Spectrum Computing

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 9:27 pm

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:05 pm I can't see it!
I can't see it!

How canst thou not? It is truly glorious!

The scales have fallen from my eyes! Rejoice!

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:01 pm By the way, are you ok?, it's been a long time since you last posted here, glad to see here again!

Too busy playing Zythum.

By Mirrorsoft.

Threads like this make me glad JTAG/BSCAN were invented. Then we would only need to worry about the discretest of the discretes.

That just to point out that WoS is still a valuable resource - and to me, essential - despite the lack of maintenance (so to speak) that went on after Martijn Van Der Heide ended running it. I am glad that WoS still exists. A good counterpoint. I'm only faintly aware of the 'drama' (before this eve...

Ralf wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 8:40 pm They are weird guys.

I spent an hour tonight reading about some of the people involved over there.



Glad this place exists.

The presnitz is much more filling, a slice of it is more than enough for breakfast, at least for me. https://i.postimg.cc/PLfXvm1F/IMG-20200505-073816.jpg It is a sort of strudel but made with dried fruit - raisins, nuts, hazelnuts and pine nuts, together with butter, eggs, sugar, honey, pulverized...

I was about to ask for a link to the English version (though I did learn Spanish at school for a few years, that knowledge has long gone), only to realise I was only looking at the first paragraph for each title.

Congratulations [mention]Alessandro[/mention]! I wonder if they have all shipped now?

Metal Slug one and the Unofficial SNES pixel book. Both very good. I was involved in both of those. Enjoy! Oh, that's interesting, what part did you play? Amazing quality, but their heft makes them a bit difficult for bedtime reading. :D I do want the Speccy one but current finances a bit shaky so ...

redballoon wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 7:21 am

DouglasReynholm wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 11:17 pmWhile I'm at it on the book front, I've bought a couple of the Bitmap Book titles recently and the quality of those is beautiful too.

@DouglasReynholm Which ones did you get?

Metal Slug one and the Unofficial SNES pixel book. Both very good.

Hang on a minute . Mario doesn't do any plumbing, because he's always somewhere far away rescuing his girlfriend who's just been abducted yet again It's a little known fact that Mario's real title is 'hostage negotiator', but he doesn't like to talk about it since that embassy siege back in the 80'...

Chris Wilkin's publications are generally second to none. For those that don't know, he did histories of Ocean and US Gold (amongst many other very readable titles), which I remember he gave away (in pdf form) virtually for pennies last year. I thoroughly recommend all of them. While I'm at it on th...

I took my ten minute walk round the block today and saw someone remove their mask to cough, then put it back on again. Nothing else to add really.

Thanks Juan, the Green Beret one is perfect for me.

Yes, I bought the Fusion 2020 annual, very slick indeed. Also came with a nice Oli Frey inspired (may even be him, but can't see his signature on any of the pictures) 2020 calendar (which given the current situation is chocolate fireguard like). High quality content/printing/binding with no ads apar...

Hello all! Hope you are all well. I've had a couple of weeks away from the internet in general, I've personally found it all a bit hard. I'd like to apologise to anyone I've offended on here recently without reservation. I do tend to be a bit less restrained when it comes to posting my personal opin...

If you think that the NEC µPD780 is a official licensed version, you are mistaken. Read what it says in this Wiki . Then read this transcript (you want page 13 onwards). it just says the NEC version was copied, nothing about it becoming or not becoming licensed later Yes, in their reverse engineeri...

I had some problems running Manic Pietro over VGA. Tried every video mode at 50Hz, but the multi colour was badly corrupted. The only way to get it to work was to use the Pentagon .tap and start the game in Pentagon timing mode. Anyone got the 'vanilla' version going? It's not a big deal, but though...

"When Victor transitioned from an Altera part to a Xilinx part (due to cost advantage)"

Always Xilinx' M.O.

Forever buying business/projects from us back in the day by simply undercutting and not necessarily having the better technology.

I'm really not bitter about it.

I appreciate all the work that has gone into the Next, clearly it's been a huge effort to get it out, and despite the many naysayers, I knew we would get the machine in the end. I worked as a hardware engineer in broadcast for a while for Snell and Wilcox. The sheer amount of video standards and tim...

Alessandro wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:18 pm I just found this text hidden in the M/C loader of Dynamite Dan II:

AW JE PENSE QUE JE T'AIME, J'ESPERE DE TOI, MOI AUSSI

Well, after 6 years of French as a boy...

"I think I love you, I hope you love me too?"

100% chance I have mangled it.. It has been a while!

Ha. I grew up on Cat Hill about 5 minutes from the Southgate campus, in fact the shop I mentioned above was in Southgate. Did you ever go to Logic Sales? No Douglas, I was at the Trent Park, Enfield campus. I lived in Hertford used to cycle from Sele Farm to Trent Park so didn't have the freedom to...

llewelyn wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:33 pm I got my first Spectrum from my college - Middlesex Poly as it used to be

Ha. I grew up on Cat Hill about 5 minutes from the Southgate campus, in fact the shop I mentioned above was in Southgate. Did you ever go to Logic Sales?

Only in that when I saw the careers officer I said I wanted to be a graphics designer. "Any good at it?" "No, but I really enjoy it" "Well, a lot of people want to do that. I see you work part time in a computer shop, why not go and do electronics?" So I did, and regret...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:22 pm Back of the net!

Jurassic Park!