Spectrum Computing

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...

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...

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!

Do you actually own one of these?

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...

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...

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...

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).

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...

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:53 pm They’re supposed to be hard. They are Speccy games after all.

Yeah, but it's not the bleedin' entrance exam to Cambridge, though, is it mate?

Terminus?

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:04 pm Well, which one?

Zoom out...?

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:02 pm Do you, gentlemen, want a clue or a zoomed out snippet?

Yes please!

Sabre Wulf?

My OCD is compelling me to write that "mS" is milli-siemens, the unit of conductance.

"ms" is milli-seconds.

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.

I think that pineapple is awesome on Hawaiian pizza, but slightly less good on pepperoni pizza.

SabreWulf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 6:19 pm Amstrad? Never heard of them. Down with sort of thing.

Careful, now!

Hooray!

Gah, I can't find a good one... Somebody else take my turn.

This thread has certainly set the velociraptor amongst the pedestrians!

Amaurote?

Spot on! Over to you.

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

I remember being very impressed with the CPC 6128 when it came out, but by that point I'd already invested a lot in upgrading my Spectrum.

Also, the Atari ST came out at about the same time as the 6128, so that became my vision of the future...