Spectrum Computing

The zx80 was of it's time, 1K RAM ?, Sir Clive pushed the envelope, for saving every 0.1 pence here, there in design :D I think his frugality (cost cutting Scroogeness ) was the ZX success and it's downfall, when you have a machine selling 10,000 per week stop penny pinching on the next model, but O...

Thanks Paul Surely your no as old as this auld scot

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I meant thumbs at the end

ZXDunny and others... I know I was out of line, I apologize :oops: I'm 57 yrs young, and haven't coded the ZX for at least 35 yrs, I thought stupidly I could dive right back in there, My brain has lost a lot of ZX knowledge over the yrs :( , I didn't realise it Tinkering, I've got an understanding ...

Printing a bitmap ?, How would I know the syntax, Yes there is nothing like that in Speccy Basic, how would I know the syntax in Specbas, It's a myriad of confusing snippets of obtuse writings

Paul - "Tell me you haven't read the manual without actually telling me you haven't read the manual :D" Your manual is a collection of esoteric statements, No actual syntax examples, too dense to get By the way I wrote Speccy basic big time, went to Z80 ASM, totally nailed, I do know progr...

So PLOT br01 doesn't work ?

Calm Yourself

We are talking bout Your free software and any, there's no business crunch here
Why the aggresive attitude from you ?

@zx dunny I like SpecBAS, the idea of it, Enhanced Speccy basic, screen size, colours, at PC speed What's not to like ! Well, In the manual each command definition is so vague PRINT [[colour-item|expr|location-item]print-sep...] The bit I don't get is [colour-item], It's never shown in the manual, N...

Some thoughts There's no point having all zx machines emulation, The emulators out there do it so well So ours is just Enhanced Speccy emulator mode Using SpecBas, as system language, Enhanced Speccy Basic We're running an SDL2 window on Win/Linux, running Specbas :D ? We have outdone ourselves, Jus...

System Specs ? SDL2 Running the core, everything Fixed res at 1600x900x8 bit We use Specbas as system language, It's enhanced Speccy Basic with sprite stuff, Specbas is s a bit obscure to code, but could be made better, I'm sure the author would allow that ? No Offence :) Of course the prog is an al...

The emulator "fuse" uses SDL for graphics and is written in C. So it's already pretty close to my idea above. It implements Z80-emulation though, so it works in a different way. But as you wanted PC-speed anyway, why not skip Z80-emulation? Just have a BASIC interpreter written in C (with...

Good stuff there mate, I'm thinking similar

What ideas? Are you a bot?

I thought eZXSpeccy was yours ?

@ +3 code
your ideas for it were great, release your files, ppl will take it forward

Seems somebody started loooong ago with a somehow related idea, https://rk-internet.com/eZXSparky/specs.html But I would say it's totally dead, so it's in your hands, go on with it. Mate I read everything about eZXSparky, loved it. you should make it an emulator, at least we have the experience in ...

I'm talking stupid, I know

All these comments are great, my proposal for an enhanced system is what it is
no compatibility with zx software, new mode, totally programmed in the prog, no OS code to call on, do it yourself, write the screen by hand, etc, bare Ez80 programming, or, TI eZ80 basic adapted to the new system

Sorry mate, I'm not downplaying your ideas there, I'm a bit skewwhiff all the best mate

mcoder2
I haven't thought about any of that
Just the prog is cycle accurate Speccy emulator
With Enhanced mode, better graphics, PC speed
It can be anything, code can make anything possible

Ralf Why the negativity, the downness, It's just talk, calm yourself :D There is no hardware, it's non existent, all done in code, I didn't say it clearly Software on PC/ Linux, Speccy emulator with 'enhanced mode' HD resolution, or lower for speed, 8 bit colour, eZ80 CPU, 16 MB or more memory I'm ...

I've thought about this for years, I'm sure many have, but never seen anything done. Why not have a fast Speccy (alike) emulated with good graphics on our 3.5 GHz CPU's ? Use the source code for the eZ80 emulator, 24 Bit Z80 code compatible, Display - 1920x1080x16 bit, The underlying CPU does that, ...