Extending the Sinclair BASIC with C

ZX80, ZX 81, ZX Spectrum, TS2068 and other clones
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stefano
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Extending the Sinclair BASIC with C

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I'm sure some of you will find this trick intriguing:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <arch/zx/spectrum.h>

main(int arg2, char *arg1)
{
	ARG_STR;
	ARG_INT;
	ARG_END;
	
	printf("Arg1: %s, arg2: %d \n", arg1 ,arg2);

	STMT_RET;
}
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stefano
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Re: Extending the Sinclair BASIC with C

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Attempting to gather a similar result on the ZX81 is more tricky.
The string termination patch works but the text requires to be converted to ASCII, or a bit of trickery with zx_asciimode(0)/zx_asciimode(1).
("-*114" = "HELLO")

Moreover I still haven't found a robust way to get back to the BASIC interpreter, due to the same reasons preventing zx_goto() to work on the ZX81.
Probably a bit of hacking around exit() will work ;)
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Re: Extending the Sinclair BASIC with C

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2-zx-basic-c.png
Solved !


...to show "HELLO" correctly:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <zx81.h>

main(unsigned int arg2, char *arg1)
{
	ARG_STR;
	ARG_UINT;
	ARG_END;
	
	printf("Arg1: ");
	zx_asciimode(0);
	printf("%s", arg1);
	zx_asciimode(1);
	printf(", arg2: %u \n" ,arg2);

	STMT_RET;
}
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Re: Extending the Sinclair BASIC with C

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Just extended support to Lambda 8300 and TS2068
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Re: Extending the Sinclair BASIC with C

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Just to show myself that this could be useful, I tried to export few of the zx81 graphics functions to its BASIC interpreter.

https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtop ... 192#p47192


It permitted me to identify a number of bugs I totally forgot to fix. .
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