Spectrum Computing

Ralf wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:09 am And here's my rzx recording:

Great game.
First though was that there is little action on the screen compared to other games, but still immediately fell in love with the beautiful design.

And then I red it. Wham! Basic.

Incredible.

There's also a real running BASIC-program on WoS http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0025822

While browsing for something completely different i stumbled across this German emulator which seems to be a whole IDE. Assembler, BASIC-Compiler and what not. I've no idea, if the UI also talks English though. http://www.jens-mueller.org/jkcemu/assembler.html

There was some (commercial) software for the KC though but still far less than for the Western ones. This might be the reason that there were also attempts to produce compatibles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones#Spectral see also http://www.jens-mueller.org/jkcemu/zxspectru...

I second every word you wrote, but can't help to be deeply impressed by the journey he embarked on. This is the way of the Real Programmer. I liked ASZMIC, but that was for the 81. https://media.oglaf.com/comic/feralchic.jpg

Please stop posting links to old computer magazines!!! I've just spent 45 minutes, yes 45 minutes trawling through them :lol: :lol: Don't worry. Just doesn't make sense. You are doomed already. You were doomed since you created your account here. You were doomed since you surfed to this URL. You we...

So I awoke one morn ... afternoon after playing Knightlore all night long and ... sorry wrong start. So there's the Uno, the Next, the Evolution. People seem to be interested in hardware which gives the full Speccy feeling. Now you may have heard that down in Cambridge, they had the crazy idea of pr...

Converting a 48k to a 128k has been done 8-) There is/was a page in the web describing it. The more I think about it, the more it seems out of my league. I'm struggling with the keyboard repair already. But thanks for your thoughts. To get the whole 128k of RAM, all 16 existing DRAM chips have to b...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:48 am That was a bit of rant wasn't it?

That's just fine. Thanks to the explanation by you, ZXDunny and the others I finally got it.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 5:30 pm A very good marketing strategy!

Should have been "The program which must not be named" (or played, or loaded, or thought of)

I followed the link and now I know the idea of it, but you seem to have misunderstood the meme. ... yours just aren't funny. Sorry. You're kidding. That was freakin' hilarious :D I dunno. I feel like I have to second Sokurah a little bit. This looks awfully similar to the regular Manic Miner logos ...

An oxymoron of course. But apart from this, as I have a 48k in a keyboard case with too much space https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1723 and I have to solder around on that thing anyway the thought crossed my mind, what could be done else. Inspired by this mem https://...

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:45 pm...

I totally agree. She's obviously to old for you.
Now if you could hand over that number ...

Has someone a pointer for me, where you get the ZXDS card? There's a link to a fb group here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHEpaqWwlU but I'm not to fond of fb. I'm aware, that it is just some genuine card for emulators with the free Czech Emulator http://zxds.raxoft.cz/ but the card is for anoth...

The TIF files were 250mb though which I thought a bit ridiculous. Today with 4k videos 'n stuff 250mb of course is nothing. Just thought, you wanted to know how it get's so bloated, e. g. if you should have to send such a file by email. The physical resolution should be mentioned in the scanner's m...

Here you go, I also scanned Horace and the Spiders and Horace goes Skiing as they are slightly different images of Horace too. I always had the highest regard for Timex. Wish I had a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068 Why oh why didn't Sinclair go with their improved ULA? So they kne...

Hence why I suggested a 74HCxxx part. Thanks for your thoughts. Off course 74HC or 74LS would be ideal for the reasons you listed, but at the moment I have to go with what I have. But isn't this the True Sinclair way? Screw the specs, let's try something cheap and easy and hope it works! There is n...

This discussion is mainly about the looks of Horace, right? In this case I would propose a technical solution - one I'm inept to implement myself, I'm quick to admit - but well, here goes. Horace is just 1. a name and 2. a bundled of bitmaps IP laws differ from country to country, but there seem to ...

Do you have enough space to fit an extra board in? I’m talking about a piece of stripboard appropriately 40mm X 50mm ? There's plenty of space https://www.nightfallcrew.com/wp-content/gallery/lo-profile-professional-keyboard-from-advanced-memory-systems-ltd/IMG_0996.jpg If yes, get a 74HC245 DIL ch...

Don’t forget you also have to account for the B-E forward junction voltage drop/turn on voltage of the PNP transistor. Umm ... yes, that could be a problem. A much better place to put PNP transistors, is in place of diodes D1 to D8. Remove these diodes. Now connect the base of each transistor to wh...

Turns out, I'm mechanically incompetent. I tried to disassemble and reassemble the keyboard, but got foiled by the space bar already. I sort of reassembled it, but with only one dome and now it is all wobbly. So I thought of an electronic substitute. the 5 date lines connected to the ULA are pulled ...

alban lusitanae wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:07 am So beautiful

It's called post kidnapping or postnapping. We'll see, who's laughing, when the ransom demand reaches you.

In totally unrelated news: Is there a bitcoin client for the Spectrum?

I had my grandniece (3) code one, but she keeps complaining that my assembler IDE is quirky.

Ralf wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:51 pm Man, I don't know what you're smoking but I want it too

Sorry, couldn't find a suitable dead drop.

Unfortunately my description of doing precise loops without knowing how to count featuring the Zermelo-Fraenkel-Set-Rap got banned by the Monty-Phyton-Funniest-Joke-Law.

I taught him about DRAW, which is fine. It is. Strangely enough, they haven't been taught binary, register usage, esoteric display layouts or bit-patterns. Go easy on them. They are only teachers. They wasted their lives at some university or such instead of experiencing the one true religion in th...