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  • Text scroller and custom fontYesterday I was testing this text scroll routine taken from Jonathan Cauldwell's Intro Maker (labels have been inserted to allow partial code relocab…

    Yesterday I was testing this text scroll routine taken from Jonathan Cauldwell' ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu January 2016 Development
  • Using BASIC from Machine CodeHi Folks, Came across a very interesting article by Toni Baker in Your Spectrum: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr11/yr11_66.htm …

    ...

    LD HL,TEXT
    CALL BASIC
    RST 8
    DEFB 255

    BASIC
    PUSH HL
    CALL ... ,4867
    RET

    TEXT
    DB "DRAW 50,50 ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2017 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... . ROM speed, loads a short basic loader which copies ROM loader ... ; P Cooke IIRC. counter, screen text, and a few other tricks ... bottom of the screen, nice text scroll and countdown bar....

    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae October 2013 Development
  • Welcome to the Matrix!Ok here's something I been playing with while I'm at work and on public transport. I'm thinking I want to be able to move the large letters around th…

    ... or lessons on coding Basic is that they never ... ) is how to make text scroll across one line. I ... could make a lot more text scroll slowly right to left, ... left side and fresh text entered in from the ... 'scrolling' in the Sinclair Basic manual and the BASin lessons ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch October 2016 BASIC
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... knew this:

    Suppose BASIC encounters a variable reference while ... is it just plain text, and BASIC has to search a table ... references are stored as plain text, and we don't need ...
    GOC GOC September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Making my game a TAP file??!!Hi- Wasn't sure where in the Forum to post this question, but I kinda asked it in hardware a while back n I'm still needing help... I really really c…

    ... .
    They are simple text only BASIC games, with a limited knowledge ...
    retromad retromad September 2012 Development
  • Speccy vs PiI've been doing some side by side comparisons on emulation (rpi) vs actual speccy (48k+). And I'm really impressed with what Fuse can do when the pi …

    ... 've been looking at the text scroll when r-type finishes loading ... but certainly noticeable on the text scroll. So I'm favoring the ...
    kilauea kilauea April 2016 Emulators
  • INPUT magazineHowdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…

    ... a way to import a text file Basic source listing into an ... complex to write (feeding source text directly into the emulated RAM ...
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket September 2001 Games
  • INPUT magazineHowdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…

    ... a way to import a text file Basic source listing into an ... called bas2tap that converts Spectrum Basic listings in an ASCII file ...
    McDope McDope September 2001 Games
  • Most visually stunning Spectrum game?OK, gameplay aside what do you think was the most visually stunning Spectrum game? Personally i would have to give it to 'Starstrike II' for its use …

    ... with nice graphics' congratulations. just text ... grrr :) ... they could have well ... obliterating crime .... " and through the text scroll show a section of the ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…

    ... been lots of good compiled BASIC games too - FRANK 'N' ... be better off compiling a text adventure. BASIC is very, very unsuitable ... PC and the Amiga - Dark BASIC, Blitz BASIC etc etc.

    BASIC nowadays, you'll get ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2004 Games
  • 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…

    ... there some sort of text in basic to add to the main ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2005 Development
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... is it just plain text, and BASIC has to search a table ... references are stored as plain text, and we don't need ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... :37, Pegaz wrote:
    But scroll isnt smooth again. Maybe we ... etc, but scroll still isnt smooth, especcialy horizontal text scroll in several games ... EmuZWin) give me perfect smooth scroll.
    I remember that some ...
    Pegaz Pegaz February 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... etc, but scroll still isnt smooth, especcialy horizontal text scroll in several games ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Emulators
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... I even rewrote an old text based basic game for the VZ200 ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • EightyOne 0.43Hmmm, 'twas round about July I fell asleep and only came round t'other day - honest gov! Anyway, I thought I'd better whip out a quick release and p…

    ... about some violation..... something about Text->Scroll bars

    Hmm ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2006 Emulators
  • ONELINER : Finger TwisterFINGER TWISTER Do you all know TWISTER, that crazy game where you had to place your left foot on yellow, your right hand on green etc. etc. Well, n…

    ... by the BIN - any text-to-BASIC tokenizer (including the one in ...
    gasman gasman May 2007 Games
  • Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…

    ... to achieve effect of flashing text in basic program to be made ...
    Ralf Ralf May 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... my website now have plain-text ZX-BASIC listings on each page ... also post them in plain-text format from now on.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... I had was changing the text in BASIC games and letting my ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…

    I need a FOUR ways scroll, do not forget. USER defined. ... make a window four-ways text scroll at the same time with ... sprites for letters for jumping scroll in your example, it must ... all four ways and the scroll window must be dynamic.
    Shadow Maker Shadow Maker October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…

    ... I need a FOUR ways scroll, do not forget. USER ... a window four-ways text scroll at the same time ... sprites for letters for jumping scroll in your example, it ... four ways and the scroll window must be dynamic.[/ ...
    Or in case of text, why not use sprites for ...
    omega omega October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 48K BASIC to ZX81 BASIC conversion possible?Looking for an automated way of converting a BASIC program done on a 48K Spectrum to one for the ZX81. It's obvious that some things cannot be done o…

    I have no idea TBH.


    Anyway, I might start writing it. I'll make a draft in bash (that operates on plain-text detokenised basic files) and then maybe progress onto a full version that operates on tape files in C++... who knows...
    Muzer Muzer November 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... better.
    For example, horizontal text scroll in Dan Dare (bottom on ...
    Pegaz Pegaz February 2010 Emulators
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... better.
    For example, horizontal text scroll in Dan Dare (bottom on ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 February 2010 Emulators
  • JSpeccy: New emulatorHi there, Jos? Luis S?nchez (zx81 at ono dot com) has developed a new ZX Spectrum emulator in Java, with a very accurate Z80 emulation. The message …

    ... animation isnt smooth enough, speccially text scroll.
    Best spectrum java emulator ...
    Pegaz Pegaz March 2010 Emulators
  • JSpeccy: New emulatorHi there, Jos? Luis S?nchez (zx81 at ono dot com) has developed a new ZX Spectrum emulator in Java, with a very accurate Z80 emulation. The message …

    ... animation isnt smooth enough, speccially text scroll.
    Best spectrum java emulator ...
    zx81 zx81 March 2010 Emulators
  • JSpeccy: New emulatorHi there, Jos? Luis S?nchez (zx81 at ono dot com) has developed a new ZX Spectrum emulator in Java, with a very accurate Z80 emulation. The message …

    ... improve smoothness of animation (horizontal text scroll speccially) or is it the ...
    Pegaz Pegaz March 2010 Emulators
  • JSpeccy: New emulatorHi there, Jos? Luis S?nchez (zx81 at ono dot com) has developed a new ZX Spectrum emulator in Java, with a very accurate Z80 emulation. The message …

    ... improve smoothness of animation (horizontal text scroll speccially) or is it the ... " and if the horizontal scrolling text has improved.

    I ...
    zx81 zx81 March 2010 Emulators
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