Spectrum Computing

You might be able to fit a composite connector to that monitor, it has markings for cvbs input, on a lot of those rebadged Philips (cm8833) monitors you can.

Technically amazing the sounds you can get out of the SID, listen to some of LMan's recent tunes!

Chuckie Egg 2 tap file #ID: 959 loads but does not run instead it returns to basic when a key is pressed.

As the TZX is a standard loader I converted the A'n'F version to TAP and uploaded it here: ChuckieEgg2AnF.tap.zip

Yes the Flashback 2 is better as it is 'real' hardware and can be modded to accept cartridges whereas this 2600 plus is running Linux/Stella emulator. Supposed to be made in the same factory that made TheC64,500 mini etc

Chaos has an unused teleport spell, however does turmoil count?!

Access Hidden Game: Poke 52796,32:Poke 52798,58

This one?

https://boosty.to/alexekb/posts/f4d7d8a ... post_link

The "three colour ish" look on the C64 comes from the fact that while the bitmap data on the C64 can be pretty much anywhere in RAM, the colour data is in a fixed location and it's a lot of work for the lethargic 6502 to move that much data in a frame.So games tended to cheat and keep all...

@Ast A. Moore @FrankT
Have you seen this?
https://github.com/ZoomTen/chronos-zxbeeper

If you compare their core routines: sprites, screen, sound, keyboard, joystick you can see through the various games "evolution". A lot of their routines are always together, it actually makes it easier to understand their code, because you've see it all before in a previous game. Taking ...

@Spectral Horace Have you tried plugging in a usb keyboard and pressing F2 to save a snapshot?

Type in from Your Spectrum 18:
https://archive.org/details/your-spectr ... ew=theater

Add an SD card module and you could have a very cheap storage solution...

If you used the PIO then it would it would negate the need to overclock the Pico!

Nice work dfzx!
I've seen this done on the c64 and was planning on doing something similar myself!
You could let the PIO and DMA handle all the gpio/address decoding/data writing and leave the CPU free for other interesting ideas!

If it's any help Ramsofts Realspectrum emulates the Multiprint!

There's some on sellmyretro:
https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/detai ... rack-61596

The lag on RGBtoHDMI is 4ms...

The RGBtoHDMI project is fantastic:
https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI

50.08 Hz for the 48K display, 50.02 Hz for the 128K and this can vary as the Spectrum warms up

Pleasantly surprised to discover that Chronos on a 128 has AY drums!

You sure this wasn't a dream...

vintage-mike wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:17 pm The C64 had sprites and the best sound, but a slightly dodgy colour palette and pixels the size of house bricks. The Spectrum had 'high' resolution, a faster processor, but less than impressive sound and some colour clash.

The C64 actually had a higher resolution screen than the Spectrum

If the compiler supports it you can just add labels like this: LD HL,$505F CALL L7E0D Speed1: RET LD HL,$4880 CALL L7DF4 LD HL,$48C0 CALL L7DF4 LD HL,$501F CALL L7E0D LD HL,$505F CALL L7E0D Speed2: RET LD HL,$405F CALL L7E0D LD HL,$4080 CALL L7DF4 LD HL,$4800 CALL L7DF4 Speed3: RET LD HL,$405F CALL ...