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  • How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…

    ... any way of finding the character sets other than the old ... % probability, then you hit a character set. As long as the font ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
  • How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…

    Another way to look for character sets is to use SkoolKit' ... font.z80 that has the character 'A' currently on the screen ... example).

    If the character set data is laid out in ... , this means that the space character is at 32504, and so ...
    SkoolKid SkoolKid September 2017 Development
  • Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …

    ... ]

    The thing with user-defined functions in ZX BASIC is ... than the built-in and user-defined functions (such as ABS, VAL ...
    The_Bert The_Bert September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…

    ... be to “pre-decode” each user-defined key with the code above ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore October 2017 Development
  • A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…

    ... be to “pre-decode” each user-defined key with the code above ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2017 Development
  • Dragon 32 FontHave been fiddling around with a Dragon 32 emulator and ripped the font [img]http://www.drumfu.com/Dragon32Font.png[/img] Can be downloaded [ur…

    ... ve grabbed a few other character sets from Dizzy games (the ... />
    My technique for redefining character sets was (I think) taken ... so every one of my character sets is accessed with POKE ... program to find out this character set appears with POKE 23607,127 ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2017 Announcements
  • Dragon 32 FontHave been fiddling around with a Dragon 32 emulator and ripped the font [img]http://www.drumfu.com/Dragon32Font.png[/img] Can be downloaded [ur…

    ... ve grabbed a few other character sets from Dizzy games (the ... />
    My technique for redefining character sets was (I think) taken ... so every one of my character sets is accessed with POKE ... program to find out this character set appears with POKE 23607,127 ...
    jp jp October 2017 Announcements
  • Custom Menus on the ZX Spectrum +3Today, my Friends, i have the pleasure of presenting a program i have written which gives a set of custom menus on the +3. The main features of my p…

    ... IM2 with support for a user-defined interrupt-routine - the Interrupt system ...
    The_Bert The_Bert October 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Hacking the ZX Spectrum 48K ROMHi Guys, I have modded my Speccy with a dual boot ROM loading on first bank the original ZX kernel and on the second bank an enhanced version. I h…

    ... , the initial border colour is set using a single colour:
    character set; which you can insert into ...
    GReW GReW November 2017 Hardware
  • im looking for a double size, height and width character programi want to be able to stretch and scale up udg's

    ... would be to redefine the character set and just POKE it with ...
    joefish joefish November 2017 Development
  • ive found an attr scrolling routine but i want to remove the smaller scroller within it, etc.https://pastebin.com/K4nG3xbX also i would like to be able to change the colours and not have a shadow. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sin…

    ... $FA17 CALL L_FA27 ; character message scroll
    CALL ... , (HL) ; A =message1 character
    CP $FF ; check ... L_FB6F: 00 3C ;CHARS (character set pointer)
    L_FB71: 02 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2017 Development
  • ive found an attr scrolling routine but i want to remove the smaller scroller within it, etc.https://pastebin.com/K4nG3xbX also i would like to be able to change the colours and not have a shadow. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sin…

    Here's the fast version, just doing a plain 8-row scroll of the supplied message expanded as attributes (message not incluided).

    [code]
    L_FA13: HALT ; FA13 76

    L_FB51: LD HL, $5900 ; = ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2017 Development
  • Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…

    ... part of it's QWERTYUIOP character set as well , so there!)
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio December 2017 Hardware
  • Screen$ (x,y)Hi everyone As you know, Screen$ doesn't recognize UDG characters. Is there any way to solve this problem? I want to "identify" an UGD character o…

    If you redefine the normal character set, screen$ will recognise those characters.
    Pobbit Pobbit March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Screen$ (x,y)Hi everyone As you know, Screen$ doesn't recognize UDG characters. Is there any way to solve this problem? I want to "identify" an UGD character o…

    [quote="Pobbit;935803"]If you redefine the normal character set, screen$ will recognise those characters.[/quote]

    How can i do it?
    alchemist alchemist March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Standard File ExtensionsIs there a standard file extension for a 768-byte Spectrum font in the way that .SCR is used for a SCREEN$ file? Aside from the obvious .BIN, that i…

    PAW on the +3 used .© for a character set. Though that would be for an 896 byte file with a +3DOS header, rather than a 'raw' font.

    Other than that I think .ZXF is a good choice.
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2018 Emulators
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... (you can also redefine the character set - the font - but that's ... /> If you're happy with character by character movement, then you need ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2018 BASIC
  • Send in the ClonesPlease name all the Spectrum clones out there ( I would say I need it back on my desk in 5 minutes , but I will be a bit more generous in this case!…

    ... " which provides new screen resolutions, user-defined palettes, clash-less planar and ...
    JeffB JeffB May 2018 Hardware
  • Assembler by Peker Computers Ltd.There are two entries at WOS: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0024435 (MIA) http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=100…

    ... very tedious. A 64-column character set like Tasword 2 would have ...
    poglad poglad May 2018 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Prportional Ascii text scrollerA couple of years ago I wrote a little scroller that nestles at the top of RAM (FFCA - 65482) and scrolls standard Ascii encoded text from anywhere y…

    ... have to search the entire character set to find it each time ... text is converted, and the character set is less than 256 bytes ... max to the final character start!) then character codes can simply be ... the character lo-byte. This would mean ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed August 2018 Development
  • procedural generationhi, is it possible for basic to program itself? i.e with a few pokes, as i know there are no commands for this.

    Yep think someone posted something like this on FB group. BASIC keywords are just character set values you only have to POKE them into the right place in memory for it to become the program listing.
    ivanb303 ivanb303 December 2018 Development
  • Random GRASSHello guys, Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE. It seems that PRINTing a string$ combin…

    ... CHARS back to the ROM character set.
    Luny Luny February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • counting in assembleri have this program which cycles through the character set. how do i do this with numbers say 0 to 65535? org 40000 ld b,120 ld (23612),a L…

    ... can only count through the character set up to 255; however if ...
    Luny Luny February 2019 Assembler
  • AticAtac DisassemblyHi Guys, I've been spending quite a bit of time the last 2-3 weeks working on the AticAtac disassembly, evolving it into a much more documented as…

    ... about my experiment to hack user-defined keys into Atic-Atac.
    colonel32 colonel32 March 2019 Assembler
  • AticAtac DisassemblyHi Guys, I've been spending quite a bit of time the last 2-3 weeks working on the AticAtac disassembly, evolving it into a much more documented as…

    ... about my experiment to hack user-defined keys into Atic-Atac.
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2019 Assembler
  • AticAtac DisassemblyHi Guys, I've been spending quite a bit of time the last 2-3 weeks working on the AticAtac disassembly, evolving it into a much more documented as…

    ... about my experiment to hack user-defined keys into Atic-Atac.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2019 Assembler
  • what does the USR command actually stand for?im sure its an acronym, if i remember rightly. ____ sub routine?

    Short for ‘user’, as in user defined function, because the user can define a machine code routine...

    At least, that’s how I have always thought of it as.

    [b][i]Mark[/i][/b]
    1024MAK 1024MAK May 2019 BASIC
  • what does the USR command actually stand for?im sure its an acronym, if i remember rightly. ____ sub routine?

    Also used to get the address in memory of User defined graphics.
    Dunny Dunny May 2019 BASIC
  • what does the USR command actually stand for?im sure its an acronym, if i remember rightly. ____ sub routine?

    ... ] . Or declare it as a user-defined function DEF FN a(p ...
    John Elliott John Elliott June 2019 BASIC
  • Starwars IV opening crawl demo---------------------_______________________--------------------------- Starwars IV opening crawl demo on 128K :) [url=https://mega.nz/#!37BV…

    ... the eight bytes of every character transformed
    according to ... translate every byte of every character
    on the position ... of bytes that has the character set
    ( we are ... combinations we have all the character set)

    So every ...
    maeloterkim maeloterkim July 2019 Development
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