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Time travelling, inter-galactic communication with a BBC MicroJust listened to this podcast of the best story ever, to do with time travel and inter galactic communication. It happened around 1984, to a couple …
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Stories about Micro-PROLOG on the SpectrumHi everyone, I've been learning a a little about Micro-PROLOG recently, using the LPA version published by Sinclair along with the associated micr…
... learning a a little about Micro-PROLOG recently, using the LPA ... Sinclair along with the associated micro-PROLOG Primer. I wondered in ... forum had ever tried out micro-PROLOG and perhaps written some ... -
Micro-PROLOG - tape image with side BThe tape images with Micro-PROLOG ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008429"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0…
The tape images with Micro-PROLOG ([url="http://www. ... github.com/oldcompcz/micro-PROLOG/raw/master/tapes/micro-PROLOG.tap
micro-PROLOG/raw/master/tapes/micro-PROLOG.tzx
Micro-PROLOG. I tried to provide ... -
CP/M version of Micro-PROLOGI'm hoping someone can suggest a possible solution to a relatively unusual problem. I've found a copy of Micro-PROLOG (Version 3.0) for CP/M 2.2 and …
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Seems a bit steep for an 8-bit micro.I sure we've all had a conversation about the Micro Professor MFP1. I tried a search on WOS and only got one mention of it. But I was having a sniff …
... had a conversation about the Micro Professor MFP1. I tried a ... ://flite.web-feet.co.uk/micro-controllers/applications-board-for-the ... -
A Query About "A Micro De Bug Consultancy" Software TitleOne for the boffins . I was trying to TZX a "Micro De Bug Consultancy " title called MATHS CSE REVISION which is MIA on WOS . I did the TZX and tr…
... was trying to TZX a "Micro De Bug Consultancy " title called ... is why they called it "Micro De Bug" . You have to ... -
Which Micro January 1983Hi Folks, I've just seen a copy on [url="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Which-Micro-Software-Review-magazine-x-2-Sept-Oct-1982-January-1983/1241397519…
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Games with proper "Micro Manuals"COMBINED CASSETTE INLAY AND "MICRO" SIZED INSTRUCTION MANUAL This is something I have not come across before . Two staples are used to hold it al…
... top) staples the 25 page "micro manual" itself together . This means ... is used to attach the "micro booklet" to the outer cassette ... of space . The 25 page "micro manual" with the cassette inlay ... particular difficulties with this in MICRO FORM ( it is very ... -
Micro SD card write protection.So I put a 16GB micro SD card in my android phone about 3 years ago. I put 12GB of music on it. So...it works. Then I remembered there is a micro SD …
So I put a 16GB micro SD card in my android ... I remembered there is a micro SD card in there and ... this happens, cause the first micro SD card I bought did ... -
is a arduino uno / nano fast enough to talk to a specie ?my current project is to load games onto the specie via SD card / Arduino uno / nano although i suspect that the micro controller will not be able to…
... although i suspect that the micro controller will not be able ... as the activation on the buffer chip but then it only ... -
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
Incidentally, the BBC Micro's frame buffer (for 1 bit per pixel ... build a simple LCD frame buffer for it, and the contention ... -
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... had simply made the frame buffer a 'raster' image in memory ... was to optimize the frame buffer so that software could make ... comparison, the BBC Micro made the frame buffer easy for the CPU ... -
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... . When I build the frame buffer for my Z80 project's ... had considered using the 'BBC Micro' style layout (and may still ... -
SAM gets ethernetWhilst off topic - head over to [url]www.samcoupe.com[/url]. Colins got his ethernet board for the SAM available to buy and some interesting news ab…
... any page (ROM, RAM, W5100 buffer) should be arbitrarily mappable (so ... paged ROMs (unlike the BBC Micro), and so it's going ... -
Microdrive CATIs there a way in Basic to obtain any more useful info on the contents of a Microdrive? File size, head info for example? Also, is it possible in ge…
... I am curious about though - Micro Drive maps? What exactly is ... assemble the next 512 byte buffer before the next sector passes ... -
Problem with Discovery OpusI've just got a Discovery Opus, but it seems to be faulty. When I connect the Speccy and switch it on, it displays the "C 1982 Sinclair Research", …
... designed from a 6502/BBC Micro mindset (Opus were well known ... for BBC Micro peripherals).
The only ... address) or IC17 (octal transparent buffer). Returning to the copyright message ... -
Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
... that I read somewhere that Micro$oft used different (and sometimes ... PC RAM into a temporary buffer every second or so, wouldn ... -
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... gt; Triangle Setup -> Z buffer & Texture -> Complex ... />
A MIPs r4000 micro-processor was feeding the pipeline ... Processor).
Z buffer simply used the Z information ... previously rendered to the screen buffer.
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Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …
... (perhaps using the printer buffer as a file buffer, or just claiming ... nice to implement the BBC micro *SPOOL and *EXEC feature. If ... -
Some ever noticed that +2A/+3 halts Z80 using WAIT?I mean: Anyone ever noticed that the +2A/+3 halts the Z80 using WAIT? All documentation I've read about contention state that the ULA halts the Z80 …
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The way the BBC Micro worked without contention was interesting ... the designers of the BBC Micro and later the ARM CPU ... the components of the BBC Micro were pretty much pushed to ... -
Micro Men - BBC4 Thursday 8th Octobereh... thats it... There was a new add for Micro Men on BBC 4 last night after 'The Cell' ( nice speccy goodness in there, including Jet Set Willy ) …
... ]When they used the BBC micro on the TV show in ... the film, the BBC micro had blue lines running accross ... has a couple of frame buffer "text" modes, MODE 3 and ... on topic... I really enjoyed Micro Men, it exceeded my expectations ... -
Looking for 'speech' games - Cheetah.I've just recently hooked up a Cheetah Sweet Talker and a Currah Microspeech to one one my rubber-keyed chums. He's quite a lil chatter-box, so now'…
... =fog;407571]but was the micro speech based on the same ... queueing up allophones in a buffer. The other interfaces either had ... -
GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
... ]why people think that linear buffer is faster ?[/QUOTE]
... case where a linear frame buffer is quite obviously not ... the peculiarities of the frame buffer layout generally had something ...
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Isometric GamesAs a longer term project I'm thinking of attempting an isometric game, along the lines of Alien8, but with Magic Knight. No promises though, because …
... chunks into a full screen buffer and then copy the changed ... got ported to the BBC micro of all things! Seems like ... -
Please explain how a Kempston interface circuit works.Can someone help me understand how a Kempston joystick interface works, as I want to design and build my own as an experiment. I understand switches…
... uses that to trigger the buffer chip that lets the joystick ... :
Make: Kempston Micro Electronics
Edge conn: ZX81 ... size
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Could ELITE's wireframe graphics be improvedWas watching this video last night comparing the BBC and Spectrum version of Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4OAteeGWs It seems that the…
... said, combined with the BBC Micro version's total lack of ... you could hack out the buffer from the code and see ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... disk Ceramic Capacitor 0.001 micro Farad
2) 1k resistor ... on chip 74LS260 IC12 (1st buffer chip) on the motherboard ; solder ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... disk Ceramic Capacitor 0.001 micro Farad
2) 1k resistor ... on chip 74LS260 IC12 (1st buffer chip) on the motherboard ; solder ...
