Spectrum Computing

Rest in piece John.

Hi I wasn’t sure where to post these thoughts of mine so please admin please move where this fits best. On reddit, for example within the r/Plex subreddit there is a weekly post called “Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions” Thread where any type of questions can be asked without fear of a fal...

Crikey! seeing a time-lapse like that is stunning! MORE time-lapses please, so interesting!
Oh and HOW long did this screen take you roughly?

Thanks for the replies fellas :) https://i.postimg.cc/KKbC3sRc/Heavy-On-The-Magik.gif https://i.postimg.cc/sQGfDgxG/Heavy-On-The-Magik-X200.gif https://i.postimg.cc/N5TN8khK/Nodes-Of-Yesod.gif https://i.postimg.cc/NyMfS4w4/Nodes-Of-Yesod-X200.gif https://i.postimg.cc/4Y2hmj8V/sabrewulf-sword.gif Usi...

My ever flowing urge to find as many ZX Spectrum graphics that I remember but as animated .gifs continues as I still LOVE one of my monitors showing em off on a screensaver. There are just so many amazing main characters, enemies and general screen animations that the mind boggles! You all may be aw...

I used to live in Anerley, near Crystal Palace. I just remember that back then I found out that Matthew Smith lived in nearby Penge, so every time I went shopping there I kept my eyes peeled right back incase of meeting Mr Smith!! Never did :( I did see him at the Croydon Fairfield Halls Retro Show ...

You meant a loading screen gif?

Wow.. thanks for the replies, and that link to the RG article! As always a cool writeup. Amazing to hear Rod's doing ok too

Rod Bowkett, author of two of my back-in-the-day favourite Spectrum platformers Dynamite Dan I & II. First game I found really difficult but very slick for the time, with fantastic audio and graphics. https://i.postimg.cc/0yyR9xxM/Dynamite-Dan-1985-Rod-Bowkett-Mirrorsoft.gif https://i.postimg.cc...

Yeah massive credit to the amazing artists that make em!

'Somehow' I've managed to get a Mac program called PlayOnMac to work and successfully ran bmp2scr exp_2.11a.exe to convert a .scr to a loading screen that I can then load and convert to a gif (using ZXSP) :lol: :shock: Only problem is, I think I'm going about this wrong. I thought I needed to conver...

This probably isn't allowed (delete if so) but Andy's book is magic

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https://i.postimg.cc/nMN1VSj1/Amaurote-1987-Binary-Design-Mastertronic-Added-Dimension-128-K.gif Wow.. thanks Ast A. Moore! will try your tips of getting some of this stuff to work on certain .tzx files. Oh and its you find some spare brain cells lying around PM them to me so I can easily work out ...

Slowly chipping away at creating a whole bunch of these using ZXSP's gif creation tool. VERY cool :mrgreen: Just a quick question.. (didn't want to start another topic to add clutter) When I load a .tzx using ZXSP, for example Saboteur (1986) , the emulator loads it automatically and skips the loadi...

Thanks jpnz for giving me directions I'll try to follow your videos and convert some of the .scr files from http://zxart.ee
Sorry I cannot promise I'll not message you soon about this stuff

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Both BMP2SCR and ZX-Paintbrush will do that. Get hold of BMP2SCR EXP 2.11a , and load the .SCR into it. Select the Save tab, then "Save as TZX" under "Conversion and Re-saving". Whatever the first 8 characters of the .SCR filename are, that'll be what appears in the Bytes: heade...

I think it’s pretty straightforward. You just hit Command-Option-P to start and stop your recordings. (Make sure the “Animated border in Gif movies” option is selected in the File menu.) You can always add/change keyboard shortcuts for any menu item in any app in macOS. Go to System Preferences > K...

I'm sorry I cannot help on the Window's side of things :| zxsp does work on my Mac, although the activation of recording of the screen in Gif format isn't the easiest to follow, but I'm VERY glad it does work, as I'm feeling I'm actually getting somewhere. I then remove frames with preview, and resa...

Had a lot of fun this afternoon converting various loading screen$ to .Gif so thanks again :) (not using Photoshop anymore cause it's expensive.. so quickest, easiest way to 'loop' a gif?) https://i.imgur.com/7p4vAJn.gif https://i.imgur.com/ppy08fE.gif https://i.imgur.com/oCn3yon.gif I was wondering...

Thank you spec-chums

Sorry this may be a strange request so please move to a more suitable place. :geek: What would be the best method to convert the loading of a Spectrum loading screen into the animated .Gif format? I'm interested in using the animated Gif file format to use in screensavers that use the format. Curre...