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- Sat May 12, 2018 7:30 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: New titles at Spectrum 2.0
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5421
Re: New titles at Spectrum 2.0
Very nice! Always nice to see a project revived. The stats page is pretty cool.
- Sat May 12, 2018 7:23 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How to erase without flicker?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4567
Re: How to erase without flicker?
Another reason to be more careful about the use of CLS. You are giving up control of how you refresh the screen. If at some point you want to have more elements on the screen odds are you don't want to re-draw them every time you move the player object. CLS throws everything in the bin. The overwrit...
- Sat May 12, 2018 7:17 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Sedge Warbler - The official mascot of the Spectrum
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7165
Re: The Sedge Warbler - The official mascot of the Spectrum
Find a person in the area that is convinced they are being gang stalked/having a associative delusion. Convince them that 'Dude, I escaped from my handler for 10 mins. I got to tell you... It's the birds, they are communicating and monitoring you.. That is why you can't find the bug.. The Bug IS the...
- Sat May 12, 2018 5:48 am
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
- Replies: 296
- Views: 55996
Re: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
The previous few days have been mostly this... [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=9bUtZzi6hag[/media] instead of an American/Brit voice though imagine lots of the bad guys from Team America 'EEE DIRKA DIRKA Text to Speech.. DIRKA DIRKA Ubuntu NIII DIRKA DIRKA Subscrible! My...
- Thu May 10, 2018 8:17 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: The hobbit: developing the parser
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10234
Re: The hobbit: developing the parser
Yea you have a good point, the pulp writers knew how to not just write a lot but write stuff that they knew they could sell to the magazines. That is why I laugh when people complain they have writers block or talk about how they are warriors for writing 4k words over a weekend. I think to myself 'D...
- Wed May 09, 2018 8:10 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: The hobbit: developing the parser
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10234
Re: The hobbit: developing the parser
Ok that is a fair question. The Hobbit encoded the data this way to be as compact as possible - this saved space but this made easy fan translations difficult (you are not looking for strings any more - you have to re-design the whole parser.) Think of the advantages of creating a program this way -...
- Wed May 09, 2018 4:24 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
- Replies: 296
- Views: 55996
Re: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
I'm probably being a duffer but what exactly are these stats? Take the first example, Male squat, BW = Body weight(?), Untrained is 35.0 "what"? Run around with a +3, powerpack and a car battery strapped to you like a fitbit you'll see those stats improve in no time. We've come a long way...
- Wed May 09, 2018 3:53 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: What was the SLL instruction supposed to do?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4729
Re: What was the SLL instruction supposed to do?
True, I never liked behavior simulation projects. It's an emulator hiding inside an fpga :lol: You get all the disadvantages of an emulator. The next 10-20 years though, gate level re-creations of cpus will be a reality in budget packages. Then comes the interesting question on whom will buy these w...
- Wed May 09, 2018 3:26 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: What was the SLL instruction supposed to do?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4729
Re: What was the SLL instruction supposed to do?
This is where FPGA projects tend to win big is you get all the undocumented features 'free' as everything from the gate logic level is implemented. As long as you exactly replicate what is on the die, you don't need to 'know' what is going on and implement it like with an emulator. FPGA's are gettin...
- Wed May 09, 2018 3:03 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
- Replies: 296
- Views: 55996
Re: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
Data: So for Barbell squat the following data is used as like a benchmark for progress, once a person reaches a level the number will show up green instead of red. MALE SQUAT KG: BW: UN: NO: IN: AD: EL: 52 35.0 65.0 80.0 107.5 145.0 56 37.5 70.0 87.5 117.5 157.5 60 40.0 77.5 92.5 127.5 167.5 67 45.0...
- Wed May 09, 2018 1:28 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
- Replies: 296
- Views: 55996
Re: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
Feasibility study: I need an application to store my workout data, also it needs to track my progress and make predictions on future performance. Requirements: It needs to: store workout data on disk retrieve data from the disk use text to show information have sound prompts for input take input fro...
- Wed May 09, 2018 12:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 29410
Re: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
Figure that a game getting a patch decades after is something to be celebrated - especially as it fixes some major issues. Makes you wonder what other titles in the archive could use similar love.
- Wed May 09, 2018 2:31 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Super Nudge 2000
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1826
Re: Super Nudge 2000
To be real though, how orignal was a fruit machine simulator by 1989 anyway in the first place? If its a Basic listing, then there were listings available years before this in both magazines and books. You could do refinements to that sure, and add graphics - even convert the logic to assembly langu...
- Tue May 08, 2018 1:45 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
- Replies: 296
- Views: 55996
Re: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
Guess an update is in order! Been continuing my work on getting a 'trade secrets we deserve' ready. :lol: Can't say its the most thrill filled experience ever but there is some satisfaction to seeing things come together. I question the use of such a thing due to emulators being used and almost all ...
- Tue May 08, 2018 2:33 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with K: discussion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6071
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with K: discussion
Komando 2 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2734 Its poster certainly depicts some of the harshest realities of war. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games-extras/Komando2_Poster.jpg Kinda looks to me like the aftermath of a pride rally ... "Not even spit for ...
- Mon May 07, 2018 9:37 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: What was the SLL instruction supposed to do?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4729
Re: What was the SLL instruction supposed to do?
Just a wild shot in the dark, but could it have something to do with the 8080 compatibility?
- Mon May 07, 2018 2:32 am
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Fuse 1.5.3 released
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8992
Re: Fuse 1.5.3 released
did it add support for QL emulation? zx80,81 and compatibles? what about the clones? QL was a Motorola 68008, I wouldn't expect that to be emulated by fuse any time soon. There is another question - if you add support for these new systems like z80, z81. Who is going to continue the development aft...
- Sun May 06, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Capital Cities Tester
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10627
Re: Capital Cities Tester
How about historical states? But then that is a whole new can of worms. Like what do you do when a government is in a state of collapse like say Italy at the end of the second world war.. Or Manchukuo, that changed its capital twice and now is a non-existent state...
- Sun May 06, 2018 7:18 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Improved Download Section
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4624
Re: Improved Download Section
EDIT #2: Cleared some browser caches is all is working now. :shock: I should’ve never upgraded to this fancy new “personal” computer. The Spectrum has always worked fine for me. No cookies, no incriminating browser history, no caches . . . *dons tin foil hat * Call me paranoid but I always suspecte...
- Sun May 06, 2018 11:03 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: BBC micro differences and similarities
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8889
Re: BBC micro differences and similarities
Here is an interesting overview of the Electron. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpE-E_7lNJI[/media] It's probably the closest thing you are going to get to a BBC Micro on original hardware in the US at a reasonable price (shipped). Assuming you have a PAL -> NTSC converter lying around your ...
- Sat May 05, 2018 9:28 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with J: vote
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10199
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with J: vote
I think it is unfair to compare the commercial classic titles to the stuff that came after because the intent and development cycle/constraints are so different. The main thing that strikes me and causing the nostalgia rose tinted glasses to crack was seeing just how little commercial coders cared a...
- Fri May 04, 2018 2:06 am
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
- Replies: 296
- Views: 55996
Re: Crap 0.1 first assembly project
I was hoping that at some time in the future the 'phantom typist' of fuse would be made script able. This would be a great application for the Phantom typist. look at the progress list, open the file. poke a bunch of memory locations, is it different than the stock memory map? if so name a file acco...
- Fri May 04, 2018 1:48 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Database correction: Russian progammer Destr
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2217
Re: Database correction: Russian progammer Destr
One thing that is interesting is where the majority of a countries published spectrum output being in Latin alphabet when they themselves used Cyrillic. Serbia From what I understand there was an active user base, therefore there must be more titles from Serbia that are as of now not documented on w...
- Thu May 03, 2018 2:47 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: The hobbit: developing the parser
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10234
Re: The hobbit: developing the parser
I figure this was the only way you could practically do a Plotto style interactive fiction game/RPG on the spectrum.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/06/plotto/
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/06/plotto/
- Thu May 03, 2018 2:44 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: BBC micro differences and similarities
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8889
Re: BBC micro differences and similarities
It was weird how most of the educational machines ended up in a landfill. I think its something to do with the way that schools/colleges wrote off old stock. You rarely saw that stuff going to boot sales or charity shops. It's a shame when you think how much all that stuff cost originally even with ...