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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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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!
Spoiler
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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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!
Spoiler
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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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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That one is easy: Lords of Midnight (I have to, I'm porting it for the Next).
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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I am yang from Slovenia. I received my first computer ZX Spectrum 48k as a kid from my uncle in ~1985 and I still have it. I am collecting also other vintage computers and recently I got interested about retro-Spectrum stuff again, because I see that there is still an ongoing community. As a kid I only knew how to LOAD " " the games through the MC Cassette player and view them on CRT TV and I didn't use the Spectrum for anything else back then. I used it for about ~8 years until I eventually replaced it with a more recent PC x86 hardware, and since then it was being stored, together with the remaining cassettes.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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yang wrote: Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:16 pm I am yang from Slovenia. I received my first computer ZX Spectrum 48k as a kid from my uncle in ~1985 and I still have it. I am collecting also other vintage computers and recently I got interested about retro-Spectrum stuff again, because I see that there is still an ongoing community. As a kid I only knew how to LOAD " " the games through the MC Cassette player and view them on CRT TV and I didn't use the Spectrum for anything else back then. I used it for about ~8 years until I eventually replaced it with a more recent PC x86 hardware, and since then it was being stored, together with the remaining cassettes.
Double welcome! Hope you find some nice MIA in your cassettes.
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hello Yang.
I suppose you know the website about Spectrum games from ex Yugoslavia? If not, check it:

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/yu/index.php
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can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to joining

howdy folks
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BiNMaN wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:59 pm can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to joining

howdy folks
Hello!

I keep seeing your name pop up on various projects like Kingdom Crystal 2017 but I'm still waiting for a Bog Brother's reunion :-p
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R-Tape wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:23 pm
BiNMaN wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:59 pm can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to joining

howdy folks
Hello!

I keep seeing your name pop up on various projects like Kingdom Crystal 2017 but I'm still waiting for a Bog Brother's reunion :-p
I'm seeing CodenameV later today, we still discuss ideas but never seem to pin the time down...

but who knows ;)
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Welcome, BiNMaN!
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Helloooo BiNMaN :)
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Re: Introduce yourself!

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Hey everyone, I'm Jez :D I've been into the Spectrum since about '83 I guess. Favourite games include Manic Miner, Flying Shark, Renegade, Rastan, River Rescue to name but a few.

Moved on to the Atari ST in '90 (couldn't afford an Amiga!) and now run the ST Format magazine website www.stformat.com. I say I run it, I haven't actually updated it for about 2 years :lol:

Other retro interests include Tamiya RC cars, Space Lego and an unhealthy interest in G1 Transformers (pre '86) and their more recent Masterpiece counterparts :lol:

If you're dead bored and fancy a laugh, check out my Arcade/Spectrum/ST etc etc Picade emulator review, with a short Manic Miner / JSW intro :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o_nRplktDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nl9HrNaQ9E
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