Robert Morrison

@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.

@jasesdesouza.bsky.social Indeed! You took the words right out of my stitch in time.

@jasesdesouza.bsky.social It’s satisfying to chip in with a suggestion or a helpful answer, but I love it when someone asks a question (about Spectrums, natch) that I don’t know or can’t quite remember. I’ve learned loads that way! Rising tides etc etc. 😁

@fuzzweed.co.uk Excellent work 💯

@samcoupe.com Happy anniversary! 🤘🤖🎶

@sloanysoft.itch.io CANGO?
CANGO?!
HERE WE Fu—CANGO!
🙌 🙌 🙌

@sloanysoft.itch.io Woah! Very cool. Y’all kept this one quiet. What a dream team too—a talented bunch of very funny and eloquent writers. Marvellous! 🤩

@onlyretrofans.com Sorry, yeah it appears to be out of stock.

@onlyretrofans.com DivTIESUS (by mcleod_ideafix) is an interesting alternative with some additional features such as WiFi and mouse support on top of the usual esxDOS features. Not always available but worth a look:

@fuzzweed.co.uk 🙏 this is The Way

@fuzzweed.co.uk Oh, never thought of it like that, but no just store it in the same way a PUSH would, with the least significant byte in the lower address. (Even though it’s growing downwards I think the values are always considered in two-byte LE pairs).

@fuzzweed.co.uk I used to use ZXSP emulator because it supports real audio in and out. (tape->emu or emu->spectrum) it actually adds extra fake mechanical noise but it still loads fine (if you drive it loud enough).

I read on the forums that Tapir is particularly good because it creates nice sharp square waves.

@fuzzweed.co.uk It’s probably just the Bsky video or something, but I can hear a stutter on the leader tone. If the Speccy’s not bothered who am I to complain!