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ZX BASIC Documentation

General

General

Section titled “General”

  • About
    About the ZX BASIC SDK

  • ChangeLog
    A reduced list of changes/bugfixes

  • Installation
    How to install the ZX Basic SDK in your system, and prerequisites for doing so.

  • SDK tools
    Tools available in the SDK.

  • Command line options
    Command line options table for the compiler (zxb)

Download

Section titled “Download”

Get the latest version of ZX BASIC from the archive.

Released programs

Section titled “Released programs”
  • Released programs
    A list of third-party released programs (mostly games) for the ZX-Spectrum developed with ZX BASIC.

Learning ZX BASIC

Section titled “Learning ZX BASIC”

Language Reference

Section titled “Language Reference”

  • Language syntax
    Language Syntax is very close to the original Sinclair BASIC, but it’s expanded and enhanced.

  • Data types
    Language data types: Instead of working always with Floating Point numbers (also available), there are also some integer types which are faster an take less memory.

  • Reserved words
    Comprehensive list (alphabetically ordered) of identifiers you shouldn’t use as a ”variable name”. E.g. FOR, PRINT. If you want usage instructions on a statement, also look here.

  • Standard libraries
    Standard libraries that comes bundled with the ZX Basic compiler.

Tutorials

Section titled “Tutorials”

  • Programming tutorials
    A collection of third-party tutorials about development with ZX BASIC.

  • Sample Programs
    Sample programs you can try to see what ZX BASIC looks like and how fast it runs.

  • [Sample Games](sample_programs.md#Game Examples)
    Some little games examples.

Help and Support

Section titled “Help and Support”

External resources

Section titled “External resources”
  • Here you are external resources: other tools, IDEs, graphic designers and projects related to ZX BASIC. Have a look!

External libraries

Section titled “External libraries”
  • Library
    Library of functions and subroutines you can use in your programs. You might find them really useful.

Inline assembler

Section titled “Inline assembler”

Embedding inline assembler in your code is pretty easy. There’s a tutorial on it.

Compiler internals

Section titled “Compiler internals”

Only for true hackers: This explains how the compiler does it job, how to expand it, etc. You must be a bit crazy if you enter here…

Other Architectures

Section titled “Other Architectures”

ZX Basic was designed from the base as a Retargeable Compiler, so it should be not hard to extend it to other architectures. This is work in progress. See other architectures for more info.

Contributing

Section titled “Contributing”

You can issue a Pull Request to the GitHub repository, report bugs in the forum when using the compiler, suggest new features…

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