@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!!)
@flatduckrecords.co.uk You can see why the Spectrum mags were going bananas about it!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk It was billed at the time (overhyped, really) as a Super Spectrum. It’s not exactly compatible but the architecture is similar. (Z80 like the Speccy, MSX) but no hardware sprites or scrolling. Think Spectrum but with no colour clash, stereo sound, LOADS (512k) of memory, and floppy disk as standard.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk The definitive resource is really World of SAM but they don’t (AFAIK) have a games list as such. Spectrum Computing (via ZXDB) has a SAM category, which is a good place to start: spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?machine…