Introduce yourself!

Introduce yourself. Pimp your website, competition, event or other activity here, as long as it's Spectrum related.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Witamy, cieszyć się.
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Hello from Canada

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Hi everyone,

Although I live in Canada now I was born in Poland and my first computer was a Timex 2048 and awesome 99% compatible ZX spectrum clone with a joystick port. Sadly when my parents immigrated they decided to leave the computer behind (due to different power/TV signal) and my time with the spectrum ended.

Fortunately North America had easy access to Commodore 64 and later Amiga 500 so my classical game education continued, but I have always missed my original Spectrum.

I currently have a Recreated ZX Spectrum blue-tooth keyboard that I converted into a Retro Pi. Its almost enough to feel those rubber keys as I play Jetpac. However last night I bit the bullet and ordered a ZX Spectrum 48K off ebay. Its not tested so I am not sure what I am getting into but it should be fun.

My plan is to use a Sega Genesis PSU for US power and do the composite AV mod (which seems super easy). After that I hope that one of my TVs can handle the PAL input (which modern TVs should) and see if the computer works.

If I need a new keyboard which is a common issue I think they are available at Sell My Retro. If its a harder issue to fix I may need some help from you guys :)

Cheers,
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Re: Hello from Canada

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Who are you trying to fool?
You are clearly a VIC-20 spy with that handle! :)
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Re: Hello from Canada

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Welcome 3583!
3583Bytes wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 5:12 am However last night I bit the bullet and ordered a ZX Spectrum 48K off ebay. Its not tested so I am not sure what I am getting into but it should be fun.
That is usually ebay speak for "tested and not working", I hope this is a rare exception!

If you have any hardware problems there are always people that can help.

(Merged into 'Introduce yourself' topic)
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Re: Hello from Canada

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Kweepa wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 5:52 am Who are you trying to fool?
You are clearly a VIC-20 spy with that handle! :)
Glad to be surrounded by people that would catch that :)
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hello everyone, I've just joined so please go easy on me lol.
I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself and hope I will get chatting with many of you in the near future through either these forums or my Youtube channel. (my appologies for posting this twice, it was a mistake, I'm new and learning my way round the site, sorry guys).

I go by the name of Zeus (my old Amiga contact name) and I live in the U.K where I grew up bang in the middle of those golden gaming days in the 80's.
My Youtube channel is called "Zeusdaz - The Unemulated Retro Game Channel" (https://www.youtube.com/user/ZEUSDAZ) which contains over 1500 videos of old retro games covering ZX Spectrum (my main love), Amiga A500 (my other main love), C64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Megadrive / Genesis, Atari 800xl, A1200, Arcade and even a longplay video of the classic LCD game Firefox F7, plus a few other consoles.

My two main gaming loves have always been the ZX Spectrum (128k+1 Toastrack) and the Amiga A500 which I still own both to this day.
All the videos on there are recorded from the original hardware,...no PC emulation (except the arcade stuff, MAME used) so you will get the true experience and memories of those old games.
Videos include longplays, Gaming Livestreams on Sundays at 7pm GMT, "let's plays" - with commentary, which is best? comparison videos, retro music countdown videos, C64 & Amiga cracktro music videos - one being 12hrs long!, and Sh*t Game Time videos (this is where a really bad game is rated on the sh*t-o-meter and slammed in the vault of sh*tness - contains swearing!),...you can request these on my channel :)

I really hope you pop by, everyone is so 8-) and friendly on there and I have made many new friends myself since opening the channel,...I just know you'll find something on there you'll enjoy :-D

All the best and hope to see you on there chatting away!!!
Here is a gift for you Spectrum AY music fans which I created a little while back :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdD34TOrFUM
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Re: Hello Spectrumites! :-)

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welcome mr.das Ive been watching your reviews for a while...and couldnt help watch the end of the playthrough of rastan out of curiousity
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Feels like the return to a warm bath

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Hey, my name is Paul, and up until six year ago I used to be a regular WOS member.

I’ve contributed to a handful of projects in the past, such as application icons for Fuse for OSX, keyboard layout images for Spectaculator, and a font for Jonathan Cauldwell’s More Tea Vicar?.
I’m a type designer by profession, and I’ve always enjoyed designing pixel fonts. Besides that I like to tinker around in Sinclair Basic and Z80 machine language occasionally.

You can check out some of my Speccy stuff on www.type-invaders.com/sinclair/.

While I am still happily waiting for my Spectrum Next to arrive, I recently installed Retropie on a Raspberry Pi and enjoy playing Spectrum games via a wireless controller now.

It’s only last week that I discovered this place, and seeing so many familiar names again, and to have a clean, uncluttered phpBB forum again, it almost feels as coming home here. The most approprate thing I could do was to dig up my old WOS forum avatar image. :)

Well done, and a big thank you to all the people who make SC possible!

-Paul
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Hi, [mention]PQR[/mention] and . . .
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Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.

Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Re: Feels like the return to a warm bath

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PQR wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 12:33 pmHey, my name is Paul, and up until six year ago I used to be a regular WOS member.

I’ve contributed to a handful of projects in the past, such as application icons for Fuse for OSX, keyboard layout images for Spectaculator, and a font for Jonathan Cauldwell’s More Tea Vicar?.
I’m a type designer by profession, and I’ve always enjoyed designing pixel fonts. Besides that I like to tinker around in Sinclair Basic and Z80 machine language occasionally.

You can check out some of my Speccy stuff on www.type-invaders.com/sinclair/.

While I am still happily waiting for my Spectrum Next to arrive, I recently installed Retropie on a Raspberry Pi and enjoy playing Spectrum games via a wireless controller now.

It’s only last week that I discovered this place, and seeing so many familiar names again, and to have a clean, uncluttered phpBB forum again, it almost feels as coming home here. The most approprate thing I could do was to dig up my old WOS forum avatar image. :)

Well done, and a big thank you to all the people who make SC possible!

-Paul
Hi Paul, it's nice to see you again!!!

In the 6 years since you left, FZX became a standard for proportional fonts for the Spectrum. There's now an excellent editor called FZX Editor. You may want to take a look, I bet you will like it!

I can only imagine what could be accomplished in your hands. :)
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Re: Feels like the return to a warm bath

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Einar Saukas wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 9:56 pm Hi Paul, it's nice to see you again!!!

In the 6 years since you left, FZX became a standard for proportional fonts for the Spectrum. There's now an excellent editor called FZX Editor. You may want to take a look, I bet you will like it!

I can only imagine what could be accomplished in your hands. :)
Thanks Einar!

I know the fzx format pretty well. When Andrew Owen developed the spec for it he asked me to have a look.

I even made an attempt to write a Python library for reading/writing fzx files long time ago. I should dig it up again. :)
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hi Paul, good to see you. I'm still using your ZX-82 font, it's great :)

AA has added FZX fonts to z88dk, as one of the options for stdout, so hopefully good 8-bit typography will start to spread!
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hi!

I'm Hernán, from Buenos Aires. Spectrum fan since 1986.

I've been in the Speccy community since quite long (css and ecss newsgroups, WOS forums, speccy.org forums...) so this is the natural evolution to that :)

Thanks for making this great website!
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hi, [mention]Hernan[/mention]!

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Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.

Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hello Hernan. Come often. Hope that you'll like the website.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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¡Bienvenido, Hernán! :)
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hi,

My name is Matt Davies, and I am the creator of the Spectrum 48K (and soon to be 128K & Next) emulator/debugger/assembler/disassembler application Nx. I'm originally from Wales but currently live in Canada. I've work in the video game industry for over 20 years.

Thanks for having me.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Welcome fellas!
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Welcome only valid to anyone that is going to vote the correct way in the upcoming "Best Spectrum Game beginning with 'M' poll" in a few weeks.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Welcome, Cthutu!
R-Tape wrote: Wed May 30, 2018 8:54 pm Welcome fellas!
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Welcome only valid to anyone that is going to vote the correct way in the upcoming "Best Spectrum Game beginning with 'M' poll" in a few weeks.
Are you referring to Mutan Zone, perhaps?
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Wed May 30, 2018 9:04 pm Welcome, Cthutu!
R-Tape wrote: Wed May 30, 2018 8:54 pm Welcome fellas!
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Welcome only valid to anyone that is going to vote the correct way in the upcoming "Best Spectrum Game beginning with 'M' poll" in a few weeks.
Are you referring to Mutan Zone, perhaps?
What? Not Mutant Monty?
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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I'm afraid that thread will be a civil war...

(Seriously, I don't know which game R-Tape is referring to! :lol: )
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Guys, look, I like a joke as much as the next man but this particular topic is not something to muck about with.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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R-Tape wrote: Wed May 30, 2018 9:29 pm Guys, look, I like a joke as much as the next man but this particular topic is not something to muck about with.
:D

I actually prefer Mutant Monty to Manic Miner actually.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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cthutu wrote: Wed May 30, 2018 9:32 pm I actually prefer Mutant Monty to Manic Miner actually.
I never mentioned Manic Miner, even though that is unquestionably the best game beginning with M. I'm just asking that when the day comes every true Specchum looks into their heart and does what's right.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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I'll be honest - I'm already bricking it and we haven't done "L" yet.
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