Spectrum Computing

[mention]druellan[/mention] you may want to give bookmarks.google.com a try as it allows to add tags and comments to every post url that you bookmark. From time to time you could export to html and publish that page. An example: speccy21.updog.co/googlebookmarks.html

I think the one that got a built-in preview was an Excel spreadsheet stored in Google Drive. Maybe it doesn't work for Google Docs spreadsheets. indeed, xls excel files are embedded in and can be edited by any collaborator from within google drive. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1poQ4pfHE4cZSwpLr...

Did you know google spreadsheets are nicely displayed in this forum? try to make one and post the shared link in here

One idea would be to search as you type and show every word that starts with the first consonant letters, just the first three consonants.

Off-topic, Otla allows for loading times around 50 secs (around 11000 bps) and supports mp3 besides wav

Hall effect switches seem to be cheaper nowadays
https://drop.com/buy/xmit-hall-effect-m ... d#overview
who knows if the chinese manufacturer would be interested to support the Next batch to advertise this type of switch.

The problem has been and always will be that a purely mechanical membrane keyboard system is never good at making two independent switch contacts at the same time. Even during the days of Sinclair. Far too often on my ZX Spectrum+ keyboards, I get the wrong action unless I press the key squarely. W...

1. Lines or parts of lines seem to be deleted on saving and reloading. I think it's something to do with where the cursor is on saving; if it's outside of a line, all is fine, but if it's within a line, parts sometimes go missing. A couple of things that seem to alleviate this issue: Press control+...

The search function in the above book is ready! It took the text three days to get indexed, which was expected when reading the FAQ. Search inside is not working for a book? Books are not always indexed quickly and sometimes, due to factors such as size, cannot be indexed at all. Sometimes it is a b...

Oh Ralf made a rzx walkthrough. I know zx81, the author of zxbaremulator, is a big fan of this game and finally djnzx48. There you have a big team! :P would it be much work to add simple things to make the game easy while keeping it interesting? A few ay ingame effects, subtle recolouring, adding te...

Did anyone try to Poke the Abbey? I mean, something to disable timers, the order in which things have to be picked up or the time in which events have to be accomplished, make the abbot less likely to apply strict rules (after all Connery is an important guest who's been called to investigate). I do...

I found the beta translation here https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/428227/#Comment_428227 A few suggestions for a mod could be changing the keyboard control like in those 3d game maker mods, a bit of recolouring to increase contrast, alleviate the maze in the dark, enable wa...

mmm do you remember the russian who made these 3d game maker mods? http://gamergy.ru/3dgm.html
In your opinion what could be modified in La Abadia to change playability? Perhaps an interesting discussion for another thread.

There you have the Internet Archive BookReader https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
One can download the sources and just edit links within the javascript.
I think I'll stop here : ) thanks for your time

Another alternative could be to upload pdf books to openlibrary.org For instance see these z80 assembler books, https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Z80+assembler&mode=ebooks&m=edit&has_fulltext=true You could just provide such "read" links which open pdf books with a nice reader. ...

Done. I took this pdf book that Peter shared in this post https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=564#p7787 opened it with PDF-XChange Viewer, went to file>export>export to image>save as png ; export mode:save each page to a separate single page image file ; resolution: 600 dp...

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I like some, some of them are somewhat hard to understand, though some like this I like it very much. Good one Mr Pixel

OK fellows. I'll try to upload some book later to see if there is some way to get decent results Maybe the pdf will be better if the images have a high DPI

Do you provide books? Do you upload pdf files? Please see these instructions https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360001820212-How-to-upload-scanned-images-to-make-a-book all need is to upload a zipped folder (which is actually a cbz file) and their system generates ocr, pdf, torrent, ebook, e...

Hi Peter. Let me insist as I believe Archive.org makes the OCR from any zipped folder with images that you upload. Besides, you can also updoad other files like pdf. Have you tried the magazine above? The search function works really well. Perhaps you just have to upload a zipped folder with images ...

it may be as easy as uploading books in the format of cbr,cbz to archive.org or use their viewer from your own host assuming the script is free to use.
see this magazine for example https://archive.org/details/Scream.Quee ... BR-GREASY/

A couple open source cbz,cbr readers. There might be more.

https://github.com/codedread/kthoom

https://afzafri.github.io/Web-Comic-Reader/

Another option would be using a scanner app. Never tried any of these https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/mobile-do ... nner-apps/

there are services like this http://overnight-scanning.eu/book/order/
scanning a book with 270 pages may cost like 35 pounds or less if you allow them to destroy it in the process ouch

yes, I have another book from Tim Hartnell and tried this program https://www.naps2.com with a flatbed scanner. It is a time consuming process and quite hard for the book spine. I would like to know some tips to keep all pages the same size, remove yellow backgrounds and letters from the other side ...