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Not a direct answer, but lots of restoration things by Arcade Archive https://m.youtube.com/@TheArcadeArchive. That community may be able to help you? The arcade incidentally is absolutely worth a visit if passing near Stroud, and you also have RMC upstairs of course...

I wrote a small Android app a while ago which probably still works on modern phones - https://mycloudbase.com/ifmapper/index.htm. Allows you to add notes and move things around, and hopefully intuitive.

Some new year listening for peeps!

https://theretrohour.com/sinclair-insid ... rle-ep256/

You may find a small Android utility I wrote useful. Ifmapper is hopefully an intuitive mapping tool you can use on your phone. If you tell Android to allow to run in background you can even swap between it and adventure running in an emulator. I just finished playing The Wicker Woman like this, whi...

An aside from a stalker on these forums... Bob Pape's book on making R-Type is an excellent read. Free download from http://www.bizzley.com/

You also need the appropriate soldering iron for the job. With any soldering if you need to heat for more than a second or so to get the solder to flow it is underpowered / too small a tip. The biggest issues are with the ground side of components. These are usually connected to a large area of copp...

Many years ago I picked up a copy of "Sinclair and the Sunrise Technology" for 50p in a charity shop. I subsequently misplaced this but it was such a good read a couple of years back I bought a copy for £10 as real print is increasingly in short supply. They currently go for £20 on Amazon....

They have already given me a real quick start into Z80 games on the speccy as well as into Nirvana. Even if no more are written much appreciation here already and highly recommended. I am now off on my own about to implement a tile queue and some scrolling*. Knowing someone personally who suffers re...

And thank you all for the welcome, keep up the good work

Hi, After lurking on WOS for a good year now and this, but starting to make use of Robin's excellent Nirvana tutorials (thank you!), it seemed rude not to register. There is a nice feel about these forums, very constructive and a nice technical side to things. Myself, my first computer was a ZX81 wh...