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Dan Antohi or other Interface 1bis GurusHi Dan I've been getting acquaited with the IF1bis and am starting to appreciate how much more it can do than what Im using it for. I've been using…
... BIOS that I can call from Basic?
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that "listing variables during runtime" thingWell, I did eventually finish this, but with my meds playing up I don't have much time each day that I can spend at the computer, so it's taken rathe…
... Part the 1st - the BASIC variables lister BASIC listing:
[url]http ... correctly prior to returning to BASIC. It will then do ... continue with the next BASIC statement after the BREAK ... routine:
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+3 Disk drive motorHi, I'm creating a disk file menu selector. I was wondering how to turn off the +3 drive motor and the motor timeout check from Basic (poking the co…
... and the motor timeout check from Basic (poking the correct addresses?) after ... -
Need advice on multi monitor problem.I've just got my new pc setup and have it connected to an LCD pc monitor via VGA and analogue speakers and also my flatscreen tv via hdmi (both audio…
... a bit fiddly to switch between the 2 monitors ... when i need to switch the audio output aswell.< ... monitors which will also switch the audio from/to analogue/hd ... the wireless keyboard to switch without having to be ... the pc to do the switch via a mouse.
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Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
... way to launch .z80 files from the "hard disk", ideally I ... possible to load .z80 file from BASIC? And from assembler?
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Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…
... does the same as the BASIC DRAW command but with a ... be able to use it from BASIC.
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Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…
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ZX rom type detectionHere is routine for fast detection of zx rom / computer model. [URL="http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/ZXROMDETECT.zip"]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/othe…
... /> Routine read only some bytes from fixed address in zx48 rom ... for unknown zx rom.
From basic can be code used via ... for detect zx rom type from 48basic rom.
I compare ... 48rom pages from all original zx roms. Only ... -
Another silly hardware idea - RAM Pack adaptorHow about a mini bit of PCB that adapts ZX81 RAM Packs to replace the address space of the Spectrum's ROM? I guess practically you'd need a way to…
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Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…
I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable on the screen in a very short program, but it wouldn't be a difficult step to do more with the data - ... -
Talk about time consuming!This is an aside, not a request or a grump, just an observation. Yesterday I cut and pasted all the messages from BASIC relating to my struggl…
... and pasted all the messages from BASIC relating to my struggle with ... be possible whereas in Sinclair Basic on Fuse it would run ... -
I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…
... a character around it - not from Basic, there won't be enough ... -
Introducing SpectREMYep, yet another Spectrum emulator, this one being for Mac OS. Writing my own Spectrum emulator has been a bucket list item for a while. While I'm…
... also saves to TAP files from BASIC and allows for the creation ... of SNA and Z80 snapshots from what's running. I've ... /> The app can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/s ... -
zx spectrum soundtracker compiler problemwhen i try to load a song, it doesnt come up with set delay rate. then it defaults to a ridiculous number and only plays the first note when you run …
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Unexpected issue with +3DOS port of Pro BMX SimulatorI'm continuing to port my tape-based games to 3-inch disk (you may have noticed my previous post about PSSST!). Today I started on Pro BMX Simula…
... started on Pro BMX Simulator from Code Masters. The 128k version ... ), so not easy to do from BASIC. I therefore wrote a machine ... -
hi res udgs on a zx81iv tried to use the software farm hi res program to re create a sprite. unfortunately, it looks nothing like the original. it only has 128 possible b…
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How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…
... Assembly routine to be recalled from BASIC - [url=https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io ... /en/latest/]ZX-BASIC[/url] to be precise.
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... has these.
The basic concept of all assembly programing ... /> Poke these numbers into memory from basic, (poke 32767,63 : poke ... get that number from.
RET ; back to BASIC
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This is because BASIC will print the contents of ...How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... it should be getting instructions from.
The standard registers ... be used to store numbers from 0-255 or paired (BC ... into BC to confirm this from BASIC.
Look at my ... 't particularaly good at taking BASIC and making optimised machine code ...Games cracking...A question for the crackers out here.... What was your very first game you cracked and for how long were you 'in clouds' of it? My very first progr…
... wulf" conversion to three-part: Basic, screen and one code, the ... are poked directly into memory from Basic. My first real crack with ... really protected loader was "Ethnipod" from Your Sinclair, beacuse I wanted ...Screen$ +3 disk to tape helpHi, I have several full screen pictures of my +3 disks (Screen$). How can I transfer these pictures onto tape without losing the last to lines beca…
To do this from Basic use an adaptation of the ...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 …
... Actually it was written in Basic and translated other to Z80 ... /> Good programming tip to compile from BASIC!??! I'll stick to my ... merely starts executing op codes from 0000h onwards when the Z80 ... 're writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... well ...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 …
... d written your BIOS in basic and then compiled to ... z80 asm. BASIC just doesn't have the ... but due to compiler performance from BASIC to z80, I'd be ... salt is written in asm - BASIC won't cut it for ... the machine you're porting from, and the same about ...SPIN-Lite (Working Title) test availableHi all, I've been having a break from SPIN, pursuing my original goal of a BASIC interpreter. Well, I took SPIN's main core and hacked it around…
... creating self emulating windows exe from basic programs? (Creating .exes with built ... with already programmed memory with basic. When someone click exe it ... starts basic program without editor. (break will ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... he can do that as Basic is inherently a linear ... do need a dedicated routine from an interupt. Of course ... not the expert on SE Basic so he might have ... with a simple USR call from basic (every 1/50th of a ... from the stand point of trying to develop a game in BASIC ...games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... exciting. could even use compiled basic.
okay, but ... have to be done from basic? and if done from basic , how would you ... get back to basic, rnd ... 2) when returning from the game to basic how will the program ...How do I avoid BASIC becoming corrupted on returning from a M/C routine?I'm having trouble with my BASIC program becoming corrupted on returning from a m/c routine which sets all the registers (including the shadow regist…
... -operation evaluation -$2758 if invoked from BASIC.
I would start with ...Extract files from Plus D IMG files ?Hi folks, I've recently dumped a load of +D/Disciple disks for someone and they have a number of MIA titles on them. Does anyone know of a utility t…
... blocks one at a time from BASIC (if they don't autostart ...
