Spectrum Computing

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:57 pm You're gonna have to explain this one. Shaker style kitchen?

A blender can be used to create a milkshake, so why not call it a shaker?

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:01 pm Rick Dangerous

Spoiler

Rick Dangerous

Make a chip

I went into a deeper-dive about the machine and was gobsmacked to find out that the compatibility was through an emulator and not native to the machine. It is not an emulator in today’s sense. It is running native Z80 code on a real Z80, screen mode 1 is identical to the Speccy screen layout, port ...

GreenCard wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:00 pmSim City?

Indeed it is.

Tough crowd...

How about a live attribute version of a portion of the tiles? This portion could also move and sway around 'magnifying' different areas inducing sea sickness?

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:13 am EDIT: Your link just takes me to an empty page though

It was trying to get to viewtopic.php?t=11092

Between The Stars is a ZX81 program, but the screens show flashing green. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/41500/ZX81/Between_the_Stars It was a type in for the ZX81 which was typed in on a Spectrum and "enhanced" :-) The Spectrum TZX is attached to that entry, it also contains typos...

blucey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:43 pm Yep!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Um, yep...

blucey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:15 pm No no and no

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... /BMX_Ninja

That helmet and the X were a giveaway for what to search for.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:21 pm

While incredible, point to the actual source from 2020 instead of the clickbait stealer:

1. Firelord
2. Starquake
3. Wizard's Lair

worcestersource wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:40 pm Steve Davis Snooker

No bonus points for not mentioning the 128K version, but otherwise spot on!

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:11 pm He was extremely well known in the UK as well... known for being "interesting"

Geoff or Steve? Or Kieren?

I had the game BITD (cannot recall if I actually bought it or if it was a rental), but he was definitely not known in NZ.

While waiting for the next punter I'll just slip in another tough loading screen

Vampyre wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:11 am Geoff Capes Strong Man.

Oh wow, if I had known he was such a celebrity around these parts I would have used another screen.

Since a screen$ is a loading screen, I appreciate Evil Genius steering this thread back to it's true intention, have another (partial) screen$:



And thanks to worldofspectrum.net's infoseek random function for the inspiration.

Within selected 8x8 attribute squares are UDGs which get printed to the screen but because its Attribute scrolling as the UDGs get redrawn there is a flicker. As I understand it I can mitigate this flicker if I do pixel scrolling. No, flicker is caused by not being aware of when you are updating so...

Eliminator! https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... Eliminator

For some flavour, I had a DISCiPLE, it was a wonderful piece of kit, easing my upgrade path to the SAM Coupé. At the time I was living in NZ and bought it on our 1987 holiday to The Netherlands at Data-Skip in Gouda, a 5.25" DSDD disk drive was bought in the USA - at Egghead if I recall correct...

Question about this part in the doc: Page out the Speccy ROM and enable the Disciple RAM / ROM when the Z80 accesses certain memory addresses (0x0001 (*), 0x0008, 0x0066, 0x28E) or an NMI is generated (snapshot button) The NMI executes a jump to 0x0066 - so why would it need an additional page out?

The questionable ones still in there are just two: Uridium (28th Oct 1986) and its upgraded version, Uridium Plus. Stephen's name is in there, along with Andrew Braybook, Dominic Robinson, John Cumming and Steve Turner, and I think it's very likely this was just graphics, but I'd like to be sure. I...

Uh-oh, all of Grongy's images are now broken links for me :( There is something very odd going on with zxart.ee. My PC is now fine again (Chrome, Firefox, Edge), but iPhone and iPad on the same local network are not showing most of the images (Safari, Chrome, Edge). Of the current frontpage, the fi...

Thanks! I'm going to try and create a proper ZX Spectrum list based on that page and other sources I can find, I hate to remove information from the database, you never know why authors are assigned to a particular title, might be the case at some point someone got some insight inside the projects....

You can get 24000 down a bit, but not much, unless you just write your own loader and scribble all over the entire basic area.