Spectrum Computing

Today's project time was spent looking at custom fonts. Here is an open major project for an interested person - a great retirement project actually. Go through the archive, and rip every instance of a custom font. Found an unintentional great source for inspiration on the youtubes - I was just watc...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 5:41 pm What really surprised me is the 16-bits using the Sinclair ROM font!

Strangely, the Spectrum version uses a custom font.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sXQoGcMN1U[/media]

That is so random...

Obrigado, muito agradável.

Thanks Alessandro, much appreciated. I should have dug harder and actually googled this. :lol: 10 year old blog post: http://szeligaski.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/redefining-zx-spectrum-character-set.html 3 months ago: https://markhardisty.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/how-to-rip-a-zx-spectrum-games-font/

So looking through OUTLET and the rather excellent work of djnzx48 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=425&hilit=font#p5596 got my noggin' jogging - is there an easy way to load a font to use in a.) a BASIC program b.) an Assembly program. Being a simple potato while I...

:lol: *found the documentation for the Ryzen* I am curious about the thermal performance of the AMD - I am somewhat out of touch with the hardware side of life, years ago AMD was notorious for thermal issues with the chip but now according to the inter-webs they have resolved this. If I can fry eggs...

Emulators are brilliant but at the same time frustrating :lol: Well back from vacation now all refreshed and ready to actually finish some open projects :twisted: Today's project time was spent procrastinating and deciding to re-organize the den to improve 'productivity'. New PC on the way, on of th...

Congratulations, I wonder what the TAS version would be..

Considering how popular The Quill was I am surprised a magazines didn't do a feature on this. Perhaps the company didn't give them a big enough bung

The Frog Path loading screen is fabulous.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php?issue_id=2934&page=76 It seems like its a multi part utility, the compression portion builds the database/tokenizer then you have ex pander reverses the process according to the review. I haven't used it but it seems you are looking the compressed tokens ...

You are being way to hard on yourself. Sure given enough extra time everything can be made better but producing something to a strict time limit is always going to end in compromises creatively. You probably already have a bunch of ideas/motif for next week, all that extra experience in time managem...

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I think its sad that its not a accurate representation of the object being preserved. I get why its not done. but will suck for the future researcher trying to document this stuff. To know that it once existed but was cast aside is sad. We can't know the context why someone would look for that infor...

That's what makes this kind of thing interesting, is the outliers that break policy. I figured showing a loading screen is supposed to give as best an idea as possible to someone who has never seen the program before what sitting in-front of a TV in the 80s with the tape was like. Sure for most load...

When there loading screen is animated perhaps having a link to a youtube video might be more useful? Or is that wrong-think Get enough views.. get the Shekels?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:07 am Am I the only one who see the guy in this loading screen is Clark Gable?

Yea it looks like one of his promo shots. (well as much as a spectrum screen can of a real person..)

Lol I can't find it but definitely it is out their. (unless there is a Mandela effect incident going on now.)

I was kind of curious if the initial memory location for the above code could be randomized hmmm I think a memory location could be selected that the randomize code knows to avoid (at most its two memory locations). this memory cell(s) is then the container for the base number used in the memory cal...

Ah that is a terrible loss. RIP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dickinson

someone already updated his wikipedia page.

Yes always good to apply Kaizen style management to spectrum coding :lol: Thanks for the help, I learn a lot from you guys - a lot of the information that is on this forum is very difficult to find elsewhere. Seems that this place is distinguishing itself as the place to find serious information on ...

Unless the search box is broke that is the first appearance of the 4e4 trick on the forum :lol: Program pickers might remember this being used in PAUSE 4E4 from the Tim Hartnell '49 explosive games for the ZX Spectrum' (1983) Scott Vincent's Three D Maze, p.214 But I figure this can be traced back e...

That is awesome.

Not sure if I posted this already as the image host seems not to be working on the earlier pages. This is from cracking the code just converted to a one liner. 1 CLEAR 31999: FOR X=32000 TO 32014 : READ A : POKE X,A : NEXT X : RANDOMIZE USR 32000 : DATA 33,0,64,1,0,24,54,255,35,11,120,177,32,248,201...

Happy birthday, still going strong after so many years. Will be interesting to see how the mid-life crisis affects the spectrum How many new techniques or old ones rediscovered will emerge? What wonderful new games will be created? What MIA material will get preserved?

Interesting times!

will the other members be able to run the game in snapshot form? Sure, I think most emulators support snapshot. Some people submit their entry in snapshot form, others tape, micro drive or disk its up to you. I was always partial to using tap's for when I was asking questions about a project and I ...