@flatduckrecords.co.uk Here’s the demo that track is from. It’s playing with proper pentagon timings now (and more importantly not with my blunt BASIC FOR-NEXT-PAUSE loop!). Sounds great!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Thanks! Yep, I just wrote a wee bit of BASIC to call the player routine every frame, got a few tunes on disc, I really like Yerzmyey’s music. (I’ve just tried it with Microdrive too!) 🤓🤘
Will dig into it further, just keen to get it up and running quickly!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk The other device, obscuring our view, is my PlusD floppy disk interface. Here’s a pic without it which also shows the SAA1099P is connected to the Speccy via @samcoupe.com’s RC2014 ZX bus adapter (a VERY useful gadget in its own right!)
@sonicyoda.bsky.social O! Liver Bonus
@krisrobocop.bsky.social femtoposting on main
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Yeah, it must have been before my time anyway. The projects are mix of imperial and metric too, seems like lengths are metric but diameters are typically imperial. At least we won that one! 😬
@flatduckrecords.co.uk (Alt text got a bit mangled by cross-posting, sorry. It’s a page from Sinclair Projects magazine that compares US and British logic symbols. The text explains the standards expected of any reader projects sent in for publication).
@flatduckrecords.co.uk The hook code mechanism is ingenious; the trouble comes from Sinclair’s distinction between “print” files (aka OpenType or simply Microdrive files) which can be accessed and everything else (program, code, etc) which are “secure” and cannot. Unto the Shadow ROM we must delve…
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Heheh! Well I for one have been enjoying the running commentary so far, and great to see it all coming together.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Circles only have one side, that’s at least three times easier than triangles… right?
@samcoupe.com Heh, I got my SAM about 31 years after that issue came out! My Spectrum was lost to the mists of time, but I’m glad I kept hold of the cassettes.
@fuzzweed.co.uk 🤫 #spoilers
@fuzzweed.co.uk Indeed! He’s been writing about tech for a very long time. ZX Computing, Crash, and many more.
@fuzzweed.co.uk It’s good fun. I don’t really know C but there’s good modern options for compiling that on-machine as well (again thanks to the prolific Mr Taylor).
@fuzzweed.co.uk “Boriel’s BASIC” is cool too, it’s compiled BASIC so it’s fast (and popular!)
@fuzzweed.co.uk Nahh. (Simon’ll tell ye to program ON it— the distro includes with Zeus and Odin—and Chris Taylor’s inline .asm for NextBASIC is amazing and more modern). I use VScode and cross assemble, but all you really need is SjASMPlus (which understands the handful of new Z80n instructions).
@fuzzweed.co.uk * Oops. “HDMI-enabled” not Hull Daily Mail (nor House Dust Mites) hahah.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Yeah that would be great.🤞🤞🤞
@fuzzweed.co.uk Check out Simon N Goodwin’s book, here’s a good hype-man for the system. (And he treats it as a System, not just an HDM-enabled nostalgia dispenser). For getting stuck into dev Tomaž Kragelj book is a great reference tome once you’ve been through the manual.
@fuzzweed.co.uk I love it. Enormous potential for tinkering and fun. A lot of the buzz is locked behind Facebook but the Discord community is good.
@ghostinexile.bsky.social It’s the biscuit we deserve, but the not the one we need right now.
@mattround.com Haha, you just need to eat more carrots!
🥕 😵💫🥕
@mattround.com Have you seen Rob Smith’s Amiga game? It does a similar effect for the game map, “stop moving and you can’t see!”
robsmith-dev.itch.io/noisy-rabbit
@wretchedmorgan.bsky.social Hahaha. The B side “Turn on Your Landin’ Lights” was a country/ragga banger though…right? Gav shoulda played that.