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  • White Spectrum+Hi Folks, There is a photo of a white Spectrum+ on Rick Dickinson's website - did this actually exist i.e. working machine? Paddy

    ... the ROM was crippled. 128 BASIC was slower, the RENUM command ... removed completely, along with the string editor and the ability to ... documented bugs in the 48 BASIC ROM were fixed, even though ... hour programming one in Locomotive BASIC and dBASE II for clients ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... of check on the A$ string then doing something between two ... result of the numeric (or string) expression to the left of ... Steven Vickers book; all this basic BASIC is explained very well in ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Hep needed with a bit of code...I've written a bit of code to make a character move across the screen, but the counter stops at 29 when the 3 lines to delete the characters trail ar…

    ... /> [code]
    org 63300
    string: defb 21,1,19,1 ... bc,14
    ld de,string
    call 8252 ;203C PR_STRING ... done just as easily in BASIC).
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2012 Development
  • PRINT a numerical value i.e. the scoreHow do you fo about printing a numerical value using the print routine in the ROM? For instance I have a value 0-255 and want to PRINT the result at…

    ... by pointing it at the string of 17,7,16,1 ... />
    Have you got the BASIC manual? p183 has the character ...
    R-Tape R-Tape August 2012 Development
  • Z80 snapshot formatI read documentation for Z80 snapshot on WOS and see in table possibility insert ROM image to Z80 file. Here is full table: [code]The pages are numb…

    ... the snapshot loads with "SE Basic release 0.94B" at the ... line editor but without the tokens - it's in L-mode ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2012 Emulators
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... an array whats faster for basic to work with a array ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Calling All Emulator Authors...Hi guys, This may sound like a crazy idea, but I wondered if it might be possible to incorporate Arcade Game Designer into an emulator in some way? …

    ... - converting the text to Sinclair BASIC-style tokens to save space, then ... converting the tokens to code when it builds ...
    jonathan jonathan September 2012 Emulators
  • Calling All Emulator Authors...Hi guys, This may sound like a crazy idea, but I wondered if it might be possible to incorporate Arcade Game Designer into an emulator in some way? …

    ... - converting the text to Sinclair BASIC-style tokens to save space, then ... converting the tokens to code when it builds ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2012 Emulators
  • need a new method for m/c parameter assignmentI've been using a variable length function of the form: "FN a$(a$,a[,b...,z])=STR$ USR md" to search a data table and return a string result. By putt…

    ... ]
    where USRaddr returns a string result with length 0, so ... Basics. For example, in BBC BASIC you'd do:
    [b ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston September 2012 Development
  • Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…

    ... reinvented the wheel for ZX Basic a bit ago...

    String, attr as uByte)
    Dim ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • help needed :) how to rotate a 3 x 3 array 90 degreesI just cant seem to get this sorted in my head ( or on paper ) , I've found multiple examples in C , python , etc but cant find any z80 examples any …

    Here's a little BASIC demo of a routine which ... just using a simple 1D string as the "array", plus a ... rearranging stuff in a sequential string of bytes; the "rotation" is ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Development
  • Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…

    ... have an interpreter for that BASIC dialect, although as I see ... of code, whereas the various BASIC routines were just a couple ... routine wich deals with a string with embeded colour codes, for ... 's is on the ZX Basic wiki. I just noticed :D ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • syntax checking helpcan anyone help with syntax checking, its been a while since I did any basic extension coding this routine always gives :C nonsense in basic error …

    Are the numbers in the string being checked followed by $0E and then their 5-byte FP forms?
    If not, SCANNING will give a "Nonsense in BASIC" error if it's in run-time mode (FLAGS bit 7 set).
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Development
  • syntax checking helpcan anyone help with syntax checking, its been a while since I did any basic extension coding this routine always gives :C nonsense in basic error …

    ... ]Are the numbers in the string being checked followed by $0E ... will give a "Nonsense in BASIC" error if it's in ...
    madvanman madvanman October 2012 Development
  • Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…

    ... show me beautiful code in BASIC". I was trying to ... in[/i] support for string slicing. If I were ... the basics would enjoy BASIC way more than Javascript ... into it way faster. BASIC got me into computers, ... learn structured programming, and BASIC wasn't a weight. ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2012 Development
  • Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…

    ... C lib had plenty of string slicing operations? I appreciate that ... learning the basics would enjoy BASIC way more than Javascript ' ... have the endless variations that BASIC does.

    What ... I spent years programming in BASIC on various machines, until ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay October 2012 Development
  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    ... giving you 7kb more for BASIC. That's the only spare ... reduce the size of the BASIC is to define literals as ... in any large program. Use string arrays to hold small numbers ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    ... indirectly if a simple string space has been reclaimed ... /> Here's a little BASIC routine which locates variables; just ... a:
    DATA "","string","number (short name)","number array ... /> "number (long name)","string array","FOR...NEXT control"
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    ... to compact a multi-dimensional string array into an indexed 1D ... string array with trailing spaces removed ... ; loaded separately, or embedded in BASIC as explained in "saving time ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ...
    ' Note use of VBScript BASIC, not Javascript, for
    ' access ... Then

    'Compile command string:
    If (compress) Then

    ' Execute command string:
    Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript ...
    joefish joefish November 2012 Development
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... questions, examples for differences in basic language. Maybe you can give ... value of a integer or string, I don't know what ... like DEG and RAD in Basic...

    5. finally, playing ... : I post this also in basic programming section here
    lomax030 lomax030 December 2012 Announcements
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... like DEG and RAD in Basic...[/QUOTE]

    I can ... 't remember if ZX Basic has these functions, but if ... other characters in the play string, but I put them in ...
    snigfarp snigfarp December 2012 Announcements
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... all the letters inside the string upper case and it will ... . This will work in 128 BASIC:

    10 LET a ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2012 Announcements
  • Level design and homebrew(g0blinish's thread on random maze generation prompted me to post this thread.) In your opinion WOSSers, what proportion of level design is [B]scien…

    ... />
    Once I have the basic mechanics - bearing in mind I ... out of that theme and string the games together, but if ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2012 Development
  • +3 BASIC DOS_DemoI got side-tracked while working on the Op.Wolf conversion and ended up writing this +3 DOS utility which provides most of the disk functions that mi…

    ... functions to be called from BASIC using a function of the ... =page, de=address,
    f$=string of length to read into ... =page, de=address,
    f$=string of data to write from ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • A new site for an old projectThe 'Interface 1bis' project site has been moved to: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/interface1bis/[/url] In fact, it's not only a simple relocati…

    ... % (backwards) compatible to the 'Extended BASIC' of the Sinclair 'ZX Interface ... of 'Microdrive' storage operations, at BASIC command and 'hook code' level ... Interface 1' ( Program, Number array, String array, Code and Print) emulator ...
    Dan Antohi Dan Antohi January 2013 Announcements
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... unavailable for the main BASIC program unless you're ... the extra RAM pages from BASIC without crashing it, except ... extra memory from BASIC, apart from saving extra BASIC, CODE & ... rather than explicit literals; using string instead of number arrays; ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Development
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... look at Boriel's ZX Basic.

    You can start ... out in Sinclair basic with almost no changes:

    SUB printThis (thingToPrint as STRING)
    PRINT thingToPrint
    END ...
    Gedlion Gedlion January 2013 Development
  • Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…

    ... FP value into a decimal string and then replaces the preceding ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Games
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