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Keyboard issuesI'm getting back into programming in BASIC, but I'm finding using a PC keyboard to emulate 48k or 128k BASIC tiresome due to the mapping of keys, esp…
... back into programming in BASIC, but I'm finding using a PC ... keyboard to emulate 48k or 128k BASIC ... 20 years ago, and I'm thinking about buying another just ... to an emulator, but I'm very rusty and prefer to ... -
Still got 128k + joystick issues ! Please help :(Hi- I wrote a thread a while back asking why my 128k toastrack might have been having joystick issues, working for a bit, then not. I bought a new po…
... back asking why my 128k toastrack might have been having joystick ... both interfaces being dodgy, I'm guessing its my computer.
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Sound designer wantedAs you may or may not be aware, in a complete IP violation, and written up as a HOW-TO tutorial, I'm writing a pac-man clone. But I'm crap with soun…
... a HOW-TO tutorial, I'm writing a pac-man clone ... .
But I'm crap with sound. (and graphics ... />
This is in ZX Basic, so can be:
basic beeps (think microfine bursts)
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File viewer selector for +3 with card reader (basic ide interface)Just wondered if there was a good file viewer/Browser ie jumping through directories for the +3 to load the games in if you have a ide hd or cd card…
Programming Guide for esxdosHas anyone produced a developer's guide for esxdos (0.8)? I'm interested in making my own "dot" commands and possibly extending BASIC via esxdos (if …
... 'm interested in making my own "dot" commands and possibly extending BASIC ... the firmware). I know that BASIC streams are on the cards ...A "bit" of a curiosityHaving to use a bit of m/code to do the AND in that key check function, I was prompted to revisit the "AND,XOR,OR,...for BASIC" topic and came up wit…
... use a bit of m/code to do the AND ... "AND,XOR,OR,...for BASIC" topic and came up ... - not as m/code routines called from BASIC, but entirely in ... BASIC. It's inevitably ... those not inclined to use m/code. An advantage of ...Two more M.I.A.sI wrote two simple educational games in 1988 called "Easy Time" and "Easy Maths" (may have been "Easy Math"). They were written in compiled BASIC, a…
... "). They were written in compiled BASIC, and were conversions of existing ... of a software shop called "BASIC Enterprises" in Kettering, Northamptonshire. I ...about 10 Great Games IIHi all :) we talking this time for ... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011441[/url] :) [url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9uk9…
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tape2sidea we have different basic for "basel the great ... " and ... miss in my tape ?
m.a.s.k. is identical ... WOS tzx
samurai different basic and etc.. :)
Jose ...Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…
... one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I ... head I'm sure years ago) a quick bit of basic can ...L Break Into Program, 0:1 BlogThis is very much a work-in-progress but it's got a load of Z80 code I'm in the progress of writing, including some fast vector graphics primitives (…
... load of Z80 code I'm in the progress of writing ... , plus the beginnings of a BASIC and machine code primer.
dungeon crawlerHi. I'm toying with idea of making simple dungeon crawler in spectrum basic and i actually got first version working somehow. [IMG]http://watashi.ic.…
... 'm toying with idea of making simple dungeon crawler in spectrum basic ... .png[/IMG]
What i'm strugling with tho is redraw ... i compiled it with HiSoft BASIC. Anyone have some idea how ...Basic Challenge NO.7Ok Boys and girls get your thinking caps on. IN BASIC how would you plot an arc of a ball falling to the ground? so it gets lower and lower and mov…
... caps on.
IN BASIC how would you plot an ...BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
... libraries (for Boriel's ZX BASIC or z80dk) won't need ... section "Advanced Programming" that I'm finishing to write (I will ...How to capture +3e Device Info in BASICHello there my fellow WoS'ers My hope is that you can help me. I am currently writing a +3e FDISK program - well prototyping this in Specky+3e basi…
... prototyping this in Specky+3e basic, however on one of the ... the current data using just basic?
is it even ...z88dk SP1 - any internal oddities?I'm just wondering if anyone knows if the Z88DK's spritelib SP1 has any oddities inside, for instance relying on specific timings, undocumented instr…
I'm just wondering if anyone knows ... is that I have a toastrack 128k machine I just repaired ... that way. But what I'm wondering is whether the Mostek ...Changing the colour Atributes at y,x (+3e BASIC)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers I am currently writing away on my +3e and I am wonder is there a way I can just effect the Paper / Ink attributes at Y…
... ,X on the screen using BASIC?
What about the ... as a prototype in +3e BASIC to be precise.
More RAM for BASIC (ZXSE required)Ok, here it is: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/48KBASICSE.zip[/url] Use it as an IF2 ROM with a ZX Spectrum SE. It's a version of the 80x2…
... 47.5K available for your BASIC programs. However, anything that expects ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
... , although a Boriel's ZX BASIC version would work exactly the ... to translate it to ZX BASIC and post it here?
RET MHello. I?ve seen in the Joffa game SAUCER a kind of loop like this LOOP LD A,R RET M JR LOOP I do know what this loop mea…
New Game: Catacombs of BalachorCurrently in the process of uploading onto WoS... Watch this space..! [IMG]http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/Thirdharmoniser/catacombs.jpg[/…
... about with a bit of BASIC all those years ago.
m just happy to have actually ...The need of having a 257-byte table for IM2 routinesThis came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum. I have understood that the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines is due to certain joys…
... (with "perfect" joystick interfaces). I'm sure that the people that ... use a 48K/Plus/128K toastrack, or people that hasn't ...Faulty 128K toastrack keeps resettingHi. I have this toastrack which worked nicely for let's say 40 minutes and then a weird fault showed up. It keeps resetting over and over, sometimes…
Hi. I have this toastrack which worked nicely for let' ...WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …
Hi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place.
Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am making good progress.
Reading the book ZX Spectrum Games Master. Its a great start ...copying between RAM pagesSay I'm storing stuff in RAM pages 0,1,3,4 which gets used in 6,7 (which I am) and I might want to transfer up to 7kb at a time (which I do) and I do…
Say I'm storing stuff in RAM pages ... up the screen or trashes BASIC, none of which are very ...Very weird +2 problem.After two days, I'm still fighting this grey +2. Symptoms: When I first got it, there were stray pixels on the screen, and stray lines and colours. …
After two days, I'm still fighting this grey +2.< ... , with this CPU, boot into BASIC and I get graphics corruption ... -not-working CPU in, and BASIC works, but JetPac doesn't ... affecting it.
I'm thinking it's related to ...My +2 Guinea PigA grey +2 I bought to perform my experiments on, it's had it's ROM replaced with a 27C256 with Open SE Basic onboard, combined with the Gosh Wonderfu…
... a 27C256 with Open SE Basic onboard, combined with the Gosh ... goes my weekend fun. I'm not really going for the ...Future PinballHas anyone here got any experience with this thing? It's a fancy 3D pinball simulator with many original tables as well as remakes of proper tables. …
... of proper tables. But, I'm having a bit of an ... (as usual!) I can get basic tables to work (ones like ... during the loading process. I'm not doing anything different with ... don't know what I'm going on about...
Replacing ZTX650 with BD139Today I blew up one of the GALs on one of my DivIDEs while testing on my Toastrack. Shorted M1 with 12V and the 12V circuit broke. I had to replace T…
... DivIDEs while testing on my Toastrack.
Shorted M1 with 12V ... get hot.
But I'm not sure about it.
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…
... a while back n I'm still needing help...
I ... /> They are simple text only BASIC games, with a limited knowledge ...OpenSE BASIC disassembly?The [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]OpenSE BASIC[/URL] page provides a source code listing, however it doesn't really…
... infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]OpenSE BASIC[/URL] page provides a ... support the contention that OpenSE BASIC is a derivative work [...] ... a commented disassembly for OpenSE BASIC, putting together the references ... a properly commented OpenSE BASIC source code from a ...
