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Mike Davies

Hi @Mike Davies because of the disk space requirements and my financial budget for this I take scans from archive.org so not sure we can fix that one, but all the ones we can sort in ZXDB are great to have. Thank you. Ah, I didn't think to check the source of the image to see where it's hosted. My ...

Mike Davies

One magazine page image upside down:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 35&page=40

Mike Davies

I thought I'd start a thread about magazine reference errors that we can correct. My first one: Death or Glory: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=1293 There are 3 Sinclair User references, two of them are a "Review", but they happen to be the same issue (69), pages 11...

Mike Davies

Personally I like the idea of replacing the "Off Topic" section with something like "Other Retro Topics". There would be still room for a wide variety of subjects like old TV series or Atari games, but not for completely unrelated and/or controversial discussions that are appare...

Mike Davies

Several people have assumed in this thread that the posts C.Born made here were the same as the ones he has made on WoS. They were not. There were similarities, but do not presume that if you have read the WoS read, you have read the posts made here. I did not see the post in question, so I'm guilt...

Mike Davies

I note that the moderators repeatedly attempted to contain and de-escalate matters in private, and those advances didn't seem to result in the recipient taking a step back, or to show good faith towards resolving the matter. If one party refuses to de-escalate, there's very little that can be constr...

Mike Davies

That looks like the reverse engineering of the "new" Chessbase format (CBH and it's plethora of files). I was thinking of the original Chessbase format (just the CBF + CBI files). Ah here's the document I was thinking of: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/fileformats/cbu/CBUTILS/DOCS/OTHERS/...

Mike Davies

The technique sounds clever, its like they have encoded the move evaluation rather than the move itself. As far as I can remember, the order of moves is strictly defined, something like all King moves first, then all Queen moves, then all Rook moves (don't remember if there's an order to which rook...

Mike Davies

The PGN Header, I'd suggest an array for Event, and an array for player, so you can replace those header fields with index references (or token). Then each header can probably be represented as a fixed-length piece of data, since what is left is simple numbers, and something to encode the result of ...

Mike Davies

The Moves: There are 64 squares on a chess board, so you can number them 0 to 63. That's 6 bits. Every move can be recorded into a to/from pair, so two 6 bit pairs. 12 bits. I think one of the correspondence chess standard notations is in a similar integer/integer pair. Castling is recording the kin...

Mike Davies

Just to note to say that C.Born has withdrawn permission based on an argument that spawned from a thread that was deleted from Offtopic about online privacy. The admins are discussing what to do. Hmm, withdrawing permission does seem like an over-reaction. The permission to host his titles here doe...

Mike Davies

As promised some months :D ago, here is the sequel to ZX striker now with a full career mode and very similar to the first striker,hope you enjoy. ;) I'm playing it in little bursts. That's an interesting take on football games. Is there any interactivity in the match screen where the ball goes lef...

Mike Davies

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:01 pm One day* I would like to write a cricket version of this, perhaps more like ZX-Striker, the possibilities with spin, bounce and swing would keep me captivated forever

Oh, that might eclipse CRL's Test Match as my most favourite Cricket game on the Spectrum

Mike Davies

[mention]pavero[/mention], is this it: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30269 ?

Mike Davies

I think Amstrad's strategy back in the day was to simplify stuff, the so-called one-plug route. It certainly predicted how IBM-clones were sold later on -- buying the full package rather than just the beige box. When I started thinking about exploring the CPC last year, this bundling did make it a l...

Mike Davies

A. Firelord

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Firefly - Ocean
Frankenstein - CRL
Future Knight - Gremlin

Mike Davies

If Manic Miner's loading screen is deemed to be "animated", then "Thru' the Wall" on the Horizons tape would predate it (The "Please Loading" animation). They both use FLASH attributes for their changes. There's no actual animation being done.

Mike Davies

Out of that list, I load up and play Elevator Action the most. I loved the arcade machine, and the Spectrum version is terrific. But, this is a best classic Speccy vote, so I'm down to Exolon and Elite, except, as much as I enjoyed Exolon back in the day, it's a bit plodding now, a bit sparse. Elite...

Mike Davies

Premier League (SU megatape 15) Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix Match Point Supersoccer Peter Shilton's Handball Maradonna So I forgot Xeno, and unforgivably, Bobsleigh. That certainly needs redressing: Bobsleigh Xeno Premier League (SU megatape 15) Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix Match Point Bobsleigh is pr...

Mike Davies

I spent a lot of time reading and re-reading Sinclair User magazines, reading about the games, and having only a fraction of those titles available in South Africa. So great titles passed me by. Wanted lists unfulfilled. Most of my gaming came from Multiface 1 copies passed from friend-to-friend, so...

Mike Davies

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:27 pm
Mike Davies wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:24 pm I'm hoping that ZXDB stuff will earn it's own group in this forum so we can propose additions and features, and get more people involved.
Do you mean like this one?

viewforum.php?f=32

Ooops

I missed that.
Perfect!

Mike Davies

By the time he finally revealed ZXDB wouldn't be used (not even the same IDs), On the topic of IDs, is there any appetite to add a WoS ID field to the entries table in ZXDB? Initially it would be identical to the existing "ZXDB ID" field, but when Fogarty (or his team) then branches off a...

Mike Davies

Ceasefire -- from one of the Sinclair User covertapes.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=862

Mike Davies

You should be able to install either MySQL or MariaDB (which might be a better option) on Windows. It will run as a service on your Windows machine, and your SQL Client (SqlYog) should be able to connect to the server via localhost -- so no need for any physical network. Back when I was using Window...

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