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- Sun May 05, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: HELP WANTED: Magazine type-in page numbers!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 745
Re: HELP WANTED: Magazine type-in page numbers!
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).
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: gigaviewer
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1284
Re: gigaviewer
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 ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Cult Games: vote
- Replies: 14
- Views: 457
Re: The best Speccy game by Cult Games: vote
Best type-ins by magazine?
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: USR0
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1388
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Poll: Spectrum Users and their Zodiac Signs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 425
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Goodbye,Z80
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1992
Re: Goodbye,Z80
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...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Goodbye,Z80
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1992
Re: Goodbye,Z80
Sad. Somehow, I feel the calendar is running out of pages.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Timex Sinclair 2040 printer question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 222
Re: Timex Sinclair 2040 printer question
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...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Timex Sinclair 2040 printer question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 222
Re: Timex Sinclair 2040 printer question
I've found this photo:
I assume the thing at the right is a power supply.
I assume the thing at the right is a power supply.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Article about Dinamic in the Spanish press
- Replies: 4
- Views: 415
Article about Dinamic in the Spanish press
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...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 875
Re: First tape/games you got with your ZX Spectrum
Mine was a very late +2A, with Robocop 2 and Chase HQ 2.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: SAM Coupé
- Topic: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1518
Re: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
Haha, no idea why but for long time I was sure SAM stood for SpectrumAdvancedMachine. Error.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: games where protagonist transforms / changes in time
- Replies: 29
- Views: 803
Re: games where protagonist transforms / changes in time
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...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
- Replies: 146
- Views: 7780
Re: STM32 Bot
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...
Re: STM32 Bot
It's clear, we will need the Voight-Kampff test as captcha.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?
Re: STM32 Bot
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.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: The Elves of Maroland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 814
Re: The Elves of Maroland
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?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Fake history
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1161
Re: Fake history
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.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Space 1999: the Invasion
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2410
Re: Space 1999: the Invasion
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...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Flexiwrite (for FDD)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 408
Re: Flexiwrite (for FDD)
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, ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: "Most users..."
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1015
Re: "Most users..."
Wow, "Most users ever online was 1411 on Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:18 am", we are trending topic.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Progamming with Chatgpt 4/ copilot
- Replies: 13
- Views: 863
Re: Progamming with Chatgpt 4/ copilot
No, in 128 is the same as in 48, GO TO (with space). You can type it without space, but the editor adds it.ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:06 pm EDIT: Maybe it is GOTO with the 128 editor or something?
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Help Uploading Technical Information on Disciple
- Replies: 11
- Views: 716
Re: Help Uploading Technical Information on Disciple
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.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Impossible games...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1373
Re: Impossible games...
Uh, for me, around the 90% of them.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?