@fuzzweed.co.uk Haha I know. That’s why it’s so annoying!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Once your new legislation is passed will you see about making Heinz Beans cans stackable because it’s REALLY annoying that they aren’t.
@wretchedmorgan.bsky.social I thought it look familiar, Big Clive declared it a death trap recently too.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Anyway, the admins have reset the counters. If you like you are welcome to sling a pity-vote my way! Someone screengrabbed it before the purge I had accumulated 6 votes (the front runner was on 12,202!).
But more importantly: please let me know if you check SSX out and let me know what you think!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk I have yet to cast my vote in the contest so I can’t see the totals, but the word on the street is that the (unfortunately usual) shenanigans are afoot and bots have been deployed to either favour (or deliberately disqualify!) one of the other entrants!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Quick update to 3.5.0. The ROM (actually EEPROM) is rewritable of course but I had a spare anyway so I used that (just in case!)
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Then again maybe I upset the monitor (CTM644) by running it with nothing drawing the 12v. I’m not sure!
@breakintoprogram.co.uk I’ve done the sinful thing of shuffling my CPC drive into a Speccy +3, and putting a Gotek in its place (I don’t think anything else in the 6128 needs 12v so that can be left disconnected?)
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Have you tried holding the disk still and rotating the whole house?? Maybe it’s wired backwards 😉
@fuzzweed.co.uk So that’s earth fire air and water, we just need to harness one more (the most powerful one of all; HDMI over the Power of Friendship) for the full Captain Planet set!
@fuzzweed.co.uk While you’ve got them on the hook, I need fork ‘andles and have they got any Oh’s?
@breakintoprogram.co.uk My CPC is (currently) fine (I think!) but the monitor popped a couple of days ago 🤦♂️
@wretchedmorgan.bsky.social A plastic tub, a couple of nice days and some cheap hairdressers peroxide can go a long way without too much fuss.
@sonicyoda.bsky.social Awesome, I was hoping that’s what it was. I discovered Adam’s work through their Spectrum artwork (under the pseudonym helpcomputer). Game looks beautiful! (A bit too hard for me though maybe!)
@sloanysoft.itch.io It’s a shame so many coders think they’re “bad at art”. Maybe it’s good that these new tools give them the confidence to finally get their ideas off the ground… but I’d much rather see their work with the original “programmer art” instead!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Have you got serial working? with DOWNLOAD.COM you can just paste (“Intel format”) bytes into the terminal. Here’s the converter I mentioned. Just need to ensure the download program is in A: drive.
rc2014.co.uk/filepackage/
@fuzzweed.co.uk I’m not that familiar with CP/M really, but Spectrum Plus3DOS adds 128 byte headers to everything (I think for CP/M compatibility?) Maybe it’s getting added by your emulator?
@fuzzweed.co.uk No header, just the mc byte (with trailing $1A bytes). I guess your assembler is saving the file with the header embedded?
@sonicyoda.bsky.social 😁 ooh, is it the one I’m thinking of? Heheh.
@sonicyoda.bsky.social Ooh. Gies a clue. More Evercade?
@fuzzweed.co.uk Spencer’s tool for the RC2014 rounds the file payload up to a multiple of 128bytes (end-padded with zeroes) but I think that’s for the serial transfer DOWNLOAD.COM rather than something CP/M needs?
@fuzzweed.co.uk That works for me. Assemble on a modern assembler using ORG $100 (with RST 0 rather than RET at the end). Name the raw binary (no headers) SOMETHING.COM and copy it to the A: drive.
I’ve got CP/M 2.2 on the RC2014 and tried it on CP/M Plus on the Speccy as well.
@jimblimey.com Oh! I forgot you shared a pic recently! 🤦
(I haven’t used mine much lately, I really need to replace the keyboard connectors; the membrane is fine but the sockets are loose, and poking in paper clips to take up the slack is just making it worse!)
@jimblimey.com Have you used Garry Lancaster’s +3e? (It was originally meant for IDE hard drives but there’s a flavour of it for MMC/SD devices as well). Aside from IDE DOS stuff it has a window system built into BASIC that uses streams for input and output. He’s carried the work over to NextZXOS as well.