Spectrum Computing

On the machine that I'm currently using, the browser is Firefox 56.0 (32-bit), which is running on a Linux OS. Note that Safari on an iPad mini does not produce this warning. The Firefox browser does have various plugins, but none inject mark-up on any pages and it is fine on other secure sites. The...

I did my investigations on the FAQ page...
No user images or links there as far as I could see...

Mark

All pages do it. I think it is either the logo picture, or the associated link: http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/

EDIT: it's the link, as loading the GIF image alone does not generate the warning.

Mark

btw, I already told you that RMartins was recently banned (without proper explanation) and I almost cant believe you didnt notice it. Maybe it should have been banned, but we dont know that, and we probably will not find out. And why Vega+ should it be banned anyway? 5000 fans have invested their m...

To be fair, the +3 was always going to be a slow seller. By the time of it's release, the Spectrum market had levelled out and was now in decline, and there were other more desirable computers available. And gamers would mostly stick with the +2 versions because at that point in time, games were onl...

@ 1024MAK, interesting. I can't seem to I remember a single time you spoke up against the many injustices happening over at WoS, not when people were banned for no reason nor explanation, not when they were pointed the door at a slightest hint of disagreement, the silent treatment and censorship, t...

@jmk - there are never just two sides. It's always much more complex. As is everything where human beliefs and emotions are involved. And as I said earlier, there are precious few facts. Just lots of allegations and lots of misinformation. Like your statement that fewer and fewer people are allowed ...

Elite is/was VERY popular on the Acorn BBC Micro and on some of the other Acorn computer range. It is in the top ten (if not higher) in this community. But it did not appear to have the same success on the Spectrum. I think mainly due to there being a lot more good quality games available for the Sp...

Sorry, Mark, but the "Lee pays for the server" thing isn't really a good argument and it certainly isn't an excuse for some of the unforgiveable things he's done recently. People have offered to pay for hosting but Lee wasn't interested. Besides which, it's hosted on the same server that ...

At the moment, there are plenty of words flying around, with very little substance, let alone actual facts. So word alone is not enough if you just post up comments knocking others. Especially if you yourself may not have all the relevant information. And your earlier comments lead me to think that...

I'm not a mind reader Mark and I dont know what anyone wants or what intentions are. That's why many of us have been looking for an explanation of the past days, but we didnt get it. Just a wall of silence. All I know is that Lee said this: Due to a failure within the WoS Admin team, it has been de...

@Mike Davies - If you are so confident, write a Spectrum game for me in three days that is a proper playable game. Should be simple for you. The Spectrum is a simple computer simple compared to a modern server running a full featured web site. This is bizarre, what's that supposed to prove? My expe...

You're right Mark, but some things have happened and the least we can expect is an explanation. Closing two good threads (ZXDB and SC), as well as the censorship of the spectrumcomputing website is shameful and can not be justified, in any way. How do you expect us to react, if people are banning w...

+3 was too expensive? NO!

Look at the price of other disk systems and of the price of expansions systems that had a disk interface and a disk drive...

Mark

For anyone who is not blinded by the large amounts of misinformation, rumours, wild speculation and in some cases, down right lies, I wish to point out that there are as usual precious few actual facts. On that basis, I refuse to follow a pack of blind sheep. People, please open your eyes. Keep an o...

The original WoS site appears to have been build using a number of off-the-shelf software packages that were then glued together with custom code. That sounds like it was a right pain to maintain. Can you blame anyone for trying to avoid such a system? Both Fogarty and Einar started from the same p...

@Mike Davies - I'm not here to defend Lee. That he can do himself. Einar has indeed done a lot of good work. As has Peter. I could build a car in a month, but it would not be the same as one designed over many years by a professional vehicle manufacturer and build in a purpose designed factory. Unti...

To be fair, you can't blame Lee for going down the rebuild it from scratch route. And, also, until he got the "foundations" sorted, it would have been difficult to work with a team. Has it been slower than anyone would have liked? Yes. But the fact is, WoS is still there. At least someone ...

As if the +2A is an advancement over the original +2! Of course it is an advancement, it has crap sound :lol: More seriously, at least the +2A is the correct colour :P And they quickly produced a new +2B PCB with the sound problem "fixed". And to be fair, Amstrad were just continuing the ...

Oh, and I was actually thinking that twelve ranks would be nice number, but could only think of eleven at the moment... then I wondered if a "space" should be left, depending on how we look back on recent past events from a perspective in the future...

Mark

@Guesser - You say tomato, I say banana!

Mark

For those wondering why they have 'Berk' under their username, it's because we quickly set the forum ranks to the first Spectrum characters that popped into our heads. It then goes onto Dizzy, Manic Miner and others, but doesn't mean much as there is no obvious gradation. If anyone has any good ide...

Err, I'm not at all sure about joining a forum that is full of err, "Berks" (see the Rank on the membership list ...) But anyway... since this has become popular, and as I'm already consuming lots of time when I should be doing other stuff on WoS forums, Sinclair ZX World forums and many o...