Spectrum Computing

What with that and nettle soup yesterday, I think I will be declining that invitation for dinner @R-Tape! Actually Peter, nettles taste almost exactly like spinach. Pick them young and bright green rather than the darker green they turn with age. I did a survival course in the Scouts and thats how ...

@llewelyn SpecBAS is on my list to try! I tried Python too. I've loads of Raspberry Pis, but didn't really enjoy it. Peter I'm writing a blow by blow account at my ZX BASIC blogspot if you would care to take a look? If you scroll down through the entries, the saga starts at BASIC PARSER but the lat...

Or you could use SpecBAS and see a really fast result. (Mischievous grin!) I have never used Boriel Basic but I did ask Boriel about it recently on a chat site and it sounds like it would be an interesting application to try out, so I'm intrigued by your remarks. However with Dunny helping me to get...

I like Denis Gratchev's games. He has a style all his own, even the baddies are cute!

My neighbour called me up to say he'd ordered us some groceries at Walmart and he was driving down there to pick them up. I thought that was extremely kind as we're running low on milk and dog food and frankly it never occurred to me how useful that service could be. So that's one way to offer usefu...

That was thoughtful of you Peter, thanks.

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:17 am

THAT was bloody brilliant Ast_A Moore! Was it your own idea? Made me laugh. Thanks.
Replace the Adolf pictures with Chump's and put Republican senators in guard uniforms and you've got a winner if it can be modified and put out fast enough?

Good one Stupidget! Never occurred to me.

We might have to resort to dock leaves. Then nettles. That actually happened to me. I was out in the country walking along a seashore footpath with my dog and a mate of mine. Needed to do the necessary, nipped behind a stand of pine trees for some cover only to discover three possibilities, dock le...

I don't know Alessandro, I still think that's more likely to be the answer than everyone suddenly thinking they are going to need toilet paper in abundance for the normal purpose. After all, in your country its mandatory to have at least one roll per household so the chances are that people carry a ...

I won't never understand the obsession of modern man for toilet paper. Really! I know Juan, my wife and I have been saying "What IS it with the loo rolls?" and only this morning did it dawn on me as I shouted to her "I've just realized, its not bottoms its noses! They're stocking up ...

I'm going to end up buying a bloody C5 aren't I? I just know it. With LiPo batteries and possibly another motor, it could be a pretty decent little runabout. Modern brushless motors they sell for large model aircraft and boats are bloody powerful. It might be possible to get more go by regearing, t...

What a piece of work! Actually I preferred Extruder to the original. Could well do without the grimacing manga figures in the background, they just make it confusing. Some classic colour clash in the little figure in Extruder!

Aaaah! Be they good 'uns, them thar games, Jim lad?

Morkin said "The other thing I've noticed (in life in general!) is that when a technical author or code commentary uses the word "simply", it tends to mean I'm not going to understand it.. "

Did you ever hit the nail on the head with that remark! How much I agree with you.

ZXDunny wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:56 pm I'm still having trouble with their frankly bonkers use of looping constructs in the BASIC but other than that it looks like a fun language to tool around in.

What do you mean? Like FOR/NEXT? How could you not have that?

Just donated too. Exchange rates a bit murderous.

I hope - if I can get one - that ingenious inventions will follow. I'd like to see a built in battery like on my laptop that gives at least 4 hours on a charge (nearly 6 if the machine isnt being over stretched). Another possible plus would be a clip on screen, something that could be easily detache...

Mark its a bit confusing, the Next site but in your message you have that theres going to be a 2nd kickstarter presumably for people like me who missed the original - by a lousy few days! Will that mean that I can still get a Next myself? If so please do us a favour and let me know when this 2nd sig...

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:10 pm

llewelyn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:52 pm Can anyone point me to where I can get 7UP because I've drawn a blank and I think its what I most need.

Same place I linked you to a couple of post earlier. You need to spell it out, though: SevenuP.

THANKS! I did try there but typed in the soda name instead.

Can anyone point me to where I can get 7UP because I've drawn a blank and I think its what I most need.

Sounds interesting, thank you 8BitAG and so are those links at the bottom of your message. I really ought to try one of these adventure games. I got a bit turned off in the 80's by the ha hah not funny clues that nobody could ever work out EG:- Take the pair of shoots and jump off the cliff using yo...

Thank you both. ZXPaintbrush site's either gone or turned all German but I think its gone. I looked for it online and the pages all said go to the website. I think I did have that one too and 7up sounds familiar as well. HEY! Wow! Brilliant! I typed it into my Windows search box and lo and behold it...

Its been over a year since I last did some sprite designs and it would seem that during that period I nuked the folder that had my graphics tools in it! Now i can't recall the names or locations so what I need are some apps that run on Windows that I can use to make Spectrum sprites and UDG's. Can a...

I would like to be of some help but I'm not sure my computer skills are sufficient but if there's something tedious but simple that I could do, I would be glad to.