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  • TommyGun UsersI was wondering how many people are actively using TommyGun. I'm thinking of shelving its development as I don't think there is really a need out the…

    ... -designer which could order the data in just the way I wanted ... 's the best out there in terms of usability, presentation, and ... bugs & missing features, but in continuing it's development you ... in-game content. Just seeing the map-editor wanted me to write ...
    bobs bobs February 2006 Development
  • Unpublished spectrum gameHi there I have a Spectrum PDS development environment and before I get rid of my old PC which has an ISA slot I thought I should ask this question i…

    ... just importing the binary file. In Spectaculator, for example, if the ... KB file will overwrite everything in BASIC area, and it *might* ... where the code/data is, and load them in their respective ... Maybe this thread fits better in the "Development" section of ...
    Black Hole Black Hole March 2006 Games
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... a thorough knowldge of Sinclair BASIC. Out of all the ... most similar in structure to the way you would write an assembly ... are the defacto numbering system in BASIC.

    How well ... to how to define the basic interpretation of how certain structures ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2006 Development
  • A hyperthetical Speccy FutureDo you think if the Speccy had've continued through the 90's or maybe up until present day, that maybe they would've made multi-button joysticks/pads…

    ... /EDEN board with a built in BASIC, Speccy emulator, that can be ... into the telly and packaged in a simmilar rubber keyed case ... beauty of the computing scene in the 80's and 90 ... mess and who needs to write small, clean code when they ...
    Saboteur Saboteur April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A hyperthetical Speccy FutureDo you think if the Speccy had've continued through the 90's or maybe up until present day, that maybe they would've made multi-button joysticks/pads…

    ... EDEN board with a built in BASIC, Speccy emulator, that can ... the telly and packaged in a simmilar rubber keyed ... of the computing scene in the 80's and ... mess and who needs to write small, clean code when ... to take. Usually resulting in a pleasant and clean product ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…

    ... stuff together in Basic, but virtually (or literally) no ability to write machine ... be able to write something in an extended basic and have it converted ... .

    You could write a game in basic, use small m/c ...
    mulder mulder April 2006 Development
  • TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…

    ... together in Basic, but virtually (or literally) no ability to write machine ... be able to write something in an extended basic and have it ... M which could be written in Basic, Pascal, Fortran, whatever and ... no smooth path yet to write in Basic and compile to final ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... is, is there a way in basic to make it print this ... could be a major failing in this projeect[/quote]

    write the output of a cat ... "cat tab exp" is formatted in a predictable way so it ...
    dasteph dasteph April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • United 93, Even Rumsfield Said they Shot it Down :-[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Xoxaf1Al0&feature=Views&page=5&t=t&f=b[/url]

    How about we just flip a coin

    or better still I'll write a program in Basic to do it then submit it to this year's crap games compo.
    chop983 chop983 May 2006 Chit chat
  • compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …

    ... . My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it ... with the speed increase Hisoft BASIC gives me[/QUOTE]

    in integers then you could try ZIP, Hisoft BASIC with ...

    well, you could write few short benchmarks a try ...
    Fikee Fikee June 2006 Development
  • compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …

    ... Sudoku Solver for the Spectrum in Basic and then compiled it using ... is in my signature.

    It`s best to write a ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins June 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... BASIC program and want to continue without losing all the data in ... in where you ran the program and you had to enter data ... SAVE the program and data. I could never ... I would enter the data and RUN the program ... immediately cleared all the data. It took me a ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …

    ... +3 use the same 6K data in 8K sector trick, as it ... .1+) or CPDWrite used to write it out to a real ... should look at converting your data to single long (pre-packed ... . If it looks like your data is small enough to fit ...
    obo obo August 2006 Games
  • SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…

    ... address. As you suggested, in emulation terms only 543 ... sector copier, SECTORCOPY, is a BASIC wrapper around * READ.
    ... 543 + 1 byte for MDR write protection)

    ... write protection in the resulting MDR.
    Answer n for no write protection in ...
    jp jp August 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • A Public Service AnnouncementThis thread is here for anyone to plug brand-new websites. I'll read it, so you'll get at least some marketing/exposure out of it... I'll start the …

    ... gone...]It's written in BASIC, should work in XP (that's what ... instructions. It should be placed in C:/Program Files/ECSE/HARRIS ... />

    Nooooo - when YOU write software, YOU decide where it ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty August 2006 Announcements
  • 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 ... buffer and the system variables in BASIC, but they could have set ... to continue reading video data from anywhere else in memory, when it ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... do software sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. ... and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. ... do with the built in BASIC, but I've seen ... implement graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and ... to hold graphics or sound data.

    BTW ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... lack of Sinclair Basic - such functions are present in better Basics and ... . I never wrote a BASIC program that was too large ... it is possible to write them in Sinclair BASIC, albeit a *lot* ... bit manipulation, but surely no BASIC in the early/mid eighties did?
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... did my A level project in it; BASIC and assembler were not ... of the decent games written in BASIC seem fairly spaghetti-like too ... to is the assertion that BASIC programmers are tainted with no ... anything he ever managed to write :-)[/QUOTE]

    Seeing ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... concepts of OOP, not actually write programs in it or anything.
    write a website in Frontpage and tick ... programmers are lacking is the basic problem solving skills that programmers ... age levels. Just like Basic the user can get instant ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... s worth - especally when your in the business of producing Graphical ... there it's very quick in displaing this information. [/FONT ... is all written in BASIC, I've poked M/C Data statements (for ... routine). I still believe Conventional BASIC is capable, just a bit ...
    CP/M User CP/M User September 2006 Development
  • External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…

    ... /> I suspect I could write a short Basic program that would take ... much scope there would be in file transfer.
    Maybe copying ... 2 modems and the PSTN in place of
    the null ... -modem cable.

    Questions (in addition to my theories above ...
    The_Beard The_Beard October 2006 Hardware
  • +2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…

    ... 't be compatible with 128 basic anymore, but you will be ... the ramdisk and read and write data as streams, perhaps applying decompression ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Development
  • How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…

    If your writing in basic get Basin from the pc/windows emulators page [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html#pcwin]here[/url] it's the last one on the list and is specially written for people wanting to write in Basic
    chop983 chop983 October 2006 Emulators
  • Ideas for possible entries for CSSCGC 2006Has anybody got any good ideas for possible entries to the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2006? (CSSCGC 2006?) Here's a few of the ideas I'…

    [QUOTE=alban lusitanae]I'm just starting to do things in BASIC, so I can't code yet.[/QUOTE]

    Sounds like you'd be perfect to write a game for the CSSCGC! :D
    robert@fm robert@fm October 2006 Games
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... you want to try to write in C then z88dk is a ... to the screen in a very similar manner as in Basic. And then ... /> If you would like to write in Basic, Basin is the ideal tool ... . Using Basin you can write your basic program from the comfort of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…

    ... address 16384 - you can write a short BASIC program to poke values ... how to put things in the right place in the Speccy's ...
    Winston Winston November 2006 Development
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... people here who still write things for the ... />
    [quote](...) The discussion in that thread is a bit ... I?ll start with Basic for TS2068 because I? ... possible to work with sprites in basic?

    ... high resolution puzzle Game in Basic
    2- Make ...
    Paulo Kathanni Paulo Kathanni November 2006 Games
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... write it.

    [quote]
    First, I´ll start with Basic ... possible to work with sprites in basic?
    [/quote]

    Not ... be drawn in software on the spectrum and 2068, basic is much ... with almost no effort from basic.

    On the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
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