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ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …
... careful handling the reset switch came adrift from one side of the ... have a longish press button switch in a fairly creaky ... the switch will act as a lever which is activated from the ... re-position the switch outside the case?. Advice from expert PCBers would ... -
Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
With all the talk of infinite runners I did write some sample code to do some quick and crude scrolling driven by a single call from BASIC. If I post it, could that form the basis of a challenge too? -
Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
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Your favourite, second best 8 bit machine.So besides the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum (in its different guises), which is your second most favourite 8 bit machine for looks and design? In order …
Sam Coupe, about 470K and 16 possible screens open all from BASIC, amazing DOS, Spectrum V2 ;0) -
c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
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c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone can adapt ... and the data is loaded from basic, and after loading it jumps ... -
c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone can adapt ... player would read the length from the file header and it ... -
c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone can ... idea follows:
BASIC loader could look like this ... - Disable interupt
- ldir everything from #5B00 to #5FFF to upper ...
- return correctly to BASIC, so it will continue with ... -
Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
... check the amount of memory from BASIC all you need is:
from the keyboard. To create the ... 16427[/code]
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More basic assembly stuff!I've been figuring out some more stuff using CALL and DEFB but this has me a bit stumped. [code] ORG 33000 LD BC, 16384 PUSH BC CALL GO RET …
... small amounts of data to/from BASIC, set aside a safe area ... -
More basic assembly stuff!I've been figuring out some more stuff using CALL and DEFB but this has me a bit stumped. [code] ORG 33000 LD BC, 16384 PUSH BC CALL GO RET …
... small amounts of data to/from BASIC, set aside a safe area ... -
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 change attributes from BASIC, use OVER 1 and print a space:
[code]
10 CLS
20 PRINT "A"
30 PAUSE 100
40 PRINT OVER 1;INK 7; PAPER 1; AT 0,0; " "
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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. …
... ="Oktup;905845"]To change attributes from BASIC, use OVER 1 and print ... -
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... showing the hardware sprites controlled from basic and memory mapped registers (at ... screen you can see the basic listing and how it was ... banking will have been extended from the 128 compatibility. I am ... sockets and streamed disk io from C or assembler.
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The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... me write programs in sinclair Basic but has the speed of ... else who never moved on from BASIC—ever feel compelled to learn ... -level programming language, be it BASIC, Pascal, or C. It is ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... was a big step back from Basic on Spectrum ;) You made a ... never happened to me with Basic ;)
And manuals were ... - hard and boring. And examples from manuals where achieving nothing. It ... moslty absent for example in Basic. Okay, you have the same ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... than there are in Sinclair Basic, for example.
from Basic on Spectrum You made ... happened to me with Basic... And you have buffer ... of thing in Sinclair Basic in the recursive DEFFN ... size as the spectrum basic manual, and packed tight ... -
z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …
... search - as doing this via BASIC is uncomfortably slow.
< ... [b]BASIC[/b] variables can be populated with data from the ... there maybe some fettling as BASIC and STRINGS can be unconventional ... $[/b] using the ROM routine from BASIC.
Now if ... -
How do you put the sprite onto the image in Tommygun?I created a picture - screen size image - in monochrome. I created a sprite of a walking man. I want to make the sprite walk across the image. Is thi…
... easy and can be done from basic. If this is meant to ... -
ZX81 games in the ZX Spectrum by Russell MarksAfter having seen them for a while I always had the curiosity of knowing if they were somehow translated from the zx81 basic/MC to the Spectrum basi…
... to be able to switch a game from a next clone to ... features should be disabled/enabled. From fancy,casual to ugly,hard ... -
Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …
... heatsink).
[*]Have a reset switch fitted.
[*]Have a 27256 ... chips). And a switch to select between BASIC and a system test ... ...
[*]Have a on/off switch in it's power lead ... -
ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …
... heatsink).
[*]Have a reset switch fitted.
[*]Have a 27256 ... chips). And a switch to select between BASIC and a system test ... ...
[*]Have a on/off switch in it's power lead ... -
Speedlock Source CodeOooh - found some interesting Amstrad/Spectrum Speedlock source code over at [url]http://web.archive.org/web/20070126232648/http://andercheran.aiind.…
... downloading of
files from the Development System and saving ... to $fc00.
From there the Macro-Dos system ... booting the keydisc
from basic. When the keydisc is booted ... e025, selecting the Loader option from the menu, and then adjusting ... -
Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …
... /> Why? Because:
- It extends BASIC. I think that TRDOS and ... years. It can be used from BASIC, but it is not suported ... -
Command line compiler?How do people compile their BASICs these days? I'm thinking of something along the lines of an ASM compiler. E.g. you have a file on your hdd named …
... for Z80 ASM binaries compiled from BASIC though? I mean more like ... translated into standard Sinclair BASIC 48 bytecode in one of ... -
Komando 2 incompatible with the +2A models, anyone could supply a poke or a loader to make it work?http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002734 Is any way to make it work in the +2A models with a loader or poke? Thanks!
... that region of memory directly, from BASIC, because memory that needs to ... make it return back to BASIC after decompression, do the poke ... in BASIC, and then RANDOMIZE USR, into ... (you state yours is different from WOS), it shouldn't be ... -
Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…
... effect takes very precise timing from the interrupt at the top ... trying to do all this from BASIC? With the multicolour engine running ... must, use Boriel's ZX BASIC with the Bifrost engine plug ... -
Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…
... is needed to call from BASIC, e.g. from a user-defined ... A" ; A contains character count from first UDG
sla a ... ex (sp),hl ; character address (from stack)
ex de,hl ... pop de ; Restore AT coordinates from stack
ATTRIB_CHECK:< ...
