Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects Comparison of BASIC Keywords Between ZX Spectrum and Other Microcomputers Most microcomputers of the 1970s and 1980s incorporated BASIC within their operating systems. On these comput ...
... e British Broadcasting Corporation's Computer Literacy Project. It has a very structured version of BASIC called BBC BASIC which includes named procedures, REPEAT...UNTIL structure, multi-line functions and long name variables.The Acorn Ele ...
Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects Comparison of ZX Spectrum BASIC with Oric 1 and Oric Atmos Extended BASIC Overview The following is a list of keywords, operators and delimiters used on the Oric 1 & Oric Atmos comput ...
Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects Comparison of ZX Spectrum BASIC and Camputers Lynx BASIC Overview The following is a list of keywords, operators and delimiters used on the Camputers Lynx microcomputer and the ZX Spe ...
... ent instruction set and registers to the Z80 used by the Spectrum so any machine code used within a BASIC program will have to be rewritten.Both the Dragon & TRS micros use a different version of BASIC to the ZX Spectrum. The Dragon 32 & 64 ...
... d the ZX Spectrum.Released in 1980, two years before the Spectrum, the Acorn Atom used a version of BASIC based on an earlier computer built by Acorn called the System 3. Atom BASIC is quite different to Sinclair BASIC, for instance, semi-c ...
... perators and delimiters used on the QL and ZX Spectrum. The Sinclair QL uses a different version of BASIC to the ZX Spectrum called SuperBASIC.It resembles Sinclair BASIC in many ways and shares many keywords. There are differences however, ...
... £125, and the 48K model, priced at £175. The machines were externally identical and used the same basic hardware design, with the principal difference being the amount of RAM fitted. Sinclair also offered a 16K-to-48K upgrade for owners w ...
... ory of the 48K Spectrum, added a much more capable sound chip, introduced a new version of Sinclair BASIC and provided a number of facilities designed to make practical use of the additional memory. Although the machine retained the familia ...
Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects ZX Spectrum BASIC Keywords and Commands Reference All the Sinclair machines share many common keywords, most of these are similar but there are also many differences and peculiarities ...
... is can make complex mathematics like trigonomety a bit tricky. Programs running under integer based BASIC may run faster than those running under floating-point BASIC, so the ZX80 may actually run some programs faster than the ZX Spectrum.O ...
Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects Comparison of BASIC Keywords Between ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 Overview The following is a list of keywords, operators and delimiters used on the Commodore 64 computer and the ...
... switch. Although the new case looked considerably more substantial, Sinclair had not abandoned the basic Spectrum design. The computer remained a 48K Spectrum in terms of its principal capabilities, with the changes concentrated largely on ...
... BEEP Stop Ready Frequency: 440 Hz Try an Example BEEP 1, 0 BEEP 1, 10 BEEP 1, -10 BEEP 0.25, 20 BBC BASIC SOUND to ZX Spectrum BEEP The Standard ZX Spectrum cannot select the BBC sound channel or control the volume. Therefore the equivalent ...
... included as these are totally exclusive to the ZX Spectrum and cannot be easily translated to ZX81 BASIC. I have not included the ZX80 in this list as this micro has a few differences which make comparisons difficult in a list like this (n ...
... plained in the user manual alongside the function VAL and in fact both functions are handled by the BASIC interpreter through the same ROM routine - a calculator subroutine at address 35DEh (13790 decimal). Therefore, to understand VAL$ we ...
... 8K Paging / System Area Contended RAM Uncontended RAM Unavailable – No Physical RAM Dynamic Areas BASIC Program Variables Character Set – 768 bytes UDGs Calculator Stack E-LINE Dynamic areas are overlays showing where the Spectrum's sys ...
... ion by zero can be avoided by checking that the denominator in a division is not zero.Many extended BASIC's for the Spectrum contain error trapping, for example BETA BASIC. SOUND SOUND m,n [;...]Where m is the register and n is the value to ...
Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects A summary of YS MegaBasic keywords Overview YS MegaBasic (or sometimes just MegaBasic) is a ZX Spectrum BASIC interpreter extension. It was coded by author Mike Leaman and published b ...
... r the ZX Spectrum supporting standard joysticks fitted with an Atari-style connector. A tape-loaded BASIC program guided the user through programming the controls, prompting for each function in sequence — up, down, left, right and fire � ...