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John Grant InterviewHere is an interview, from Tuesday, with John Grant - director of a 'small firm of Cambridge mathematicians' (ZX81 manual) who wrote Sinclair BASIC f…
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Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
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Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
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The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... Bonnie Langford on the cast list. Anyway, the first season of ... great, the film was very variable, and sadly he never apeared ... the low point in the list of Doctors so far.
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…
... with no variables - so the variable length would be 0.
If it won't LIST then this indicates that the ... might persuade the program to LIST. (POKE 23813,0 or POKE ...Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... it's function name and variable names. Sometimes guessing works , sometimes ... itself looks deserted (except mailing list). I didn't want to ...Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... z88dk documentation is there to list what is available of ... abstract data types library -- linked list, heap, etc ; several sprite ... background. Eg, a linked list data type is available but ... it's function name and variable names. Sometimes guessing works , ...The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…
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* Willy death, game ... character set, could add a variable width font but then would ...New soundcard for zx spectrum[url]http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=cs&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmicklab.narod.ru%2FZXMSoundCard.htm[/url] It's new sound card based on T…
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This feature list sounds cool, if you don ...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 ... entries (in other words, a list of addresses)
* the ... you can use a linked list, for example - the first ... the end of the list. The start address here ... simple menu just a list of strings separated by ...Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …
ROM routine can't be in 23560, because this address in the RAM. It is a system variable. I've already posted link to a section of the BASIC manual with list of all the system variables.for (;;) { }What does that piece of code do in C? Well I am familiar with something like for (i=0; i<100; i++) { } but I haven't understood what happens if you l…
... is used to initialise a variable for example: x = 1. It ... to declare and initialise a variable as in: int x = 1 ... type, i.e. create a variable.
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[ ...Speccy repairs?I've finally got round to testing all the various Spectrums that I seem to have accumulated over the years and discovered that "my" two machines (i.e…
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[*]Seems to output ... just have to twiddle the variable capacitors to the left of ...running dos version of dos X128 and real spectrumI have no experience of using dos(just windows) so how do I run thev dos versions of the above? line by line instructions azppreceated. Please incl…
I would agree with the list presented so far, although I ... will need the BLASTER environment variable set up to match the ...Location of variableHi everyone When basic makes an array how to you find out the location in the ram of where the data is stored. :) Also, does it store the values in…
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9105 IF PEEK v0 ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
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[CODE]100 GO ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... Boozy for the rep items list, came in really handy), taken ... code to remember a simple variable? What a load of pants ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
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Applying these optimizations ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
[B]STEP 3 -[/B] Now let's take a look at the quicksort algorithm, since we will need to properly understand it in order to find further improvements.
The basic idea behind the quicksort algorithm can be represented by the following pseudo-code ...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…
... ]the programmer[/i] knows the variable names when writing the program ... [/i] you need run-time variable assignment.
Common ... /group/bb4w/message/1757]BB4W List[/url], [url=http://www. ... net/System/Library/BLib/Docs/Variable.txt]mdfs.net[/url].)
The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
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Here is a list of features that may put ...SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…
... interrupts, collision detection and animation list because I'd rather do ... of everyone else, etc), with list-like commands to new/move ... allowed to pass a string variable for the gfx$ parameter) or ... down on the to-do list though.
It's ...Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... have to type in a list of possible destinations so the ... thing is possible with a list of addresses (HiSoft BASIC).
variable acceses cannot be compiled into ...Back to BASIC[U][B]Archaeology guide to programs compiled used MCODERII.d[/B][/U] After various people have been talking about "Frank'n'stein" I decided to finis…
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To extract the list of variables you can skip ... . You should find 32 extra variable names. The location for each ... out the value of the variable 'BX', you'd DPEEK(51397 ...Back to BASIC[U][B]Archaeology guide to programs compiled used MCODERII.d[/B][/U] After various people have been talking about "Frank'n'stein" I decided to finis…
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list there suggests that each value ...CrusoeI'm making slow progress in mapping & debugging this game, having to restart several times due to various unfortunate events. The latest was getting …
... the main subroutine were leaving variable numbers of superfluous entries on ... . I'll post a final list of corrections later.
MicroSpeech Entry PointsHello Hardware Guys, Do any of you have any information regarding the MicroSpeech ROM. In particular: 1) Do you know what addressess cause it to p…
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I'm happy ...binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…
... read on the binutils mailing list a while back, but no ... the text section and the variable to the data section.[/quote ... assemble; I assume the 'pos' variable is in a separate source ...Frank N SteinThis one > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001849[/url] Always seems to crash about level 7 (maybe a bit more) or so with an …
... . Each compilation generates its own list of variables etc.. As each ... compiled it overwrites the previous list of variables. This means we ... have code but no list of variables. It's not ... means generating names for each variable and guessing their type.
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... of 23760 the PROG system variable should be holding 23755, which ... file. It does mess up LIST though. Toni Baker devised a ... BASIC but was invisible to LIST; there's an example on ...
