Hi
I'm new here, so excuse me if anyone asked this before. I tryed to search for it but didnt find anything.

So i'm playing with ZX basic for last week or so and i was doing some of my usual tests.
In one of them i was trying to print out a block of characters with random ink and color. And because making a loop that will print it character by character is rather slow, i tryed to be clever. It didn't work ^_^

So my problem:

i wanted to make a string variable with control codes that i would print out. And sure enough if i do

p$="\{i5}X"
print p$

it work just fine.


Problem is when i want to put some randomness to it and do something like

i$=str(int(rnd*7))
p$="\{i"+i$+"}X"
print p$

it outputs

\{i2}X

instead of colored X. In my mind, it should work...
Am i doing something wrong?

Also, implementing AT as \{ax,y} like it works in BASin would be nice ^_^

Thanks for your help

just a simple slideshow for zx81 (as seen at https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/r...rams/zx81/ )

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first test for the Meadows’ Warp Speed arcade machine
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INPUT wont be recognized by the compiler! Help! Is there any workaround?

Hello everyone!
I have this slight problem with INPUT. INPUT seems to be unrecognized by the compiler. Wherever I put input it just wouldnt work. Is there any workaround? Thanks.

just some tests - this one is for cpc+ (gx4000) display mode 1 (as shown at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Released_Programs_-_AmstradCPC#test01_displaymode1">http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php ... splaymode1</a><!-- m --> )

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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

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:

first test for the bordun’s Sky Lancer arcade machine
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first test for the Kaneko’s Fighting Roller arcade machine
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