@morefunmakingit.bsky.social It must be to improve the sinclAIR flow!
@fuzzweed.co.uk It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green Screen
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Yeah I just posted in Discord, lol 😆
Tom Dalby’s Z80onMDR should create the BASIC for you.
www.tomdalby.com/other/z80onm…
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Brill, thanks. Let me know if you want to check out Beta DOS, I can share a prepared disk image with all the bug fixes and patches. A good source of interesting software is the old Outlet disk magazines. A deep vein of real nerd stuff, haha.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Heh, convenient! Yeah I’m thinking make it part of a road trip.
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Woaft, that’s looking great 👨🍳💋👌
@fuzzweed.co.uk Haha, cool. It’s on my bucket list too. It’s only a 7.5 hour drive, I should just do it.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Oh that’s neat, is there a mirror behind the painted background, or is it like a Pepper’s Ghost thing reflecting off the angled glass? Looks cool!
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Cool, thanks, that bodes well!
I’ve not actually used my home-made PlusD for a wee while so I’ve dug it out tonight to have a play with it. 😁
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Ah, brilliant! (I’m curious if your VR177x is happy with the Greaseweazel-written disk. Hopefully it’s fine but let me know how it goes!)
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Hmm, yeah mine too.
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social FWIW apparently mine is connected via a USB 2.0 hub to a USB 3.0 bus, but I’ve never had that underflow error.
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Ah bummer, I’ve not run into that before. I use a Mac so I’m not even sure what flavour of USB it has!
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Or try reading straight to .mgt file, that should work too. Does your edsk work in an emulator?
@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social Hmm, not sure. I don’t really use edsk, maybe that’s a factor. Latest gw software supports MGT format though (treats it as IBM.800 I think). Simon Owen’s samdisk is great for converting disk files (SCP, DSK and MGT for example)
simonowen.com/samdisk/
@jasesdesouza.bsky.social I lost my boot disk and I haven’t kept up with homebrew… I ought to get an ODE at some point but the drive is still going strong for now.
What an amazing find you got! I got my DC on launch day, but I had the foresight to buy a backup one when Electronics Boutique were giving them away for £40!!
@jasesdesouza.bsky.social Yeah I can’t prove a thing but I reckon it was deliberate!
And yes, it remains amazing, I agree! I think I meant to say that it was ahead of its time.
I’m not sure how HL holds up, I think it had bugs but I never had a PC so never played the original to compare it with. Worth checking out anyway!
@jasesdesouza.bsky.social Ooh minty fresh!
I’ve been carrying a grudge ever since one of my friend’s dodgy mates quietly swapped my ✨pristine✨ DC keyboard for his grotty one at a gaming party about 25 years ago. 😱 🦠
Dreamcast was amazing though, I love it. The leaked Half Life port is still the only version I’ve played!
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Careful now, or you’ll invoke the Salt’n’Sauce / Salt’n’Vinegar East/West divide.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Really it’s JB Langston’s work (based on a C64 demo) for TMS9918. I had played with adapting it to Spectrum attribues a while ago, but realised it would be a neat project to get to know the Next tilemap—it’s well suited to 40x32 layout in “text” mode (256 patterns using 8x8 1-bit tile definitions).
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Looking again today, I realised the sine table was being overwritten by something else. (The plasma uses its own lookup table, which was clobbering the Lua scripted sine table. Classic™ mistake!) It’s working well now, thanks for you help.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Still the occasional hitch but it’s much improved, thank you.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk AHAH! I’d made sure the shape buffer was aligned but overlooked the sin table. Very well spotted, ta!
@sonicyoda.bsky.social Yahoo! Looking forward to it 😁
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Warp speed ahead! 🚀🙀
I’ve integrated @breakintoprogram.co.uk‘s lib-spectrum 3D demo, but I don’t follow the maths well enough to adjust the rotation speed. (I think that’s what theta, phi and psi are doing but I’ll leave the Euler Angles theorem for tomorrow’s homework!!)