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  • While we're on the subject of BASIC Although my memory of the past still seems to be fairly reliable, memories relating to learning computer programming seem to have disappeared…

    Although my memory of the past still seems to ... of Basic commands and of course the essential GO TO for bootstrapping mistakes in ... /> So don't start ranting about the wonderful world of C##, or ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch February 2019 BASIC
  • joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…

    ... routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical cursor motion ... one line in the editing line (come out of editing mode ... ) ;set EDIT flag in spare bit of FLAGX
    NOTEDIT: ... jr z,JOINPREV ;cursor up : start of line : join previous
    LD ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …

    ... that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to ... :

    val "12345" instead of plain 12345, so that you ... = BIN
    using 'bin' instead of 0 and such and such ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Release 9a availableJust a quick not to say that an updated (ie, bug fixed) BASin is available. A list of what's new for release 9: Fixed a bug in the line tokeniser th…

    ... Fixed a *nasty* little bug in the "?" (copyright symbol) routines ... in the Find... window (which did not find from the start of BASIC memory ... bug which allowed the Memory editor to crash the ... br /> Fixed an Annoying bug in the token window, which prevented ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2003 Development
  • Deteriorating quality of artwork in Crash... during the "commercial" life of the speccy. I am making this topic about Crash magazine as that's the only one I know almost every issue of, so I…

    ... Oli Frey artwork in the early stages of the magazine was ... same amount of time to the art as in the magazine ... all artwork - the quality of screenshots in Crash near the end also ... if memory serves correctly) for the speccy, resulting in some of the screenshots ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG January 2008 Games
  • help in making a tzx file from standard speedIn short, I want to create a tzx file from the original Navy Moves & Army Moves compilation, giving that the one in WOS archive has an error on Army …

    ... part (it gives C Nonsense in BASIC, 50:3) and I have ... utility report the very first basic header as a turbo loading ... .voc and .wav version of the very first basic header & program ... ) ...
    Actual RAW size of file in memory: 406688 bytes
    Creating 1 ...
    secarica secarica November 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Multi-screen mazes?Well, it's been decades since I last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I've been starting out as a newbie learning a b…

    ... with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I ... (maybe 3x3 or 4x4 to start with) multi-screen, flip ... based on a map of tiles in memory (at the moment there ... has some good suggestions for basic AI. But do I ... a full maze map in memory or can I just ...
    Morkin Morkin October 2011 Development
  • PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…

    ... value gives the starting address in memory of the variables PAW uses to ... 16384 ; point to the start of the screen memory
    LD BC,2048 ... page the memory for a start...
    Anyway the basic idea is ... in execution. What you want to do is to go into basic ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New BASin (Alpha Release 9) upHi all, Since you're more interested in here about BASin, here's the new update announcement. There's no major changes to the way the system work…

    ... are, in no particular order (and a big shout of thanks ... to the peeps in #zx on ... bug in the Find... window (which did not find from the start of BASIC memory ... )

    A bug in the evaluation window ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2003 Development
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... ;Preserve IY for return to BASIC
    LD (SPSTORE),SP ; ... SP,(SPRSRC) ; source of sprite in memory (sprite is stored in such form:
    * SCRTAB must be at the start of a 256 byte page
    start of the next
    * 256 byte ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... other machines: search in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first ... of memory remember that every number in your program takes 5 bytes of memory ... you when you run out of memory. Alternatively, POKE 23608, ... when you run out of memory in a situation like this. ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... main BASIC loader (in the case of PSION games ignore the first BASIC program ... pointer
    LD HL,$DCCB ;start of BASIC
    newline:
    LD A ...
    [/CODE]

    Memory map of ROM created is as follows ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…

    ... memory paging and stuff is done by the HAL chip. SE Basic ... run in hi-res that wouldn't work if the start of BASIC was ...
    chev chev July 2013 Development
  • 48K Memory MapHi, I'm having some trouble understanding the top of the 48K Memory Map. From reading elsewhere I have this as the memory map: 0 to 16383 - …

    ... system can vary the start of the available memory for BASIC programs from the ... pushes the start of the basic program upward. You can see that in the ... things move around as the basic program is edited and ... you don't care about basic none of this is relevant and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2016 Development
  • 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…

    ... bottom right of screen pixel area
    -b3 @ space in Print ... /> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [/code]
    In it's basic form to use the ... "1", and a piece of basic code which, when run on ...
    TomD TomD May 2019 Development
  • help in byte mirroring.I need some help. What is the best way to mirror the byte? (for ex. 10010011 -> 11001001) I mean, if there is a simple way to do it (may be with OR, …

    I need some help.
    What is the best way to mirror the byte?
    (for ex. 10010011 -> 11001001)
    I mean, if there is a simple way to do it (may be with OR, AND, XOR and so on), I'll be able not to store a mirrored copys of sprite in memory..
    moroz1999 moroz1999 October 2003 Development
  • Mode 2 Tile Editor SourceA Timex Mode 2 Tile Editor incorporating a byte mirror table. The compiled version is available in the CSSCGC 2008 collection from the WoS archive. …

    ... The compiled version is available in the CSSCGC 2008 collection from ... 2 cls
    ; 48100 ; move start of basic past 2nd screen area (use ... ;
    ; Clear both screen areas in mode 2 without altering low ... to mirror the bitmap contained in a single byte
    ...
    chev chev January 2007 Development
  • Is it wrong to think of mass in this way?Went to mass this evening. The mass sheet that you pick up at the door is four pages long, with each page consisting of three columns of text. As we …

    ... with each page consisting of three columns of text. As we progressed ... , much like the levels in your favourite speccy game.
    of page two of the mass, I ... imagining the final end of level bad guy as ... it wrong to think of mass in this way? :)
    BigBadMick BigBadMick March 2008 Chit chat
  • ANN: Spud v0.230Ok, another new Spud... [URL="http://bit.ly/16OFkuQ"][COLOR=#0066cc]http://bit.ly/16OFkuQ[/COLOR][/URL] [quote] v0.230 ADDED: Options. When selec…

    ...
    ADDED: Options. When selected in Options F6 now becomes a ... can now save a screenshot of the current screen to either ... : You can now save the BASIC in memory to a file.
    REMOVED ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2013 Emulators
  • Spectaculator first start extremely slow in Windows 10Having upgraded to Windows 10 I have noticed that every first start of this emulator takes ages (like 15, 20 seconds). Has this something to do with …

    ... have noticed that every first start of this emulator takes ages (like ... ? It applies only to first start, the second time it boots ...
    maiki maiki October 2015 Emulators
  • Has anyone got a copy of Myth in TAP form?Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has a copy of Myth in TAP form? The WOS links are dead possibly :( https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.…

    Hi All,

    Just wondering if anyone has a copy of Myth in TAP form? The WOS links are dead possibly :(

    https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003354

    Thanks

    Adrian
    AD-RS1600i AD-RS1600i October 2019 Games
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... number in NSPPC with RANDOMIZE USR 7030 did what I needed - start of BASIC ... />
    PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    in JR 60003 in first segment of your code should ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... number in NSPPC with RANDOMIZE USR 7030 did what I needed - start of BASIC ... />
    PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    in JR 60003 in first segment of your code should ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    ... 's header reads:

    [start of header]
    TOMAHAWK (disk version ... as follows:-

    i) Start up Spin emulator and select ... is to store the number of lives in memory. Let's say, for ... that the number of lives that you will start with will be ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... other machines: search in VARS for start
    of BASIC and POKE the first ... also nice
    10 REM START AFTER REM : PRINT "HELLO"
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2005 Development
  • Screen damaged while loadingI've written a simple Spectrum game and did a loading screen for it and now i'm trying to put it together into tzx file. My Basic loader is really s…

    ... make the expression shorter in terms of bytes in memory.
    [/quote]
    How ... using such functions spend some memory and cpu time?

    basic BASIC-trick???
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2005 Development
  • Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […

    ... has variables... limited to names of 1 letter, numerics, and with ... not be any other type of variable in memory.

    Also now ... here is a sample of debugging spectrum basic in cp/m:

    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Development
  • New Spectrum Game! Cannon BubbleAs some of you already know, our new game "Cannon Bubble" is available to download in our web page! Go get it and don't forget to tell us what you th…

    ... also take advantage of the popularity of one of our games ... can have an idea of how many people are ...
    About hacking it... Of course I don't mind ... did was alter a line of BASIC in the loader (added D* ... next to the link to start the download. :)

    DEATH DEATH March 2007 Games
  • Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …

    If you want another game with large chunks of basic in it, memory states that android 1 is another one to consider.

    Rob...
    Kilby Kilby August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • New ZXDS releaseHello, new ZXDS version is ready and will appear on [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]the site[/URL] in few hours time, so make sure you check back befor…

    ... in case of basic header, memory address in case of code header, or leader byte in case of ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak February 2008 Emulators
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