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by ZxSpence
Mon May 27, 2019 9:26 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: I've Never Played Fairlight
Replies: 30
Views: 5112

Re: I've Never Played Fairlight

Played fairlight once. Impressive but dull, like the freescape series
by ZxSpence
Sun May 19, 2019 6:04 pm
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: Some hubris from Elite Systems?
Replies: 9
Views: 2775

Re: Some hubris from Elite Systems?

I'd like to see the contract he has as licensee.

Such as "us". Dreadful English in that letter.
by ZxSpence
Sun May 19, 2019 2:31 pm
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: Some hubris from Elite Systems?
Replies: 9
Views: 2775

Re: Some hubris from Elite Systems?

Sure, but what matters is the provenance of the rights applied by Elite and how far they extend. There's copyright, there's intellectual property rights and there's more nebulous stuff like registered trademarks. Commentators tend to mix and match these things up. For example having been a developer...
by ZxSpence
Sun May 19, 2019 9:00 am
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: Some hubris from Elite Systems?
Replies: 9
Views: 2775

Re: Some hubris from Elite Systems?

If only they had thought to register a bunch of old trademarks that had lapsed, they'd have a watertight case right.... right?!? :lol:
by ZxSpence
Wed May 08, 2019 3:14 pm
Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
Topic: ZX Spectrum Next Discussion
Replies: 423
Views: 88968

Re: ZX Spectrum Next Discussion

It is indeed worrying, and with the increasing aggression towards anyone who asks a question it's looking very bad indeed. Hopefully the worries will come.to nothing but when he whose back catalogue turns heads but whose ego bends light deploys himself to attack perceived critics it only makes it wo...
by ZxSpence
Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:29 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: C on the Spectrum (z88dk)
Replies: 39
Views: 10793

Re: C on the Spectrum (z88dk)

You don't need to multiply.
by ZxSpence
Sat Mar 16, 2019 1:17 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: C on the Spectrum (z88dk)
Replies: 39
Views: 10793

Re: C on the Spectrum (z88dk)

Fair enough. Any chance the memory for globals ends up in a contended bank?
by ZxSpence
Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:30 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: C on the Spectrum (z88dk)
Replies: 39
Views: 10793

Re: C on the Spectrum (z88dk)

It's worth pointing out that a two dimensional array is just a one dimensional array. You just index the row by X columns. However as connect 4 pieces only ever go down it's better to flip the model 90 degrees so that the columns are modelled but the rows are not. As the calculation should occur for...