Spectrum Computing

R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:23 pm

PeterJ wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:09 pm I prefer the graphics on the Spectrum, but not much beats the 64 for sound.

Peter. Can I have a word with you. In private. Please.

I’ll hold him down, while you . . . speak.

Dang it, that’s impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anUof69RNJI
Link (in case the video doesn’t work for you).

For dabbling with logic gates, microprocessors, etc., I highly recommend Ben Eater’s video series on how to build an 8-bit computer. It’s very detailed and quite easy to follow.

That’s a tough question. There are some incompatibilities between the models. While later game titles took them into account and ran on all Spectrums, some earlier games might not work on a +2 or +2A. That said, those are few and far between, and fixed versions of the original games (including sever...

If your job interferes with your Spectrum programming, I think it’s obvious you need to quit your job.

Hey, [mention]Fahnn[/mention]! Welcome to SC!

Naturally, it’s Zythum (by Mirrorsoft).

I think this thread has reached peak weirdness.

Joefish wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:08 am That way you don't lose the ability to move diagonally, as you do with INKEY$.

I don’t think the ship can move diagonally now, so, nothing is lost.

Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:30 am Is Dictator writen in Basic?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1388

Yes.

Hehe the irony is not lost on me, editing a game built in a zx spectrum so it works on a zx spectrum emulator :-) Well, it’s not so much the fault of an emulator as one of the quirks of the Spectrum itself. Some emulators have an option of enabling or disabling the pre–Issue 3 Spectrum keyboard beh...

I just tried this, on ZXDS. Looks nice but it doesn't respond to the suggested controls. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? No, but you could play around with the Issue 2 Keyboard feature, if the emulator has it. The keyboard polling in the game should be changed from polling ports and expecting a ...

Use the LAST K system variable maybe (23560)?

It is sweet . . . on a 48K machine, but requires too many additional keypresses on 128K machines. I get impatient somewhere between U and N . In true type-in style, it's 48K mode only, 128K gives the "SPECTRUM" text issue. Haven’t noticed it yet. The SPECTRUM and PLAY tokens only take up ...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:15 pm True, but I must say that I loved this touch as part of the backstory:

Your story begins at "RUN"...

It is sweet . . . on a 48K machine, but requires too many additional keypresses on 128K machines. I get impatient somewhere between U and N.

Looks really good. It like the gameplay and the color scheme!

One tiny improvement would be to make the game run automatically after loading. Simply add a LINE 1 statement when you save the game, as in:

2ythum (by Mirrorsoft).

WIWC wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:45 pm Outrageous outcome. Offensive.

This poll has been rigged.

Since I own several Spectrums, I made a universal lead for use with either of them. It has TRS plugs on either end. The sleeve (ground) of each end is wired to the sleeve of the other, but the other conductor connects the ring terminal on one end and the tip on the other. If I’m loading a game into ...

I don’t have a +3, but I do own a +2A, in which I modded the input jack copying the way it is wired on a +3. I can easily load games into it using either my MacBook and my iPhone, even if the volume is not all the way up. Keep in mind that Apple hardware usually outputs a slightly hotter audio signa...

Other than his DNA on the keyboards and the cases, there’s no personal data stored on any of these devices. You need not worry.

It is, undoubtedly, Zythum (by Mirrorsoft). The best ZX Spectrum game of all time.

Magnus wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 9:07 pm My emulator now handles the +2A/+3 floating bus correctly I think. Here it is running "Woody’s Special” test.

Det här ser perfekt ut (unlike my Swedish). Grattis, Magnus!

The bishop looks fine to me. The top of the rook is a little weird. Some of the battlement ridges look too spiky. And the white knight’s mouth still looks a little cartoony. The black knight looks okay.