Introduce yourself!
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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.
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.
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Wilkommen! Du kommst aus Köln, oder? Ich wohne in Frankfurt aber ich bin Spanier.shred wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:07 pm 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.
Not a lot of germans here, so bitte feel welcome
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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
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
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Excellent, that has always been one of our aims.Patrik Rak wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:13 pm It's nice to see this forum which gives me the vibes of the WoS of the past.
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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.
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.
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Welcome [mention]avlixa[/mention] !
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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).
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).
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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.
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.
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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!
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[mention]boriel[/mention] and [mention]Luzie[/mention]
Glad to find both of you here as well! Bienvenido! Willkommen!
Glad to find both of you here as well! Bienvenido! Willkommen!
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Welcome [mention]boriel[/mention] borand [mention]Luzie[/mention] !
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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
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
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Welcome Jose! PM sent.
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!Luzie wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 6:35 pm 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
Haha brilliant. The lengths we used to go to!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"
Amen to thatMain 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.
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Welcome to an old WoS mate, [mention]Dr beep[/mention] !
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Nice to see Johan here as well! Welcome [mention]Dr beep[/mention]
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You should get used to it, Patrik, in the spanish scene your emulator has an excellent reputation and many people has expressed their happiness to be able to have a portable SpectrumPatrik Rak wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 12:40 pmThanks, man. I feel humbled hearing such a high praise... Glad you like it!
Dekuji!
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Hey everyone,
I got my first Spectrum (48K) around 1985 I think? It wasn't "mine" to begin with, it was a family computer but eventually I guess they got bored with it and as I'd taken to coding and making stuff - it then migrated into my bedroom.
Eventually when it broke, I bought a +2 with paper round money (I'm pretty sure I was too young to be doing a paper round but hey ho!) and did eventually get a +3 after that as well. Mainly as the keys on the tape deck kept snapping and overall I felt like the build quality was really lacking. I was pretty disappointed with the +3 as well because of the audio issues but I'd learnt assembly by this point and had written a bunch of games and utilities so I was well and truly hooked!
I unfortunately sold EVERYTHING at some point on (early) eBay as I'd had some money troubles, the only thing I've kept is a BugByte Manic Miner, JSW and an interface 2 ROM cartridge of Jetpac. Such a shame, as I had some very nice things like complete Rainbird box sets for Guild of Thieves, The Pawn, Starglider, etc, etc, etc... but well, emulation is fantastic and the wealth of information out there on the internet helps me and all of us to relive our past whenever we like
Nowadays I'm a professional software developer, and in my spare time I recreate Spectrum games using FUZE4Switch (see also; https://fuzearena.com/help)
I got my first Spectrum (48K) around 1985 I think? It wasn't "mine" to begin with, it was a family computer but eventually I guess they got bored with it and as I'd taken to coding and making stuff - it then migrated into my bedroom.
Eventually when it broke, I bought a +2 with paper round money (I'm pretty sure I was too young to be doing a paper round but hey ho!) and did eventually get a +3 after that as well. Mainly as the keys on the tape deck kept snapping and overall I felt like the build quality was really lacking. I was pretty disappointed with the +3 as well because of the audio issues but I'd learnt assembly by this point and had written a bunch of games and utilities so I was well and truly hooked!
I unfortunately sold EVERYTHING at some point on (early) eBay as I'd had some money troubles, the only thing I've kept is a BugByte Manic Miner, JSW and an interface 2 ROM cartridge of Jetpac. Such a shame, as I had some very nice things like complete Rainbird box sets for Guild of Thieves, The Pawn, Starglider, etc, etc, etc... but well, emulation is fantastic and the wealth of information out there on the internet helps me and all of us to relive our past whenever we like
Nowadays I'm a professional software developer, and in my spare time I recreate Spectrum games using FUZE4Switch (see also; https://fuzearena.com/help)
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Welcome [mention]pobtastic[/mention],
I had seen the Raspberry Pi version of Fuze, but not this one. Looks really impressive, especially the kids guide to programming. Excellent stuff.
https://www.fuze.co.uk/uploads/8/0/7/1/ ... tbook1.pdf
Do you have any links to the Spectrum games you have re-created?
I had seen the Raspberry Pi version of Fuze, but not this one. Looks really impressive, especially the kids guide to programming. Excellent stuff.
https://www.fuze.co.uk/uploads/8/0/7/1/ ... tbook1.pdf
Do you have any links to the Spectrum games you have re-created?
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Unfortunately Fuze is a bit nervous about copyright infringements, so it's not on anything "official" just short clips on twitter from a while back;
Manic Miner
https://twitter.com/Pobtastic/status/12 ... 6897087488
This is more or less complete now, the jumping needs some work ~ it's not identical to how it should behave...
JSW
https://twitter.com/Pobtastic/status/12 ... 6323990528
Doesn't have ropes yet, a bit of a WIP still!
Hungry Horace
https://twitter.com/Pobtastic/status/11 ... 4799934464
Now complete!
Unfortunately none of them have sound/ music as it's incredibly difficult in Fuze to make similar noises
I've also done a bit of work on Jetpac but nothing sharable yet! It's fun!
Manic Miner
https://twitter.com/Pobtastic/status/12 ... 6897087488
This is more or less complete now, the jumping needs some work ~ it's not identical to how it should behave...
JSW
https://twitter.com/Pobtastic/status/12 ... 6323990528
Doesn't have ropes yet, a bit of a WIP still!
Hungry Horace
https://twitter.com/Pobtastic/status/11 ... 4799934464
Now complete!
Unfortunately none of them have sound/ music as it's incredibly difficult in Fuze to make similar noises
I've also done a bit of work on Jetpac but nothing sharable yet! It's fun!
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Very impressive [mention]pobtastic[/mention]. Even the font looks authentic!
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Hi all,
yep, another WoS Forumite, some of you will remember me. For those who don't, I'm from Cologne, Germany and got my first Speccy 16k in 1985, then upgraded onto 48k/+2 models shortly after. Played tons of games till the early 90s and while the Speccy games certainly got eclipsed by their console counterparts for me, the nostalgy stays.
My original nick "XTM of TMG" (TMG is the name of my demo crew The Mad Guys which was active from 1989 to about 1997) is a bit clunky so I'll use a shortened version here.
From my avatar, you can see I'm a huge David Hasselhoff fan. NOT! Well, according to some English WoS member sometime back in the 2006 or so, The Hoff was still "super popular" in Germany (what can I say, that bloke knew more about my country than I did *sarcasm*) so to smite him I switched to a Hoff avatar and have been using it ever since ... so to reflect that I'll use one here too, just a different picture - it's almost like an XTM trademark. Nah, I'm really not a fan, I've watched a few Knight Rider episodes as a kid but in hindsight they were pants anyway.
I'll keep using the WoS forums for the chit chat/trashtalk (since there are still some nice people there who aren't on SC because they are mostly active in that area), but having a second port of call is always nice innit!
yep, another WoS Forumite, some of you will remember me. For those who don't, I'm from Cologne, Germany and got my first Speccy 16k in 1985, then upgraded onto 48k/+2 models shortly after. Played tons of games till the early 90s and while the Speccy games certainly got eclipsed by their console counterparts for me, the nostalgy stays.
My original nick "XTM of TMG" (TMG is the name of my demo crew The Mad Guys which was active from 1989 to about 1997) is a bit clunky so I'll use a shortened version here.
From my avatar, you can see I'm a huge David Hasselhoff fan. NOT! Well, according to some English WoS member sometime back in the 2006 or so, The Hoff was still "super popular" in Germany (what can I say, that bloke knew more about my country than I did *sarcasm*) so to smite him I switched to a Hoff avatar and have been using it ever since ... so to reflect that I'll use one here too, just a different picture - it's almost like an XTM trademark. Nah, I'm really not a fan, I've watched a few Knight Rider episodes as a kid but in hindsight they were pants anyway.
I'll keep using the WoS forums for the chit chat/trashtalk (since there are still some nice people there who aren't on SC because they are mostly active in that area), but having a second port of call is always nice innit!
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oh, there is introductional thread here! so if you're interested, i am from xUSSR. Speccy (actually, Robik) was my first "really personal" computer. before that, i was at regional computer "club" with MSX computers. of course, i wanted MSX, but there was no way to get it (at least for the price we could afford). so i got Robik, which was 48K Speccy clone, with totally incompatible timings, and without a disk drive. i never had 128K, and never had a disk drive, so it was hard to program in asm. tapes sux! ;-)
my first emulator was something called "spectrum.exe", it ran on 286, and i still don't know what it was. it didn't even used external ROM, afair. yet it was able to play 2-channel music on PC speaker, and that was cool.
of course, being a programmer myself, i was interested in writing my own emulator. and i did that several times! ;-) 3 times in Delphi, almost two times in C, and once in D. my first emulators were based on Z80 cores i found in internet, but later i wrote Zymosis.
as i never owned 128K, i am mostly interested in 48K software (because this is what brings back my childhood memories). i am also not interested in supporting TR-DOS or +3DOS in my Z80 code (but my emulator supports 128K/+2/+3, and TR-DOS).
i always wanted to write some Speccy games, but never progressed beyond some engine prototypes.
i love platformers and shooters, my favorite games are Zynaps and Rex. i found JSW too hard (but loved to play Phantomas). and i am avoid playing AGD/Churera games (for various reasons; don't take it personally, please, it's my internal mental bug ;-).
i wasn't very active in any online/offline Speccy communities.
i also love to write walls of text in bad English (which is quite obvious from this post, i think ;-).
my first emulator was something called "spectrum.exe", it ran on 286, and i still don't know what it was. it didn't even used external ROM, afair. yet it was able to play 2-channel music on PC speaker, and that was cool.
of course, being a programmer myself, i was interested in writing my own emulator. and i did that several times! ;-) 3 times in Delphi, almost two times in C, and once in D. my first emulators were based on Z80 cores i found in internet, but later i wrote Zymosis.
as i never owned 128K, i am mostly interested in 48K software (because this is what brings back my childhood memories). i am also not interested in supporting TR-DOS or +3DOS in my Z80 code (but my emulator supports 128K/+2/+3, and TR-DOS).
i always wanted to write some Speccy games, but never progressed beyond some engine prototypes.
i love platformers and shooters, my favorite games are Zynaps and Rex. i found JSW too hard (but loved to play Phantomas). and i am avoid playing AGD/Churera games (for various reasons; don't take it personally, please, it's my internal mental bug ;-).
i wasn't very active in any online/offline Speccy communities.
i also love to write walls of text in bad English (which is quite obvious from this post, i think ;-).
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Hi, Graeme Mason here, have been meaning to sign up here for a few weeks having started using this site more for research than the *cough* other one.
Apologies in advance for spamming my speccy-related features - Scuba Dive in Retro Gamer soon!
Apologies in advance for spamming my speccy-related features - Scuba Dive in Retro Gamer soon!