@colinhoad.com Wowee! š„
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Lots of good stuff there. I have a copy of the Spectrum edition of Micro Enquirer; I even cited the āwolf fenceā testing methodology in my honours dissertation!
@lockfarm.bsky.social Iām having a go at building on macOS. Despite some initial SDL2 issues I managed to avoid being eaten by a grue, but nevertheless I was then swiftly put to death by a troll!
@robertprice.bsky.social Good luck! š«”
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Hahah, indeed. My favourite tactical change they made is shifting from maps-dot-Google, to google-dot-com-slash-maps, so to skirt cross domain privacy issues and harvest even more data. Great.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk XMLHttpRequest, baby! (Apparently it was proposed by MS Outlook devs but I think it was G Maps that really popularised it?) Maps is what I think of when I think of Web 2.0; that scroll-drag-zoom map was incredible. Social stuff, tagging etc. were layered on top, but Ajax was the backbone of it all.
@colinhoad.com Once you pop, you canāt stop!
@colinhoad.com I like this trend away from polystyrene peanuts to biodegradable ones. Itās like free ready-salted Wotsits with every parcel! š
@brokenchanter.bsky.social Itās a belter, congrats!
@samcoupe.com Phwoar! š
@samcoupe.com ZX Tower of Power
@breakintoprogram.co.uk It is an honour to serve!
@sinclairresearch.bsky.social Far easier to type too!
@sinclairresearch.bsky.social USR is a function that returns a value, which must go somewhere. RANDOMIZE is a command that accepts a value. You can do it with any command that accepts a number e.g PRINT USR, but RANDOMIZE is handy because it silently swallows the returned value, usually harmless! (It seeds RND function)
@scw.bsky.social Is it [bronze] canon?
@crashonlineuk.bsky.social What was the best way of grabbing screens at the time? Something like āThe Messengerā or PlusD that could capture SAM screens?
@jimtrinca.bsky.social Cheers, Jim!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Or, one might say, Across the Edge. šš¤
@fuzzweed.co.uk The āmulticolourā group in ZXDB lists quite a few:
spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_iā¦
I think a lot of those are simple/static title screens, but a few like Buzzsaw and Complica DX use the effect in-game. (See also Nirvana and Bifrost game engines).
@sonicyoda.neocities.org Itās always good to seek professional advice.
@jimtrinca.bsky.social Have you tried the bakery aisle of a certain well-known supermarket chain?
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Iām not a PC gamer but I thought this technology was meant to be solving the problem of upscaling to modern resolutions and frame rates that traditional techniques arenāt keeping up with. This (sudden?) pivot (lurch?) towards /generative/ rendering seems to be whatās upsetting The Gamers.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Hahah!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Hmm, got me thinking about the aux socket. If you feel like hacking the ROM, you could replace the useless keypad scanning routine (~249 bytes at $3A42) which is called on every frame interrupt (in 128 mode, but hack that at $3870). 3 RAM bytes free at $5B88 as well. Automatic animated backlight? š