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  • Let a=val "1"I see some basic programs which use Let a=val "1" instead of let a=1 syntax. what is the difference between val "1" and 1? is it an effect of some …

    I see some basic programs which use Let a=val "1" instead of let a=1 syntax.

    what is the difference between val "1" and 1?

    is it an effect of some compiler or converter?

    just curious.
    Arda Arda April 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Karl Mueller RIPKarl Mueller, bassist for the popular American rock band Soul Asylum died last Friday of throat cancer. He was 42.

    Karl Mueller, bassist for the popular American rock band Soul Asylum died last Friday of throat cancer. He was 42.
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan June 2005 Chit chat
  • variable variable names with VAL$It's possible to make the RH-side variable names in a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the [b]name[/b] of anothe…

    ... be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the ... , then:
    [b]LET a$=VAL$ v$[/b]
    for a ... , or:
    [b]LET anumber=VAL VAL$ "v$"[/b]
    for a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • VAL SCREEN$I seem to remember being able to find out the ascii code of a character displayed on the screen by typing in something along the lines of PRINT VAL S…

    I seem to remember being able to find out the ascii code of a character displayed on the screen by typing in something along the lines of PRINT VAL SCREEN$ (1,1).

    I cant get it to work now...

    Any ideas?!:-?
    daveysludge daveysludge January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Is Karl Pilkington real?For years, people have debated if Karl Pilkington is 'real'. If you don't know, he used to be Ricky Gervais' (The Office, Extras) radio producer, who…

    ... , people have debated if Karl Pilkington is 'real'. If ... and we see the real Karl at all times. At ... of people think the entire Karl Pilkington thing is scripted, ... so funny, and if Karl is genuine then you'd ... probably scripted, and that Karl is a real person, ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2016 Chit chat
  • Interesting VAL featureHi Folks, No doubt most people know this but it is new to me! The following code generates the answer of 10. [code]10 LET A$="X+X" 20 LET X…

    ... X=5
    30 PRINT VAL A$[/code]

    Very ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …

    ... by stuff like:

    val "12345" instead of plain 12345 ... like

    let x = val "12345" or stuff like
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT, but I thought this was funny...I was clearing my hard disc out a few days ago, and I found the following, that I'd downloaded some time back. Re-reading it, I again thought it was …

    ... Curie discovered
    radio. And Karl Marx became one of the ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... numbers 32 to 255 and VAL for anything else?
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • Sinclair Basic compiler for PC?I know we all can use BASin to play for a while in a little window. But... What about creating a 80x86 EXE program from scratch using Sinclair Basic…

    ... .NET!!! Everybody else thinks that VAL("1+2") is either an ...
    Marcelo Marcelo September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Most pointless type-in?I think it was one I saw, probably in Program Pitstop(which mag did that?), to evaluate a string as a full expression, a la the Beeb: spend hours typ…

    ... two seconds typing LET A=VAL A$, which does exactly the ...
    robert@fm robert@fm October 2004 Games
  • ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana TrumanHappy 26th birthday Allana! Today I release my new game, [I]Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman[/I] (MM:N-AT), a tribute to my favourite charact…

    ... ) as "Spread The Word", "Dr. Karl Kennedy's Surgery" and "Sci ... a different character in "Dr. Karl Kennedy's Surgery" (like in ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad November 2004 Games
  • New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…

    ... ]
    DEF FN B(b$)=VAL(CHR$ 196+b$)
    [/code ...
    chev chev November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • String slicing for UDG definitionHey everyone. Got a bit of a string slicing/string to variable conversion problem. 10 let a$="01100110" 20 let pokevalue=???? What expression do I…

    ... this should use the command VAL or VAL$ somewhere, but being a ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick April 2005 Development
  • Speccy fan meetup, London, Sat 26th NovWhat's the best way to get through Skylab Landing Bay? Where can I get the best deal on a 6x8 standard apex shed? Has anyone ever used VAL$ for anyth…

    ... ?
    Has anyone ever used VAL$ for anything useful?
    Can ...
    gasman gasman November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amazing Short Type-InsHey all ! Been having some pretty stressfull days lately so I tought I would type in some games. There was a very nice type-in book here in Slovenia…

    Hey all !

    Been having some pretty stressfull days lately so I tought I would type in some games. There was a very nice type-in book here in Slovenia called "Mirko Tipka na Radirko" which is roughly translated as "Mirko types on rubber" ( ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat March 2006 Games
  • Umm ... Right!I've read about some bizarre fetishes in my life but this one is the oddest I've ever come across. [URL="http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.h…

    ... ://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm"]http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet ... .co.uk/karl.htm[/URL]

    Comments ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton July 2006 Chit chat
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... nnn=1)

    2) VAL "1"

    3) PI ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Development
  • Good Home Wanted - Collect from B'Ham UKAny one here wish to call and collect a Sinclair Plus 2 (128k) working also Acorn Electron (psu faulty) and Acorn Plus 3 also Sanyo MSX. All welcome…

    ... the country soon,

    Karl
    kfasheldon kfasheldon November 2006 Sales
  • 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…

    ... -z)+.5:
    LET x=VAL c$(y): LET c$(y ... /> ;v: LET k=IN 63486-VAL b$(1)+IN
    64510 ... -VAL b$(2)+IN 65022-VAL b$(
    3 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP May 2007 Games
  • Naughtiest keywordWe've had how to generate each of the error messages but which keyword can be used to generate the most errors? BORDER CODE VAL$ "WOS" Nonsense in B…

    ... errors?

    BORDER CODE VAL$ "WOS"
    Nonsense in BASIC ...
    Bethan Bethan September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Calculating how many pixels each mapper has created - for Skarpo especially :)Pavel Pl&#237;va : 2992717027 pixels Ladderman : 2058908818 pixels Sherwin Robb : 411890200 pixels Viktor Drozd : 266748605 pixels Victor Daulichen :…

    ... /> Stanislav Yudin : 471600 pixels
    Val : 402876 pixels
    David Williams ...
    Pavero Pavero January 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…

    ... more pathological uses of the VAL$ function.
    Added - Another simple ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2008 Emulators
  • BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…

    ... : L
    LET : K : L VAL : E : J
    LINE : E ... : SYM + 3 VAL$ : E : SYM + J
    LIST ...
    icabod icabod March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Creepy Computer GamesBook Title: [B][URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000102"]Creepy Computer Games[/URL][/B] Authors: Jerry Tyler (Editor) & Chris …

    ... : 9, Program: Spiderwoman (by [B]Val Robinson[/B]) - [URL="http://www ...
    c1541 c1541 March 2008 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…

    ... CLEAR VAL "65520": POKE VAL "23624", VAL "0": POKE VAL "23693", VAL "0": OUT (VAL "254"), VAL ...
    maiki maiki March 2008 Emulators
  • YS3 - Big Blimmin' UpdateHello everybody! I haven't plugged the best web-based magazine to run on almond slices in a while, and there's a couple of things you might just be i…

    ... the fantastic Haylp! with Dr Karl Kennedy.

    So there ...
    natxcross natxcross April 2008 Announcements
  • Important for Game/Demo DevelopersHello Spectrum-friends, I just finished our new Disc-Magazine SCENE+ with newest games, demos, graphics and sounds from the Spectrum Scene. However,…

    ... /> - Put all other numbers into VAL. So PRINT AT 10,10 ... is PRINT VAL "10", VAL "10"

    3 ...
    Speccyman Speccyman April 2008 Development
  • Daton Software Info ?Hi folks, Does anyone know more about Daton Software: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Daton+Software$ We currently only have…

    ... . I also did a POKE VAL "23739",CODE "o" command to ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2008 Infoseek database
  • Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, TheBelow is the spectrum listing from the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000078"]Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, The…

    Below is the spectrum listing from the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000078"]Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, The[/URL]" book.

    I've had to add line 2 as there was a GO SUB 2 in the rest of the listing & ...
    c1541 c1541 October 2008 MIA/STP/SDP
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