Spectrum Computing

Nice job! If the extended system variables were collapsed then the relocation would work just fine There's a handy bit of code that comes with LERM Code Compressor 1 which will reclaim the system variables Wonderful, thank you! That's very helpful. I had fun hacking at this, but it was getting on f...

Forgive the plug, but I'd recommend using SkoolKit's tap2sna.py for purposes like this I was just about to recommend it! :D I normally use Fuse, but the notion of a “perfect” snapshot captured by the tool right after loading is very satisfying. the game can be compressed (to work on 16 /48 ) That’s...

Yeah, the code at 24576 uses the ROM tape loading routines to load the next part of code, called "m". It's saved with a header indicating it should be loaded to 24576 as well, but the program ignores that and loads it to 23760. Unfortunately that's in the middle of the microdrive maps/chan...

@oO cozy Oo, you mentioned in another topic that you're using the DivIDE ROMs, I think that might be why it's not working (and why the checksums don't match). As @Guesser was saying in that thread, it's the "Simple 8-bit" (sm8) version of +3e you're probably looking for.

I don’t think it’s anything to worry about. The CRC is just a “fingerprint” of the ROM contents; the diagnostic is just saying it doesn’t recognise the +3e ROM (this is because it has been modified from the original Amstrad code, so the “fingerprint” is different.

stupidget wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 8:47 pm Brilliant. Looks like something from Soft ‘n Cuddly

Thank you! I was inspired by this tweet. (It’s how I heard about the portrait in the first place, in fact).

Waahhhhh^*!


» inspired by twitter.com/sexy_riker's Wario comment.

* I know he doesn't really go "waahhhh" on the Spectrum version, but he does on the very good SAM port!

How about SimCoupé? It supports SID emulation, and the emulated SAM can itself emulate a 48K Spectrum. I haven't tried but the emulated-SID is on port &d4 so the emulated-Spectrum should be able to access it?

Ah, I see the problem @danboid, you're looking in the Z80n directory, but those are just partial files, meant to be INCLUDE'd within another asm file.

The directory called zxn is the one you need. That contains the .asm files that can be assembled. The build script is in there as well!

It looks like the asm files in the ZXN directory already have the correct SjASMPlus directives, so I was able to assemble just by running the build.sh file, but you could also invoke it directly: sjasmplus --lst zxn-mandelbrot.asm sjasmplus --lst zxn-mandelbrot2.asm sjasmplus --lst zxn-mandelbrot_12...

Not really a meme but do you ever see a painting in the news and think to yourself, "hmm, colour clash"?

https://youtu.be/GEz9XxkwgLM?si=lbGicF13SpBXn9Jy Nice one Glen, I enjoyed the video. The SID player is (as far as I understand) actually a partial 6502 emulator, (so it really benefits from running on a faster Z80 but quite a few tunes work at 3.5MHz) but that means it’s compatible with normal SID f...

Thanks, yeah there was also an article in Ars Technica about it that gives a bit more context to the game itself. There is some further interesting information in the comments about language and history too.

Tonight Radio Študent in Slovenia revived the (very cool) tradition of broadcasting ZX Spectrum software over the radio:



The game being transmitted is Kontrabant 2.

Via Računalniški muzej

akeley wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 4:41 pm I know you can "bodge" something (2nd language here) but I've never heard that used to describe a person(s).

Pictured: Bodger (left) and Badger (loves mashed potato)

jpnz wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 3:58 pm Quick fix

Top banana

The text column continues below the screenshot, it should read Load Psychedelia with LOAD "" CODE The "line mode" refers to one of the features of the program itself (press the L key to toggle Line Mode on and off). It's seems to crash on +2A (at least in my emulator) though, eve...

alt text

Clip from BBC's Micro Men. Alexander Armstrong's Clive Sinclair is expressing himself passionately about @Daveysloan's Jet Set Steamboat Willy.

“My lad's up to level eight!”

This week I've been mostly playing with HardSID on eLeMeNt ZX (hopefully allaying any fears that this topic isn't sufficiently Spectrum-related!) It works by driving the eLeMeNt's FPGA SID implementation. (It has a conventional/discrete Z80 but some tunes need it clocked at 7 or 14MHz). https://zxfi...

when MGT had become (or been purchased by?) Datel I believe they sold the PlusD to concentrate on launching SAM Coupé (and raise a bit of cash, and get away from support, repairs etc. to focus on the new machine). Before the +D there was the Disciple (disk... I pull?? GET IT?? god knows) -- which w...

Dean explains a bit more about the libraries in his blog with links to the example files.

I've added a few more, this time from TILT magazine.

I noticed from the recent changes list that @sn3j has already done a couple, so I've only updated the others.

I don't see the "I don't believe on those things" option. Nah me neither but I do like what Douglas Adams had to say about it: In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thi...

I've made a start with the entries from ORDI-5 magazine. I'll carry on with the others on the list from that publication.

Edit — I've finished these ones.

10 .espbaud -Rd 115200 20 LOAD "getit.bas" SAVE "c:/GetIT/getit-reset.bas" LINE 10 Thanks! I tried that (it's a useful tip, thankyou!) but it didn't help. GetIt still gets stuck at the same point. The author also says on the download page that "You must be on the latest 3.0...