Introduce yourself!

[Robel67]

Kept the 81, sold the 80 for £10, yep I know

Ahhhh bad luck. It's a shame that 81s are as good as worthless these days. Tell you what, I'm feeling generous: I'll give you £9.99 for it. Eh? Eh?

Haha, 16k ram pack too, gotta be worth £20, actually think I’ve got the Sinclair printer somewhere too, no doubt equally worthless

[Bolador]

Hi. I have my original CZ1000, an argentinian rebranded TS1000 and a CZ2000, an Argentinian Spectrum clone with an ISSUE 6A board and a TS1500 like black case.. I have completely refurbished and is working great so far..

[TMD2003]

Hi! I'm (not) Troy McClure. You may know me from such RZX Archive entries as Blood & Guts, Quetzalcoatl, and Dominetris.

In reality: I'm Dr. Jim, I'm also known as The Mighty Dopethrone on t'other forum (registered in 2003 when all I was listening to was Electric Wizard), I reached my 40s last summer, and I'm... an occasional Spectrum community visitor, with a habit of disappearing for long periods of time. It's what I do, I come, I go when I have other projects to prioritise. With the world on hold at the moment, I find there's no better way to fill the far too much time I already have than by throwing myself back towards Sinclair projects - with several type-ins completed towards the end of March, and three submissions to this year's CSSCGC which will be publicised in due course. And due to one of those CSSCGC entries in particular, I'm bracing myself for a lengthy involvement in the Spectrum-world this time, so I've registered here as well.

[R-Tape]

Dopethone! Great to see you here! (and what's the avatar?)

[TMD2003]

It's a heavily-edited screenshot from Wibstars, another game you may know my RZXing capabilities for. It seems there were two people on this planet who liked that game: me, and someone who commented on the video on YouTube.

I suppose what I could have done is - and this is not me attempting to curry favour with the site admin here - included a screenshot of one of the between-levels bonus items from Shuttlebug!. A spare +3 drive belt, maybe? No, not that one. Nor would it be the huge amounts of cash, bonus points, nice cup of tea (got plenty of those... for now) or the "Zen Wisdom My Son". It would be...

"WHO WOULD COLLECT TAPS??!!"

Two question marks, two exclamation marks, because it's so incredibly bizarre that anyone would do that.

And yet, that was me, aged about six or seven.

Your question is answered, after eight years.

[Ast A. Moore]

Hey, [mention]TMD2003[/mention] Fancy seeing you here! Come on in, the water is fine.

[Alessandro]

It's a heavily-edited screenshot from Wibstars, another game you may know my RZXing capabilities for. It seems there were two people on this planet who liked that game: me, and someone who commented on the video on YouTube.

Count me in as well, I liked Wibstars for its novelty value although in the end it got rather repetitive.

Glad to see you here

[saucysarah]

Greetings from England! Still in lockdown which is getting boring now but it has given me the chance to relive my Speccy days. I've been looking through a lot of @pavero 's "remastered" inlay scans which has taken me right back to my childhood. Back when you'd spend ages in the shop just looking at the front and back of the cassettes trying to make a good purchase with your pocket money. I'm starting to feel depressed now!

[gabriele amore]

Hi there from Palermo-Italy!

I got my 48kb rubberkey spectrum back in 1984 and kept it working to these days

I never understood codng and still don't (i don't get all those peek, poke etc stuff) BUT in 2013 i discovered Jonathan Cauldwell's AGD (thanks to some wonderful tutorials made by Paul Jenkinson) and i started playing with it since then (lately I have been enjoying Allan Turveys mods such as AGDx and AGDx mini)

I still don't know (nor understand) real coding but I have lots of fun exploring the possibilities offered by AGD (for some time i also experimented with CGD by Dave Hughes) and I enjoy sharing my little discoveries (i always try something new when i write a game with AGD) even though my games are often incomplete or very hard to play

[PeterJ]

Welcome [mention]gabriele amore[/mention],

You have a very impressive library of titles. My favourite is C is for Crabby!

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=5141

[shred]

Hi there!

I got a ZX81 as starter drug back in the 1980s, and then made the usual career of a computer nerd: ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500, Amiga 4000, Linux on a PC. I've learned BASIC and assembler on my good old Speccy. Today I earn my living as a software developer, so I made my hobby my profession. But I never forgot my roots.

I am the author of tzxtools. With that tool, I could recover my old Spectrum tapes, restore my very first demo, and my two Cracker tools.

Since a few days I'm the proud owner of a ZX Spectrum Next. I'm going to write some assembler programs for this artwork, of course. I just don't know what yet, maybe a cool demo that finally makes me famous in the Speccy demo scene.

I'm looking forward for being a part of the Spectrum Computing Forum community! Let's have fun together.

[Ivanzx]

Hi there!

I got a ZX81 as starter drug back in the 1980s, and then made the usual career of a computer nerd: ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500, Amiga 4000, Linux on a PC. I've learned BASIC and assembler on my good old Speccy. Today I earn my living as a software developer, so I made my hobby my profession. But I never forgot my roots.

I am the author of tzxtools. With that tool, I could recover my old Spectrum tapes, restore my very first demo, and my two Cracker tools.

Since a few days I'm the proud owner of a ZX Spectrum Next. I'm going to write some assembler programs for this artwork, of course. I just don't know what yet, maybe a cool demo that finally makes me famous in the Speccy demo scene.

I'm looking forward for being a part of the Spectrum Computing Forum community! Let's have fun together.

Wilkommen! Du kommst aus Köln, oder? Ich wohne in Frankfurt aber ich bin Spanier.

Not a lot of germans here, so bitte feel welcome

[Patrik Rak]

Hmm, I never did an "introduce yourself" post back on WoS, so I may as well rectify that now.

I am a guy from Prague who obviously got stuck in the 80's regarding his love for the ZX Spectrum.
Initially, I just wrote few Spectrum games and utilities back then.
Later on I couldn't help myself to move on so I created an AY player for Amiga, which laid the foundation for the .ay music rips.
Still being stuck in the past even later, I created the ZXDS emulator for Nintendo DS, which recently saw a 3DS release.
Sometime along the way I started frequenting WoS forums, which spurred some other things, like the PZX format, random number generators, or couple of Z80, timing and contention tests.

It's nice to see this forum which gives me the vibes of the WoS of the past. I have a feeling I might be coming by from time to time.

Patrik

[PeterJ]

It's nice to see this forum which gives me the vibes of the WoS of the past.

Excellent, that has always been one of our aims.

[avlixa]

Hi,
I'm Antonio from Spain.
I started with my spectrum 16k at about 1984 wich I upgrade to 48k.
Since my father bought me a PC, and I left the spectrum out until a few years ago that I heard a podcast and I resume to the spectrum world.

I'm the author of ZX Connection, a game that I rescue from an old tape and I could finish recently, and it is already added to spectrum computing.

I'm interesting in helping with preservation. I already sent an spanish version of Androids, and I have ZX81 Investronica tapes that someday I'd like to preserve.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Welcome [mention]avlixa[/mention] !

[boriel]

Hi,

I'm Jose from Spain, but my nick is [mention]boriel[/mention].
I'm the creator of the ZX Basic Compiler.
I've noticed some people using the compiler to create games and I'll be glad to help them using it (there are many forums out there, I try to be on most of them).

[Luzie]

Hi,

I´m Bernhard from southwest germany. After starting on ZX81 I "naturally" went to ZX Spectrum 48k when it was available. (Instead of going to C64 as most german people had). For me the Speccy is more to the heart, than just only a computer. But this you know, people on this forum

Together with my friend once I found a hack for infinite lifes in Booty. We are the first publishing it in CRASH although it takes additional time to send it to UK via snailmail. This was 1:1 copied from other people afterwards "as their fund"


We also did some artwork ...


Later I bought a Beta 48k Disk Interface and then lost interest when 128k Speccy appears. Going to IBM PCs. When Emulatos like Gerton Lunters Z80 (DOS Version) appear (my alltime favorite Emulator because of it´s shortcut-key handling) I come back to Speccy. At this time, WOS was the best information site with dailys update E-Mails by Martijn van der Heide.

I also did a CDROM with Spectrum-Collection called "SpectROM":


I participate on SpecNext Kickstarter and get a "Board Only" and an "Accelerated". Thanks goto complete SpecNext-Team which shares Rick Dickinsons Design Spirit.

Main interest is "whats going on" in Spectrum Software and Hardware. Assembler Routines. Betadisk-Programming and Emulators. And almost everything that comes out new for the Speccy todays.

[akeley]

I created the ZXDS emulator for Nintendo DS

Hi Patrik, just wanted to say I'm one of ZXDS huge fans - your emulator is just so, so good. The way you have adapted it to this handheld, utilizing the two screens, touch function and also thought about just everything is truly astonishing. I mainly play Linley's Crawl on my DS but keep ZXDS on it too, because it's a design masterclass, and I might need that ZX-on-the-go fix one day too

Thanks!

[Alessandro]

[mention]boriel[/mention] and [mention]Luzie[/mention]

Glad to find both of you here as well! Bienvenido! Willkommen!

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Welcome [mention]boriel[/mention] borand [mention]Luzie[/mention] !

[Dr beep]

Introduce yourself....

On this forum I am quite new. On WoS I have been active for years.

I am born at the end of 1967, so whenever you read this post you can calculate my age.

I had a ZX Spectrum from 1983 up to about 2015. I was using emulation much more than the real machine
that I donated my computers (ZX Spectrum and 2x ZX81) on Ben Versteeg.

On the ZX Spectrum I coded several games. Since 2007 I mainly coded minigames and
hosted a few years that competition. In 2011 I wanted to port my SHOGUN-game to the ZX81.
When I ported that game I discovered that in 1K hires was possible.

A demo drawing circles and I thought can I code a game with this technic.
The result is 74 hires games (at the moment of writing this) coded in 1K.
The games will come available on this site.

I also coded several 1K lowresgames and I use a technic that was not supported by
my old ZX81 emulator for the ZX Spectrum si I rewrote my emulator and made it better than it was.

I am still improving the emulator at the moment of writing this and I still have a few ideas
for new 1K hires games to come. If you have an idea just let me know....
I will take a look if I can fit it in 1K.

Greetings,
Johan "Dr Beep" Koelman

[R-Tape]

I'm the creator of the ZX Basic Compiler.

Welcome Jose! PM sent.

I´m Bernhard from southwest germany. After starting on ZX81 I "naturally" went to ZX Spectrum 48k when it was available. (Instead of going to C64 as most german people had). For me the Speccy is more to the heart, than just only a computer. But this you know, people on this forum

Welcome Luzie! I find it very interesting that some people went 'against the grain', e.g those who made the less common choice, or stayed faithful to the speccy when the 16bits took over. I'm ashamed to say that this doesn't apply to me: back in the day (but not now of course), I envied the C64, and dropped the speccy like a stone when the 16 bits arrived. For shame!

Together with my friend once I found a hack for infinite lifes in Booty. We are the first publishing it in CRASH although it takes additional time to send it to UK via snailmail. This was 1:1 copied from other people afterwards "as their fund"

Haha brilliant. The lengths we used to go to!

Main interest is "whats going on" in Spectrum Software and Hardware. Assembler Routines. Betadisk-Programming and Emulators. And almost everything that comes out new for the Speccy todays.

Amen to that

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Welcome to an old WoS mate, [mention]Dr beep[/mention] !

[Alessandro]

Nice to see Johan here as well! Welcome [mention]Dr beep[/mention]