Spectrum Computing

Joefish wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 10:39 am Edited to '...from when and whence...' then. Better?
Although I hope no-one's further distracted by your spelling of 'distracting'...

I am not fixing that, I stand by it. If we all do it for a few decades we can get it into the dictionary

Interesting that WINE performance is bad - it's not emulating anything, and the OpenGL usage in SpecBAS is literally just a simple quad blit once per frame. The rest of SpecBAS will all be native Linux binary when it's running. I'll look into a native linux build but the linux build environment (FPC...

But if you want my opinion, the most compatible target in 2024 would be Win32. Just do that and I can use it with Wine. I believe I can now use Spin and Basin this way too, so no worries. And with those 3 I have all my needs covered. Would be interested to hear how SpecBAS runs under WINE - it's bu...

Well I can present the bank statement from whence my money departed, if that would help anyone understand (or investigate) my position! :lol: But this is a distraction from the wannabe Apprentice reject in question and will only get the thread locked. Whence == "From where" so you don't n...

I'm loving the extra rooms on the map, less so the changes to the graphics like the toasters when difficulty levels are set lower. As far as HoH games go I gotta say I prefer Tomaz Kac's remake over this one, but it's a close finish.

Mcoder2 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:33 am Game could be more fun, if you could also go up and down.

Agreed. Maybe walls that constrain where you can go, like a maze, and more ghosts.

It's looking promising, certainly. Getting a few errors in the test suites but if this is an early stage of development, it's going real well so far.

I do hope the author decides to join the speccy discord, the emulation chat in there is incredibly helpful.

AndyC wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:37 am I said the hardware can't trigger something like that from a single OUT, but changing a paging register probably causes the machine to crash and display what you remember. Which sounds right to me.

Yeah but the BASIC can and well... it did, y'know? With a single OUT.

I seem to be doing something wrong... :) I copied the text, save it to a file, tried to load it into SpecBAS, got error 31 LOAD failed, 0:1 I tried to copy and paste into SpecBAS editor, I choose RUN from the menu, I get this window: Your version of SpecBAS is too old. Grab a new executable from he...

Sure :) 2 origin flip: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS : let TME=MSECS: LET SW=SCRW/2: LET SH=SCRH/2: GO SUB 8000: GO SUB 7000: DIM C(64): DIM L(64): LET DZ=(ScrW/800)*2: FOR X=0 TO scrw-1 STEP 8: FOR Y=0 TO scrh-1 STEP 8 40 LET DX=(X-SW)/256: LET DY=(Y-SH)/256: GO SUB 1000: LET CTL=PC: LET LTL=PL: LET DX=(X-SW...

320x192, 8bpp in SpecBAS:

Vampyre wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:32 am It was that issue and article that finally convinced me I needed to upgrade to 16-bit. November that year I got an ST.

Same. Saved up my paper round money over the summer and bought my stepdad's A1000 off him. Best purchase I ever made.

Issue 55 August 1988 Great Giana Sisters cover Pages 70,71,74,75 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1022&page=70 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1022&page=71 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1022&page=74 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/p...

Hey you lot -

I recall Crash did a special in one of the issues where they look at 16bit games (Amiga mostly) and featured F/A-18 Interceptor and Ferrari Formula 1. I can't find it though; google is heavily polluted these days.

Anyone got any kind of clue here? Cheers

There was an intern working at Sinclair, kind of a work experience kind of deal, and Clive said to the guy "We need a name that gets us to the top in any list, you know like how Google chose a name that would appear at the start of an alphabetical list of websites" - but the poor sod didn'...

I would like to ask why you're not using an emulator that has a decent debugger/memory viewer built in which lets you examine RAM and make changes and then you can save your stuff out as whatever snapshot format you want.

Yes, BASin was never finished and likely, as a compiler, will never be; I've moved on to pastures new I'm afraid - Spectrum BASIC on a PC is way more fun than it ever was on a Spectrum - but you should be able to compile with a native compiler. Don't expect amazing m/c performance though, you're sti...

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:11 pmif you make more videos on a wide pool of topics then naturally you're going to get more traffic, which converts to subscriptions.

Hmm, maybe I should do that to boost my numbers. 260 subs, 92 videos on my channel

kpuchatek wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 6:45 pm KWF is right - you can, probably it depends on ZX-Omni version. Two left switches are working, UP,DOWN makes the trick.
That's great since in my Omni AT28C256 is soldered.

I have a Rev 4, it can't bel flashed in-situ. We tried.

Hi, Anybody found a way to update ESXDOS in ZX Omni ? Issue 4 is based on AT28C256 (compared to AT28C64 in standard divMMC), as I understand it contains two version of ESXDOS and two of UnoDOS. Unfortunately EEPROM is soldered, so any jumper configuration to enable flash ? You cannot flash the EEPR...

It's a fun routine. Converted to SpecBAS:



And with formatting:



Set it to loop forever. Wonder if I can make use of this...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:01 pm Don't go trying to tempt away our new members with your new fangled technology @ZXDunny

Oh good heavens I wouldn't dream of it!

Goodness me, Jon North. Our crew of enthusiasts would appreciate your joining the Speccy Discord if you are that way inclined: https://discord.gg/45W4bUB

Hope to see you there.

Section 19, the PLAY chapter, is missing a diagram and instead has an ascii representation of the stave etc. It's badly broken on a couple of lines.

Bear a Grudge did not deserve to have such a bangin' AY tune.