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  Wish Add Betadisk Syntax
Posted by: Luzie - 2016-02-23, 08:31 PM - Forum: Wishlist - Replies (3)

Hi,

my wish:

Can you please add Betadisk-BASIC-Syntax:

Betadisk 48k TRDOS v4 e.g.: RANDOMIZE USR 15363: REM: SAVE "X" CODE 16384,6912
or:
Betadisk 128k TRDOS v5 e.g.: RANDOMIZE USR 15619: REM: SAVE "X" CODE 16384,6912

Both change the adress of the BASIC-interpreter to point behind the REM: and than do a call to ROM
Betadisk 48k TRDOS v4 to: 15363
or:
Betadisk 128k TRDOS v5 to: 15619

and after that restore the BASIC-interpreter-pointer to the next line

Regards,

Luzie

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  Digraph Compression
Posted by: britlion - 2016-02-15, 10:20 PM - Forum: ZX Basic Compiler - Replies (7)

After reading a note by Cheveron about digraph compression ( http://foro.speccy.org/viewtopic.php?f=6...aph#p33001) I thought I'd run up the English language version to see what it looked like.

If we take http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-20...raphs.html as a start, and work out what the value of first letter and second letter are, I get this table in the end:

Code:
1st Frq 2nd Frq e 3.24 n 2.88 t 2.65 e 2.52 h 2.3 t 2.39 i 1.9 h 1.52 a 1.87 r 1.43 o 1.66 s 1.35 n 1.37 d 1.18 s 0.74 a 1.13 r 0.72 i 0.85 l 0.1 o 0.52 d 0.09 u 0.5 v 0.04 g 0.18 u 0.02 f 0.16 l 0.09

Thinking about this, you could store these as a nybble each:
Code:
Val bin Lft Rght 00 0000 e n 01 0001 t e 02 0010 h t 03 0011 i h 04 0100 a r 05 0101 o s 06 0110 n d 07 0111 s a 08 1000 r i 09 1001 l o 10 1010 d u 11 1011 v g 12 1100 u f 13 1101 space l 14 1110 Not Digraph space 15 1111 Not Digraph
And if the first three bits are 1 (nybble is > 13), you could use the last 5 bits for the letters A-Z comfortably. There's even room for a few other symbols in there. You might have to use one of them to express some non compression symbol and use a separate byte for capitals (or non capitals), and other symbols. Though clearly 26 letters + space is the default for the first 27 numbers of the 5 bits. In a real world usage, you'd probably find the four most common non lowercase characters, and put those in, and then use 255 to mean "use the full next byte as the character code". This does mean that some symbols go double byte, but that's compression for you - you can always find a case that's bigger than the original.


Not done anything else with it yet, but I thought the thought experiment might be useful if you are going to allocate bits to such a compression scheme.

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  [bordun-skylancer] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-02-12, 03:10 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the bordun’s Sky Lancer arcade machine
( the wiki page related to this thread is at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Released_Programs_-_BordunSkyLancer">http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php ... nSkyLancer</a><!-- m --> )



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  [kaneko-fightingroller] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-02-03, 12:03 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Kaneko’s Fighting Roller arcade machine
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  [jaleco-dday] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-01-22, 02:22 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Jaleco’s D-Day arcade machine
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  [jaleco-fieldcombat] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-01-22, 02:19 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Jaleco’s Field Combat arcade machine
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  [jaleco-moeroproyakyuuhomerunkyousou] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-01-22, 02:16 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Jaleco’s Moero Pro Yakyuu Homerun Kyousou arcade machine
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  [jaleco-naughtyboy] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-01-19, 09:11 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Jaleco’s Naughty Boy arcade machine
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  [tecmo-solomonskey] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-01-13, 03:28 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Tecmo’s Solomons’s Key arcade machine
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  [tehkan-bombjack] first test
Posted by: nitrofurano - 2016-01-13, 03:26 PM - Forum: Other Archs - No Replies

first test for the Tehkan’s Bomb Jack arcade machine
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