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  • that "listing variables during runtime" thingWell, I did eventually finish this, but with my meds playing up I don't have much time each day that I can spend at the computer, so it's taken rathe…

    ... Part the 1st - the BASIC variables lister BASIC listing:
    [url]http:// ... br /> * The main program variables are kept distinct from the ... listing routine variables by shifting (VARS) to ... elsewhere a dummy DEFADD space needs to be assigned ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Loading Screen ProblemI am putting together files on a tape that my game needs. The problem that I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt by …

    ... use any of the system variables or BASIC (apart from the a ... to make a bit of space in a more central position ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside August 2006 Development
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... loaded or saved using Spectrum BASIC. A self extract method is ... /> PROGRAM.BIN

    A BASIC listing can be displayed by ... the screen file last as BASIC will corrupt the display by ... with plenty of space for the system variables and BASIC program area. The ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Announcements
  • AGES v.2 gamebook solverAll this talk of mazes has been leading up to the release of the latest (numbered 2, but more like 22) version of my gamebook solver programs, which …

    ... switching, self-relocation, secondary independent variables space (temporarily in the display file ... after and saved with the BASIC, and the search routine itself ... of course. Lots of BASIC and assembler listings with comments ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2011 Announcements
  • TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…

    ... RAM could be used for variables. The OS would copy a ... amounts of space for your program and your variables. Since BASIC code had ... of the vast storage space AROS allowed for variables. I'd occasionally ... back up the variables so I could turn off ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Release 10 releasedHi all, A quick note to let you know that BASin_r10 is out as of now. I've gone off on something of a tangent now with BASin, it's more like what …

    ... be to automatically translate the basic code into mc , but ... Would the variables be BASIC compatible? Use ROM routines (and save space) or ... make the creation of new basic programs a little more ... difference as they're just BASIC extensions.

    If ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2004 Emulators
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... /> And I hated the new BASIC interface. Typing was terrible, as ... speed up the notoriously slow BASIC. In fact, it was even ... to set aside so much space in the 128K of RAM ... printer buffer and the system variables in BASIC, but they could have ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... /> [B]C VARIABLES[/B]

    In Basic you have integer ... floating point and string variables. Sinclair basic hides the distinction between ... type, the compiler allocates space for it in memory ... 65535.

    Variables holding memory addresses can be ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... the 1.5K of the BASIC area that's present on ... over the system variables and BASIC and re-allocate the space for the ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... ;"filename"' command use any stack space?

    This theory ... the image avoiding the system variables and BASIC area.

    ... finding about 1024 BYTES of space in a snapshot file would ... being compressed into a smaller space to make room for about ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... I saved a lot of space in the third and fourth ... attribute file - including the system variables area) was for malloc(), ... allocation can overwrite the system variables and BASIC loader without any problem ... can use malloc() to allocate space for sprite data, if ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Brand new software
  • How to join 2 basic programs? having no luck with basinHow do you join two programs together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made to a basic text base…

    ... you said it was a BASIC program. There's a certain ... " error if there's insufficient space either to load the second ... too low or else the variables space is too big. The former ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…

    ... don't try returning to BASIC, especially on a 128.
    space and moves the system variables or BASIC around may ... mean that the CLEAR statement in your BASIC ...
    joefish joefish January 2012 Development
  • How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…

    ... don't try returning to BASIC, especially on a 128.
    space and moves the system variables or BASIC around may ... mean that the CLEAR statement in your BASIC ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2012 Development
  • Unprotecting games without knowning m.c.DivIDE or MB02 users don't need unprotected games, but those who still use the Microdrive, Wafadrive, Timex FDD, +3, Plus D, Disciple or use the new …

    ... , but I only have a basic concept of JP, LDIR, etc ... don't overwrite the System Variables and BASIC area.

    [url ... /> -Once a game loader leaves BASIC permanently and starts running machine ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX80 Snapshot queryDoes anyone know why Z80 snapshots store some data as different values? I was initially trying to print the Outlet magazine Outdex files from Master…

    ... arcane method of storing system variables, Spectrum Basic, etc, why would pure ...
    Little Hal Little Hal March 2009 Emulators
  • text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …

    ... machine code and basic, but it works with basic variables. The basic part is ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • New versions of ZX-Editor and ZX-Preview publishedDear ZX-Spectrum Emulator fans, I want to announce that I published new versions of ZX-Editor Second Edition and ZX-Preview today. Refer to [url]www…

    ... split each BASIC data into two parts: BASIC program and BASIC variables. You may ... edit all BASIC program and BASIC variables directly ... grammer analysis, such as variables, Beta Basic procedures and perhaps, in ...
    clausjahn clausjahn September 2007 Announcements
  • Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…

    ... Basic I have so many letters that can be used as variables ... />
    If you think of variables as nothing but placeholders for ... /c provides a lot more variables than BASIC because any memory location ... variable! It's just that BASIC makes it easier to manipulate ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Why does the speccy make you hear loading?Always wondered this, of all the 8-bit 'puters I have owned, only the Speccy makes you listen to the loading sounds from the tape, why??? I assume it…

    ... , the sweet sound of system variables, UDGs, BASIC... :grin:

    When ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2009 Hardware
  • Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …

    ... expressions, whilst genuine ZX Sinclair BASIC does. So I had to ... check them against 48K BASIC in an emulator.
    [/quote ... you access to your compiled variables from BASIC - does yours?

    Dunny Dunny May 2009 Development
  • Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …

    ... it quite often to check BASIC programs behaviors and compare ... you access to your compiled variables from BASIC - does yours?D.[/ ... /> Nope, ZX BASIC does not. ZX BASIC just output Z80 code ... read/write machine code variables from Sinclair BASIC using PEEK and ...
    boriel boriel May 2009 Development
  • How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…

    65368 is the value of USR "A". Just PRINT USR "A".

    You will have a LOT less addresses to remember (
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…

    ... ;466505]Yes. OUT 255, .
    BASIC has no support for these ... FAQ, but presumably system variables and BASIC start in the same place ... than a few lines of BASIC you'll be putting funny ...
    joefish joefish August 2010 Development
  • TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…

    ... FAQ, but presumably system variables and BASIC start in the same place ... than a few lines of BASIC you'll be putting funny ... similar) you can see your BASIC listing appear on screen in ...
    ccowley ccowley August 2010 Development
  • Mr Kizza being rather cheeky ....again !Someone from Atari Age contacted me and pointed me at this... [url]http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/163375-back-to-basics/page__pid__2095588#ent…

    ... then in learning loops/processes/variables in BASIC. Bit like Football Manager ... some graphics or a few variables and make out it was ... because i changed a few variables in an old game someone ...
    psj3809 psj3809 September 2010 Games
  • logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…

    I use scanning to move variables from BASIC to MC, like this
    BASIC.

    Another example used ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2010 Development
  • logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…

    ... /> I use scanning to move variables from BASIC to MC, like this ... example of "new commands for BASIC" using the classic method of ... the sentence is executed, as BASIC doesn't evaluate expressions within ... into the REM sentence (as BASIC does normally when you hit ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2010 Development
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... to micro-drive), a simple BASIC program would load part one ... make the calculation easy. The BASIC load filename may corrupt some ... an emulator and go to BASIC in 48K mode.
    Type ... 29951 to avoid the system variables and BASIC program area.

    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…

    ... not sure how this "no variables" thing will work for me ... provides greater freedom for storing "variables" than BASIC, as any location, or ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
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