Spectrum Computing

I updated the esxDOS to 0.89. After I was pointed in the right direction this worked flawless. My question is, has anybody already tried to reflash the chip with the Roms? Currently the chip contains 2 diagnostic Roms that I don't need and lacks the Jupiter Ace Rom so reflashing this chip would mak...

MatGubbins wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:26 am Following on from the other two pictures.......

Yep, after that last one the first thing to pop into my head was "Are all in the North".

It's always pleasing to see a nice approximation of a bell curve emerge from statistics.

Is there any chance for a way to OUT 32765,48 prior to launching a .tap file? Maybe on shift/symb+Enter? Not sure if it's possible or if I just need to ID the files that need it and add it to their BASIC loaders. You can't currently do this from the browser. Wasn't sure how useful this was outside ...

Is there any chance for a way to OUT 32765,48 prior to launching a .tap file? Maybe on shift/symb+Enter? Not sure if it's possible or if I just need to ID the files that need it and add it to their BASIC loaders.

Edit: Saw the option to dismiss wait messages and suchlike, nice job and many thanks

Installed this on my Omni - ESXDOS v0.8.7 - and it seems really nice. Some feedback: 1. It's good. Really good, and much better than the built-in esxdos browser. Makes your NMI a pleasure to press. 2. Browsing without having to hold shift on 5678? Would be nice not to have to. Also would be nice to ...

Just got mine. I'm in the process of building an SD card for it. And damn I need a long filename browser. Anyone know of one that will work on the Omni? You can use the long filename browser from bob_fossil https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2553 It works fine with esxD...

Just got mine. I'm in the process of building an SD card for it.

And damn I need a long filename browser. Anyone know of one that will work on the Omni?

4thRock wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:11 pm But I don't know of any emulator that does this....

ZXSpin 0.7 (and SpecBAS for that matter) scale up to the nearest integer, then bilinear the rest of the way. It looks much, much better than either of the alternatives.

I feel that we could speed Frogger up a lot by replacing the SCREEN$ calls with a small m/c stub. It works by looking at the screen space that the frog is moving into. If there's nothing there, it matches a space (which fortunately is the first character in the charset) and returns that - the frog i...

And all the sprites seem to have this horrible individual 'vignette' effect where they darken away a certain radius from the centre of the sprite. It makes everything look like a smudge. Used to see that a lot on the 16Bit ports for Speccy games. The artists didn't know what to do with the original...

Lol...why old-ass youtubers always feel the need to make these daft faces in the video snapshots? It's so ridiculous :D (and one of the reasons I never watch any of them). Eye-tracking experiments have found that our eyes are attracted to: 1. Faces 2. Circles 3. Slightly diagonal black text on yell...

I'm responsible for there being no new Magic Knight game.

This is literally how SpecBAS was born. When I was a kid, I didn't have the brain necessary to code in m/c so I pined for the speed but wanted it in BASIC. Now we have PCs with multi-GHz CPUs I could realise my dream - and made SpecBAS. It runs natively on the PC and interprets Sinclair BASIC with e...

Cybernoid

Flick-screen was lazy; should have been an 8-way scroller.

Well, let's find out!

Devil Fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36tf8htxak

From what I see SpecBAS is very good but the lack of some commands make it a bit incompatible for what I want to do. Also,most listings I found need modification to run there. Although I don't recommend trying to use SpecBAS to run pure Sinclair BASIC programs - you will get issues with display siz...

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 2:47 pm Do you have a list of games that people put in their Top 10 but that didn't appear in the Top 100? (Including @ZXDunny 's of course ). Might be interesting reading.

Hey, can easily add many, many more to the list if anyone's interested

Well huh. That's a shocker and no mistake.

I have it on good authority that Mr. Campbell was working from inside information; I shall write to my MP and demand a public inquiry.

Everyone's had their Top 10 whittled away, with the exception of the untouchable @ZXDunny, with @catmeows only left with 2 of their 10 remaining. @Luzie is looking like the bookies' favourite with 8 picks still in the hunt. Still quietly (not really) confident here in zxdunnyland - it's been a real...

ZXASCII AUTO -1 PROG startup-sequence 10 REM Startup option commands can be set here 20 OPTION "INTSCALING",1: SCREEN WINDOW 1024,768: WINDOW SIZE 0,512,384 30 LET a=168: READ a$,b: IF a$<>"" THEN OPTION a$,b: GO TO 30 40 REM ASSIGN "demos:" TO "sys:demos" 50...

So there's another ad that I found a bit curious the other day:

https://archive.org/details/your-comput ... 3/mode/2up

It was fun to start there and see what happened. I don't know what the outcome was though.

I have to say that with recent developments in the top 100 chart, I'm feeling better and better about my choices

I never said he would be surprised; after all, it's his top ten. I'm quietly confident he will surprise us . Um, well you did, when you replied to him and said "you might be surprised", but hey, I'm just generally baffled here. :shock: Well yes, of course he might be surprised, this is St...