World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.019s
<1…16171819202122…34>
  • Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... assigned to those unique (math) tokens that could possibly used for ... still be the norm for BASIC code entry. You could also ... in addition to the defined tokens.

    Besides, coding such ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... work like that - the 128k BASIC play routines are not designed ... your own. Preprocess the PLAY string into something suitable for the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... there is just an empty 'string'.
    Also, if you use ... /> [/quote]


    All BASIC-commands that uses integer values ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2003 Games
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... />
    I think a basic compiler would be a wonderful ... I believe the most powerful basic compiler was Hisoft's - ... anything, floating point integer or string.

    The 128K ... produce the most efficient spectrum Basic compiler ever... and that would ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... love about it is the string slicing. But there are a ... : for that two minute calculation, Basic will get you the answer ... , structured approach to the problem, Basic will get in the way ... .

    Nevertheless, a good Basic cross compiler would make things ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC-DecompilerI've got some compiled BASIC programs and I like to study the source code. Are there BASIC decompiler for Hisoft, USCHI, etc.?

    ... the slow P-code. HiSoft Basic and Uschi are both real ... MC to find out which Basic tokens are used, or with ROM ...
    LCD LCD November 2003 Development
  • 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…

    ... in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variable left ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers December 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variable left ... marquee effect. Make sure your string is made up to 32 ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2003 Games
  • ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?

    ... have to extract the BASIC/DATA from the resulting ... POKE etc work, and string/numeric variables are up and ... quite slow .... Faster than BASIC - but because it's ... get faster when the basic compilation is done, and ... there's that, a BASIC editor (which will end ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... .[/quote]

    Spectrum's BASIC supports the decimal system. It ... a very simple routine from BASIC, you can enter the decimal ... as HEX in some ASCII string, you'll need an hex ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain February 2004 Development
  • UDG/sprite HelpRestore 5: For N=20 To 21: Read G$: For R=0 To 7: Read B: Poke Usr G$+r,b: Next R: Next N

    ... & true" standard for SAVEing BASIC blocks that I would suggest ... is 'A' - 'U'

    BASIC tokens:
    A4-FF expanded token ...
    dalmudlee dalmudlee April 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • +D/Disciple games archive?Hi all, Having finally got my disciple to work, I'm starting to have a look at hacking multiload games. Is there any archive on the web with games t…

    ... . Eg in "R1.sna" a basic loader is saved with 'SAVE ... name I used in the basic loader in R1.sna
    string FNAME used to store the ... ", which was loaded by the Basic loader program. You can do ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Release 10 releasedHi all, A quick note to let you know that BASin_r10 is out as of now. I've gone off on something of a tangent now with BASin, it's more like what …

    ... be to automatically translate the basic code into mc , but ... compatibility? Would the variables be BASIC compatible? Use ROM routines (and ... make the creation of new basic programs a little more ... difference as they're just BASIC extensions.

    If ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2004 Emulators
  • SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …

    ... a turd is often what BASIC compilation is. The only way ... hard - all a matter of string manipulation. Creating code output from ... not hard, more tedious. With BASIC compilation the matter is simplified ...
    cyborg cyborg July 2004 Development
  • Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …

    ... consquence of difficulty with the basic having to page stuff around ... also any blocks stored in string$ such as Arr$ for the ... there is no data in String$ that has to be loaded ... to pure basic, without having lots of stuff stored in string$ etc ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... slow it actually is in basic... thankfully for things like ... graphical out into a Blitz$ string and play it back at ... got me thinking...

    Basic is a comfort blanket, everything ... />
    So... Happy 40th birthday Basic...

    and the truth ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Development
  • I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…

    ... ;

    Procedure LoadROM(Filename: String);

    Implementation

    Procedure LoadROM(Filename: String);
    Var
    F: TFileStream ... ('48.rom'); or whatever. Your BASIC should be able to do ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2004 Development
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... ask, well, with the four basic building blocks of ANY true ... .a.

    Cellotape, Bluetack, String and the back of a ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... ask, well, with the four basic building blocks of ANY true ... .a.

    Cellotape, Bluetack, String and the back of a ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... ask, well, with the four basic building blocks of ANY true ... .a.

    Cellotape, Bluetack, String and the back of a ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... would see is a long string of values in a DATA ... I'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these lines ... code, presumably contained as a string of decimal numbers in a ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... I'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these lines ... code, presumably contained as a string of decimal numbers in a ...
    monty.mole monty.mole October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... /> [/quote]

    Even GW BASIC on the IBM PC stored ... " as 1-byte so called tokens in memory and on disk ... were a superset of GW BASIC) They didn't however use ... /> By the way, in Beta Basic you could type in the ...
    diederick76 diederick76 November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • loading techniques I never worked outFirstly, how do games that load with LOAD "" CODE autorun? Secondly, how do you save a basic program as a CODE file (but not as BASIC compiled into …

    ... , how do you save a basic program as a CODE file ... (but not as BASIC compiled into machine code, I ... it'd be from whereever BASIC tokens started - stored in the sysvars ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... look at string handling for example.

    BASIC is good for ... things are perfectly suited to BASIC. Anyone with an ounce of ... sense will avoid BASIC (including compiled BASIC) for games. You' ... with an ingenious merging of BASIC and asm.

    ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • Stupid Question... but: BMP2SCRI have downloaded bmp2scr, and produced a couple of pictures in the hires formats, I can see that there are 3 binary files, a red,green,and blue, how…

    ... might also be able to string these into a TAP file ... get good results in 128K Basic by saving the screens into ... , with the aid of a BASIC program like 10 LOAD "" SCREEN ...
    gasman gasman March 2005 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…

    ... as applicable. s$ is the string you want to display.
    BASIC by using some quirk of ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2005 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... read a part of a string the number doesn't have ... use this trick for my BASIC Bowling.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2005 Sinclair Basic
<1…16171819202122…34>

Latest Posts

  • I am currently watching.....
    Paradigm Shifter on 12:49AM
  • New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.
    Renegade on April 21
  • Fixed Speccy Software. And which games remained unfixed?
    John Elliott on April 21
  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    rich_chandler on April 21
  • Another Birthday! The Game Boy Is 35!
    mel the bell on April 21
  • European Software Titles with an English version
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • Elusive Strategy Games done by the Smaller or less Prolific Software Houses.
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • 1992 Spectrum Software
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • +3 Disk drive motor
    AndyC on April 21
  • Celebrity deaths...
    mel the bell on April 20

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
string 2.8K 5.1K
tokens 374 492
basic 24.7K 39K

Related Threads

  • getting c nonsense in basic when trying to load a program through a string in +3 basicstrangely if i use load s$(to 8), it says nonsense in basic but works when i run it. but when i execute the command without a line no it works withou…
  • Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello,<br /> <br /> Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back dow…
  • (Basic) Sinclair BASIC mode for EmacsI saw this [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14622]post[/URL] regarding a Sinclair BASIC editing mode along with some Fuse …
  • Help with Visual Basic 6.0 vs Visual Basic.netI have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I know VB.net syntax and am happy with the code generated.<br /> <br /> However, I have been as…
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
  • 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:<br /> <br /> [quote]<br /> 20 RAN…
  • 48K BASIC to ZX81 BASIC conversion possible?Looking for an automated way of converting a BASIC program done on a<br /> 48K Spectrum to one for the ZX81. It's obvious that some things cannot<br …
  • ZX Basic 1.2.5 - a BASIC CompilerWell, my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe this phorum purges old threads?), so I started a new one.<br /> <br /> After more than 6 mon…
  • Basic BASIC help needed RNDHi all,<br /> <br /> I have recently re-discovered an old program I wrote in the early 90s which would do generate random lottery numbers.<br /> <br …
  • Star BASIC or *BASIC??? Anyone heard of this?Does anyone remember a thing called Star Basic or *basic?<br /> <br /> It was a tape that extended the BASIC instruction set and from memory you put …

Related Searches

  • tokens
  • rst8 return to basic
  • rst8 basic
  • return to basic
  • basic tips tricks
  • best basic manual
  • writing music in basic
  • play in basic
  • play command in basic
  • basic upper lower case
  • basic toupper tolower
  • basic lcase ucase
  • basic change upper lower case
  • basic
  • basic flicker
  • string graphic blocks basic
  • basic string
  • basic memory string copy
  • basic memory fast string copy
  • basic screen string

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum