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Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…
... wrote a 42-column print routine earlier this year for ... to copy the Sinclair routine since I wouldn't ... the look of the text in the VTX-5000 ... wrote a 64-column print routine...which was actually slower ... br /> My 42-column print routine isn't quite complete enough ... -
Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…
... simply to make a routine to print the variable t$ on ... get the "RST $10" print routine to print to screen works correctly in ...
I made the pagination routine in BASIC yesterday, but it ... just type the magazine page text strings into DATA statements without ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... could rewrite the ROM screen print routine and set it up as ... do a
PRINT #n;"text" style statement to print to the upper ... speeding up the "screen copy" routine (when we are restricting ourselves ... -
The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…
... game with changed graphics and text, and the screen drew the ... change the graphics and the text, but I added a ramp ... string a loader or a PRINT routine together these days :(
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... =boriel;352439]
For example, PRINT routine in ZX BASIC is expanded ... BOLD and ITALIC letters. So PRINT ITALIC 1; BOLD 1; .... shows ... about the compiler generating a text file with memory map (not ...Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
Let's say that every game is different and there is no common approach to it. For example all the textes in original Dizzy 4 coded and somehow compressed, so if you do not see the text - you need to look into the print routine and find out how to do it.POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... time the BASIC PRINT (or ROM routine that handles PRINT) is used ... with custom written Print routines then you could print the text to any ... if you write your own Print routine in Machine Code that uses ... 'd have your first Sprite routine.
Of course ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... a small self-contained Print routine that doesn't rely on ... looking for is a simple Print Text routine and nothing else then ... ever going to print single lines of text that don't ...
Some Text Effects......
[CODE];Bold Print
p_print: ld ...'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
... screen
ld hl,text point to textstring
... print next
ret ready, back to basic
text ... call 0x1601
ld hl, text
.loop
ld ... a null-terminated string print routine :)How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... with a custom font and print routine rather than rely on ROM ... games use their own custom print routine? Since text was used quite rare ... not using the default ROM print actually save memory instead of ...How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... games use their own custom print routine? Since text was used quite rare ... not using the default ROM print actually save memory instead of ...How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... games use their own custom print routine? Since text was used quite rare ... your own routine(s) you are free to present the text any ... posts I posted code to print text on pixel rather than character ...How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... games use their own custom print routine? Since text was used quite rare ... not using the default ROM print actually save memory instead of ...quick - Zx80 ASM questionWhile I am ploughing through lots of ASM listings, one of my earlier adaptation attempts surprised me [B][asm code][/B] [code] org 32768 start: ld…
... worth noting that the standard print routine is depressingly slow in the ... if you're trying to print to the ZX Printer. It ... for the odd bit of text here and there, but if ... text at it, then you're better off using your own routine ...fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …
... ]Using RST10 to print a chracter to the ... versions of the proportional print routine. That can all be ... to measure and draw text it is relatively simple ... one line of text. this would enable text editing (which ... of text) in any font. if we can print one ...Print TextHow do i print text on the bottom left row(memory location in attribute 23295) of the screen in assembly? I understand the parts better on paper and …
... de,string ; start of score text string
ld bc,8 ... in bytes
call 8252 ; print it
string defb ... contents as part of the print routine
LD A,1 ;ROW ...Print TextHow do i print text on the bottom left row(memory location in attribute 23295) of the screen in assembly? I understand the parts better on paper and …
... de,string ; start of score text string
ld bc,8 ... in bytes
call 8252 ; print it
string defb ... contents as part of the print routine
LD A,2 ;ROW ...Print TextHow do i print text on the bottom left row(memory location in attribute 23295) of the screen in assembly? I understand the parts better on paper and …
... /> call 3503 ;ROM routine to clear the screen
text string
ld bc, ... bytes
call 8252 ; print it
string ... contents as part of the print routine
LD A,1 ... mainly useful for text. Have fun!Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…
... to have p$ hold the text to display and so numbers ... be converted. With the proportional print routine there is no longer this ...Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…
... the addition of the Proportional Print routine transforms the machine IMHO.
text/limited graphical programs.
RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... ; LSB address of the PRINT # routine at CH_ADDR
inc ... ; MSB address of the PRINT # routine at CH_ADDR
push ... , use [B]PRINT #4[/B] to print text in 64 columns, ... for example:
[CODE]
PRINT ...How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
... computing the character in the print routine, for the convenience of being ... was using a lot of text I might do that as ... take a little longer to print as you'd be rotating ...How much space does a number take?Hi Folks, Could someone please remind me how much memory a number takes up in a BASIC listing. For example, if you had: [CODE]100 LET a=3000[/CODE…
... /> printat64(y,x)
print64("text")
There's options ... put in a nice proportional print routine too.
And that ...Wolfenstein / Doom for 48k SpectrumHi, is there any game / demo of this kind that runs on 48k machines? Thanks.
OK Guys, I've updated the TAP version to include digital audio by default, and moved the player code to Uncontended RAM making it sound much better.
I've also made the IDEDOS / +3 disk version which includes a cheat menu and in-game level skip ...Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…
... the ROM routines would display text (including the program listing) in ... , you can write your own PRINT routine to use your own font ... hard to program strings of text if the codes weren't ...How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... put a string of text into it and have ... character in turn to the print routine, which is what the ... url] and discovered this routine which I'd forgotten about ... knock up an assembler routine to use the data. ... Add this bit to the routine to PLOT an enlarging ...Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…
... prepare and call the virtual print in the same way as ... /> ld bc,7
call print[/code]
[code]
defb "Text"[/code]
I won ... with this print routine, I just need to draw the text to virtual ...Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…
... this print routine, I just need to draw the text to ... Sorry, but this very primitive routine
no control commands< ... call print
dat defb "Text",0 ... ;0 - end marker [/code]
please reload print ...Programming again with the ZX SpectrumI am going to take a blast at programming for the Spectrum again. Its bee a long time since I have done this. I need to refresh my memory and maybe l…
... , set yourself up with a text editor (something like Crimson Editor ... in BASIC if you type PRINT USR 32768 then the number ... , and write your own character-print routine instead of using the one ...Chloe 280SE keyboard for ZX-UnoI'm sorry. This conversation comes from another forum. It's a spanish forum and can't continue there. [url]http://zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=…
... and out again afterwards. The print code still only handles 32 ... ). So if you want to print text across more than 32 columns ... to keep track of the print position is. And you can ... 80).
Yes, the print routine will be not 100% backwards ...
