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Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…
... time in a string.
a 2 dimentional string takes time to ... trough.
You CALCULATE tree STRING bytes , then make it in a ... from which you make a String again.
if you bake ... are right. Some of the string manipulation dates from when the ... -
r-type in development for the sam coupehttp://cookingcircle.co.uk/ we need z80 coders graphics artists and audio this is the amstrad cpc 6128 version: https://www.youtube.com/watc…
... E,(HL) ;GET WIDTH FROM STRING (BYTES)
29BF 23 INC HL ...
29C8 D1 POP DE ;STRING PTR
29C9 DD21DA29 LD ... ;HL' CAN PT TO MASK STRING
29D5 ;B IS USED ... =SRC, HL=SCRN DEST, B=BYTES, C=INVER
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Finding the length of loaded Bytes:Is there a way from BASIC of finding out how big a block of bytes loaded from tape was? i.e. - if you do LOAD""CODE and load in a lump of bytes, ca…
... how big a block of bytes loaded from tape was?
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BASin Release 6 available for DownloadHi all - It's another cut'n'paste from CSS :) I've been tapping away again, and seeing as a couple of people have recently seen BASin's latest bits…
... ATTR). Any that require a string input should have a checkbox ... you want to specify a string expression rather than a literal ... string.
As is usual ... an expression) and memory location bytes, words and DWords.
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Scrolling string variablesCan anyone help me with this for a program I'm writing on the spectrum. There was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variab…
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Retro Bytes PR and other services.Hi folks, For anyone who is interested, I'm setting up a PR agency called Retro Bytes PR. We specialise in handling the press for small companies, p…
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String slicing for UDG definitionHey everyone. Got a bit of a string slicing/string to variable conversion problem. 10 let a$="01100110" 20 let pokevalue=???? What expression do I…
... a bit of a string slicing/string to variable conversion problem.
RETRO:BYTES Magazine.Hi Speccy people, Just in case you've missed it (which is likely), I'm working with Alten8.com and other investors to launch a retro magazine in Nov…
... . It'll be called RETRO:BYTES and there'll be eight ...Avoid "Program:" and "Bytes:" messagesI converted some original +D programs into TZX files. That works fine, but I'm worry about the "Program:" or "Bytes:" messages of the program blocks …
... worry about the "Program:" or "Bytes:" messages of the program blocks ...RETRO:BYTES download section.I've uploaded a temporary download page at [url="http://www.retro-bytes.co.uk/downloads.htm"]http://www.retro-bytes.co.uk/downloads.htm[/url] - I've …
... at [url="http://www.retro-bytes.co.uk/downloads.htm"]http ... ://www.retro-bytes.co.uk/downloads.htm[/url ...RETRO:BYTES Lite magazine cover.At last! I can say something... Well, we're on the home-straight with the 'Lite' version. You may see this here: [url="http://www.retro-bytes.co.uk…
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[url="http://www.retro-bytes.co.uk/Images/mockcover.jpg ... "]http://www.retro-bytes.co.uk/Images/mockcover.jpg ...Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…
... want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the ... functions, one to copy 4x32 bytes to "store", Then one to ...RETRO:BYTES Lite... at last!R:B Lite is *finally* available to buy from [url="http://www.download-trader.com"]http://www.download-trader.com[/url] for just ?1 sterling! It comes…
... ="http://www.retro-bytes.com"]http://www.retro-bytes.com[/url]
RETRO:BYTES chat room!Right, I've started a PHP chat room at [url="http://retro-bytes.co.uk/chat/phpMyChat.php3"]http://retro-bytes.co.uk/chat/phpMyChat.php3[/url] for tho…
... room at [url="http://retro-bytes.co.uk/chat/phpMyChat.php3 ... "]http://retro-bytes.co.uk/chat/phpMyChat.php3 ...XZX Tape file format?Anyone know of anything that can deal with an XZX tape file? It looks like a pretty simple format to convert into a .TAP, but I don't want to re-inv…
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bytes 0- 3: the string "XZF1".
bytes 4-20: a ... byte 4: zero
bytes 5-14: a name
bytes 17-18: the LINE number ... , if any
bytes 19-20: the length ...In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... Zaks code to order some bytes, and it works in "descending ... /> So, if I have the bytes "2,2,40,7,255 ... , I only need to sort bytes, not 16 bit numbers)
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... drawn in a buffer (72 bytes for 9 UDGs per plot ... store many lines in a string, with each line terminated by ... test is the "32 column" string being printed at random locations ... test shows a multi-line string being separated into individual lines ...One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... and "runner" which loads bytes into memory and then runs ... code program (up to 289 bytes of machine code).
bytes) of the machine code program ... B] is a long string. Each byte is ... length of the machine code string in ASCII format.
Insane string of bad luckWhat a horrendous past 3 months. :cry: All my computers died (including WoS), 2 of my guinea pigs died, my holidays got canceled and tonight my DVD p…
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Surely such a string of bad luck was thought ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... an address and size in bytes) and import it into ... for tokenising/detokenising a whole string on the popupmenu. Basically ... - BASin wasn't handling string operations well for strings with ... Klaus Jahn)
Fixed - Saving string arrays could be problematic - it ...How to convert hex bytes to .. in assembly?I hadn't a clue what to put in the title so..., I have in memory 3 hex bytes #10 #34 #50, e.g.,[code][size=2]#6400 10 , 34 , 50 ; hex 25600 16 , 52 …
... have in memory 3 hex bytes #10 #34 #50, e.g ... a ridiculously easy 10-20 bytes piece of code that can ...BASIC: Fast way of filling a string?Recently I decided to use string slicing to extract random numbers from a sequence in the one-liner Lottery picker: [quote] 20 RANDOMIZE : LET a$=""…
Recently I decided to use string slicing to extract random numbers ...John Elliot does it again! Re: TOS disks.[url]http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.amstrad.8bit/browse_thread/thread/aa809b6f6b9c6f7f#[/url] It is now possible (and easier) to extract …
FUSE fails to save "Bytes:" files that can be converted to .tapI have been running FUSE with the OCP Assembler loaded. When I save the Assembly listing from OCP, I see border colour and noise of a proper save. So…
... .20 sec
Length: 139555 bytes
Bits in last byte ... sec
Data length: 19 bytes
Pause length: 1000 ms ... sec
Data length: 2541 bytes
Pause length: 1000 ms ...Desperately need help with .TAP file bug (probably a wrong value error)I'm trying to create a .tap file with Java and have been following the specification at [url]http://www.zxmodules.de/fileformats/tapformat.html[/url…
... + checksum (i.e. +2 bytes)
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate ... /> }
public byte[] createBasicHeader(String fileName, short dataLength, short startLine ... />
// Basic header is 19 bytes
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate ...2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…
... way to randomly scramble the string?
Second question. Let ...Magic Bytes - German or British?There is one strange thing :) When I look for the game Tom and Jerry, in the entry it says that Magic Bytes is a UK company. But when you select t…
There is one strange thing :)
When I look for the game Tom and Jerry, in the entry it says that Magic Bytes is a UK company.
But when you select the company itself, it's from Germany! :D
Any idea?
