Spectrum Computing

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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).

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 ...

@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...

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...

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 ...

Cheez26 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 1:17 pm @firelord Lemme guess: you use Puppy Linux, right?

Yes - actually it's Debian Dog... much better

Part of my emulator based setup...

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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...

I almost forgot to mention that I also use Linux mostly, but I do know that Adventuron is basically based in the browser. On my amd64 desktop, I can use Lantern with either Wine or Mono, but on my Raspberry Pi 400 desktop, it's been tough finding some tools that work somewhat natively. Latest versi...

Thanks for the welcome. I've looked at Adventuron, but iirc, that can mostly do Speccy Next games for now. I would love to see it do something for 128k though. :3 I used adventuron for 48k games. The drawback is that 48k DAAD doesn't support graphics . Only 128k and Next version support graphics wi...

...I'm still also wanting to make a text adventure as well using either Lantern or something else. Welcome, I have used Lantern for my last projects and manage to do quite compex stuff with it. It is very easy to use but for graphics it uses scr files -so the 48k versions can have very few images. ...

Is there a story why the same company released an almost identical game with a new name?

Not directly related to ZX Spectrum but there is a charity bundle in itch.io that contains the great "https://little-martian.itch.io/beeps-escape"


For 8euros you can get 200+ more games (most are low quality).
https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle

I know that this is not related to the topic of this thread but is related with Treasure Island. (I didn;t want to start another topic for the same game) Which game was the same as Treasure island but releashed with another name and company ? Same graphics and gameplay. I saw it somewhere but I can'...

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:40 pm

It would be within the spirit of CSSCGC to submit a loading screen combining pieces of 200 existing games just to drive me crazy

In the older CSSCGC there were challenges. This would be a nice challenge -Drive the admins crazy challenge-.

Lee P wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:07 pm I assume CGC entries don't count?

Firelord loading screen already posted

Also don't forget this steal: The guys in Hewson must have used a time machine.... Firelord : https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/f/scr/Firelord.scr&border=0 was a direct copy of this award winning top hit : 10D Bathroom Design https://spectrumcomputing.c...

Oh - "Voyage to the end of the universe"? Looks like that one is on YouTube. Might watch it now :lol: I can't understand is this a ramake or the same movie? The original is a Chech movie with Chech actors and I see another movie with Dennis Stephens translated in other languages. Imdb has...

This is from the 1963 movie IKARIE XB 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/ ?
I downloaded by mistake last week. Haven't seen it yet.

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Btw, maybe we could add a link to imdb for games that are related to movies...