@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!
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@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.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Line must go up!
@fuzzweed.co.uk I think in some cases it’s a design choice. As an early Twitter and Instagram user I was baffled that things like Snapchat are so awful to use. They break UX “rules” and obfuscate features because that has cachet with younger folk who don’t have those established norms …and keeps the oldies out.
@barrytopping.com Yet to see the appeal myself, but I think my ancestors were chain smoking coal miners that just wanted to taste something.
@barrytopping.com Well-fired rolls.
@jimtrinca.bsky.social “How does Sean Bean inflate his life jacket?”
@breakintoprogram.co.uk The best kind of fun!
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Oh cool, I didn’t realise you were officially™ working on the port; I thought you were just having fun! 😁
I’ve got a Saturday ticket booked, hopefully see you there!
@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.