Spectrum Computing

Replacement screenshot for Pippo (thanks Dario Ruellan) You're going to hate me, but the loading screen is still wrong :lol: The thing is, when the game finishes loading, it starts a cool palette rotation effect, that's why there is a "blue" version of the screen, but the correct one is t...

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:04 am I remember he had a cool Fickr account including pre-production designs of the Spectrum. A must see.

This one! https://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086@N ... 5519763101
Someone mentioned on the other forum how fresh and innovative his designs are even today, and I kind of agree.

Happy birthday Spec...



Oh! Sorry to bother you, Timex...

Another thing: some software was intentionally added to the magazine, even when it is corrupted. So far this is always clearly stated on the magazine's introductory text. So, if the software malfunctions, it is a good idea to read the instructions top to bottom. https://s7.postimg.cc/vdrwdc7sn/2018-...

I keep diddling into this magazines, and I've found two interesting things that perhaps can help other people checking the other disk images. * First, almost every software includes the magazine footer on the code. Looks suspicious at first sight, but it is just the routine that is hidden on those R...

On Spectrum we always got good emulators IMO. I think part of the problem was the transition from DOS to Windows. A lot of good emulators where left behind during that period. Take for example Ramsoft's RealSpectrum for DOS. I used that emulator to preserve REAL 5 1/4 40 SD Disciple discs, using the...

hikoki wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:39 pm @PeterJ USP has an addon for Chrome browser that may be useful to support playing online.

I'm going to check that!

Curiously enough, in his blog post Seems he was using a bright 1 black attribute as delimiter. That's clever: https://i1.wp.com/stevewetherill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-10.13.10-PM.png?resize=768%2C673 I didn't fully appreciate that Sidewize / Crosswize run at 50fps. ...

Interesting! Save states is the way EmuZWin does it AFAIK, and Plus-F is doing something similar but fragmenting the packets to improve latency.

Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:14 pm He made some comments here and there but not very detailed.
In my opinion he was generally a very modest man. He would probably say you that all his tricks were nothing special and not worth to get excited about.

Was Steve Wetherill also able to figure out the trick for SideWize?

Oh, thanks for that!

A couple of member use Retroarch for streaming, I'm going to ask about it, but if I remember correctly, the FUSE core for Retroarch is not Netplay capable. I might be wrong, though.

Broadband is more usual nowadays. I hope you can organise online matches on this forum :) Thanks!, and yes, I'm looking for a Match Day event, sadly, I can't host it myself because of the latency, but I'm encouraging the Spanish community to see if anyone can host a tournament. Meantime I'll keep e...

I've just reminded one video I watched the other day where a few spec-chums tried to play some games online using the multiplayer feature from Emuzwin. Perhaps the Pausing mechanic would help to reduce lag to play 1on1 online. [media]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2RGmezJ4UsM#[/media] Hi! That was m...

Sure! But the stream is in Spanish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS86wFsHe8

And this is an AY music compilation, inspired by the stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl52wSlyjQs

Yes, other images seems to work fine. If so, I will simply mark the TAP as broken in ZXDB, and leave information about the TZX only. *Jem* are there instructions how to do that? I'm still learning. I have a local mysql server, so, the idea is to download the database, make the modifications and crea...

Hi! Seems that the Carrier Command TAP image is not working as intended: the game crashes while refitting your Walrus. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/c/CarrierCommand.tap.zip Tested: FUSE / ZXSpin This image is still not in Spectrum Computing, so I'm not sure how to proceed. Also,...

Just finished testing. All MGT images seem to work fine. I've tested the first files on the disk, some on the middle and the last one. The only image giving problems was OutletIssue101.mgt.zip, but seems to be an emulation problem, rather than corruption. So, in short, everything looks fine on all ....

Yes, what I can do is start testing MGT images, that are the latests issues AFAIK. So, if you want to also start testing, you can do that on tapes or microdrives.

I only tested a couple of images, but I can confirm that two of the MIA-marked software is OK, so, seems not to be a correlation.
Anyway, I can try and start testing all of them. I used to have a MGT Disciple, so, could be interesting.

Hi! I'm new here. I'm Darío, I'm from Argentina, former Timex Sinclair 2068 user, and now an enthusiast that wants to collaborate with the database and the site in general. I'm a long time reader of comp.sys.sinclair and user of WOS, but for some reason I was always outside the community, never reac...

Hi! I've found something interesting on the database: There is an electronic publication called OUTLET, The Spectrum Drive Magazine. This publication used to compile a bunch of software (Tape, Disciple and Microdrive). The magazine is available for download, for example: https://zxinfo.dk/details/00...

TZX Seems to be this one: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinc ... de.tzx.zip and consistent with the screenshots
So, seems that the problem is the RZX

This is awesome! Thanks both of you for making this possible