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- Sat May 18, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: help with translation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 142
Re: help with translation
I'd be very happy to help, too.
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Sales/Commercial
- Topic: For sale: ZX Spectrum 48k and many accessories
- Replies: 9
- Views: 589
Re: For sale: ZX Spectrum 48k and many accessories
I mean, about how much would you want for it?
I'm not exactly flush at the moment, but it seems like a crime for it to just go into landfill...
I'm not exactly flush at the moment, but it seems like a crime for it to just go into landfill...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: ZX2040 for the RP2040
- Replies: 3
- Views: 390
Re: ZX2040 for the RP2040
Dropped the .uf2 file onto the Tufty, and it automagically worked! :) Had a quick game of Jetpac. It's a bit tricky using the Tufty's face buttons, since they're a bit of an awkward arrangement and need quite a firm press to actuate. But the game seems to run absolutely fine, as does the 3D viewer d...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:27 am
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: ZX2040 for the RP2040
- Replies: 3
- Views: 390
Re: ZX2040 for the RP2040
Oh wow, I've got a Pimoroni Tufty sitting in a drawer that I never got around to playing with. I'll have to give this a go.
Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the heads up!
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Eprom programmer...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 910
Re: Eprom programmer...
Do you actually own one of these?
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:49 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Eprom programmer...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 910
Re: Eprom programmer...
I mean, it's a bit of a moral grey area. If you're a company using one of these Chinese clones to program up hundreds of devices a week then you should probably feel a bit guilty. But if you're a hobbyist working on your own projects for fun then you probably can't justify spending £300 on a genuine...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:57 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Eprom programmer...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 910
Re: Eprom programmer...
Here's the video that sold me on one, by everyone's favourite electrical engineer from down under. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLG03f_ua5g As you can see from the teardown, there's a lot of good stuff packed into them for the money. I hate to think what the equivalent from a big-name American...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:51 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Eprom programmer...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 910
Re: Eprom programmer...
It's been a good few years since I bought mine, but you're after something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325720763905?hash=item4bd6786e01:g:6RUAAOSwSoBkpePR (Hopefully that link works...) NB: I haven't bought from this seller, that's just an example. £63 seems a reasonable price. There appea...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Spectrum 128k IC6 & IC17 connections
- Replies: 9
- Views: 189
Re: Spectrum 128k IC6 & IC17 connections
Erm, well, none really. (Except for GND and +5V, I maybe.)
IC6 is in the contended RAM (equivalent to the lower RAM on a 48k Spectrum), and IC17 is in the uncontended RAM (equivalent to the upper RAM on a 48k).
IC6 is in the contended RAM (equivalent to the lower RAM on a 48k Spectrum), and IC17 is in the uncontended RAM (equivalent to the upper RAM on a 48k).
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 12:17 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1493
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
In the first half of the 80s the C64 was way too expensive to even consider. Nobody at school had one. In the second half of the 80s the cost-reduced C64s started to come in, but I already had a tricked-out Spectrum with lots of software (including a lot that I had written myself), so I wasn't inter...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254566
Re: Guess the screen$
Yeah, but it's not the bleedin' entrance exam to Cambridge, though, is it mate?Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:53 pm They’re supposed to be hard. They are Speccy games after all.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254566
Re: Guess the screen$
Terminus?
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254566
Re: Guess the screen$
Zoom out...?
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254566
Re: Guess the screen$
Yes please!Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:02 pm Do you, gentlemen, want a clue or a zoomed out snippet?
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:33 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254566
Re: Guess the screen$
Sabre Wulf?
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:53 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: BASIC code to test compilers
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1116
Re: BASIC code to test compilers
My OCD is compelling me to write that "mS" is milli-siemens, the unit of conductance.
"ms" is milli-seconds.
"ms" is milli-seconds.
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 9:48 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: New snap format that convenient for view/modify
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1341
Re: New snap format that convenient for view/modify
I like PNGs. You can add whatever arbitrary sections you like to it, but the operating system still sees it as a picture file.
Pico8 uses the format for its cartridges.
Pico8 uses the format for its cartridges.
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: BASIC code to test compilers
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1116
Re: BASIC code to test compilers
Code: Select all
10 PRINT "Speccys are ace!"
20 GO TO 10
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:48 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a CPC in the 80s?
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3394
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a CPC in the 80s?
I think that pineapple is awesome on Hawaiian pizza, but slightly less good on pepperoni pizza.
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Plus keyboard
- Replies: 6
- Views: 176
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
- Replies: 213
- Views: 4403
Re: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
Hooray!
Gah, I can't find a good one... Somebody else take my turn.
Gah, I can't find a good one... Somebody else take my turn.
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a CPC in the 80s?
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3394
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a CPC in the 80s?
This thread has certainly set the velociraptor amongst the pedestrians!
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 9:52 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
- Replies: 213
- Views: 4403
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
- Replies: 213
- Views: 4403
Re: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
Spot on! Over to you.
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
- Replies: 213
- Views: 4403
Re: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
A bit more:
You remain ever vigilant for intruders, of which, needless to say, there are many. You pursue flying saucers across a panorama of ten screens, chase insect-like saboteurs along narrow tunnels