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- Tue May 21, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Suggestion: Add PZX files to the database
- Replies: 8
- Views: 218
Re: Suggestion: Add PZX files to the database
... The important one being TZX2PZX. If this could be run in an automated way for all the TZX files in the archive, it should be fairly easy to get PZX versions of the files with minimal effort. ... I think there is no need to convert everything and upload them to the server . We could use live con...
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Sales/Commercial
- Topic: Pat Morita Team $5 Bundle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 183
Re: Pat Morita Team $5 Bundle
Bundle have been re-published and updated for 8.95€ : https://itch.io/s/123264/morita-classic-spectrum-pack
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Why didn't the Spectrum have many Roguelikes?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 436
Re: Why didn't the Spectrum have many Roguelikes?
I always considered Rogue games something like single-player MUD games. Another definitions for me would be ASCII or 8-bit graphics look-from-top simple rpgs.
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: How hard is it to write an emulator?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1582
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Why didn't the Spectrum have many Roguelikes?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 436
Re: Why didn't the Spectrum have many Roguelikes?
Unlike FPS's, I think the Spectrum was ideally suited to Roguelike games; no realtime gameplay, procedural generation (to save memory) and simple graphics. UDG's would have been ideal. Obviously there was one Rogue game, but why didn't the Spectrum get swamped with them? They could probably have be...
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
Kolibri OS will dominate in the end.
It even has a ZX Spectrum emulator that works (e80) .
2-3 seconds boot time.
Can also boot from floppy drive.
It even has a ZX Spectrum emulator that works (e80) .
2-3 seconds boot time.
Can also boot from floppy drive.
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
We're talking about keeping alive an old computer in the future. In some years developers related to the ZX will be more difficult to find. We will only have their sources or better pre-made deb files or other. A correctly build AppImage will be our best chance to run an old abandoned ZX emulator a...
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
ok. This topic is not a debate about Windows/Linux. It's about making linux users (not admins) life easier and allowing them to run something without installation (modifying their system). Both windows and linux can be destroyed or made unusable in many ways*. That's why I'm mainly use DebianDog an...
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
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 (FP...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
So what you're saying is that win32 isn't the magical solution for everything. We didn't say that. ... Even though I haven't found a good tool that generates good win 32 applications right now on Linux. Maybe one day, but I'm very busy right now. (I also don't have time right now doing any z80 stuf...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
I wanted to add something about win32 apps. I the last years I have tried many tools with wine (I also went and tried their older version to find a working 32bit ). I noticed in many of the the issues that O had with Lantern. While the developer was compiling his app using 32bit target some of the &...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
The problem with Linux is, and has always been, the myriad of different distributions all of which are almost the same but not quite. It makes the platform an enormous headache to support with rapidly diminishing returns for each different variants you try and cover. I agree . AppImages were create...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Re: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
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've followed this step in the past. This is correct and win32 apps might run better BUT they are much heavier. Basin is almost imposible to use in my lab PCs or in an old chromeb...
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
- Replies: 35
- Views: 770
Suggestion :Developers please try to also create Appimages for linux
I know how much work you do and thank you. My suggestion is to try -every now and then- to create an appimage of your emulator/program for linux. . It's an extra effort but I think it might worth it. 1. This will allow non advanced used with low knowledge in compiling to try and use your linux progr...
- Tue May 14, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Peek and Poke PIXEL magazine
- Replies: 0
- Views: 68
Peek and Poke PIXEL magazine
This should be in a chit-chat section... This is kind of irrelevant but I saw this game in itch.io: pick-and-poke ( https://twotinydice.itch.io/pick-and-poke ) The game has nothing to do with spectrum. The game title reminded of my "good old ZX days". It reminded me of the Peek and Poke se...
- Mon May 13, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Issues with emulators for Linux
- Replies: 24
- Views: 427
Re: Issues with emulators for Linux
Hi, I understand that an emulator for Linux that you have to compile yourself is out of the question, right? Or one that has no GUI. Usually you do not need to compile- unless you have a specific reason. (btw, if someone want to compile -instead of setting up a whole dev envoroment he could compile...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Issues with emulators for Linux
- Replies: 24
- Views: 427
Re: Issues with emulators for Linux
Yes but as previously stated it is not in the repositories of Linux Mint and I have a policy of not installing software from outside the Mint repos. RetroVirtualMachine exists as appimage also that runs everywhere (https://retrovirtualmachine.org/download/ download a ZIP file). In general I'm not h...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Questions about gamedev in an emulator...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 393
Re: Questions about gamedev in an emulator...
I think this might interest you :
There is an AGD version that is in spectrum ROM format. Instead of starting the original ZX Spectrum ROM with your emulator, you start with the modified AGD ROM . This has ready shortcuts to create TAP files (or TZX).
There is an AGD version that is in spectrum ROM format. Instead of starting the original ZX Spectrum ROM with your emulator, you start with the modified AGD ROM . This has ready shortcuts to create TAP files (or TZX).
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Dinamic Software: vote
- Replies: 36
- Views: 660
Re: The best Speccy game by Dinamic Software: vote
1. West Bank ( I had both english and Spanish versions. I always thought that the spanish was a licenced translation). 2. Fernando Martin Basket Master. 3. Capitan Sevilla. I think I spend same time on West bank and FM Basket. I got a copied tape of Capitan Sevila -It was one of the last ZX games I ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: MPAGD can be opened on Linux with Wine, but...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 182
Re: MPAGD can be opened on Linux with Wine, but...
@firelord You do realize that later versions of Wine have 64-bit along with 32-bit, right? Otherwise, it wouldn't be a surprise that it didn't run well. Have you tried wine for windows 64bit? Many years ago I tried to setup a puppy with 64bit windows support. I couldn't make it work. If I get my ha...
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: MPAGD can be opened on Linux with Wine, but...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 182
Re: MPAGD can be opened on Linux with Wine, but...
MPAGD did not run well with WINE. The problem is in some of the compilers. If I remember correctly some were 64bit. The wine versions I use are for win32*. When I have time I will retry with conty.sh**. example running WINE from conty : WINEFSYNC=1 ./conty.sh wine someapplication.exe example for ste...
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Show off your Speccy hardware setup!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 439
Re: Show off your Speccy hardware setup!
Funnily enough, there is a Debian-based Pup too. I even installed Fuse onto it, but I'm probably going to mostly test Windows games on it if I happen to make any. Also, I'm thinking of getting this to challenge myself in terms of limitations. It's one of the precursors to the MPAGD software and it ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Show off your Speccy hardware setup!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 439
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Show off your Speccy hardware setup!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 439
Re: Show off your Speccy hardware setup!
Part of my emulator based setup...
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- Wed May 08, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Hidden message in Predator
- Replies: 14
- Views: 370
Re: Hidden message in Predator
And last but no means least, ALL my thanks go to my girlfriend Liz for putting up with me being in Southampton for so bloody long. Why didn't he brought his GF to Southampton? He thought that he would be running arround Southampton with his Ferrari and have 5-6 girls with him? :) So they were locke...