Spectrum Computing

Now I'm wondering if it was you who I told about my broken Zipstick. If it was... the problem was... I had the turbo switch left on and the Spectrum really doesn't like that. Still... the new joystick is a massive improvement, and comparing it to the not-broken Zipstick also reminds me that the cen...

Every stand that had Spectrums set up with running games was equipped with one of Sintech's arcade-quality joysticks. They had Jetpac on their own stand, and one go on it, as far as the screen where the planes crash and rack up your score, convinced me they were worth buying, no questions asked. I ...

It struck me how a lot of the "RARE!!" listings I saw at crazy prices tended to be fairly rubbish educational/utility classified-ad-style programs - the sort of purchase that'll probably just keep getting passed from collector to collector over the next few years. Completely agree. Many o...

I think Chris Wilkins won it.

What a fantastic event Spectrum 40 was. There was a really great selection of stalls selling all kinds of Spectrum related goodies, and a packed speaker schedule. Sandy’s talk was fascinating and although I’ve heard the Oliver Twins talk several times the brothers make for a brilliant double act and...

Guesser wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:23 pm It's a .tap file

Ah. Ok. Thank you. I'll give that a go. Cheers!

Anyone else playing this? I'm a bit stuck... I've never really dabble with Spectrum adventures before, but couldn't resist buying this. Lack of free time has meant I've not been able to spend much time on this, but one of my initial impressions was how complex the map is. I've had a laptop and a co...

Evening all, Work and family life have been a little hectic over the past couple of weeks, so this is the first chance I've had to spend more than 5 minutes tinkering on my Speccies. I have another question and I'm hoping someone can assist. While I've got a very basic "Hello World" page a...

%save "program" LINE 10 If I type the above, I get a ? before the LINE keyword. If I don't use quotation marks around the filename I then get a question mark after the LINE 10. I can only think you are typing in "LINE" manually as a keyword. The "LINE" must be the toke...

Evening all, I'm back with another question. Sorry. There will no doubt be others! I've got my own local TNFS server up and running and can successfully %cat the contents of the folder in Fuse. I then wanted to try saving my own very simple boot.zx file in the same folder. As a test, my simple BASIC...

I have a feeling the latest MacOS update has broken something. I've installed the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS on my 3b and have successfully got my local tnfs server up and running. [mention]Guesser[/mention], thanks for your help. Connecting to 127.0.0.1 worked. Now to start tinkering (before...

Apologies for the delay in responding. I've been on my hols. OK, I've now tried %mount 0,"127.0.0.1". The command works, but when I then type %cat the screen goes blank before returning an "Operation timed out, 0:1" message. In the Terminal window I get multiple instances of the ...

Guesser wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:09 am Have you tried mounting it with the loopback address?
i.e 127.0.0.1

I haven’t. Ok, I’ll give that a go first. Thank you.

If you use the command %fsconfig you can set the filesystem permanently and also toggle the autoboot setting, all via a menu. After you exit the menu, reset the spectrum to apply the new settings. [edit] If the problem is at the Mac end (firewall?) I cannot help much as I use Linux. Many thanks for...

Hi all, I've recently got Spectranet up and running via emulation in Fuse on the Mac, and I must say that it's impressive stuff. I now want to get Fuse to connect to a folder on my Mac. Really just to tinker. I've opened up port 16384 on my machine and have got tnfsd up and running. My question now ...

Steve, over at The Games That Time Forgot has made a load of updates to the Fantasy Software section of the site. Additions include initial artwork for Super Pyramid, which was the proposed name for Backpacker's Guide Part 2, rough artwork for Beaky and the Egg Snatchers, development notes and more....

Puzzle Bobble. Had the Spectrum been alive and kicking by this point I think this would have been perfect conversion fodder.

You could have easily had coloured bubbles, and AY versions of the tunes would have been brilliant.

I completely agree.

I remember tracking it down on the Amiga around 1991, and when I finally played it I was very disappointed.

The game tries so hard to be Super Mario Brothers but isn’t anywhere near as fun.

I much prefer Qwik and Silva. Just a shame up is jump.