@samcoupe.com Heh! Yes it’s a shame to entomb it in the blue box really! But it 🔊sounds🔊 great, that’s the main thing. 😆
@fuzzweed.co.uk It’s a 4-ply PCB for extra comfort. Long, and very very strong.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Absolutely brilliant. Fuzzlabs is cooking tonight.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Ben’s kits were (pun intended!) delightful. To say I was a bit rusty, well I had to upgrade my gas-powered soldering iron, and actually buy some flush cutters… but the build process went very smoothly thanks in large part to the methodical labeling and good instructions! Pic from August 2020.
@mattround.com Recently I was looking up info (about a ZX/Epson printer driver) and Google pointed me to a 1995 thread of a guy asking how to make backup tape of a worn-out original. Well, he must’ve managed because I now have that very copy—he’d put his name in some unrelated BASIC progs on the same tape. Heh!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Nosfurratu.
@sonicyoda.neocities.org brown AND sticky
@jon-jones.bsky.social D’oh! Easily done, hopefully it’s ok! I was fiddling with the light diffuser on my LED matrix the other day, accidentally shorted-out two adjacent modules 😱 Thankfully it just hung the system and didn’t blow anything up! I’ve been using little insulation cards since, I ought to fit standoffs tho 😅
@jimtrinca.bsky.social Oh, aye!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Heh, just the angle. I tried various angles and distances to get a video clip but couldn’t not make it look like a headache machine.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Nah not physically. Just grabbing the volume values from a buffer in the player routine (thanks to @stefandrissen.bsky.social’s E-Tracker disassembly!) and outputting to a different LED row on each loop.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk I’ve got an 8x8 matrix display, but it needs to be multiplexed though so it’s hard to film without a photosensitivity warning 🤩
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Thanks! Need moar LED.
@adambient.bsky.social I had no phone for a couple of weeks there—due to a mishap with a swimming pool—and thus had no podcasts to listen to on-the-go either, so of course I did the sensible thing and dubbed them to cassette tape for portable listening. #elegant #civilised
@fuzzweed.co.uk 🪄 Turbosound ✨
The Next has a nice implementation (actually 3x AY, the original was 2x). You can toggle ABC, ACB, Mono by twiddling ports. But it also has a bunch of DACs mixed in too anyway (SpecDrum etc).
@fuzzweed.co.uk Legend has it that “ACB” (left, right, both) is the Eastern Europe and demosceney way (so that’s what I use because I’m Cool™) and “ABC” (left, both, right) is the Western way. But I read that Yerzmyey (one of my faves) says mono is best, so that’s good enough for me!
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@evilninjaphil.bsky.social There’s only one REAL question here: Pebble, Pewter or Chalk?
@fuzzweed.co.uk Not mushroom for anything else.
@jamie-b-b.bsky.social Excellent! I haven’t read your review yet (sorry!) but I’m excited to give this a try. I think a “Spectranet with WiFi” would have been “good enough” for a lot of folk, but the SSL stuff on top of that really opens up lots of potential.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Heh, to be honest SAM’s BASIC is very good! I’ve been looking at SCM, RC2014, CP/M source to understand how to drive serial, I want to write a channel driver (works the same was as Spectrum streams and channels) e.g. so SAM can PRINT and INPUT over serial.
@jimtrinca.bsky.social Odeon’s Bucket, podcast coming soon?
@crtpixel.bsky.social Ah yes, the good old Net Curtain effect.