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At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
... version which used SCART instead of an aerial lead.
Incidentally ... unit - I remember fixing one of those for a BBC Micro ... school in 1995 (their entire computer suite needed fixing - all BBC ... bs, apart from a couple of apple 2s, funnily enough I ... -
How to get 720KB on Opus Discovery floppy (using PC drive)I upgraded an Opus Discovery yesterday with a PC drive, but I'm looking for the way to get a floppy formatted as 720KB. If I understand other topics…
... simple system without need of special knowledge can use ... like to use an experimental computer with the flair of those "first ... days of (home) computing" ... complex and that type of technical understanding keeps that ... -
Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... pixels... there's a germ of an idea there, for sure.
Love it. What an awesome idea - and would have ... needs much faster hardware and of course, memory constraints would be ... typing this on a computer with 16 GB of memory....
Border art viewerRecently, we were working with diver/4d on border art. The idea was to push the techniques of drawing on the border to the limit and to see, how much…
... . That's must be because of the design flaw I told ... my mind this is more of an opportunity :) I will get this ... thought that the whole point of the exercise was about 48K ... ULAplus chip into a 128K computer? what would happen to the ...Reading Swift Disc ContentHello All. I was the proud owner of a ZX Spectrum 128k+ (the heatsink model) as a kid and, amongst many peripheral devices during ownership, bought a…
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Right, bit of an update...
I had a ... way of me connecting this to a modern computer to then run an ...Reading Swift Disc ContentHello All. I was the proud owner of a ZX Spectrum 128k+ (the heatsink model) as a kid and, amongst many peripheral devices during ownership, bought a…
Hello Again,
Right, bit of an update...
I had a ... way of me connecting this to a modern computer to then run an ...Retro Gamer 119This issue is out later this week. Thought I'd mention it because in addition to my own 2-page making of Deactivators, which is an ace game and would…
... to mention any of the development history of the machine. The ... 128 was designed purely as an upgrade aimed at gamers." ... to meet the requirements of the Spanish computer market. Sinclair had ... all sorts of technology it ...IF1bis StabilityI just thought I would start a different thread relating to the IF1bis, and leave the copyrighters to it elsewhere...:-P I've had mine for a few mon…
... stability of the If1bis. Each time, I have to switch the computer ... , and the recently updated versions of the BASIC and Shadow ROM ... !), but it is a bit of an inconvenience sometimes!IF1bis StabilityI just thought I would start a different thread relating to the IF1bis, and leave the copyrighters to it elsewhere...:-P I've had mine for a few mon…
... stability of the If1bis. Each time, I have to switch the computer ... !), but it is a bit of an inconvenience sometimes![/QUOTE]
< ... Spectrum AND the edge receptacle of the interface must be ... also prevents the build-up of electrostatic charges, which could ...ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
... of just starting to diggout my 5000 directories. On an older computer ... After connecting Image2ULA i got an adress violation. i use ... module 'ZX PAINTbrush' reading of adres 706d6174
this ... program, expects the termination of Image2ULAPlus, which doesn't ...Best Demos please?Hi, I have just discovered how good the demos for the spectrum are, I have been a spectrum owner for years but apart from the work I used to look at …
... In addition, a standard demo computer in Russia would have a ... non-trivial and, because of the lack of contention on Pentagon, not ... believe this to be less of an issue in most cases.
of a number of Russian-specific hardware upgrades ...New multi-interface for ZXI have in development new interface for ZX Spectrum. PCB size is similar as K-MOUSE interface and on board is CPLD (programmable logic), up to 1MB st…
... anyone ever bought in the 80s only checks for A5=0 ... =1.
So such an interface could easily be modified ... could make one easily out of an old interface. And if you ...Wowsas Check this oot[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Belgian-Chocolate-Tablet-Theyll/dp/B006IDT61M/ref=sr_1_80?ie=UTF8&qid=1383271315&sr=8-80&keywords=gift+ideas+fo…
... ]The Title say's Retro 'Computer Geek' Belgian Milk Chocolate.
of the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX ...Stakker Humanoid - 25 years ago[url]http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/11/stakker-humanoid-25th-anniversary-acid-house[/url] :o only seems two minutes ago i was in the Shef…
... ]hahaha!
Reminds me of that graffiti that was going ... around in the early 80s:
"Be alert - Britain ... , if not in a bit of an odd spot, teetering on 2 ... , probably still does. One piece of graffiti stuck out like crazy ...i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... self would not be proud of this :smile:[/QUOTE]
... and sold off hundreds of my old CDs over ... revisiting them. A lot of album tracks would sound schitt ... work as part of an album - some of the tracks off ... 1280s/release/429614"]12"/80s[/URL] compilations :)Charlie Brooker: Videogames Changed the World (C4 30th Nov 9pm)Hiya! Don't think anyone else has mentioned this but I saw an ad for it yesterday and it looks worth a watch... Charlie Brooker: Videogames Changed …
... of the PC as a games machine and not just an (overpriced) computer ... version with polygon enemies instead of billboards but they dropped it ... 2,
- Worst of all, having to sort through ... Doom64 makes the huge mistake of not having a multiplayer mode ...Let's all have a look at each others...Quite a few musicians around this place...so I thought, let's have a thread to show of our main - or even all - instruments. I'll get the ball rolli…
... here's my other bass, an Epiphone ET-201, which ... He gave it a bit of an overhaul before selling it to ... has a couple of nice ones though; an EVH Wolfgang copy ... a work of art), and a Kramer Baretta (the 80s one ... with the bullseye). He's a bit of a ...Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…
... , see this picture of the keyboard of an actual ZX Spectrum:
of scanned images of the book, can be ... an introductory booklet, which mainly explained how to set up the computer ... some simple examples of how to use the computer as a ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... mind I know nothing of coding): could these developments ... the days (in the 80s or 90s) or ... /> [*] Although for the benefit of Chris Cowley[+] I'd better ... that promoted the idea of an engine that would do ... this for self-serving reasons of course. :)
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... part in the Hour of Code as a presenter ... the introduction I showed of both my Spectrum and ...
There were a few of the school teachers that parents ... I remember seeing/using one of them'. A very pleasing ... the early 80s. Seems they had more of an impact than ...Bob pape rtype bookAnyone read bob papes rtype book? Thought it was fascinating. I love that game :D
... grow up, you sort of image that video games are ... the source code, or parts of it, such as the ... be hard enough to cram an arcade machine into a Spectrum ... Golden Years (as many of us think of the 80s, or even 90s ... fit in with the image of the gaming industry that ...Bob pape rtype bookAnyone read bob papes rtype book? Thought it was fascinating. I love that game :D
... source code, or parts of it, such as the ... be hard enough to cram an arcade machine into a ... Years (as many of us think of the 80s, or even 90s ... in with the image of the gaming industry that ... undetailed) gaming related TV programs of the time.[/QUOTE]
...Elite Kickstarter ProjectAs some of may know Steve Wilcox of Elite is currently close to raising ?60k via Kickstarter to begin manufacturing a USB spectrum keyboard. I have g…
... being printed verbatim (for fear of losing precious advertising revenue) ... control magazine editorial backed by an advertising budget) you'd ... snuffed out in the blink of an eye, gone forever.
... with a phone and computer, operating out of a domestic back- ...Next gen programmers are going to be ****ING AWESOME!I'm so glad my daughter's computering is in good hands: [url]http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/02/tory-boss-of-government-coding-education-initiati…
... you need a computer to program it. The computer it is connected ... 's actually one of the goals of the computer - an inexpensive computer that is [b ... .
I wrote most of the Spectank server directly on ... , and did quite a lot of the work on the Spectank ...Next gen programmers are going to be ****ING AWESOME!I'm so glad my daughter's computering is in good hands: [url]http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/02/tory-boss-of-government-coding-education-initiati…
... 's actually one of the goals of the computer - an inexpensive computer that is [b ... you do not need a computer to use it, the few ... and monitor will have a computer in place too. I can ... you are using as a computer for miniaturised computational purposes. Maybe ...DLT trial, not guilty...[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1211154/dave-lee-travis-not-guilty-on-12-charges[/url] find it quite interesting how in this (and the ken barlow coro…
... up/print an allegation they decide that the subject of the ... trial if tried by an officially crown appointed judge ... later and who'd be an 80s/70s BBC/ITV personality ... and jury.
One of the more recent cases was ... to do with either of the incidents.DLT trial, not guilty...[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1211154/dave-lee-travis-not-guilty-on-12-charges[/url] find it quite interesting how in this (and the ken barlow coro…
... later and who'd be an 80s/70s BBC/ITV personality now ... as now with thier thought of nowadays have a different view ...Back in the day when schools had 'a' computer.I stumbled uppon this photo when looking for something completely different on-line. It got me thinking and reminiscing. Do you remember when schools…
... typed in on the computer. May have dreamt that ... it didn't make much of an impression on me.
... room full of BBC Micros. I took Computer Studies GCSE ... but it wasn't an option at my school.< ... school has a computer room full of cheapo notebooks laptops but ...Back in the day when schools had 'a' computer.I stumbled uppon this photo when looking for something completely different on-line. It got me thinking and reminiscing. Do you remember when schools…
... it didn't make much of an impression on me.
... room full of BBC Micros. I took Computer Studies GCSE ... been able to do Computer Studies A-level but ... it wasn't an option at my school.< ... ' school has a computer room full of cheapo notebooks laptops but ...
