Hello All

I have download the ZX Basic Compiler and I dont know which Compiler do I have click as I want type in Basic

There is

W9xpopen.exe
ZXb.exe
ZXbpp.exe

I do know other one is asm (ZXbasm.exe)

please let me know

It occurs to me that a lot of game programmers would use screen address lookup tables - I've included one in with several library routines at this point.

I think we need to standardize this important library, to be honest.


1> It should be easily includable, and documented on its use. And only let itself be included once! Perhaps setting some parameter, such that the compiler includes it in automatically?
- it must, of course, be aligned. (which is another topic - the align code should be really clever about not wasting bytes, if it can squeeze some other code up in the "missed space"

2> It should be used, if available, by other ZX Basic functions - I'm thinking in particular of plot and draw, which use the ROM routine PIXELADD. Very important this. If we're willing to give up memory for a table, lets have everything use it!

3> It should be user-replaceable, if they follow the structure - so that they can define their own screen buffer, and fast-lookup screen addresses in the buffer, instead.

Nowhere near finished, but it turning into a hefty dissertation on how to use ZX Basic.

Complaints about errors, typos, not finishing it for the next five years, and inability to write back to me please.

http://goo.gl/4jPd5

Just one small question. How to make Line Feed with Print with ZXBC?
in Sinclair BASIC this worked:

I adapted some Screen clearing routines posted on WOS here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38426">http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/s ... hp?t=38426</a><!-- m --> for ZXBC. Maybe useful for other coders:

hi again!

Finally, i tried my first attempt, unsuccessfully, on trying to create a .rom msx file with Boriel's zxbasic compiler, based on what i started at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:MSX">http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:MSX</a><!-- m --> . The idea for this test is only trying a simple thing like having a grey background and a red border, and clean the screen, nothing more, only for testing.

This can be frustrating at first, but maybe approaches like this can help on extending the target hardware, and how can help it being more flexible, as Boriel also wanted.

i tried with this:

code.bas

i started to try proportional text writing on zxbasic - it's far incomplete (not printing from strings yet) and slow

test.bas

Not my work - but Einar Saukas has been tweaking ZXODUS.

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38179">http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/s ... hp?t=38179</a><!-- m -->

He's managed to shoehorn it working into ZX Basic too

Yesterday I found a old printout of the Sprinter 2000 BIOS 2.12 functions, I did the printout before the site folded. Unfortunaly the Informations are not available anywhere else on the Internet, so I scanned them to DJVU format and even if it looks like some thing was cropped out, I think, this informations will be very useful for making a Sprinter Target in ZXBC. So I uploaded it here:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://min.us/mbk23elfOF">http://min.us/mbk23elfOF</a><!-- m -->
I do not have BIOS 3.0 functions...
I used DJVU because it produces files in size on 1/10 of PDF at much higher quality.
A very good reader for DJVU format can be downloaded here:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://code.google.com/p/windjview-subpix/">http://code.google.com/p/windjview-subpix/</a><!-- m -->

I FINALLY (I've been meaning to for years) Got around to making Alvin Albrecht's Fill routine work in ZX BASIC, I think.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4903664/SPFill.zip

Compile SPPFill.bas and it pulls in all the other bits, which I've hacked to ignore timex modes.


Boriel - I think this, with a bit of clean up, should possibly go into the compiler as available.

Thanks, Na_th_an for reminding me of SPLIB2, which made me see this again, and go "Right, I'm gonna do this this time..."