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A new video from Sharopolis, this time looking at games which pushed the limits of the lowest low spec Speccy, the 16K ZX Spectrum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_caWDKCx0eQ

Back in the day for my AO-Level computer project I used an Electron with PLUS-1 interface to both read temperatures from an analogue temperature sensor via the analogue joystick interface, and to drive relays from the printer port through an eight channel Darlington driver chip. I used the printer p...

LGR loads a PC game from reel to reel tape using the KCS standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d60V9yAPE_s

Making motherboards at the Gigabyte factory in Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR-DOeAm-PQ

AI smashes video game high scores. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269085-ai-smashes-video-game-high-scores-by-remembering-its-past-success/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0xnmeIwaUr0Wd1JAPVHX2kdPAxds8vXgOHWrWe8w8h-CK40P-...

“Dare Mighty Things”. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory moto encoded in Perseverance Mars rover parachute in binary.

Bad Apple running on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQlAIc ... vYpdGi9I-0

A 1953 vintage film made by Bell Labs about the Transistor, complete with footage of William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain, who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for its invention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0&fbclid=IwAR3f_XyX4if-oBgQmNcezw3NfS7jKQnQ4E9NZN3qf6C5x...

A 1967 film by Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation on integrated circuits, describing their design and the development of late 1960s IC technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47Gv2cdFtA

A 1953 vintage film made by Bell Labs about the Transistor, complete with footage of William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0&fbclid=IwAR3f_XyX4if-oBgQmNcezw3NfS7jKQnQ4E9NZN3qf6C5x...

I like to watch Adrian's Digital Basement. Adrian is a Canadian living in Oregon, who has featured both the BBC Micro and Spectrum on his show. https://www.youtube.com/c/adriansdigitalbasement/videos Also from the US, from West Virginia, is the Our Sinclair show that has restarted this week after a ...

Another nice fractal drawn using a Chaos Game method. https://bbc.godbolt.org/?embedBasic=10%20MODE0%3AA%3D1%2F2%3AX%3D10%3AY%3D10%3AW%25%3D6%0A20%20FOR%20I%25%3D1%20TO%201000000%0A30%20REPEAT%3AV%25%3DRND%284%29%3AUNTIL%20V%25%3C%3EW%25%0A40%20%3A%0A50%20IF%20V%25%3D1%20X%3DX*A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20...

Drawing more fractals, this time Julia Sets. Firstly in MODE 0, with creal=-0.8 and cimag=0.156 10 MODE 0:VDU29,640;512; 20 creal=-0.8 30 cimag=0.156 40 FOR v=-512 TO 512 STEP 4 50 FOR h=-640 TO 640 STEP 2 60 x=h/400:y=v/550 70 FOR i=1 TO 50:zreal=(x*x)-(y*y)+creal:zimag=(x*y*2)+cimag 80 IF (zreal*z...

Draw a Sierpinski Triangle using a Chaos Game method.

Brilliant and original game.

My only suggestion is to make additional keys, such as A and S keys, move the electron left and right as well as the Z and X keys. This way, the game can be played under emulation on PCs with foreign keyboards such as the German QWERTZ keyboard.

Andrew.

Adrian's Digital Basement repairs a BBC Micro power supply, as well as unboxing many BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6bfYwexlAs

Planet Nubium makes it to Japan!

Link to a YouTube review in Japanese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpRjso ... oDD-T4M0PE

Planet Nubium and Planet Nubium Two make it to Japan!

Link below to a YouTube review in Japanese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpRjso ... oDD-T4M0PE

So the kids and I had a bit of a play with some graph paper and felt pens last night. We are going to write a Bruce Lee Vs Ninja's platform game using Trickys BASIC sprite routines.IMG_20201009_094253.jpg I use Excel's Conditional Formatting function to design sprites. BBC BASIC code can even be wr...

Bil Herd explores MOS's chip fab, years after being abandoned by Commodore, and complete with derelict PETs.

https://hackaday.com/2020/09/30/video-e ... modore-64/

Reminds me of Geordie Jumpers from BITD.

LGR unboxes a new but old stock 1984 Tano Dragon Computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5eFZT2fVI

Hi Joe,


I have an A3010, and am looking to replace the bottom half of the white plastic case as one of the four plastic protrusions that the keyboard sits on has broken off. As you are breaking the A3020 for spares, would you be interested in selling the bottom half of the case to me?


Andrew.

Hang onto that copy of Killer Gorilla, somebody has paid a record $114,000 for a Super Mario Bros. video game.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/us/super ... index.html

ChinnyVision's "Five Acorn Archimedes Games Reviewed!"

A very nice video. I signed up to became one of Chinny Hill's Patreons today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihs2lu ... e=youtu.be

I have a tiled background and a second layer of sprites - players and a cursof- over it. I want to move the layer 2 objects especially the cursor without havinv to redraw the whole tiled map which really slows the cursor down. What is the best option to remove the layer 2 sprite 'smudge'? Rather th...

Is there a document that explains how many Sideways RAM slots there are? How do you load a ROM to them , what the addresses are? Basically everything you need to know to get ROMS to load in your Master Cheers! I like the book 'Advanced Sideways Ram User Guide' by Bruce Smith. https://www.brucesmith...

The Rocketman sprite in the first Planet Nubium game was drawn using the XOR method. Here the background undergoes a bitwise XOR with the sprite. The method is quite simple and the same bitwise XOR routine is used to remove the sprite. However, with this method when Rocketman crosses over a coloured...

Planet Nubium Two uses a sprite mask to display the Rocketman sprite. First, the background where the sprite is to be plotted is copied to a scratch area of memory. The screen memory then undergoes a bitwise AND with the sprite mask, then undergoes a bitwise OR with the sprite itself. The result is ...

- There are lot af games, but finally "few" classic games coming from C64/Spectrum/CPC on this computer. Why ? Because it was consider as an educational computer ? (like Thomson computer in France). The BBC Micro had many great conversions from the 8-bit arcade games, but as software hous...