To type or not all programs from the book "20 Best Programs for the ZX Spectrum" by Andrew Hewson

[Neil Parsons]

Hi!

I was wondering if all BASIC programs published in this Hewson Consultants book could be added to ZXDB as I pretend to type in them whenever I can. As I own the original UK book release, I could submit everyone of them separately once copied and checked, or at least unify all of them in one single TAP or TZX file, to be added with book's corresponding entry. Whatever you want, I'll do it.

[ParadigmShifter]

Oh I thought this was about "20 best machine code routines" book (maybe it is)... which is not that great and people have been moaning abut the new version too (not geared to modern development environments etc.).

Many of the routines in that book are compromised so as not to use too much space/memory since it was geared towards relocatable code and typing in hex manually, whereas nowadays we can assemble to any address and waste loads of memory (and copy/paste)

[PeterJ]

Thanks @Neil Parsons,

Please submit each one separately, and in the notes field add:

'Please link to book name, page number', then @Einar Saukas will do his magic to link everything.

Peter

[Neil Parsons]

Thanks @Neil Parsons,

Please submit each one separately, and in the notes field add:

'Please link to book name, page number', then @Einar Saukas will do his magic to link everything.

Peter

OK. Thanks!

[Neil Parsons]

All programs typed and checked! Soon to be uploaded each one of them to the archive.

[cmal]

All programs typed and checked! Soon to be uploaded each one of them to the archive.

Wow, you are fast! Nice job! Do you type directly into a Spectrum/emulator, or are you using some type of utility to type then upload to an emulator?
I'm curious because I'm also on a bit of a type-in mission with Sinclair Programs type-ins.

[Neil Parsons]

Wow, you are fast! Nice job! Do you type directly into a Spectrum/emulator, or are you using some type of utility to type then upload to an emulator?
I'm curious because I'm also on a bit of a type-in mission with Sinclair Programs type-ins.

Thank you! As 20 programs are quite short in length, I could type them using Spectaculator 8 emulator. Creating TAP/TZX files for everyone of them was also easier.

It all depends on the font used to print BASIC listings every one can see in magazines and books. If using ZX Printer or a similar one, Spectrum font is quite difficult to be processed with OCR, due to its low quality. In other circumstances, even with better printers, I try to scan pages with OCR option, get the type-in in a text form, edit it to correct a lot of mistaken characters (it can happen most of times) with Windows Note Pad and then use Paul Dunn's BasiN and, once checked type-in free of mistakes, transfer BASIC code into a TAP or TZX file.

[1024MAK]

Mark

[arjun]

Thank you! As 20 programs are quite short in length, I could type them using Spectaculator 8 emulator. Creating TAP/TZX files for everyone of them was also easier.

Why not use BASIN instead though? I would think it a lot more convenient to type in BASIC listings but hey, whatever works!