laser May 2006 Emulators
  • Basic games Compo? Nathan ?Is there any chance of you running another competition for new games again? I remember there being quite a few good games, and the thread was interes…

    ... the thread was interesting bringing up Basic games.

    I meant ... to enter the Basic part but failed due to ... catogories available, like SAM Coupe Basic (obviously), QL SuperBasic etc etc ...
    CKay CKay December 2006 Development
  • Any ideas on speeding up this assembler segment?It copies a pixel column of a rectangle which may be anywhere in the display file to a pixel column in d$. The source column may start at any bit pos…

    ... not shown here repeats for up to eight pixcols left-> ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Development
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC.

    https://drive.google ... /> -The management of variables for speeding up the program, and
    -The ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…

    ... I'm trying to save up the required $80-something..."< ... have 512K (-100K for Rom, basic vars, screen memory etc) to ... /> That`s heaven to a basic coder :)

    --------------------------------
    ... emulators, I got it up to desktop stage from scratch ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • Splat!how many levels does it feckin' have? ive been playing it and saving snapshots after every level, so far ive done 1-7 then the level stays on 7 but …

    ... .
    This happened every time, speeding up at every pass until you ... game is written in Speccy Basic with varoous pokes, so you ... I could ever manage was up to the "Yippee" level 7 ...
    mpaulj mpaulj August 2004 Games
  • Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…

    ... on various ways to speed up BASIC, however using variables
    > ... . At runtime it just picks up the five-byte number.
    The Spectrum only has one VARS pointer but the BBC has ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…

    ... who are churning out good BASIC (a decidedly more popular stream ... Chess could do with some speeding up (as well as other chess ... (unfortunately the key rate speeds up as well!), many BASIC games!
    Arjun Arjun April 2006 Emulators
  • Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …

    ... the disastrous side effect of speeding up the code.

    Yes ... will be interpreted using Sinclair BASIC and writing the program in ...
    monty.mole monty.mole November 2006 Development
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... print routine and set it up as a new channel in ... " from BASIC.

    I had another thought on speeding up the "screen ... ourselves to a 100% pure BASIC program). I could presumably use ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... the behavior of the worm speeding up when you release a keyboard ... intend to return to VIC BASIC, then the only free locations ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…

    ... for newer compilers like HiSoft Basic or USCHI. You can definitly ... on loder compilers. A PC Basic compiler that is PC-based ... speeding up things by 5x-10x is very good too. most of BASIC ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2008 Sinclair Basic
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