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  • Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…

    Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is ... similar to PRINT AT that can be called from Basic but ... creating small Basic programs that allow me to help review ... of numbers and having to scroll to see the rest ... one that's easy to call from Basic? Thanks!
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…

    can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this:
    PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2: ...
    or so...
    Fikee Fikee April 2006 Development
  • 128k RAM paging from BASICI'd always thought that OUT had to be used to page RAM, which from BASIC would be an "OUT 32765,ddd" command, although I don't know if just doing tha…

    ... that OUT had to be used to page RAM, which from BASIC would be an ... doing a "CLEAR 49151" (ie. to just below $C000) and then ... system variable) will switch in page 'n'. I suppose that means ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Detecting TR-DOS from BASICIs there a simple (or contrived :D ) way to detect the presence of a TR-DOS/Betadisk interface from BASIC? For fairly obvious reasons this can't rel…

    ... to detect the presence of a TR-DOS/Betadisk interface from BASIC?
    to have to resort to DATA statements or REM ...
    pissedbob pissedbob January 2006 Development
  • Best Way to Learn From Input Magazines?Hey all. I'm the lucky recipient of all the Input magazines that were published by Marshall Cavendish back in the day. I've decided to start prog…

    ... .

    I've decided to start programming again for fun ... to learn from Input.

    Should I go through all the BASIC ...
    dmspar dmspar February 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Switch 128kb banks from Basichello! Please help to [U]correct[/U] switch 128kb pages from Basic. So, I remember, need to do: out 32765,17 e.t.c but before, i must to change some…

    ... /> Please help to [U]correct[/U] switch 128kb pages from Basic.
    So ... , I remember, need to do:

    but before, i must to change some system var, by ...
    gun gun July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASICI'm trying to save a SCREEN$ to a tape file (basically the original data is in a .tzx file that I'm trying to save in a .tap format) but the problem …

    I'm trying to save a SCREEN$ to a tape file (basically the ... file that I'm trying to save in a .tap format ... is that whenever I try to save from BASIC, the "Start tape and ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Route finder, how to get from A to B?My brother wants to know how to get from Manchester (England) to Lanzarote, and also how to get from Manchester to Britany (France), both by motorbik…

    ... to know how to get from Manchester (England) to Lanzarote, and also how to get from ... Manchester to ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2009 Chit chat
  • ML routines from BASICCan anyone tell me which registers should be saved and restored when calling a ML routine from BASIC? How can one know which registers are modified …

    Can anyone tell me which registers should be saved and restored when calling a ML routine from BASIC?

    How can one know which registers are modified inside a system routine?

    Should the stack be also changed?
    rinconete rinconete March 2009 Development
  • Best demos/games to download from XBox Live - any suggestions?Anybody got any recommendations for the best games/demos to download from XBox Live? Just looking from something else to play when I'm not roaming t…

    Anybody got any recommendations for the best games/demos to download from XBox Live?

    Just looking from something else to play when I'm not roaming the land of Cyrodill, murdering people in their beds at night for the Dark Mother. :D
    BigBadMick BigBadMick November 2009 Chit chat
  • Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…

    ... functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC.

    * find ... br /> . copy 'l' bytes from address 'a' to address 'b' (may overlap ... defined then 'copy' will start from the top or bottom end ... can be calculated by the BASIC program; see lines 15 & ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Some more games to sell from JapanHi again folks, I have a few more games to sell from here in Japan. I've tested them all and they all work ok. Some are weird, they'll only load o…

    ... have a few more games to sell from here in Japan. I ... on either my +2 or from my external tape recorder, but ... EPROM programmer you can use to write ROMs for the ... , it's fairly reasonable to send them that way.
    to swap.
    I have ...
    MagicKnight MagicKnight January 2017 Sales
  • 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…

    ... into RAM page 1 (at 0xc000), so not easy to do from BASIC. I ... therefore wrote a machine-code disk loader to ... work with RAM page 1. Naively, it looks to me as if ... user guide: just reference to RAM page 7 being used for temporary ...
    Georgeo Georgeo March 2018 Development
  • MIDI TO ZX SPECTRUM BASIC BEEPMIDI TO ZX SPECTRUM BASIC BEEP ------------------------------------------------------ HI :) I found here http://portmedia.sourceforge.ne…

    MIDI TO ZX SPECTRUM BASIC BEEP
    ------------------------------------------------------
    ... BASIC ZX spectrum line if can,
    to ... make a short BASIC program
    ... add easily a song to your BASIC program
    ...
    maeloterkim maeloterkim May 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... ]There's no sequential access to files from BASIC at the moment, although ... and should be fairly easy to do. I'll try and ... instalation number of install memory page and maximum length of ram ...
    velesoft velesoft April 2008 Development
  • What Spectrum to choose?Hi i'm new to the Spectrum. I read 'bout it in CDA (Polish game magazine) and watched LGR review of the 48k and it REALLY interested me. What model m…

    ... Given that your intention is to play games, then the + ... to modify it internally to add a 3" DD, or to ... and add an IDE adaptor to turn it into a ... 2a does have the ability to page the entire ROM out and ... but it's impossible to use from BASIC and there are very ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2010 Hardware
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... 's quite fast and easy to use from BASIC, but unfortunately I did ... not find a way to convert the ... an example WAV recording and BASIC loader.

    [url] ... on "qui" on the Altervista page]

    Any help would ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • IF1Bis problems. The Edge of the Spectrum...Advice is sought from the learned on WoS. I just bought an Interface 1Bis from sunny South Africa. It arrived fast, but unfortunately doesn't work.…

    ... can't find any reference to it.

    Unfortunately ... I try to page the BASIC ROM in, it immediately jumps to the Shadow ... and/or trying to load the operating system files from the file ... server just doesnt work.

    Im going to ...
    rune rune March 2014 Hardware
  • Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…

    ... the good old beeper from BASIC and want to play two-channel music ... without having to leave BASIC. Let's say I ... 'm referring to anything I may want to do from BASIC like for example ... of the timing. How to return to BASIC after one note in one ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2012 Development
  • 720K Amstrad PCW8512 drive B: as drive A: on a Spectrum +3 ?Hi Spec-chums. I happen to have a 720K drive from an Amstrad PCW8512 which i got off ebay, and i was wondering if it is possible to use it as drive …

    ... />
    I happen to have a 720K drive from an Amstrad PCW8512 ... wondering if it is possible to use it as drive A ... can't format diskettes to 720K from BASIC, but need to run a machine ...
    The_Bert The_Bert April 2013 Hardware
  • 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 …

    ... was written in Basic and translated other to Z80. But you ... Good programming tip to compile from BASIC!??! I'll stick to my raw, fast ... going to be a nightmare to program the system to respond to the ... re writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ...
    2b. AND + OR from temp buffer to screen.
    [/quote]
    3b. AND + OR from preshifted sprites to screen.
    [/quote]
    to continue coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    ... it to tape from BASIC.

    I now prefer to use ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • loading games +3I recently found my old +3 and I had a load of games on blank disks that my brother got. Does anyone remeber / know how to load these games coz they …

    Sounds like they're pirated to me - in which case they ... a simple BASIC loader (god knows what you had to call the ... program to get the loader to use it ... 3'd. Best bet is to CAT from BASIC to get a directory listing.
    cyborg cyborg November 2003 Games
  • loading games +3I recently found my old +3 and I had a load of games on blank disks that my brother got. Does anyone remeber / know how to load these games coz they …

    ... Sounds like they're pirated to me - in which case ... simple BASIC loader (god knows what you had to call ... the program to get the loader to use ... . Best bet is to CAT from BASIC to get a directory listing ... ll never get the games to run without one.
    John H John H November 2003 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... to create the games comes from the compiler, not the BASIC.< ... br />
    Sinclair BASIC, although ... There's no way to tell from BASIC. There's no Pointer ... limitations of the ZX Basic interpreter to make the game ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ...
    ;###
    ;### Thanks to Jeff Frohwein for his GB ... />
    ; Modified by Iforeve to run from BASIC
    ;
    ; Poke in ... /> push de ; destination pointer to 2nd register
    exx ; ... usas en un programa de Basic
    ; estos registros ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2005 Development
  • Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…

    ...

    Don't forget to leave the MF128 ON when ... , so make sure you clear to 32767 from BASIC, else you may lose ... the stack and BASIC will crash, but ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2006 Hardware
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... file
    and load it to emulator, the emulator says that ... that it is similar model to Spectrum 128, but is not ... I expected it to run from BASIC, execute itself and return to BASIC after execution ... with white ink (instead of BASIC white screen with black ink ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2006 Development
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... I expected it to run from BASIC, execute itself and return to BASIC after execution ... start your program from snapshot, you can't return to BASIC, because his ... you want to use BASIC, you need to start your program from TAP/TZX ...
    aprisobal aprisobal September 2006 Development
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