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Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
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BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
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Pyskool 0.0.2Pyskool 0.0.2 has been released. To grab a copy, head over to the downloads page: [URL="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/releases/"]http://pyskool.wordp…
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Spectrum Ethernet updateWell for those of you who don't follow the news section on the project page, here's a quick update...and a request. Development has slowed a bit, si…
... Spectrum, not an emulator -- the Spectranet isn't emulated. The Spectrum ... need any mass-storage, the Spectranet already can be used to ... -
Developers developers developers developers developers!OK, I think it's at a stage where someone else can also have a go at doing things with the Spectranet. If you've not been following the hardware foru…
... at doing things with the Spectranet. If you've not been ... in this situation...well, the Spectranet is a 10/100 ethernet ... the Amstrad models) since the Spectranet is not emulated. You don ... want a feel for the Spectranet's API (which, for the ... -
Spectranet now supports UTF-8!Or at least, a subset of it - all of the 0xC3 characters, and a few 0xC2 characters (?, ?, ? and ?) in its putchar42 routine (the 6x8 character cell …
Or at least, a subset of it - all of the 0xC3 characters, and a few 0xC2 characters (?, ?, ? and ?) in its putchar42 routine (the 6x8 character cell print routine). Here's a pic of my Spectrum +3 having a little dialogue in Spanish (yeah, it might be a bit ... -
Pyskool 0.1Pyskool 0.1 has been released. To grab a copy, head over to the downloads page: [url]http://pyskool.wordpress.com/releases/[/url] Main new features…
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BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
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Fixed - PAUSE commands can be shorted by pressing ... right-click context menu for commands and variables with similar names ... -
Keyboard routinesI'll ask here first - since this must be a long-ago solved problem, and hopefully I can avoid re-inventing the wheel... I need a keyboard routine th…
... I can include in the Spectranet ROM. Anyone got one I ... -
Timex 1000 PAL conversionHi, a friend of mine sent me a Timex 1000 from the US. I was prepared for the NTSC/PAL issues so no surprise came to me when i got a shadowy dark scr…
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OS9 and Forbidden Planet.I'm unix geek and very interested what such thing as OS9 shell doing on the loading screen of the Forbidden Planet: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.or…
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Found a great ZX BASIC textbookProgramming Arcade Games for your Spectrum, by Adrian Jones. Found this in a second-hand bookstore over the weekend and if you're anything like me,…
... text adventures replete with GOTO commands.
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Tech question about microdriveshi ! I dont know if someone out there can help me I recently got my paws into an interface 1 and 2 microdrive units form an ebay auction they wore …
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the right commands and the correct messages come ... -
+3 BASIC and RST 8I've been working on adding commands to the BASIC interpreter, in a similar style to how Interface 1 does it (catch the RST 8 error trap). This works…
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Spectrum +4 ProjectHello there my new forum chummies, Recently I have aquired a specy +2 (grey console) from fleabay after having a wonderfull time at the 2 day Byte B…
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DRAM without powerSomething interesting I noticed last night, after making a bad Spectranet ROM image which crashed the machine... Looking at the image on the screen,…
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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 …
... BASIC and write your own commands.
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Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
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Thinking ahead...Just mulling something over for the Project After The Spectranet (which seems to have become never-ending...) Would anyone (except for me, naturally…
... for the Project After The Spectranet (which seems to have become ... debugging the gnarlier bits of Spectranet ROM software a bit easier ... -
VI for XP?I've been using the same PC/VI editor program for 20 years, which has worked with every MS OS from DOS 3 upwards, but it doesn't work quite right wit…
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Full .TAP file loading over the networkDevelopment of the Spectranet ROM modules continues... Courtesy of the new filesystem layer, the experimental TNFS (Tiny Network Filesystem), and th…
Development of the Spectranet ROM modules continues...
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ANN: ZX Spectrum +2g ROM setI'm working on another modified ZX Spectrum. This one is based on the +2A. There's quite a lot of work to do on the hardware but the ROM set is prett…
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ANN: ResiDOS v2.25 and +3e ROMS v1.38 releasedA major new release of ResiDOS, v2.25, is now available! The most important new features are commands and functions allowing new extended streams an…
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So what about ethernet and ZX BASIC?Well, as of about 5 minutes ago, ZX BASIC for the first time properly wrote some packets to the network! OK, so it isn't perhaps 100% what Andrew Ow…
... RST 8 traps), but the Spectranet channels/streams module has its ... my goals is for the Spectranet to be fun for everyone ... buffer in a page of Spectranet SRAM which accumulates bytes until ... -
How to use MGT disks on the emulatorDear readers, you may think I'm a bit silly, but I can't get the emulator (Spectaculator for instance) working with MGT image files. I have had a r…
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Writing internet servers in ZX BASICNew Spectranet news! I have just finished adding the code to allow listening sockets to be used from BASIC. A simple example: [code] 10 %listen #4,…
New Spectranet news!
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Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…
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ZX Spectrum + with WHSMITH Computer Program Data Recorder and box of casettesHi I'm selling a ZX Spectrum + with WHSmith Computer Program Data Recorder and a box of casettes. I held onto this hoping I'd have the time and incl…
... start screen and could type commands - except a few keys were ... -
MIDI-out disassembly?Does anyone have the disassembly of the MIDI-out routine or understands how text strings in PLAY commands are converted to a MIDI stream? I'm assumin…
... how text strings in PLAY commands are converted to a MIDI ...
