Spectrum Computing

"You made a Time Machine... out of a Sinclair?"

At 31:04 of episode 2:

https://imgur.com/sD0ZdR3

And a quote from a New York times article from June 20, 1983: "Sir Clive Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Electronics, may buy the closed DeLorean sports-car plant in Belfast to manufacture an electric car"

I had no idea

Great videos. I just found it odd to see the name of the games shown after each game, not before.

I just wanted to add that about a year or two ago someone made a demo in 100% Sinclair Basic which featured Beeper music during the whole demo. It's a bit off-topic but I thought it was worth mentioning because it was impressive to see (and hear). Can't remember the name of the demo though.

I was very young when I discovered that Spectrum colours were perfect for creating a fade effect (from 0 to 7 or from 7 to 0) in my BASIC programs, especially when using a black and white TV or monitor. However, I still don't understand the logic behind it. Can anyone please explain it in layman's t...

purchased a nice Timex 12'' Green Phosphore monitor Are you sure it was Timex? The Polish-made green phosphor Neptun 156 was very popular in Portugal and Europe and was commonly sold at Sinclair dealers, but I've never heard of a monitor made by Timex, either here (United States) or anywhere in Eur...

I wish I had started using a Spectrum as early as most of you. My first memories of actually using a 48K Spectrum are from summer 1987 at my cousin's apartment, but I didn't get my own until 1988 or 1989. It's sad that I can't remember the date, but it wasn't Christmas or birthday or any special day...

For a few hours I didn't see any mention of the anniversary, here or on the other forums, and I was starting to feel a bit sad. It'd be like forgetting your wedding anniversary until it's too late to fix it. Good to see it got mentioned here.

Thank you. There's something about it that makes it sad and beautiful.

This isn't the best/easiest way to ask for help, but Shazaam doesn't understand humming... https://www.dropbox.com/s/68a9lfv4agenvxg/unknown01.szx?dl=0 Those are just the first few notes but should be enough? It's probably well known but I was never good with classical music titles and authors. Than...

I'm looking forward to this.

edit: On your video you may want to change it to "A sneak peek", not "An sneak peek".

At the risk of being told something obvious (and after a quick search on the website) I must ask where to find the second picture on the bottom, counting from left to right. If it's in the replies I completely missed it.

Sent a link to my cousin asking him to watch this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetFo2u4-yM I suggested a 48K machine could run the code, minus the music unless it had an AY interface. What I couldn't explain was the odd colours seen in the demo. Is this one of those demos that would flicker...

Spectrum graphics can look amazing. This is a perfect example. I don't have words to describe how good the art looks.

Nice to see evilpaul here.

If I remember correctly, ZX Spin supported MIDI emulation.

This topic also reminded me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LoVzl4JQk

cmal wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:26 pm When I got run over while crossing the road, it left my splat remains on the road but I wasn't re-incarnated. The traffic kept moving as if nothing happened

Sounds like an Advanced Real Life Simulator

Almost has a "Alone In The Dark" vibe. Interested to see what the final result will be.

I really like this. I've always had a thing for games in Sinclair Basic. Years ago someone proved they could do pixel text scrolling without any machine code or Pokes. Related: I've always wanted to see a Fred-type game in Basic, where the character stays in the center of the screen and the map scro...

Why does the nick look so familiar? Did you do demos in the past or was it an emulator? I'm getting old...

Thanks everyone. I recommend locking this one before it turns into a chit chat thread.

Don't kill me please. I know this is not "World of Chit Chat" but I was looking for a section where to post a question, not Spectrum related, but couldn't find one? It's ok if there isn't one. Just used to the idea that Spectrum folks can talk about many things, not just our beloved comput...

Thank you. You were right about the typo. So, we know it jumps to 19028, but the previous routine copied 76 bytes to 19e3 therefore I'll start there: @19000: di ld hl,22528 ld de,22529 ld bc,767 ld (hl),7 ldir ld hl,40506 ld de,19000 ld bc,76 ldir jp 19028 This is what was at 40506 before the 76 byt...

Thank you. Baby steps... Here's an example of my limited knowledge and how far I went when trying to understand the machine code in Flying Shark's .TAP. This is from the .TAP collection for DivMMC that was shared a few days ago. -Basic loader has randomize usr that runs code hidden in REM line -Code...

If I remember Chris Smith's explanation correctly, the "wrong" border size is due to the way NTSC works. I remember noticing it on every single TS2068 I tried over here.

I'm one of the few people in the world who still finds machine code complicated, so forgive me if the questions are dumb... -Some older games load with Load""code and the code block occupies 49152 bytes or more. How does the rom know which address to jump to once the block is loaded? What ...