Spectrum Computing

Congrats on the game release!

Any chance of a credit for my Truffle Shuffle font? https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origi ... e-shuffle/

Damien

Wall_Axe wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 7:43 pm Ok I saw one which is more fitting for the game I'm making so thanks

Which one are you going to use?

All my fonts are free (of charge). Everything on the ZX Origins page I consider original or original enough to put in a game but I can't offer legal protection if somebody was to take offense given I don't charge. Anything on the advent of font stuff that isn't my own creation is potentially at risk...

I'm once again doing an 8x8 bitmap font advent calendar this year over at Mastodon . It will alternate days between a new 8x8 bitmap creation of my own with a licence to use in your games for free and the other days will include a converted/ripped font from a game/system of old to which I can't gran...

Could have sworn I posted this before but can't find the thread and it's still MIA in the database.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... m/Desk_Top

Download is available from https://archive.org/details/garner-desktop

Hi can somebody take down the "source" file from https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/39092/ZX-Spectrum/Kuatris as it's not the source to the game at all - it's just my DistantTears bitmap font that was used with no attribution and not the game source after all. (I don't mind my fonts bei...

Short explanation why: no spare space. That is the best reason and not that uncommon! Some games back in the day had to make the same call. I assume this is why Yie Ar Kung Fu had the regular ROM font on the 48K and a rather spiffy brush-style font on the 128K version. Feel free to use any in your ...

Game looks great - I have to admit a nice font would polish it off. I tried your screenshot with a bunch of my ZX Origins fonts and nothing quite felt Manic enough so I modified one of my fonts in two different ways to see what it would look like. Let me know if you like them and I'll send you the 7...

Here's the experimental version of the Markdown All-In-One plugin I'm using from the author https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-mar ... ssues/1232

If you don't want to install that just make a PR against the .md markdown file and I'll convert to HTML as part of the merge.

Thanks!

A PR would be cool. You have to install a specific markdown extension in VS Code and then "Print" the markdown to HTML then remove two small fragments relating to stuff it doesn't use. I'll put the process in the readme. As for +2 manual... Is there any point? Its just a subset right? I do...

I think at all places in the +3 manual where it uses Roman numeral lists the text does not indent on subsequent lines so I think this change would actually take us away from the +3 manual design?

You can make font suggestions.

We could put the errata on this wiki page for now so it's with the manual until we can integrate it properly.

https://github.com/ZXSpectrumVault/Manu ... ual-Errata

Cool, thanks for the diagram - now added!

I'll try and figure out what's going on with the keyboard diagrams over the weekend - got so much other stuff on right now.

Errata we should probably compile into a separate document and then later integrate with some sort of annotation mode.

I've thought about adding some annotations that can be toggled on/off (as well as some theme options etc).

Whoop, another game with a cool ZX Origins font (Ion Drive)

Music scale diagram is now in! (I did a tiny tweak to font sizes/weight but that's it)

Looks great!

Thanks again.

Cool, thanks for that! I've made your other corrections will take a look at getting this in soon.

I've been fixing these things as they get reported but the music notation one is part of the reason it sat on my drive for well over a year...

I'm tracking the last 3 diagrams on this GitHub issue https://github.com/ZXSpectrumVault/Manuals/issues/1

Yeah there is something off about the timings - Javascript animation on a canvas isn't my forte but I'll give it another bash.

They're the closest free fonts I could use - I don't fancy paying $100+ for commercial web licences for Rockwell, OCR-B and Helvetica.

After many many years with no updates I've put out a new build of my Disk Image Manager for checking, searching and otherwise tinkering with Spectrum and Amstrad compatible DSK files. Most of the features are around usability - dragging-files, reopen menu, UI tweaks, but also some useful features li...

Okay, slight clickbait headline but I'm really proud of this. I took a basic text file of the ZX Spectrum +3 Manual and made it into something beautiful. Formatting like the original print manual Hand-crafted SVGs replicating the original line drawings Proper tables and figures Hyperlinked sections ...

If anyone else finds themselves wanting to mount a Amstrad/Hitachi 3" drive in a 5.25" bay I have two 3D printable models you can use. The first is a tray that lines up with the screw holes for both letting you sit it snug - print this any colour you want. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing...

If anyone does end up finding DB1, DB2 or other MIA disk titles the best bet is to get them to somebody with a Kryoflux, Greaseweazle or FluxEngine so we can do a low-level flux image that will preserve all the copy protection. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of +3 disks are now reaching the end o...