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  • BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum - possible?I have never used a Cambridge Z88 - but I understand it was Z80 based and had a functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the…

    ... functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on ... any other aspects of spectrum BASIC that were better than other ... BASIC variants on home micros? Was ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... . It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program ... Adventure Game frameworks written in BASIC. Also any commercial adventure games ... written in BASIC, back in the day?
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…

    ... wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2022 BASIC
  • How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…

    ... when I later return to basic.

    I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Sort 2 byte words (x, y) on ypos, also question about swap (DE), (HL)Well that was a lot of debugging ;) But if you want a routine which takes an array of 16 byte words x, y and then sort them on y (ignoring x), I'm…

    ... ]

    ^ a macro to swap 2 words pointed at by ... c
    ret z
    ; swap largest with root
    push ...
    if (largest != i) {
    swap(arr[i], arr[largest]);
    swap(arr[0], arr[i]);
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... high res modes.
    The basic idea is that the default ... bits could be used to swap VRAM chips for extra colour ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …

    ... back in on return to BASIC).
    [/quote]

    I ... tried to use OUT from BASIC to swap pages, but it didn ...
    trellis trellis August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Retro Gamer Issue 1Have a look at this... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3081732360&category=50226"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?…

    Up to ?19, with 3 hours to go ...

    I'll swap you 5 magic beans for 20 wine gums :)

    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This Message was edited by: Refrenz on 2004-03-07 16:47 ]
    Refrenz Refrenz March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…

    ... might be the old 48K Basic editor. It repaints the whole ... write "it works if you swap the YYY and yyy in ...
    J?rg Pleumann J?rg Pleumann August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why Spectrum has a lots of software?I'm thinking a lot of it and can't find "magic" which produced a lots of software (games, educational, utility) for Spectrum. My suggestions: 1. Ea…

    ... cared that much about the BASIC, good save/load routines, user ... get by commenting on how BASIC ran on each computer or ... mates did so you could swap a ton of games.
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... of interest - how slow is BASIC for what I am doing ... listing years ago that could swap in blocks of code for ...
    Womble Womble February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... of interest - how slow is BASIC for what I am doing ... listing years ago that could swap in blocks of code for ... /> For what you're doing, BASIC is very slow. It's ...
    icabod icabod February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... of interest - how slow is BASIC for what I am doing ... listing years ago that could swap in blocks of code for ... faster raw Z80 is than BASIC. Copying such data would take ... quite a long time for BASIC to to its interpretation (as ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …

    ... in the context of a Basic operating system which means it ... it is part of the Basic operating system. And, naturally, ... is executed -- the hw could swap in the operating system's ... for creating space within the basic workspace, something totally useless to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)

    ... />
    I would suggest to swap the RAND USR and the ... makes things easier because the BASIC interpreter finds the RAND USR ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris March 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... />
    We skip over the swap dfile functions for now and ... /> in_Inkey() works like inkey$ in Basic: it returns the ascii code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello, 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 down to 48k bas…

    It's a simple RANDOMIZE USR in Beta BASIC y'know. You can swap back and forth from the 48K and 128K editors to you hearts content. Although running your program in 128K mode will probably have disastrous consequences.
    Bethan Bethan May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…

    ... jobs, qualifications. In particular C, BASIC and Pascal.

    A ... as needed as well as swap bits of itself into and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 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…

    ... had a strong version of basic (better that anything offered by ... a beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I found ... a really weak version of basic. The disk system was the ... you were updating and just swap buffers to make it appear ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... a notoriously slow version of Basic...

    [quote]
    ... ld e,1 ; swap flag 1 = no swap done
    7 ...
    4 inc e ; swap was done
    7 ld ... not zero we did a swap
    ret

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Currah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …

    ... 0000h to do the page swap?

    I think the ... happen when hardware swaps MicroSource / BASIC ROMs. If MicroSource looks back ... 0H instruction). Your return to BASIC ROM code could do a ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Emulators
  • Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…

    ... sure it was written in BASIC with 2 ml high sprites ... work either then? Want to swap it for another one?". I ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Games
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... no loading screen (just a BASIC loader and the code), awful ... bloke who I used to swap Specccy programs with by post ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... I want to exit to BASIC using the Multiface, but the ... that is needed for the BASIC environment. Now, suppose I import ... allow me to exit to BASIC. I could import this binary ... two numbers to hex then swap the two numbers to get ...
    FrankT FrankT August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Death Pit PreservationClive Townsend has found his Death Pit tape and cassette inlay.... He also had a microdrive cartridge apparently containing the game... What's the b…

    ... Martijn should be able to swap it out quickly ;-).


    BASIC now looks like this in ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... release.[/QUOTE]

    EASY SWAP SYSTEMS on MB02+ :

    BASIC.

    OUT 23,64 ...
    velesoft velesoft April 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    [QUOTE=velesoft;261187]EASY SWAP SYSTEMS on MB02+ :

    ... OUT 23,xx command in BASIC.

    OUT 23,64 ...
    glancaster glancaster April 2008 Development
  • WTF is this???[url=http://cgi.ebay.es/Spectrum-128-Emulator-ZX-Interface-2-ROM-Cartridge_W0QQitemZ170254558796QQihZ007QQcategoryZ50223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZ…

    ... RAM et al. merely 128K BASIC and the 128 menu and ... you can make the 128K BASIC editor work (paged in and ... only need logic that can swap between the IF2 ROM and ...
    Winston Winston August 2008 Hardware
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