Hola a todos, gracias por recibirme en este foro. Sorry por escribir en español, intente' traducir mi texto con el traductor de Google pero confunde mas de lo que explica.

Les cuento que estoy creando un TRACKER para el AY 3-8912 con zx boriel puramente en basic, para poder hacerle Musica y FX a mis juegos, claro que tambien para compartirlo (y aunque alguien me explique como compilar WYZ player, creo que tiene mucho mas mérito para mi, lo tomo como desafio propio).

No es la primera vez que me sucede que alguna rutina no me funciona. Puntualmente en este TOPIC les dejare' las que mas me dieron problema y no entiendo donde esta mi error.

Este "retazo" de rutina funciona con una doble tabla ascii alojada en memoria (50000) brindando 64 columnas a imprimir, para aprovechar mas pantalla. (si, ya se que en LIBRARY del compilador tengo programita que imprime en 64 col, que tampoco se como se usa, pero como dije, a mi me gusta el desafio: "hazlo tu mismo"... tambien se que esta' es bastante precaria a lo basic espectrumero, pero para mejorarla, necesito primero que nada que funcione)

Hi,

Whenever compiling any ZX BASIC program that uses the latest BIFROST* interface library, it will always produce the following warnings:

If you search on youtube for 'micro men' there is a BBC movie about Clive Sinclair and the computers he made.

I have decide to post this game here because, even when it's a crap game, it's somehow fun to play and has that -one more try- factor.

It's done 100% with boriel's compiler, but uses some external routines like the 64 char print (from britlion, iirc) and a decompression routine by metalbrain adapted to work with this compiler.

I usually does these crap games as a routine laboratory for the moment I finally decide to do a proper game, but this one is a bit less crap than the rest (but it's crap still).





If anyone is interested, it's uploaded in this year's CSSCGC competition:

http://cgc.zx.gen.tr/index.php?game=0628182038

I hope you like it

First something easy I spotted in DRAW.ASM, there are two EQU's that point to the same address

I like having my pathfinding code in a seperate file,
BUT the pathfinding code has to use an array from main.bas

I get error message saying
identifier 'UnitExists' is a function, not a var

but really its an array


I could put Dim UnitExists in the pathfinding.bas file

but what if another included file needs to reference UnitExists?

UnitExists needs to be 'global' somehow

I recently discovered ZX Basis Compiler and this forum and it brought back some memories off the days that i owned and used a ZX Spectrum (48k and later a 128k) . I have collected some emulators over the years so i tried to compile some programs, one off witch made a little drawing using some calculation, it look a little different from the normal basic version.

It comes down to converting a float to a integer.

INT 3.9 gives 3 in normal basic and compiled
INT -3.9 in normal basic this is -4 but compiled the answer is -3
The correct answer is -4 according to the ZX basic manual (and also according other programming languages )

I tried zxb .exe version 1.2.9-s758 and zxb version 1.2.9-s882

this problem also occurrence with CAST(integer,float)

Regards

Boriel has included a better random function in the code; but this passes through floating point numbers, which is potentially fairly slow - and for games we usually require integer numbers anyway!

I've written a few functions that are a possible alternative.

This is the base function that does the hard work of generating a random number from 0-255 in the A register (or as a return value, conveniently enough). This is the same random number generator that Boriel is using, incidentally. (Based pretty much wholly on Patrik Rak's stream random generator).

Oh dear.


DEFB 157
DEFB "Man(e;@ "
DEFB 161

test.bas:1001 Error: illegal preprocessor character '@'
Build Failed!

So much for that idea.

I can do

DEFB 1,2,3,4

And I can do

DEFB "Hello World"

But I can't do

DEFB "Hello World",10

And I wish I could