Spectrum Computing

Magnus wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 3:51 pm In Swedish "välkomna" is used to address several people, whereas "välkommen" is used to address one person.

Lugn, bara lugn, som Karlsson skulle ha sagt. I’ll get it right some day.

Magnus wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 3:51 pm In Swedish "välkomna" is used to address several people, whereas "välkommen" is used to address one person

Argh! Schoolboy error Ast! Leave this to me.

Welc∅me Magnus! H∅pe y∅u enjoy the f∅rum.



As I ask all emulator authors, I hope you'll be the first to include a fully functional built in assembler (though the one in ZXSPIN 0.666 is excellent).

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:11 pm

Köttbullar! Where’s the drooling emoticon when you need one . . .

Thanks [mention]R-Tape[/mention]! I'm sure I'll enjoy the forum (been lurking here for some time already )

Yes, ZX Spin is a great emulator (I just recently discovered it). I might look into integrating an assembler some time, it would be quite interesting I think.

Hello, I'm Lee Spoons and I like Spectrums.

Lee Spoons wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:41 pm Hello, I'm Lee Spoons and I like Spectrums.

Hya Lee! Any plans to fire Beepola up in anger again?

Lee Spoons wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:41 pm Hello, I'm Lee Spoons and I like Spectrums.

Welcome, Mr. Spoons!

It's so nice to see so many of the familiar names join the forum. Thank you! Please spread the word to other Spectrum fans that you may know.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:52 pm

Lee Spoons wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:41 pm Hello, I'm Lee Spoons and I like Spectrums.

Hya Lee! Any plans to fire Beepola up in anger again?

Well I had a quick fiddle with Bintracker the other day, so you never know...

My name is Stupidget, and I'm a Specaholic.

Back in '84 i took my first hit of Speccy and I thought I could control it. Just a few 'games' here and there, but, before I knew it was using C90's and cramming them full of any low quality 'games' I could get. My Speccy usage spiralled out of control and took over my life!! That was until '89, when I got forced into manual labour as part of a 'cleansing process' called YTS!! After many 'clean' years I got back on the 'Speccy' back in 2003 when I joined a rotten bunch called WoS!!!

I managed to drag myself away from WoS in 2016, but, i've got an itch that just needs scratching and it looks like Spectrum Computing is the only place that'll fill my need.

I can control it now though, I don't have a problem anymore.....do I

Welcome!

I managed to drag myself away from WoS in 2016, but, i've got an itch that just needs scratching and it looks like Spectrum Computing is the only place that'll fill my need.

Have fun and don't be too shy to talk! We all together need to give this forum some momentum.

stupidget wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:24 pm I can control it now though, I don't have a problem anymore.....do I

Of course not, you're doing fine. You can quit anytime, all you need is one last hit

Hello everyone,

I had a rubbery spectrum 48k without a tape player in '82. Upgraded from typing to cassette by '83. Eventually killed rubber key with a 12v Lima train PSU that I had forgotten to turn down to 2/3rds on the dial. Got a plus, played many man hours of Elite and equally many man hours mucking about with BASIC. Got a Rotronics Wafadrive from a fire-sale via a spectrum mag, mucked about with those for many hours. Wrote a BASIC version of a windowed OS and also collaborated with a pal to create S.U.P.I.C. SUPIC was a BBC/Spectrum compatible instruction set, an interpreter for an interpreter. We wanted to unify the beeb and the speccy (MID$ etc.). It was slow on the spectrum, to say the least. Got a toastrack 128+, which I am so incredibly sad to say is no longer with me If I knew what I know now, I would have never let it go. The reason I sold was the Amiga A1200.

FFWD Xmas 2107.

I receive a strange gift, the recreated ZX spectrum. I sniffed it, no it is not a real spectrum. Examined it, no edge connector, micro usb port. Does it have a ASIC maybe? Nope. Its a keyboard. Bluetooth no less. It seemed so much like the dead rubberkey in my loft.

FFWD Today

I am sitting in front of a raspberry PI connected to the recreated ZX running Fuse. This is like a time machine, but a cool time machine where I now have a compact flash HDD instead of whining tape drives (thank you fuse and Gasman for hdfmonkey). I am back in love. Old zx from loft is back alive, seems all it needed was a bit of TLC and a keyboard membrane (on the way from sellmyretro). Not sure whether to get an DivIDE device for it and change out the capacitors. I have been mostly mucking about with basic, but I really want to up my game and get into assembly. I already wrote a little 'app' as the kids call them today, it's a DIY eJuice calculator written in 48k BASIC. I am quite chuffed with it, it has a tabbed display, all the data's are accessed via the 5,6,7,8 arrows. I will use it, when it is finished properly.

So I came here!

Welcome [mention]MonkZy[/mention],

Is your ejuice calculator finished? Why not make it available? We can give it a ZXDB ID and make it available in the SC archive.

(Not that I vape.)

I sure can. First I will polish it some more. I just made a SCREEN$ load page for it. The BASIC is most likely not a good example for folk learning to write nice neat programs, but it works

MonkZy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:18 pm I sure can. First I will polish it some more. I just made a SCREEN$ load page for it. The BASIC is most likely not a good example for folk learning to write nice neat programs, but it works

Cool, as long as it returns a glycol dose that is not an explosion hazard and a non lethal dose of nicotine* only the programmer will care what's going on under the hood.

*if it does either of these you want the crap games competition

Welcome! You won't need the eJuice once the pure Z80 starts coursing through your veins again

My name is Shaun and I'm an alcohol.... sorry I lost myself there for a moment.

I'm a former writer for Micro Mart magazine (and some other publications). Today I make web applications and websites, and other computer software, mostly in PHP but also other languages and also on old Z80-based computers when I have the time.

Thanks to support from Paul Andrews and Retro Games Ltd, I'm hosting a Crap Games Competition for this year. You may find out more here and here. We already have our first entry from Kweepa, who's made an unofficial Winter Olympics tie-in (this also meant that I had to rush the site out so the site doesn't yet look quite as Speccy RGB-ish as I want to yet. This will be fixed).

Also, I've been informed that there is another Crap Games Competition that was announced on W*S. So you have a choice of which one to enter (or both, I don't mind). The W*S competition claims to be a Comp.Sys.Sinclair competition and yet it has not been mentioned on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, so I consider it to be the W*S competition.

Regards,

Shaun.

Hi, Shaun. Welcome to the forums. It's good to see another familiar name here.

Do you want to set up a new thread about the Crap Games Competition?

Sorry everyone, I forgot to add c***.s**.s****** the censored list.

(Hi Shaun )

Oh my, two competing crap competitions, that's really crap

Anyway, welcome to the forums, Shaun!

Hi [mention]Shaun_B[/mention] Its nice to see you here. I still have great memories of your weekly pages in MicroMart.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:52 am Sorry everyone, I forgot to add c***.s**.s****** the censored list.

(Hi Shaun )

Don't be sending me any type-ins to get your revenge...

Shaun_B wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:38 amMy name is Shaun

Welcome!

Shaun_B wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:38 amI'm hosting a Crap Games Competition for this year. [...] Also, I've been informed that there is another Crap Games Competition that was announced on W*S. So you have a choice of which one to enter (or both, I don't mind). The W*S competition claims to be a Comp.Sys.Sinclair competition and yet it has not been mentioned on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, so I consider it to be the W*S competition.

Have you considered contacting the other organizer to propose a joint effort? A single competition with 2 organizers and duplicated reviews sounds better than 2 separate competitions with the same name.

From my experience, people from the Spectrum community are very receptive to cooperation, with extremely rare exceptions.