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  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... ]

    then call from BASIC with a PRINT USR, it ... the mangled byte indicating a string variable?

    Edit: Ah ... have to actually store the string "A$" in the two bytes ... the location of the A$ string.
    :-)
    trellis trellis July 2006 Development
  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... set the values of Basic integer and string variables from machine code ... start address of the source string. Can't figure out what ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Development
  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... ',"This is the b$ string, which nobody can deny...");
    string variable name and the ... points at a zero-terminated string.

    Another ... one will jump to a basic line (given line number) ... is executed in the basic program. Very nice.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... ]Bear in mind that Spectrum BASIC doesn't do integer numbers ... /> That's not true -- spectrum basic mixes integers and floating point ... is represented by its ascii string of digits followed by 14 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Games
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... 5-digit number stored in BASIC is stored as I think ... that). Storing it as a string in a VAL statement saves ... />
    Often you will see BASIC programs that show one number ...
    icabod icabod July 2006 Games
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... ]That's not true -- spectrum basic mixes integers and floating point ... is represented by its ascii string of digits followed by 14 ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks July 2006 Games
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... ]That's not true -- spectrum basic mixes integers and floating point ... is represented by its ascii string of digits followed by 14 ... 40653 takes 5 bytes for string, then 14 and then 5 ...
    nekdo123 nekdo123 July 2006 Games
  • ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…

    PK: Hmm... for BASIC - yes. But there's always ... file and search for magic string - but this decision based on ...
    baze baze July 2006 Emulators
  • ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…

    [QUOTE=baze]PK: Hmm... for BASIC - yes. But there's always ... file and search for magic string - but this decision based on ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall July 2006 Emulators
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... but puts_cons just pushes the string to the screen without any ... low level functions to do basic input and output. You can ... you wanted to stop running Basic's interrupt routine and use ... stop working. This is because Basic's interrupt routine scanned the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. Hisoft's Colt ... Compiler and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. They're ... do with the built in BASIC, but I've seen people ... or print them from a string. I wrote a space game ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... to build a program than BASIC did due to its tokenised ... calls MC is much faster. Basic loose most of speed by ... is almost so slow as Basic, but it is overloaded with ... can also work with own 'tokens' - FP in Speccy is one ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... A level project in it; BASIC and assembler were not allowed ... 's limitations, particularly the poor string handling and file I/O ... the decent games written in BASIC seem fairly spaghetti-like too ... to is the assertion that BASIC programmers are tainted with no ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... that some students couldn't string together an English sentence without ... introductory material on hw and basic programming concepts like looping, functions ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... C that did some basic stuff like string manipulation, base conversion and ... 'd used (any version of) BASIC.

    [code]
    ... to character arrays instead of string datatypes. Kids just don't ... piters - I think Sinclair BASIC is an excellent language for ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... to escape memory contention in BASIC. You can't. The interpreter ... ]Also, which is quickest for BASIC maths operations

    1 ... are usually the quickest way. BASIC stores them in both display ... program has to evalulate the string before it can use the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Development
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... create a string constant and use VARPTR (if Sinclair BASIC supports it ... data as bytes within the string area.
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Development
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... convert the address from a string and then convert the variable ... it without additional steps in BASIC.
    The machine language code ... could call the basic routine that does the conversion ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Development
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    [QUOTE=JamesD]If you use a fixed address it has to convert the address from a string[/QUOTE]

    No, it doesn't... number literals in a Basic listing have the integer form embedded alongside them.
    gasman gasman September 2006 Development
  • Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…

    There's a string reversal function [URL="http://groups. ... ?rnum=1&q=recursive+basic&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.sys ... %2F05562a7514b116d7%3Flnk%3Dgst%26q%3Drecursive+basic%26rnum%3D3%26#doc_5ffc25343e7b621c"]here ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Class ofHiya :) Just wondering what`s happening with the Spectrum version of the PC remake of the Speccy original... Class of 99 that is. I know James was w…

    ... ones, using a string table, using a basic script to control the ...
    Jmk Jmk November 2006 Games
  • 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: […

    ... .es/basizx/[/url]

    String variables.

    Now the ... and only returns to ROM basic with STOP 0

    basic files (SAVE argument must be ...
    NotFound NotFound December 2006 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: […

    basizx update:

    String slicing in expressions complete (still ... ON ERROR GOTO of other Basic.

    STOP 0 in ... is converted to the native Basic form before execution or insertion ...
    NotFound NotFound January 2007 Development
  • +2 / +2a : What's the difference ?+2 / +2a : What's the difference ? I still haven't managed to find out this yet. Yes, I know I'm an idiot.

    [QUOTE=Pilsener;169050]What file types is +3 using ?[/QUOTE]

    Same as tape files - Basic, code, number and string array.
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... />
    An aftermarket Atari Basic replacement added a FAST keyword ... interpreter.
    The Atari BASIC replacement wisely made it optional ... out that a lot of BASIC interpreters didn't convert ... repeatedly converted them from a string. I think it would be ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... is binary compatibility. Modifying basic code and intoducing new codes ... itself. Instead of a string or 16 bit integer form ... game)
    Are compiled BASIC programs larger or smaller than ... with large BASIC programs.

    Current BASIC compilers get ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... could select which version of BASIC you want on startup if ... code itself. Instead of a string or 16 bit integer form ... .
    [/quote]

    Spectrum Basic does not work that way ... .

    [quote]
    A BASIC compiler won't work with ...
    NotFound NotFound February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... s not derived from Microsoft Basic :-) Several early magazine ... Basic does not supply LEFT$, RIGHT$, MID$ but instead uses string ... slicing (as the original basic I believe) ... so they often listed it as having no string ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    [QUOTE=aowen;170396]Yes. SE Basic adds six commands by using ... the table with the additional tokens requested. To do it would ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
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