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  • Can any C experts help me - have hit an impasseHere is an excerpt from my attempt to program a Bridge game in C. Can you spot where I'm goiing wrong? I am trying to count the points in each ha…

    ... info for the offset calculation. Arrays are always passed as pointers ... to add, C99 introduced VLAs (variable length arrays) which I never use so ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2014 Chit chat
  • Okay so can you save text as a data array ?So I was playing with this but I'm obviously not doing this correctly. [code] 10 INPUT "Enter some text: ";a$ 20 PRINT a$ RUN [/code] Now i'm…

    ... to be fixed length though, because Sinclair BASIC doesn't do variable length arrays.
    AndyC AndyC April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • DocumentationI'm sure someone has already answered this, but I'm new to these forums. Could someone provide me with documentation about how data is stored in ZX …

    ... byte header block and a variable length data block.

    Each ... 0x02 for character and numeric arrays in an order I can ... )
    * Two bytes for the length of the data block which ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall September 2005 Development
  • Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance

    ... your strings may have a variable length. For example, you may order ... a fit". They are of variable length, so you may want to ... doesn't define anything like arrays. I'd suggest for a ...
    Winston Winston June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…

    ... is that other BASIC arrays do not use ... variable depending on the length of the string.
    Sinclair BASIC arrays ... are best viewed as arrays ... of strings of variable length, usually 255 max length. - on other ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Help sought extracting dataAmong yesterday's TZX Vault update are all titles from [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=%5EPenguin+Study+Software$&loadpic…

    ... series of pointers into six variable length element arrays to construct each commentary ... . Pointers to the other five arrays are two bytes, being an ... code mappings, the six word arrays, and both the encoded and ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... be used for stacks or arrays of any size, which are ... size for each channel is variable length and could include buffers.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... be used for stacks or arrays of any size, which are ... size for each channel is variable length and could include buffers.[/QUOTE ...
    TVzombie TVzombie February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …

    ... into separate text & data arrays, and using 2-byte instead ... with 1-byte pointers to variable length rows with 2-byte pointers ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 New game ideas
  • House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …

    ... into separate data & description arrays to save space, although that ... the actions array to use variable length rows, again to save space ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 New game ideas
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... defined in an array with variable length rows (ie. tracing routes on ... a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if ... [b]name[/b] of another variable, then:

    LET a ... write a routine for handling arrays with the same structure but ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2012 Announcements
  • im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…

    ... ]

    Unfortunately, the two arrays t$(characters) & v$(attributes ... problem is that t$() has variable length elements, which isn't supported ... the rows to the maximum length used. (I'm using the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS 0.752 Now available!Ok, after the heroic efforts of ASH-II and Galileo finding as many bugs as they can, the result is a more stable and capable interpreter! Here's wha…

    ... index sizes
    Spaces in variable names are accepted now, but ... an issue with mixed fixed-length and variable length strings in a structure ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • need a new method for m/c parameter assignmentI've been using a variable length function of the form: "FN a$(a$,a[,b...,z])=STR$ USR md" to search a data table and return a string result. By putt…

    I've been using a variable length function of the form:
    " ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Development
  • MOVE_M Object Movement Manager for BASICAs moving things around on the screen is usually the slowest part of a game written in BASIC, I've been pottering around with this routine to handle …

    ... +4 +5 +6
    ; type+length+Vlohi+Hlohi+Vstep+Hstep+ATTR ... = NPC guarding
    ; 5 = extending (variable length) block
    ; 6 = sliding (fixed ... length) block
    ; length = types 0->3 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... to do a lot of variable-length shifting, which I presume is ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA October 2016 Development
  • An MC question (sorry, there's no MC forum to post to!)Ok, still struggling with learning MC - but am getting there. I just can't find anywhere on the web / in books that explains how to do arrays in MC.…

    ... b)" where "b" is a variable.

    [quote]
    variable so you can use ... instruction and is not variable. For arrays you want to ... access an index using a variable ... a constant and not a variable.

    It ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…

    ... think we should move the variable-length fields (sync table and alphabet ...
    Luca Luca November 2005 Emulators
  • funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…

    ... had to write a proper variable length record random access file handling ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2007 Games
  • 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 …

    ... and over? Or does the variable get trashed from the list ... matter when you define your variable (beginning of the program, ... because whenever you REASSIGN a variable, it puts it back to ... issue then strings which are variable length.

    Chapter 24 of ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…

    ... BASIC line number and length -> effective length=62B)
    ;
    ... LINE NUMBER and BASIC LINE LENGTH
    ;such basic ... offset
    ;followed by variable length encoded match length

    ;at ... ;now we have to decode length
    ;as we suppose ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2008 Development
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... multi-dim array that requires variable length strings to be handled during ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... multi-dim array that requires variable length strings to be handled during ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • I want a DivIDE but....I need help, I want to get a DivIDE but I need some advice. Which one do I go for DivIDE or RWAPS DivIDE+ (when they become available). Which firmwa…

    ... , right? :-) - and with compression, the variable-length data makes it a nightmare ...
    gasman gasman August 2009 Development
  • I want a DivIDE but....I need help, I want to get a DivIDE but I need some advice. Which one do I go for DivIDE or RWAPS DivIDE+ (when they become available). Which firmwa…

    ... , right? :-) - and with compression, the variable-length data makes it a nightmare ...
    Hood Hood August 2009 Development
  • When would you use LD A,R ?Can anyone tell me a practical use of LD A,R and LD R,A I am confused when you would need to use it? Cheers

    ... ethernet chip that takes a variable length of time, and the next ... there operations that take a variable length of time for the eth ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Development
  • many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…

    ... code doing more stuff, the variable length frames mean that the sector ...
    gasman gasman December 2009 Development
  • Spectrum machine language filesHopefully this will get moderated to the correct forum, if I'm in the wrong place.. I've failed to get my old 48K Spectrum microdrive files, via the…

    ... 'll need to know the length of your BASIC program, and ... with no variables - so the variable length would be 0.
    You ...
    Jimmy Jimmy January 2010 Emulators
  • Anybody got a hack for PAW'd games?Has anybody got a hack to browse the text in PAW'd games?

    ... the right place in the variable length table. Maybe you can optimise ...
    Bandit Bandit January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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