Spectrum Computing

Very nice! Always nice to see a project revived. The stats page is pretty cool.

Another reason to be more careful about the use of CLS. You are giving up control of how you refresh the screen. If at some point you want to have more elements on the screen odds are you don't want to re-draw them every time you move the player object. CLS throws everything in the bin. The overwrit...

Find a person in the area that is convinced they are being gang stalked/having a associative delusion. Convince them that 'Dude, I escaped from my handler for 10 mins. I got to tell you... It's the birds, they are communicating and monitoring you.. That is why you can't find the bug.. The Bug IS the...

The previous few days have been mostly this... [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=9bUtZzi6hag[/media] instead of an American/Brit voice though imagine lots of the bad guys from Team America 'EEE DIRKA DIRKA Text to Speech.. DIRKA DIRKA Ubuntu NIII DIRKA DIRKA Subscrible! My...

Yea you have a good point, the pulp writers knew how to not just write a lot but write stuff that they knew they could sell to the magazines. That is why I laugh when people complain they have writers block or talk about how they are warriors for writing 4k words over a weekend. I think to myself 'D...

Ok that is a fair question. The Hobbit encoded the data this way to be as compact as possible - this saved space but this made easy fan translations difficult (you are not looking for strings any more - you have to re-design the whole parser.) Think of the advantages of creating a program this way -...

I'm probably being a duffer but what exactly are these stats? Take the first example, Male squat, BW = Body weight(?), Untrained is 35.0 "what"? Run around with a +3, powerpack and a car battery strapped to you like a fitbit you'll see those stats improve in no time. We've come a long way...

True, I never liked behavior simulation projects. It's an emulator hiding inside an fpga :lol: You get all the disadvantages of an emulator. The next 10-20 years though, gate level re-creations of cpus will be a reality in budget packages. Then comes the interesting question on whom will buy these w...

This is where FPGA projects tend to win big is you get all the undocumented features 'free' as everything from the gate logic level is implemented. As long as you exactly replicate what is on the die, you don't need to 'know' what is going on and implement it like with an emulator. FPGA's are gettin...

Data: So for Barbell squat the following data is used as like a benchmark for progress, once a person reaches a level the number will show up green instead of red. MALE SQUAT KG: BW: UN: NO: IN: AD: EL: 52 35.0 65.0 80.0 107.5 145.0 56 37.5 70.0 87.5 117.5 157.5 60 40.0 77.5 92.5 127.5 167.5 67 45.0...

Feasibility study: I need an application to store my workout data, also it needs to track my progress and make predictions on future performance. Requirements: It needs to: store workout data on disk retrieve data from the disk use text to show information have sound prompts for input take input fro...

Figure that a game getting a patch decades after is something to be celebrated - especially as it fixes some major issues. Makes you wonder what other titles in the archive could use similar love.

To be real though, how orignal was a fruit machine simulator by 1989 anyway in the first place? If its a Basic listing, then there were listings available years before this in both magazines and books. You could do refinements to that sure, and add graphics - even convert the logic to assembly langu...

Guess an update is in order! Been continuing my work on getting a 'trade secrets we deserve' ready. :lol: Can't say its the most thrill filled experience ever but there is some satisfaction to seeing things come together. I question the use of such a thing due to emulators being used and almost all ...

Komando 2 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2734 Its poster certainly depicts some of the harshest realities of war. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games-extras/Komando2_Poster.jpg Kinda looks to me like the aftermath of a pride rally ... "Not even spit for ...

Just a wild shot in the dark, but could it have something to do with the 8080 compatibility?

did it add support for QL emulation? zx80,81 and compatibles? what about the clones? QL was a Motorola 68008, I wouldn't expect that to be emulated by fuse any time soon. There is another question - if you add support for these new systems like z80, z81. Who is going to continue the development aft...

How about historical states? But then that is a whole new can of worms. Like what do you do when a government is in a state of collapse like say Italy at the end of the second world war.. Or Manchukuo, that changed its capital twice and now is a non-existent state...

EDIT #2: Cleared some browser caches is all is working now. :shock: I should’ve never upgraded to this fancy new “personal” computer. The Spectrum has always worked fine for me. No cookies, no incriminating browser history, no caches . . . *dons tin foil hat * Call me paranoid but I always suspecte...

Here is an interesting overview of the Electron. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpE-E_7lNJI[/media] It's probably the closest thing you are going to get to a BBC Micro on original hardware in the US at a reasonable price (shipped). Assuming you have a PAL -> NTSC converter lying around your ...

I think it is unfair to compare the commercial classic titles to the stuff that came after because the intent and development cycle/constraints are so different. The main thing that strikes me and causing the nostalgia rose tinted glasses to crack was seeing just how little commercial coders cared a...

I was hoping that at some time in the future the 'phantom typist' of fuse would be made script able. This would be a great application for the Phantom typist. look at the progress list, open the file. poke a bunch of memory locations, is it different than the stock memory map? if so name a file acco...

One thing that is interesting is where the majority of a countries published spectrum output being in Latin alphabet when they themselves used Cyrillic. Serbia From what I understand there was an active user base, therefore there must be more titles from Serbia that are as of now not documented on w...

I figure this was the only way you could practically do a Plotto style interactive fiction game/RPG on the spectrum.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/06/plotto/

It was weird how most of the educational machines ended up in a landfill. I think its something to do with the way that schools/colleges wrote off old stock. You rarely saw that stuff going to boot sales or charity shops. It's a shame when you think how much all that stuff cost originally even with ...