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  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... s still in planning. The idea is to write a ... course, with the interpreted BASIC being available from boot up ... OS offers. As the BASIC will also serve as ... rewriting old Spectrum games in BASIC might actually be a ... I need to know in order to write an OS - using ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... will be able to program in basic in the 512x192 mode. You ... of streams for printing in the 512x192 mode and ... LINE for line drawing in the 512x192 mode. The ... out to 128 characters across in the 512x192 mode -- ... up to us in the present to write things for the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…

    ... . If you're going to write a book on any subject ... . It had a better built-in BASIC, and I seem to recall ... C64 was a fine machine in its own right, there really ... to talk a more successful (in the UK at least) competitor ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... need display, then perhaps write a program (in BASIC perhaps) which loads ... the screen in and then output ... languages are quite capable (or BASIC at least should be, ... store it into an array, BASIC might be easier though ( ...
    CP/M User CP/M User December 2006 Development
  • Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…

    ... 'm sure they were added in MasterDOS, although writing your code ... READ AT in BASIC when used for disk access ... and effectively write your ... check what Adrian wrote up in one of his tutorials dealing ... with disk use in assembler, as he used the ...
    Quazar Quazar January 2007 Development
  • 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"/"…

    ... wrote a series of games in 1988-90 called 'Explorers' ... (i think there were 5 in all). It was based on ... of thing. I wrote them in Basic and they were actually quite ... did get a free game in return! I must have ... got to grips enough to write a full game. After ...
    zx1 zx1 January 2007 Games
  • Little BASIC gameTry to make all standard BASIC-errors and tell us how you did it. Not allowed i.e. : PRINT USR 1362 D - Break cont-repeats but ok 10 GO TO 10 RU…

    ... Name"
    [B]C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1[/B]

    [B]E Out of DATA, 0:1[/B]
    [/code ...
    Marcelo Marcelo January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…

    In BASIC, a number is stored in two formats... text (the number ... calculator, etc). If you write a small BASIC program (10 LOAD "" CODE ... to the casual reader the BASIC will be 10 LOAD "" ... be interpreted by BASIC as the original... because BASIC looks at the ...
    icabod icabod January 2007 Emulators
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... ROM (29F040 PLCC in socket, address and data lines are corrected ... Q5 must be set to write-enable in MB-02 mode.
    in this case). In DivIDE mode, last ... to use custom ROM banks in ZX128.
    2. Q3 ... - when set in ROM/RAM mode, DivIDE traps ...
    rwap rwap January 2007 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... /> Agreed, when I occasionally write some ZX BASIC, I always end up ... [i]wanting[/i] to write:
    [code]
    LET a = IN 31
    IF ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz February 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... is binary compatibility. Modifying basic code and intoducing new codes ... speed will be better to write a compiler than a ... problem with large BASIC programs.

    Current BASIC compilers get ... who used to be faster in BASIC than the speccy... you have ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ...
    1) Do crap basic games that I wrote count ... and Dash-it written in BASIC by me can be classified ... 2) I converted 2 type-in BASIC programs from books to QUILLed ... />
    1) If YOU write a program and it's ... you mean a total re-write, or just the addition ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Infoseek database
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ... ;170444]
    1) If YOU write a program and it's ... you mean a total re-write, or just the addition/modification ... />
    The original programs were in BASIC. I merely transfered them to ... the QUILL, typing in room descriptions, objects list, events ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Infoseek database
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... shapes in Java.

    This inspired me to write the following BASIC ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/url]

    in action or download this SNA ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.sna[/url]
    Geoff Geoff February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... it breaks compatibility completely. The BASIC was never designed to be ... start from scratch and write a new BASIC (as was done on ... you write everything from scratch for speed. It would run BASIC the ... loosing speed and new features in BASIC to get those last few ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... shapes in Java.
    This inspired me to write the following BASIC program ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/URL]
    Load ... BASin to see the program in action or download this SNA ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.sna[/URL][/quote]
    Marcelo Marcelo February 2007 Development
  • PAW or GAC?Greetings all :) You might have heard me saying I was about to start in the programming of (quite silly and totally unworthy playing) games in BASIC…

    ... can both be used to write adventures of a professional standard ... you'd need.

    In many cases they're overkill ... of great adventure games written in BASIC or with The Quill and ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Games
  • PAW or GAC?Greetings all :) You might have heard me saying I was about to start in the programming of (quite silly and totally unworthy playing) games in BASIC…

    Good luck.

    It's great to have so many resources available today. 15 years ago the only resources I had were some british and spanish magazines. And everytime I wanted to write a game in BASIC I would write everything from scratch. :grin:
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2007 Games
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... , and I reformatted the Cybernoid data (using BASIC :)).

    But now ... it was from the description in the Sinclair manual.


    Edit 2: Ha Ha! In comparison to ver0.4, this ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... deciding what takes precedent in the final screen data:
    2/ Correctly ... there. Both will be slow in BASIC.
    3/ additional problems ... foresee is implementing this temporarily in a per-game, or ... why not hijack the music data area? Doesn't this reset ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks

    ... -merge and auto-run BASIC programs (most of them ... load the basic program as a code file in address ... program to examine the BASIC listing and decimal contents ... R: Tape Loading Error kick in

    [QUOTE ...
    If you write it in Postfix form then you can ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... containing both Spectrum and ZX81 data.)

    As it ... without caring what machine the data is for. Unlike TZX, ... the data [i]means[/i] - such as ones for extracting BASIC listings ... just has to output its data in some sort of binary representation ...
    gasman gasman May 2007 Emulators
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... br /> -Create a new numeric data array ( m(88 ), for eg ... PEEK to store the data in the array, but I ... Create a routine to read data from the m array and ... in the 8-bit wall byte. The reverse keeps the basic ... simple whilst plotting the wall in the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ...
    -Create a new numeric data array ( m(88 ), for eg ... and PEEK to store the data in the array, but I know ... -Create a routine to read data from the m array and ... not consume 88 bytes of data, but a little over ... first maze at 60000 using BASIC or machine code.
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... 144 instead of 'A' in graphics mode?
    -Can ... store UDGs in a REM statemen instead of using DATA?
    You may store ANY data in ANY memory. The reason why ... JR NZ. So all BASIC-commands are allowed as ... MC.
    PEEKing your data from REM is therefore ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP May 2007 Development
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... b, x, y etc) in BASIC, you won't go far ... /> I can't actually write the routine for you unless ... RET ; Return back to your basic program

    To ... br /> RET ; back to basic

    I've ... but assemblers differ somewhat in their explanations of things, ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…

    ... memory that holds the display data has values that directly relate ... holds each row of pixels in each character, not entire ... goes through the corresponding character data, one row at a time ... anything similar you could do in BASIC.

    Other computers, ...
    hldswrth hldswrth May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…

    ... instructions, and just type in 10 PRINT "HELLO" rather ... ' I had just typed in CODE after the "", stupid ... you take written something in basic then trying to convert ... ok in basic
    or
    b) write my game in MC ... guys for all your help in the above.

    Toxitalk Toxitalk June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…

    ... /> c) figure out what in your program is breaking the ... you want to start writing in Machine code, I've ... games are a no-no in basic full stop, as Ive ... way for a basic, one way for a basic compiler and ... by the same token no doubt write it in ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…

    ... />
    I think the hisoft basic compiler is generally regarded as ... started to write some articles on making games using compiled basic in ZXSF ... games are a no-no in basic full stop, as Ive learnt ...
    Some examples of compiled basic games that can give an ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Sinclair Basic
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