@whathosnorkers.bsky.social Oh, yeah! I think that was my first too. Caught part of it on TV or something and then thought about it for YEARS until finally seeing it properly!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Personal computers? Oh if you insist. Just remember 1) do not expose to water, 2) keep out of direct sunlight, 3) do not feed after midnight, and whatever you do, do NOT connect to the Internet
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Hahah, amazing! I genuinely didn’t know they were a thing. A device worthy of the name “Science Oven” after all.
@megaslippers.net Ah, yes. I knew something about it was annoying me but hadn’t put it into words. That’s exactly it.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Surely in Space Year 2025™ they should have beam forming or something to eliminate the need to rotate? Can’t be that hard if those ugly gamer Wi-Fi routers can do it! Right? My mum bought a new microwave recently and it has a rotary dial and an actual bell like it was designed in the 1950s. Yuck. 😂
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Yeah that’s really nice. Impulse engines upgraded to Warp!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Yep, I hear the difference now, thanks for your help. I ran the .cop through d-compile and then re-exported from E-Tracker and that shrill melody is gone.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Right, I see - thank you.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Brill, thanks!
In the meantime I’ve had a read of the E-Tracker manual (it’s so much better than just booting up the software and guessing!)
That arcane track seems to have e a different header or something compared the other COPs on ZXArt. I’ll try running it through D-Comp and see what it says!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Oh I’m such a wally! I didn’t realise COP files were already compiled, I assumed it was a tracker source file. Yeah the ports are the same! 🤦♂️ 🍳
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Aha, yes I used the export-with-player option to generate the binary file.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Ah, thanks. It’s the one from saa1099tracker.borik.net
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Here’s a direct recording of the tune. Enjoy! ☺️🎶
💿 Arcane Zone 2
🎨 Yerzmyey
🔌 SAA1099P
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Haha! Good luck with the repair pile! Hopefully some juicy fixes in there (I enjoyed the recent C64 saga!)
@flatduckrecords.co.uk That’s a great idea! Funnily enough I was just looking at the header format of these tracker files to pull out the track info! 😁
@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…