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  • Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…

    ... and after basic's autostart it's POKEd into target address (in ...
    omega omega May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…

    ... to human combat game:[/B] Target Renagade.
    [b]Best Isometric ... ]Best Spectrum multiplayer game:[/B] Target Renegade, with Gauntlet a close ... only programming language other than BASIC or MC that I even ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2009 Games
  • Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…

    ... be incorporated in a test target in the next release July ... groups. The first group is basic i/o, another group direcory ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2009 Announcements
  • XgamestationI was flipping through an old edge magazine from 2003 and in the news section there was a story about the iminent release of a diy console kit that y…

    ... learn how to make a basic console, rather than use it ... i see it the main target audience would be people who ...
    mile mile June 2009 Chit chat
  • New to developmentHello there my fellow forum chummies, I have recently been bitten once again to go into software development, its been a while. I have a lot of ski…

    ... find parameter ZORG (compiled as BASIC?)
    [/code]

    Ah ... 've forgotten to select the target platform. Add "+zx" at the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... it would become a potential target platform.

    [quote]Go ... you use the mode from BASIC (available in source form here ...
    chev chev August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... it would become a potential target platform.

    I'm ... you use the mode from BASIC (available in source form here ...
    frobush frobush August 2009 Development
  • can someone help with a rom routinei have been trying to draw a simple line with a the rom routine , but i just cant get it to work , so if anyone can give me an example in z80 that wo…

    ... from current coordinates
    POP HL ;restore HL' for safe BASIC return ... ' register for successful exit to BASIC, hence the EXXs and stack ...
    RST#08 RST#08 August 2009 Development
  • Spectrum Blog - In spanish!For those who speak or understand spanish, I started a blog about the speccy. It's mostly based on reviews, but I plan to write other stuff for the Z…

    ... taught to think in the target language. All the French lessons ... 't even read the most basic thing in Spanish, and now ...
    Winston Winston September 2009 Announcements
  • JSW for consolesI was thinking if it was possible to develop a version of Jet Set Willy 1 or 2 (Final Frontier) for some of the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles, namely the…

    ... Drive. It is the simplest target platform from all the 8 ... is C compilers, and even Basic compiler, and the MD has ...
    Shiru Shiru October 2009 New game ideas
  • Question about operations and target numbers[size=1]Title should say *operators. It's been a long day.[/size] :p One of the homework problems my kids are working on consists on using a set of …

    ... target number given four digits and you the use the four basic ...
    JamesW JamesW October 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…

    ... 407493]That's wrong. HiSoft BASIC only includes the runtimes your ... of a project that could target > 64k.

    [QUOTE ... new notation arises because Sinclair Basic lacks an IF..THEN..ELSE ... languages like Pascal and many Basic dialects use BEGIN / END ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…

    ... />
    PRINT AT in Spectrum BASIC is character-based (not pixel ... ' at whatever the current coordinates are (the BASIC variables 'x' and 'y ... 'UDG' at whatever the current coordinates are, and a third routine ...
    RoseCotton RoseCotton January 2010 Development
  • How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…

    ... />
    PRINT AT in Spectrum BASIC is character-based (not pixel ... ' at whatever the current coordinates are (the BASIC variables 'x' and 'y ... 'UDG' at whatever the current coordinates are, and a third routine ...
    mel the bell mel the bell January 2010 Development
  • Converting games from tap to dskHi to all from Greece, Being an old Speccy user and now owner of most models of Spectrum (48k , 48k+ , 128K, +2 grey and +3) , I desided to salvage m…

    ... 30000
    LD A,1 ; target bank
    LD BC,7FFDh ...
    OUT (C), A ; page target bank in
    LD HL ... /> LD DE,0C000h ; into the target bank
    LD BC,4000h ... ) ; restore the memory paging that BASIC expects
    LD BC,7FFDh ...
    John Elliott John Elliott January 2010 Emulators
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... could be compounds of this basic unit... EG: For a ... height by 24 pixels, the basic unit might be 8x24, 16x24 ... tiles, map array, character placement coordinates, object overlays [weapons,walls,doors ... />
    9 ) What is the basic maptile unit size in pixels ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2010 Development
  • Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …

    ... for a game written in BASIC, this one includes 8 directonal ... of the page if your target has wrapped across the page ... some leftover relic from another target which just happened to have ... it - will cause the current target's 'f's to be ...
    AY Chip AY Chip January 2010 Games
  • SIF interfaceNew hardware was developed for spectrum. It is dual full UART with HW flowcontrol. In addition module could be populated with ConnectOne module for W…

    ... similar projects.;)

    My target is not fight with Spectranet ... steps you need only easy basic program (stream support will be ...
    willcz willcz February 2010 Hardware
  • SIF interfaceNew hardware was developed for spectrum. It is dual full UART with HW flowcontrol. In addition module could be populated with ConnectOne module for W…

    ... exchange game data in Sinclair BASIC? The data being exchanged would ... be just a set of coordinates and a few other variables ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2010 Hardware
  • Favourite Original Budget GameThis will be it for a while now so don't panic...what's your favourite original budget game? I've listed my top ten here:- [URL="http://jdanddiet.b…

    ... these, C5 Clive is very basic but i kept coming back ...
    Postman Pat
    Moving Target
    Jock and the Time ...
    Graz Graz February 2010 Games
  • Graphics problemHi guys. Finally got a REAL zx spectrum, cost ?20 from a friend. When i draw plots and circles, it takes time to do it, but how do i do it instantly…

    The BASIC rom is drawing a circle ... versus computing them from pixel coordinates, the latter is done by ... computes screen addresses from pixel coordinates.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Old age is setting in...Ok... I was reading some of the threads about "first game" and this reminded me of my first game however, I can't even remember if it was one of thos…

    Nope, much more basic than that... No tanks. Just ... of the landscape and a target on the right side of ... if you could hit the target.

    I agree though ...
    zerog69 zerog69 March 2010 Games
  • My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…

    ... choices. If 48k is the target you will need to plan ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... sprite design, and ask some basic questions about what limits are ... are controled by X,Y coordinates.

    The advantages of ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil March 2010 Development
  • Learning C for z88dkI've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some Delphi which I had lots of help with. I've forgotten 99% of what I learne…

    ... quite so self explanatory as Basic.
    [/quote]

    As ... a combination of knowing the target machine, for example there's ... of Spectrum functionality to call BASIC from C code as well ...
    dom dom April 2010 Development
  • How paint in the down two lines ?The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines wi…

    [QUOTE=arfgh;446112]not exist a way to plot or draw on these lines with basic only ?[/QUOTE]

    No, the BASIC turns the Y-coordinates (AT Y,X starts at top, PLOT Y
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…

    ... hold the magnitude of relative coordinates Y and X.
    Registers ... you intend to return to BASIC.
    GReW GReW June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …

    ... area address from X,Y coordinates

    ld d,#58 ... area address from X,Y coordinates

    ld a,h ... nothing to do with Sinclair BASIC.
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • (New) Doctor Who Adventure GamesWell, [B]The City of the Daleks[/B] doesn't work on my system, so I haven't got a clue as to whether it's any good or not. To begin with, I think th…

    ... />
    The gameplay is very basic. The Doctor isn't quite ... bow tie but there is basic stealth and simplistic point and ... will prove difficult for the target audience.

    The best ...
    Strident Strident June 2010 Chit chat
  • Digital RadioWell, it looks like the switchover to digital radio may be delayed (it is planned for 2015) due to the slow uptake of DAB systems. A report by the BB…

    ... bandwidth digital to a moving target is really hard to get ... stations upgraded). At the moment, basic 3G coverage in the UK ...
    Winston Winston July 2010 Chit chat
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