Spectrum Computing

I've corrected some of the MicroHobby ones (not all, only a few), between 1988 and 1991 (see https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/ad ... ishers.php for details).

Yes, a lot of LCD screens will, entirely as a side effect of their image processing, hide the flickering you'd normally see. The distinction is more obvious on an old school CRT. Side note: this information maybe should be added at https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=1060 When I think in ...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:58 am Not too sure where to go.

Best type-ins by magazine?

AndyC wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:02 pm 2) You can get into USR0 mode by type PRINT USR 0 in 128 basic. On a +2A/+3 you can also just type SPECTRUM (this is a subtle change from the original 128 models).

Ah, I thought the SPECTRUM command was standard in all the 128k models.

Luzie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:23 pm ... to see if there´s one Zodiac sign which is ahead of the others.

Probably no, we cover "all the spectrum" of the zodiac.

https://hackaday.com/2024/04/19/end-of-life-for-z80-cpu-and-peripherals-announced/ "What this effectively means is that after just under 48 years since its launch in 1976, the Zilog Z80 will no longer be available for sale as discrete components, which is likely to primarily impact hobbyists a...

Sad. Somehow, I feel the calendar is running out of pages.

Hi, I think it might be , 24 volts, I asked on another website. Here: https://k1.spdns.de/Vintage/Sinclair/82/Timex%20Peripherals/TS2040%20Printer/ "The printer required and came with an own power supply. Therefore it could still be used with the ZX Spectrum+3 and +2A/B. (to be verified) The P...

I've found this photo:


I assume the thing at the right is a power supply.

I was reading the press, periodically appears some 8 bits nostalgia related readings: https://elpais.com/icon/2024-04-16/un-reto-brutal-como-cuatro-adolescentes-espanoles-revolucionaron-el-mundo-del-videojuego-deportivo.html (in Spanish, curiously they name the ZX Spectrum as "the Spectrum ZX&q...

Mine was a very late +2A, with Robocop 2 and Chase HQ 2.

stupidget wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:44 am For some reason I seem to remember reading in a magazine that SAM stood for SpectrumAMiga and that it was going to be this giant slaying super computer. Apparently not

Haha, no idea why but for long time I was sure SAM stood for SpectrumAdvancedMachine. Error.

Capitan Trueno (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/802/ZX-Spectrum/Capitan_Trueno), you can change between 3 characters/sprites with particular skills. Edit: Ops, someone said it in a previous post. Then Comando Quatro (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1022/ZX-Spectrum/Comando_Quatro), you c...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:58 pm There is a link to the download here.

Does this need adding to the entry?

I would say yes, or maybe as MOD?

To me the most interesting thing is that the post received some likes and sincere answers. Passed the Turing test. For some time the cheap works where condemned as "it can be made by machines" and everyone focused in arts and blablabla. It's done. La Mettrie was right. PS: Gómez Pereira an...

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:13 pm And it does ask the question, how long before this and other web forums are populated by intelligent bots?

It's clear, we will need the Voight-Kampff test as captcha.

worcestersource wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:22 pm I wonder what it was saying now!

Not totally sure but iirc was a post askink if the Spectrum community could be interested in a demake of a game called "Mechathroids" or something similar.

We have https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... e_Maroland and https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... oland_2023 but I suppose this should have its own entry?

If tomorrow someone "discovers" in a forgotten tape the remains of The Gianna Sisters or Toki and it's amazing, I will suspect. If it's crap, not so much.

Should I make a GAC related thread later? (not home today until late in the evening). Yes, why not? Plant the seed. I like the GAC language, but the PAWS with its "condacts" was the winner back in the day. Maybe if the GAC had the improvements provided by Gilsoft to the PAWS (128k support...

I find specially interesting all the disk-based Spectrum software. There are disk interfaces since 1983 or so, and two or three different (and incompatible between them) were launchead each year, the total amount of disk interfaces is surrealistically big, so it's traditionally a tape-based system, ...

Wow, "Most users ever online was 1411 on Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:18 am", we are trending topic.

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:06 pm EDIT: Maybe it is GOTO with the 128 editor or something?

No, in 128 is the same as in 48, GO TO (with space). You can type it without space, but the editor adds it.

Kiwi wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:08 pm Is there any mod magic that needs to happen for the update to become live ?

They will be avaliable in the site with the next update. The last was 1st March (viewtopic.php?t=11114) so the next will be soon.

5MinuteRetro wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:36 pm What other well-known Spectrum games are technically possible to complete without cheating but, practically, are actually impossible?

Uh, for me, around the 90% of them.