Spectrum Computing

Daveysloan wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 7:14 pm

Have at thee.

A new update to SCRToAnimGIF is up - v1.3 with better audio. Less background hum with mp4 files.

Next up will be custom loading schemes such as Speedlock, alcatraz etc.

https://github.com/ZXDunny/scr2AnimGIF

UPDATED! Now outputs a sound file (if you specify -sound on the command line you'll get an 8bit mono WAV file) and if you specify the -mp4 switch (and have ffmpeg available in the same bit-ness as the scr2animgif executable) you will get a spanky mp4 with SOUND if you have sound enabled! same URL as...

For some time, the term "toxic person" has become popular on the Internet. It is best to avoid such persons. It's Ok, I said I forgive you. You said you'd already made a program that does what my tool does, and you said that you had made it 6 years ago. I pointed out that mine made animat...

g0blinish wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 3:18 pm

Your image is broken here but... apology accepted!

I didn’t have the goal of recording a GIF with a border, I wrote a converter on request on the WOS forum. Full screen with border colors can be recorded in Fuse or other emulators So you didn't "just made it 6yrs ago" after all? You just assumed you knew what it did without actually runni...

How do you make it work? I just get a blank window here with a black box. just drop .scr to window or pass name through command line Aha. Yes, it outputs a static image, no animation? Scr2AnimGIF makes animations, like this: https://i.ibb.co/FKT2R1j/cybernoid.gif I can't find any options in yours t...

g0blinish wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:12 pm just made it 6yrs ago:
http://g0blinish.ucoz.ru/pb/zx2pic.zip

How do you make it work? I just get a blank window here with a black box.

Edit: I see how it's supposed to look from the zx2pic.png image, but mine doesn't look like that. Also does it do the border stripes?

Updated to v1.1 with a new x64 version to try for those of you on those spanky new 64bit PCs.

Is here: https://github.com/ZXDunny/scr2AnimGIF

go test, break it and enjoy. Bugfixes are inevitable. I'll be adding new loading schemes (speedlock et al) soon.
It's a command line tool, so go read the readme. Executable is available on the front page, and has no dependencies. Windows only.

Very, very nice. I can't quite make out how it works, but would it be possible to make it one constant thread? https://i.postimg.cc/64Q8mkRg/knot.png Edit. Scratch that. Apparently to be a true Celtic knot, its quite OK to not have a continuous thread. Its just that the symmetry is important. How a...

After the stunning success of SpecBAS's knot program, I ported it to the humble Speccy: https://i.ibb.co/1TXVk0B/screenshot-1009.png And you can either download the tap file or grab the code and test it yourself: 10 REM Celtic Knots 20 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: BRIGHT 1: DIM r$(4,26): LET r$(1)="ABCDD...

Hey guys - been a while. (Also posted to WOS) SpecBAS recently got update to v0.1234 which has brought with it the ability to issue BEEPs asynchronously - they no longer block program execution. Use: BEEP duration,pitch ASYNC and that will get the job done. For example: 10 BEEP 1.5,"c" ASY...

Row, Column is the most common text output coordinate system. What was more annoying was the inverted y-axis for PLOT/DRAW et al. I know this was because paper graphs generally tend to have their origin at the bottom-right, but as a coder it bugged the hell out of me when the first byte of a display...

http://www.jimblimey.com/tmp/3dstar.html

That's ZXBASIC but can be translated down to Sinclair BASIC pretty easily. It's not quick though.

SC's search has that - so I asked it for 128k software. I got a list back. I wanted to see what they were in date order but apparently that's not possible. So I started searching for years - so looked for 1986 as you would. There's a few. I tested 1985. Oh wow, there's a few of those also, but hey ...

Apologies for the post seeming harsh. It's just incredibly frustrating that the experience of search in 2022 is actually worse than it was in Martijn's infoseek era. SC and WOS are the de facto Spectrum software catalogues and it feels like we should have this sort of thing down pat by now. Again, a...

So I wanted a list of 128k only games. Just 128k. Not 48k/128k. Just 128k. SC's search has that - so I asked it for 128k software. I got a list back. I wanted to see what they were in date order but apparently that's not possible. So I started searching for years - so looked for 1986 as you would. T...

Well done Stu! VERY speedy skills. Our folks tell me your very special Pringlesonic Computer Chips will be with you as soon as possible. In the meantime, we hope everyone else still has a go at loading the code just for fun. If you did succeed in cracking it, we'd love it if you post your 'proof' p...

I know Planeta Sinclair has it as a TZX file, but I made a little ol' tap file for us Omni/DivMMC folks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d9qK4k ... sp=sharing

I assume this will go into ZXDB?

XTM wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 5:00 pm

PeterJ wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 4:46 pmOne does simply remove it @XTM , when it's not compatible anymore! I miss it too, but I'm not risking a broken system.

All good, it was merely a meme, not a criticism of what you've done.

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Another question: Could you please add "2browse file manager for esxDOS" .2browse https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=82141#p82141 into your download-package of "Long Filename Browser for ZX-UNO / esxDOS" or do you want to keep this separate? To be honest, I'm...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:18 pm I'd like to recommend this for dark mode fans:

https://darkreader.org/

No need to thank me

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bob_fossil wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 5:36 pm number of characters held in the buffer for each filename is determined by how much of the filename fits on the line.

Damn, that's a PITA. Ok, I can work with that but I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the clarification!

Luzie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 5:06 pm [Yep, thanks]

And how much space is there between filenames in those buffers? Are there length bytes, or are they zero-terminated? That sort of thing.