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by Guesser
Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:51 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Games Exposed
Replies: 148
Views: 7088

Re: Games Exposed

I feel I should defend what szelega and I had done as very much a first pass. In some senses we're not much beyond the "identify what is code and what is data" stage. I got carried away making things like the spells table pretty, because that was easy 😄 A lot of it merely describes what th...
by Guesser
Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:53 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Spectranet Game docs/SDK
Replies: 4
Views: 177

Re: Spectranet Game docs/SDK

lexi wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:45 pm full screen cpu-lite replays would be a nice-to-have feature.
Alas, everything on the spectrum involves the CPU moving bytes around. There's a demo of flinging video frames at the speccy over udp in the spectranet examples.
by Guesser
Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:50 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Spectranet Game docs/SDK
Replies: 4
Views: 177

Re: Spectranet Game docs/SDK

lexi wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:45 pm [*] ideally <6k init with as close to a ~1k runtime as i can get
library as a ROM module :D
by Guesser
Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:14 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Spectranet Game docs/SDK
Replies: 4
Views: 177

Re: Spectranet Game docs/SDK

I was looking more into Spectranet, and want to help add support for it to Chaos and GravityPower+2 - i have some half-baked ideas for how i'd go about that, but can't find much via search and wondered if there are docs/plans already written up somewhere? Spectranet provides a bsd style socket inte...
by Guesser
Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:25 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: zx spectrum +2 video (composite)
Replies: 4
Views: 219

Re: zx spectrum +2 video (composite)

You must have a load connected when measuring as it forms part of the circuit. It's also a video signal so the only way to sensibly measure it is with an oscilloscope.
The video should be on the order of a volt between the sync tips and peak white but there's probably a large DC offset.
by Guesser
Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:55 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Games Exposed
Replies: 148
Views: 7088

Re: Games Exposed

how hands on/off would you like to be? i can take care of hosting the wip git/html elsewhere (github), or i could send you my ssh keys for your zxnet repo and ping you to rebuild the zxnet pages whenever there's a significant update/correction? It lives in my home directory at the moment, so will n...
by Guesser
Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:33 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Games Exposed
Replies: 148
Views: 7088

Re: Games Exposed

lexi wrote: Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:11 pm are you *sure* you want to know the answer to those life-long questions? is predictable Chaos really playing with Chaos at all?
Is it really predictable when it's governed by the random number generator?

(Yes, yes it is, especially with the random number generator Gollop wrote :lol:)
by Guesser
Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:31 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Games Exposed
Replies: 148
Views: 7088

Re: Games Exposed

and it depends how szeliga and guesser want to move forward.. but combined, it would absolutely be the definitive guide until another one-post-wonder drive-bys a fourth Chaos Disassembly :lol: If you want to take the lead, and field the questions from Szeliga on whether it's finished yet, you're mo...
by Guesser
Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:03 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
Replies: 96
Views: 4270

Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed

I'm still waiting for the article announcing the 2023 compo...

*refreshes his newsreader again*
by Guesser
Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:31 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: How I find [CENSORED] game
Replies: 56
Views: 2526

Re: How I find [CENSORED] game

firelord wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:41 pm I believe that any porn spectrum title is Safe For Work (SFW).
There's at least one which I believe is currently illegal to possess, though unlikely to be in the public interest to prosecute over.
by Guesser
Thu Nov 23, 2023 12:22 am
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: RetroTINK recreates the beauty of CRT displays for serious and seriously deep-pocketed retrogamers
Replies: 14
Views: 426

Re: RetroTINK recreates the beauty of CRT displays for serious and seriously deep-pocketed retrogamers

Don't get me wrong, I think trying to emulate shadow masks and suchlike is a worthy endeavour so that people can see the software the way it was expected to look rather than painfully pure colours and infinite-bandwidth pixel edges. I just think great big scanlines look dumb :lol:
by Guesser
Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: RetroTINK recreates the beauty of CRT displays for serious and seriously deep-pocketed retrogamers
Replies: 14
Views: 426

Re: RetroTINK recreates the beauty of CRT displays for serious and seriously deep-pocketed retrogamers

To me "scanlines" is about as irritating as all those supposed VHS filters people slap on videos. You know the ones, where the picture's tearing side to side all the time and everything looks like an old 3D movie without the cardboard glasses. :roll:
by Guesser
Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:10 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?
Replies: 44
Views: 1144

Re: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?

I can't really remember, something like 2003 I think :lol: (UK)
by Guesser
Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:48 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Using the ULAplus 64 colour mode from Sinclair BASIC
Replies: 15
Views: 232

Re: Using the ULAplus 64 colour mode from Sinclair BASIC

I've made the change, but it still doesn't seem to be working as expected. ;enable ULAplus 20 OUT 48955,64 30 OUT 65339,1 ;choose palette entry 0 (ink 0) 50 OUT 48955,0 ;set RGB colours 70 LET r=3 80 LET g=6 90 LET b=1 ;set the colours 110 OUT 65339,((g*32)+(r*4)+b) ;print in ink 0 120 PRINT FLASH ...
by Guesser
Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:22 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: How hard is it to write an emulator?
Replies: 21
Views: 1001

Re: How hard is it to write an emulator?

how long for what, running enough code to get to the ROM © message, or being finished? Because the latter is "forever" based on the emulator authors I know :lol: There's a very active emulation channel on the ZX Spectrum discord, where a handful of folk split hairs over irrelevant details ...
by Guesser
Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Noisy audio on +2, but only when RGB is connected
Replies: 16
Views: 351

Re: Noisy audio on +2, but only when RGB is connected

There's no need for a voltage regulator, one 12V pin goes to aspect switching, and the other just needs the right resistance to give the correct blanking voltage, e.g. 560Ω
by Guesser
Thu Oct 05, 2023 12:43 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Noisy audio on +2, but only when RGB is connected
Replies: 16
Views: 351

Re: Noisy audio on +2, but only when RGB is connected

The only relatively cheap source I can think of, is to chop up a VGA cable… I have done this to make SCART cables for my Spectrum +3, and BBC micro. I wouldn't really recommend it as the cores are fantastically thin and horrendous to strip and solder. If I was doing it over (which I might if any of...
by Guesser
Tue Sep 26, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Did Pope John Paul II own a ZX Spectrum?
Replies: 12
Views: 313

Re: Did Pope John Paul II own a ZX Spectrum?

Just read another story about me poking willy in attick, completely false.
by Guesser
Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:52 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Did Pope John Paul II own a ZX Spectrum?
Replies: 12
Views: 313

Re: Did Pope John Paul II own a ZX Spectrum?

Are bears Catholic?



No wait, that's not right 🤔
by Guesser
Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:29 am
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: ZX80 v. ZX Spectrum
Replies: 24
Views: 493

Re: ZX80 v. ZX Spectrum

1024MAK wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 11:18 pm And we do need to define/decide what published actually means.
Did anyone ever decide what to do about Too Much Wine, the first telesoftware release of the 21st century? :mrgreen:

by Guesser
Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:51 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: ZX80 v. ZX Spectrum
Replies: 24
Views: 493

Re: ZX80 v. ZX Spectrum

That's not worldofspectrum.org anyway...
by Guesser
Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:40 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Spectrum 128K +2 Fault Conformation?
Replies: 12
Views: 302

Re: Spectrum 128K +2 Fault Conformation?

You can find the schematic for the tape board in the +2 service manual https://spectrumforeveryone.com/wp-cont ... Manual.pdf

The short would be something after the inductor, possibly C323 if it's not a short in the motor or switch wiring.
by Guesser
Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:04 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Spectrum 128K +2 Fault Conformation?
Replies: 12
Views: 302

Re: Spectrum 128K +2 Fault Conformation?

It's not a resistor, but an inductor. The value according to the schematic is 82μH. For it to have burnt up something else in the circuit is presumably shorted out. Do you mean that when you plug the tape board in it kills the machine? That would be consistent with it having a short on the 5 volt ra...
by Guesser
Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Replies: 72
Views: 2959

Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted

R-Tape wrote: Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:02 pm One word: Horses 2.
I finished one chiptune cover this year that took me* a year, I doubt I'll manage another one by Christmas 😅

*I get distracted...
by Guesser
Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Replies: 72
Views: 2959

Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted

R-Tape wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 8:35 pm The deadline
This is still for Woot 2020 right? Oh. I see.