Spectrum Computing

Regarding the "aña" vs "ana" search, would it be possible to make an initial search that is case/accent insensitive , and then refine it to prioritize the case/accent sensitive results? This way the intended results would appear first, but if someone makes a mistake (such as the...

I searched for "Electra" and it finds it, but searching for "electra" fails to find it, curious! Maybe I missed something. Both "Electra" and "electra" provide the same results in searching. But they show different results in autocomplete. Are you referring t...

... Having said that, it would be nice to know what other users think about this subject, in order to get more feedback and ideas. I suspect this discussion has been too abstract for most users. It's hard for anyone to evaluate what's the best interface without actually trying it. I suggest you imp...

Once again thank you for your feedback [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention]. This I s just a debate so I hope I'm not comming across as imposing anything.That's not the intent. Having said that, it would be nice to know what other users think about this subject, in order to get more feedback and ideas. O...

If table data does not contain Upper case characters, we can never match them as Upper case characters. However, if table data contains Upper case characters, then we can match or ignore them, depending on the collation being used. I understood your point. I just happen to disagree with you :) That...

Many things can go wrong. IF you have extra means of debugging, like a a data analyser or similar, you could try and check what is happening, directly on the bus. I know that DIVMMC, replaces the ZX ROM to boot from internal FLASH, and one of the things it does during startup is copy the ROM into it...

RMartins wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:15 am ...

UPDATE:
Using specific COLLATIONS on a query, might trip MySQL into not using indexes.
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But using SQL LIKE usually prevents the use of any index, so it might not be a big concern, since the database is small.

Also remember, that quick search, includes: Titles, Aliases, Authors and Publishers. You probably don't need to distinguish between authors and publishers. ... Currently the Quick search is using this query: SELECT N.name FROM( ( SELECT E.title AS name FROM entries E INNER JOIN search_by_titles SBT...

Sure, I understand your ideas. They are quite similar to my considerations when I created these tables about a year ago. But I still don't see how they could be improved. I don't really need to store text in these tables as lowercase only, since all comparisons use "ci" collation. Everyth...

Rubber domes can be found online, for replacement.

I have some from cash register keyboards, that are identical or very similar.

That's really weird.
Does the computer work, when you unplug the DIVMMC ?

Have you checked the Deep switches and how they are setup, according to the manual ?

Have you tried updating the firmware of the thing, using the SD Card ?

I'm not sure what was the reason/motivation behind removing the spaces, but I'm sure there must have been one. The motivation is that users searching for either "Knight Lore" or "Knightlore" will work in both cases. Searching for either "Chop Lifter" or "Choplifte...

Hard to say, when we can't even see the image.

On another note, take into account, that the autocomplete feature, can not show a huge amount of results, so the result is being limited to the first 10 entries, listed in alphabetical ascending order. If the user does not find the result he expects, he needs to drill down into a more specific conte...

"Sir Fred", or any other Title that is searched using spaces, will not easily find a match. And the reason for this, is that search tables, effectively remove the spaces in the titles. ... replace( lower(title),' ','' ), I'm not sure what was the reason/motivation behind removing the space...

... Not sure what you could use there. Do any emulators translate touchscreen inputs into Kempston mouse clicks? Yep, some do. They either show a super imposed cursor pad, on screen (that you can attach one of those weird physical joysticks with a suction cup to attach to the screen), or in some ca...

To the ones, that keep an eye on the Tab Icons, there is a proposal for a new one on this new page. It was based on the site Logo, but its design was adapted to fit the size restrictions of a favicon. Previous favicon was just a rescale of the site logo, and becomes unreadable and blurry at smaller ...

PROSM wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:03 pm I have heard something about NASA using a ZX Spectrum to generate slow-scan television signals on one of their spacecraft back in the 80s and 90s, but I can't find any sources to confirm this.

That would be cool if confirmed, but I seriously doubt it

I will probably try it, for an on the go editing, on my mobile.

The saving, could be a problem on mobile emulators though.

Yeah, it works. It's a bit weird typing in "Cyb" and getting results that have "cyb" somewhere inside them, rather than starting with it. We may need to add in some modifiers for the user to specify where the results need to match. That's the current behaviour, of the search_by ...

I believe this issue was fixed yesterday.

Some other dev beat me to fixing it

RMartins wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:40 am Doesn't run on Safari 9.0 ?
I'll check that.

Just confirmed that it works, On Safari 12.1.1, if using the correct URL.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index_new.php

Anyone else, having issues?

ZXDunny wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:22 am

PeterJ wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:39 am I had to CTRL + F5 then reboot on W10.

No effect here, I've cleared cookies, refreshed hard with CTRL+F5 and rebooted Win10.

Still no predictive search.

Did you notice that you need to use a different URL ?
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index_new.php

NOTE: The only place where it's implemented right now, is on the quick search box. Top right corner. I a bit confused, about the rest. Doesn't run on Safari 9.0 ? I'll check that. Doesn't run on Chrome on Win10 ? I checked Chrome, and it works, but you have to clear your cache, because the javascrip...

Kind of off topic, I couldn’t manage to make a working WAV or TZX of Barry McG 128k, however I’ve made a snapshot with my DivMMC, so thankfully I don’t need to load from tape every time! ... Has long has you have a proper mono to stereo cable, you should be able to save an audio file. Then it shoul...