Spectrum Computing

31 IF N$>=6 THEN GOTO 20

I'm getting a red flashing square on the T of THEN and I cannot understand why, In the manual Chapter 3 page 43 the same syntax is used on Line 50 of their sample program

Before I got my Speccy, back in '83, I would have been lucky to get grade 3 in CSE Maths (you needed grade 1 to get anywhere with CSEs). The teachers at my school were useless at explaining things, and made no attempt to encourage me. They just expected you to 'get it right', and if you didn't, the...

Thanks a lot AA! I'm afraid that your advice is a bit too much for me to comprehend at the moment but I do appreciate the effort. There's so much I don't know about even using my normal Windows machine, things like installing updated files on a card, I haven't got a clue. Thats why I chose the 48k m...

As mentioned already, I got my Spectrum NEXT (Issue 1 Base model) on Monday this week and got lucky with the monitor difficulty (my wife refusing to let me hijack the TV) as I found an old monitor languishing in the junk pile and it has a VGA input as does the Next to my delight. Glad as I was to ha...

What a beauty she is, the YouTube videos don't do it justice and the manual is fabulous, albeit without a table of contents but I can always use Post Its to tag the chapters. It fired up beautifully on the TV via HDMI but I've still got a lot to read in order to learn how to update the startup files...

A bit more of an explanation would be helpful as would saving those JPG's horizontally so they can be read whilst visible in Dropbox. I suspect the title is misleading? I thought "Well linear programming is how I normally approach a problem but whats it got to do with Math? (which is my weakest...

Looks pretty effective BUT be aware that UV does no good to most resins, some its disastrous on such as epoxy resins. I would be wary of embrittlement which could lead to cracks or even distortion of certain parts. Still think its an ingenious solution though but if I was to try this I'd hedge my be...

Tremendous amount of useful info, thanks AA.

Add me to the FB hater list, its not so much the cuteness of phony 'friends' that irritates me as the wholly illogical page layout and means of locating specific data without having to put up with the personal baggage.

Bloody hell! Talk about 'looking a gift horse in the mouth'. I'm reading all these responses, some of which are very clearly explained (thanks Mark & A.A. in particular) and certainly answer the original questioner and then there are those which to the jaundice eye (mine) frankly seem to be more...

I really only ordered mine because I wanted my old 48k Spectrum back complete with keywords printed on the keyboard because it made simple Basic programming so much easier and reminded one of what the various commands were. I also wanted a proper manual for the Basic (heard mixed reviews on this) bu...

FUSE without a doubt when it comes down to simply wanting an idiot proof way to access the games you are most likely to want to play. I cannot say that its the best for the various esoteric things that people here wax eloquent about - like T states, for example, what the hell is a T state? However f...

I agree with Ast.A.Moore, each new iteration of the basic PC seems to become further and further removed from actual usefulness. I don't want or like the 'cloud' notion, we're gradually going to lose the ability to have complete control over our own machines, or so it would seem to me. I don't want ...

Infuriating! Just like Tir Na Nog in that respect.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:34 pm Seems a cool (and novel) game.

I agree Juan. A clever idea, well executed, simple yet enjoyable.

Thanks a million chaps, what a wonderful, funny, creative piece of work. Well worth spending my time on again and again. The desert island tapes was a great idea and provides an insight into the tastes of people whose posts I always look out for, the lockdown report was bloody funny as was the Xmas ...

Cuchulain retrained. The Sidhe furloughed. (Tir Na Nog)

social distancing expert - LMAO That one's brilliant!

Well, "Pangolin" is really a small expert system. Look this book: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2000056 Thanks again +3code, I'd never heard of that phrase before, 'Expert Systems' so I've learned something new. BTW the PDF file here won't load or dload it just g...

+3code? I've drawn a blank trying to phrase my searches to get leads to programs like Lisa or Smalltalk. Would you happen to know of any other similar sort of Basic programs that appear to let the user talk to the computer and get semi coherent replies? I freely admit that my intention is to hijack ...

Here it is:- https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/15157/ZX-Spectrum/Pangolins In my opinion, either there's something wrong in the file (something missing that doesn't register as an error?) or its buggy as hell. One thing's for sure, that constantly repeated line "What is the answer for...&qu...

That's a nifty bit of coding Joe. I just unpacked Charade and ran the demo 'Striker' looks good. I'll have to wait for a good day when its not bloody raining (plays hell with my arthritic bod) and I'm not blocked in with analgesics. I'll read the manual again and try the examples first chance I get....

Oh that's great, thanks Peter. It was so frustrating to get a few titles and then have to keep looking a few items at a time as I laboriously worked through the pages. I'm not famed for my patience and when I want something NOW my fuse is even shorter than usual!

I've got it, thanks! No need to worry about it Mr Clump.

I'm looking for a downloadable version of the original 48k Spectrum BASIC manual but not knowing its proper title I cannot locate it. I have to say that I much preferred the old WoS system of having the books listed like a regular page of text. its much faster to scan down a listing like that especi...

Amazing! I didn't have time to read the explanations but the tiny icons look convincing.