@fuzzweed.co.uk Origin story: fell into a radioactive vehicle inspection pit.
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@fuzzweed.co.uk š¶ Does whatever a Spider-Tote does!
@fuzzweed.co.uk The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Totem and His Side Kick, Jack.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Thanks, very interesting! I donāt speak 68000 but I think Iām following along. Iām curious what happens if you dont politely request the bus, etc. ā¦looks like I need to get an emulator and tool chain set up!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk For the mildly interested: the interesting part was using some SjASMPlus macros and IFDEFs so that one source file can be used to create all three versions. They are mostly the same but the key differences are: start address, print routine, and general vector for calling arbitrary ZX ROM routines. š¤
@sloanysoft.itch.io I have to admit Iāve not actually been in for ages but always reassured to see an old institution still going. Iām in Stirling often enough, but rarely have time for shoppingānever mind serious crate diving!
@sloanysoft.itch.io Good old Europa Music is still there on Friars Street!
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Awesome! š¤
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Cool, thanks. Iāve been following your MD music posts with interest!
I recall back when my family upgraded from Spectrum to MegaDrive, I was intrigued when a friend said that the MDās sound chip āis a Spectrumāš
I only now understand what they meant, but Iāve yet to actually explore it with code š
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Looking forward to hearing how you get on! I was interested in getting a cart just when the chip shortage struck; so of course they were expensive and out of stock anyway. The cheapo ones were available but didnāt do basic stuff like save-states.
I hadnāt heard of this Core model, sounds perfect!
@samsterdave.bsky.social Ah, yeah I was wondering whether Blockeditor would do it, I had a vague recollection that maybe it was just a binary dump of the variables data. Thats good to know, thanks.
@samsterdave.bsky.social Hereās a Your Computer type-in that might help? The TZX is available. RANDOMIZE USR 65195 to get a variables listing. Doesnāt do arrays though, but itās good for strings and numbers. (I had to run the BAISC and re-save the machine code to get it to work).
spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/27011/ā¦
@extentofthejam.bsky.social Alessandro maintains a list of +3/+2A fixed games here:
www.alessandrogrussu.it/plus2A-en.html
Unfortunately Chase HQ is not among them but you might find it useful for others?
@breakintoprogram.co.uk That said, once the group grew to three or four we had some of the best conversations on those journeys together! We were (I think sincerely) complimented by total strangers at least once or twice on our āart of conversationā! (Hopefully we werenāt just being annoying!)
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Heh, I largely agree, butā¦ when I was commuting by train every day I had an agreement with a friend on the same line that weād sit together in silence as a buffer against well-meaning chatty folk that we were too tired not in the mood for! I guess neither of us could be considered āmorning peopleā!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Ah yes, I know this one. Itās Brodick Castle!
@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.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Now thatās what I call chippy chips.
@colinhoad.com Once you pop, you canāt stop!