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  • Speccy muzak makingAnybody know where I could get a guide to music making using Speccy basic? Is there a repository of music converted into speccy PLAY commands or BEE…

    I've used wham! which comes handy to create tiny 2 channels music that runs (easily) from BASIC on a 48K Spectrum.
    na_th_an na_th_an 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. …

    ... to get the correct value from BASIC short of issuing a DI ... from M/C, reading the bytes ... returning the value in BC from an EI.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    [quote]
    On 2005-04-14 16:02, Dunny wrote:
    value from BASIC short of issuing a DI from M/C, reading the bytes and returning the value in BC from an EI.
    [/quote]

    16 bit loads are atomic in m/c -- no need for di/ei
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • ORG? Mm?What is ZXSpin compaining about when I haven't defined an ORG? I understand it's some sort of address where the code will be stored. If this is the …

    ... where the code will "run" from when you select run. If ... . Obviously when executing your mcode from BASIC you'd need to RANDOMISE ...
    choccy48K choccy48K May 2005 Development
  • Weird loaders; 1) Why? 2) How? (Curiosity question)Hello again. Sorry to be asking/posting so much today, but I've just arrived here and am plumbing the depths of nearly 22 years of making cups of te…

    ... you're loading and saving from Basic, you're stuck with the ... than the C90 you bought from the corner shop.

    gasman gasman May 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…

    ... planning to do this in BASIC. Yes, a RET will do ... the correct address, everything callable from BASIC.

    And great, the ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2005 Development
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... of wank, the C64's BASIC is about the same as ... .

    For the transition from BASIC to machine code, the C64 ...
    TMR TMR July 2005 Games
  • Mayhem Accelerator in actionI've put together the first video of the prototype Mayhem Accelerator running on the Sam Coupe. The video shows the Sam running a ZX Speccy emulator …

    ... Mayhem Accelerator down & Speedup from Basic ie, is it programmable? for ... BASIC or code?

    Great ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) July 2005 Announcements
  • Mayhem Accelerator in actionI've put together the first video of the prototype Mayhem Accelerator running on the Sam Coupe. The video shows the Sam running a ZX Speccy emulator …

    ... of any internal clock signals from the Sam.

    [quote ... Mayhem Accelerator down & Speedup from Basic ie, is it programmable? for ... BASIC or code?
    [/quote]
    < ...
    Quazar Quazar July 2005 Announcements
  • Spectrum emulator tests on WEB?I searched little with google, but didn't find it. Can I get some URL?

    ... the Doc is the rating from 0 to 5 of the ... any problems loading CODE files from tape images - SPIN autoloads them ... has to use LOAD "" CODE from BASIC, which is exactly how most ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2005 Emulators
  • The incredible shrinking screendumpIn this topic I stated that I would be impressed if the screendump could be smaller than 37 bytes. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewt…

    ... .

    You call it from BASIC with LPRINT INVERSE USR START ... .

    The complete history (from over 100 bytes in 1990 ... a similar piece of code from Microsoft in 1985 used over ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2005 Development
  • Programming MC : first stepsIsn't nice to collect all kinds of short routines to help making the first steps into MC for everyone who never touched MC? What I mean is mostly th…

    ... people who just stuck with BASIC and only ever learnt a ... routines that can be called from BASIC as well? E.g, sprite ... a different thread in the Basic forum?
    mulder mulder August 2005 Development
  • Programming MC : first stepsIsn't nice to collect all kinds of short routines to help making the first steps into MC for everyone who never touched MC? What I mean is mostly th…

    ... people who just stuck with BASIC and only ever learnt a ... routines that can be called from BASIC as well? E.g, sprite ... a different thread in the Basic forum?

    [/quote]
    from BASIC.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... /> ; Modified by Iforeve to run from BASIC
    ;
    ; Poke in 32768 ... usas en un programa de Basic
    ; estos registros deben ser ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2005 Development
  • Emuzwin / Spin AssemblerHello lads. Wondering if anyone can help. I've decided to look into playing about with some code using the Emuzwin or Spin built-in assembler. Are th…

    ... This sets the RAMTOP for Basic and prevents your code colliding ... /> Machine code can be called from basic in a number of ways ... br />
    To return to BASIC your machine code program must ... />
    Because of the way BASIC operates the USR function returns ...
    dmsmith dmsmith October 2005 Development
  • SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…

    ... . RANDOMIZE USR 65368 from within your BASIC program. The routine ... copies BC (6912) bytes FROM DE ... (32768) and returns to BASIC. Basically it copies your ... in memory.

    Then, from BASIC,

    SAVE "name" ...
    Lloyd Lloyd October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: midi2ay 0.1Well, here's the MIDI-to-AY converter I promised. I've named it "midi2ay" (original name eh?) [url="http://es.geocities.com/qllaria/midi2ay/midi2ay-…

    ... version, which will return to BASIC after the tune has stopped ...

    3. Return to BASIC requires IM1 & I set ... sp,0 -- use CLEAR 32767 from BASIC instead
    ld hl,0feffh ...
    pissedbob pissedbob December 2005 Development
  • What's the RAND USR code for the test screen?And what versions of hardware does it work on? Ta!

    ... function, those of the 128K BASIC were tied to the 128K ... be trouble free when called from BASIC.

    Rupert Goodwins put ... not get excited about 128K BASIC and it never excited me ...
    Geoff Geoff January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers

    From the other side of the ... , windows, portholes (circular windows), etc from basic, I think using streams. He ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Development
  • Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.

    ... I do an IN 255 from BASIC while the IM2 routine is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Development
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... of the stuff you want from BASIC, but as I don't ... are still using BASIC to run the underlying BASIC/+3DOS (or the ...
    DEATH DEATH April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... statement and easily called from BASIC.

    From the catalogue:

    DEATH DEATH May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • United 93, Even Rumsfield Said they Shot it Down :-[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Xoxaf1Al0&feature=Views&page=5&t=t&f=b[/url]

    ... I asked about AY chip from BASIC, some people had the sense ...
    Where's that AY chip gone... Where's that AY chip gone... May 2006 Chit chat
  • Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…

    ... and then LDIR the contents from 0 to 8192 to somewhere ... the MF128 and return to basic. Save the code copied by ... be something like:

    From BASIC, CLEAR 32767


    RET

    Then, from BASIC, SAVE "mf128" CODE 32768,8192 ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2006 Hardware
  • Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…

    ... the MF128 ROM (8192 bytes) from address 0 to address 32768 ... sure you clear to 32767 from BASIC, else you may lose the ... stack and BASIC will crash, but with only ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2006 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... /> [/CODE]

    then call from BASIC with a PRINT USR, it ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Development
  • Restore Registers Returning to BASICI should really know this, but I've not written code that requires a return to BASIC for a loooong time. What registers need to be preserved / resto…

    ... />
    If returning from a USR call from basic, that and making sure ... /EI is selected so that Basic's ISR is run.
    from a USR, I think all ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
  • Restore Registers Returning to BASICI should really know this, but I've not written code that requires a return to BASIC for a loooong time. What registers need to be preserved / resto…

    [QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous]If returning from a USR call from basic, that and making ... /EI is selected so that Basic's ISR is run.[/QUOTE ... guarantee a safe return to BASIC from a USR call, the rules ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Development
  • +2 Test CardIs it possible to get this up on an emulator? This is the screen you got by pressing break and reset, the beepy thing with 1986s all over it. Where …

    ... end of the Basic ROM. It is called from the Editor ROM ... . You can also call it from BASIC with RANDOMIZE USR 15364. You ... 's easier to run it from a program:
    [code]
    chev chev August 2006 Emulators
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