: The Micro Enquirer (Spectrum)
: I’m working on my (second ever!) ROM hack this weekend and a random glitch has given me an idea…
: Work in progress! (This photo didn’t attach to the previous post for some reason). I’d had the thing …
: Fixed it! I had to improvise an output socket—I harvested the original one when I thought this …
: Midnight maths club Tonight we’re learning (or really just enjoying looking-at) bifurcation diagrams …
: I had a great time at the Acorn Computers User Group meet-up last night in Falkirk. I was notionally …
: “The marvellous thing about a singing horse is not that it sings well but that it can sing at all. …
: ZX Spectrum PlusD (clone) disk interface. The last of the parts arrived today so I blew the EPROM …
: Tell you what, going back to 1206 SMT components after working with 0805 scale devices is like …
: Well. Time to learn how to blow a GAL. 👨🏻🏭
: I thought something was wrong with my PlusD disk interface so I took it apart for inspection… and …
: I quite often replay the original Tomb Raider around Christmas time, but I really associate it with …
: Well it might be the twelfth night but it’s not too late to post about my ADVANCED CHRISTMAS JUMPER …
: Moley Christmas, dudes. Cowabunga.
: It’s important to stay organised in the hectic modern world of Information Technology.
: Sunday: upgrading an already-modified (but still with with notoriously bad and unbalanced sound) ZX …
: Saturday: time to install a Word Processor onto Hard Disc Drive. (Not to mention the 70,000 word …
: Midnight hackers club. Who wants to write a text scrolly? #ZXSpectrum #specasm #z80
: Piña colada / collida detecta (if you’ll indulge me one last #fomo toot xx) #Z80 #ASM
: As cool as it’s possible to be in this heat. #SAMCoupé #ZXSpectrum #poolside
: Keep cool at the pool. 😎 📚 ⛱️ #zxspectrum #asm #z80
: I’m travelling for work today so I’ve brought the laptop, an Amstrad NC100. For on-the-go …
: This week I’ve been wrestling with SAM networking again! SAVEing works perfectly (Net and Tape …
: Hmm. This feels like homework.
: I suppose it’s quite nice sometimes maybe to switch the computer off and go outside for a bit. We …
: Goin’ surfin’ 😎 🏄 #amstrad #nc100
: SAM Coupé fun with images I experimented a bit more with creating an image to deliberately exploit the effect that a 50Hz …
: Denise #KeepingUp #Commodore
: I had some success removing the yellowing from my SAM with “vapour brite” (works just like …
: Sam Coupé MIDI and Serial Networking Tonight I’m mostly using @shieladixon’s wonderful MIDI interface for RC2014 to take a …
: This week I’ve been getting to grips with SAM’s VMPR (Video Memory Page Register) and using it for …
: I truly love paper magazines but is using OCR for code listings…cheating? (Asking for a friend). …
: Now playing: SAM Coupé Shanghai by Fuxoft/Franxoft for Pete Prodge’s Covertape wars (YS vs SU - Dec …
: …and in with the…Old! I replaced the 1984 Z80 with one produced in 2018 but it caused some weird …
: Out with the old! My desoldering gun is still not Quite Right so this was mostly done the old …
: Well it looks like we have a busted M1 signal. It’s not used internally so the Spectrum itself …
: This evening I’ve been fixing a ZX Spectrum+ for a friend. Two bad RAM ICs and a 3rd (previously …
: I ordered some circuit boards from PCBWay using MerlinKV’s PlusD Clone design (CC BY NC SA). Now …
: “Oh”, they said, “so that’s what you wanted a serial protocol mouse for!” #SAMCoupé #Lemmings
: MGT SamBus repair Update! Thanks to Colin from Quazar for clearing up my disinformation and abject nonsense. I removed …
: Yum! This is the special sugar-frosted MGT SamBus. (a.k.a. The SAM Card Cage). It adds extra …
: Good news, everyone. It’s mousin’ time!
: Oh no! I’ve been working on a fun little ZX Spectrum project using Microdrives and serial …
: Come out to the coast… we’ll get together, have a few laughs.
: I was playing the SAM version of Prince of Persia for about 20 minutes before realising I was …
: Low voltage 🔋🧲 disassembled electric motor motor end cap and brushes
: I noticed my SAM was prone to tape-loading errors, and particularly when the cable gets jostled. …
: I’d been hesitant to take a soldering iron to my SAM Coupé, despite its display output suffering …
: “Cobbled together” from some “spare¹ parts”—here’s my new ZX Spectrum +3 with a custom² Perspex™ …
: It’s not Retr0brite, it’s SAMbathing.
: Meanwhile, in the laboratory: floppy head alignment issues, some Olympic-level desoldering, a disk …
: 📚 Computer Projects for Railway Modellers by Roger Amos and Martin Cock, with program listings for …
: Beta BASIC 4.0 (128K only) spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/795… #zxspectrum
: I’m very happy to say my redesign of the Spectrum Computing logo to celebrate the Spectrum’s 40th …
: I’ve got some time to kill while my new Xbox game is Smart Delivering, so I’m just going to upgrade …
: Death’s Door is really good!
: I think I might head into town. There’s an article about TELETEXT in the latest MagPi magazine! …
: Lemmings! On a ZX Spectrum!! With a mouse!!! (It’s absolutely fine on keyboard, but this is the way …
: And speaking of Text Adventuring, here’s the CRASH Annual 2022 exclusive* game Saboteur: Deep Cover. …
: I’m currently reading: Twilight Inventory by Gareth Pitchford 📚 A collection of 1990s …
: Playing Sable this morning has rekindled the awe and wonder I’ve not experienced in a game since I …
: The Gaelic for “you forgot to bring the AV adaptor” is: dhìochuimhnich thu an adapter AV a thoirt …
: I’m getting a hard time because we’re going on holiday in 10 minutes and I haven’t packed any …
: Relaxing to some #classical music.
: ZX Spectrum +3 Disk B The ZX Spectrum +3 (and Amstrad CPC) “Disk B” expansion port is the same form factor as a 34-pin …
: Seall! Tha mo bhean air an telebhisean!
: An Easter treat! It’s time for payback… COSMIC PAYBACK!
: My stepper motor is giving me grief. This looks like a job for… DISK DOCTOR! 💾🩺🦸🏽♀️
: How it stared/ how it’s going/ etc. #zxspectrum #fixerupper #16k
: Been fixing this, a Dixons branded cassette recorder from ‘83. Very slightly older than I am, and …
: I’m taking a break from Microdrive refurbishment to catch up with latest news from January 1988. …
: Friday night re-felting my carts. #FF #FeltingFriday #zxspectrum #microdrive #microlife
: Networkin’ like it’s 1983! Well sort of. But I finally found a legitimate use for the telly’s …
: Ah, okay… now it’s #Christmas.
: Competition is heating up in round two of the Spectrum Computing Christmas High Score Challenge! …
: Tonight’s silly project: replacing a tired old ZX Spectrum cassette with a freshly-recorded new one! …
: Wayhey, it’s new game Saturday: Millie & Molly on Commodore 64!
: Resistance is… ~futile~ approximately 18KΩ
: New project time! It’s a recreated Romantic Robot Multiface 128. (Or rather it soon will be, …
: Pakket overhandigd door de verzender aan de Pickup parcelshop! 🚚 🌈 📦 #zxspectrum #bytedelight
: I’ve removed, tested, replaced or bodged almost everything and it’s still not working! Time to give …
: Last night’s re-cap seems to have been a success. The -5v line in particular was really noisy, but …
: Jetpack Jock by @_gazmarshall is so super hardcore difficult* you really ought to set your Cruiser …
: Making some progress! This will be much faster in machine code (and probably easier to traverse the …
: Tonight I’m trying to stuff the display file into the print buffer 32 bytes at a time, in the right …
: I am on my holidays. #retro #zxspectrum
: Aye, but does your gaming rig support hi-definition graphics and stereo sound? #zxspectrum 🌈 👾
: Postie has been. Time to print all the things! (No, it’s not bog-roll, it’s till-roll!) 🧻 🦖 🌈
: Restoring some eBay junk this evening. What a beauty though. #hench #badlad #whsmith #cpd8300
: I’ve had a new power converter sent over from Tosche Station. Now my toastrack is much cooler. …
: 👀 DualShock 4 paired to a @RetroBitGaming MegaDrive Bluetooth receiver, hooked up to a …
: Really good interview on the latest @TheDCJunkyard podcast—Stefan Holmqvist, who was producer on the …
: The old tape recorder was making awful crackling noises so (after ruling out PKE interference) I …
: When yon AMSTRAD BBS gets a bit existential 🤔. Are any of us really here?! 👾
: Beep beep beep, doot doot de doot! It’s actually working now. #zxspectrum #rs232 #raspberrypi
: Added a stereo-to-mono hack to my audio-out mod. It’s how MacGyver loaded up Bad Dudes vs. …
: Oh no!! What have I done?! #Skynet #ZXSpectrum 🤖 🌈
: Upgrade time! Needed an external cassette player for my ZX Spectrum (the inbuilt one can be fussy …
: D’awww! Look how cute it is! #C64 😻
: Tha dongle ùr agam! ’S e SD2IEC+ airson Commodore 64 a th’ann, bho @futurewas8bit
: Well as it’s Thursday night I’d usually be out at the discotheque cutting rug and throwing shapes; …
: I think this means we’re getting somewhere. 3.3v TTY to +12v RS232. Networkin’ like it’s 1983.
: A Fatal Case of Tinsellitis / Taynuilt Medical Practice / Saint Conan’s Kirk Christmas Tree Festival …
: Successfully execute a Perfect Dodge to activate Witch Time. 💃
: Death Stranding / PlayStation 4 / SIEE / 2019
: A real fixer-upper opportunity 👻
: Raise the roof for Auld Lang Syne 🐶💤