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Doesn't Starquake look good. Never knew it was published on the PC.

Glad I could be of assistance.

I feel it's one of the lesser known games out there (it's a quiz game after all). The sound doesn't get too offensive either (and there's pretty flashing colours but they too are used sparingly and are not 'in your face'.

The opening sequence of a game called Powerplay is quite nice, along with a nice tune that gets louder the longer it is on. I think the tune is a well known classical tune - in the hall of the mountain king. I should maybe try to record an AVI from BeebEm and put it on youtube. By the magic of moder...

Definitely possible on some Cubs - I modified mine to allow it to work with the Chameleon. In fact, the original Chameleon article showed how to do it: analogue_cub.jpg Best whip the back off mine to see if I have those jumpers. I've also downloaded the service manual and while I do not have an osc...

My original (from the 1990s) Beeb is in an old Viglen PC case complete with two 5.25" floppy drives. It has the Chameleon Colour Board (Mike Cook article from The Micro User), an Apex ROM/RAM board (with a battery that I must cut out while I have it out of the loft), twin Voltmace Joysticks and a Da...

I do love the look of full size 8-bit ISA cards. This was back when it must have worked out a whole lot cheaper to build stuff out of standard logic chips instead of custom ULAs or the like. At one point I had a clone XT with 20Mb HDD and 1 full height 5.25" floppy with a hercules monitor and if I r...

Commie_User wrote:Now where would I start?

Ref your first picture, I'm pretty sure I've got one of those video recorders (the silver one) somewhere too. Is it a Sharp model?

I'm sure it's possible, but there can be issues with it. If you can be certain no other program (windows explorer, outlook, web browser, etc.) will make any noise during the playback of the tape you should be fine. However, with modern machines running so many things at once, the slightest timing is...

I recently bought a pristine copy of Forth for the (cough) ZX Spectrum. I've never learned Forth before and wouldn't mind having someone around to provide hints and tips. I wonder how compatible different versions of Forth are to each other? It would, I suppose, depend on how they individually handl...

I have a version on disc that I was given BITD, and it too has the same lines to the left/right of the player at the start. I never got very far into Pipeline when I was younger, so I have no idea if anything is missing. However, on mine, I get a message on the initial MODE 7 screen (where it shows ...

dfeugey10 wrote:Basic, GPIO, step motors?

Sounds like I have a few things to learn. Must start soon as I'm not getting any younger.

Thank you very much David.

It is a good idea, but I have no idea how to go about doing what I proposed.

Still, your speedy sending of the Raspberry Pi meant it arrived this morning. Top rate service.

Simon

Hi Duikkie If you want to get the ROM file from a Disc into the ROM configuration, you have a few choices. Firstly, to get the ROM off a disc onto your PC (I'm assuming Windows), load up the disc and go to the Edit menu and choose "Export files from disc". You can then copy the file from the disc on...

Been looking into the SD to IDE adaptor and the CF to IDE adaptors. There's a whole load of info on CF for example on Wikipedia.

Interesting reading, and I still have no idea what I'd do with one.

Not many uses for IDE these days on any of my kit, be it Acorn or PC related.

Some of the things wrong with BeebEm (as far as I can tell - who knows if they are well known about or not) are: The recent hacks (posted on the forum) to create a higher resolution MODE 7 screen don't work. Full Screen Mode seems broken when attempting to access the Menu (they don't display properl...

I don't have a page anywhere. It must have been something I sent you, or uploaded here (or on a server I had at the time) and linked to on the board, or maybe uploaded to facebook. I can add attachments of the other disc images here no problem. Feel free to use any you find useful. There may be an o...

Seems like you got that from me. Maybe I uploaded it here as a result of some previous post asking for a particular music file or something. I don't recall the origins of the files on the disc, but I received a large collection of software from a friend when I got my own one in late 1980s to early 1...

I love these pictures. Even on BeebEm, simply squinting a bit improves the quality of all images, and your way of encoding the files has reduced greatly the file size by keeping long lines of single colours together (which allows the encoding to work more efficiently).

Good job.

There is a program for the ZX Spectrum called AGD - Arcade Game Designer. It allows someone who has no coding background to write games. It includes a scripting language, sprite editor, map or screen layout designer, sound and background tune editor and compiler. I suppose it's a bit like how they d...

Like you say, I didn't get anything similar to your images on BeebEm (hardly surprising). Sounds like it could be a nice effect though. I'm not as technical as you guys so don't worry if I'm simply rambling, but if you only printed full blocks (all six elements of a graphic) would it then not matter...

Back in the day I had a ZX81 but also acquired an Oric-1 which was an awful looking machine with small clunky keys, but it was an OK machine to use. Had a couple of screen modes, 4 keywords for sound effects (PING, EXPLODE, oh what were the other two - maybe BANG was one) as well as a SOUND command ...

If they're from smoke free and or pet free home would be of importance to some too.

Just in time for a Christmas release.

Consider it the best gift a BBC Micro fan could want. Bit like back in the day I suppose, waiting for a game and hoping Santa knew exactly which one and on which format.

Great stuff.

I've seen your progress with the development of this game by following this thread and now you're really close to release I should say I'm really looking forward to playing with it. Your graphics are great, the descriptions of the locations (that we've seen so far in the preview pictures) are lookin...

JonTr7 wrote:Hi
I am offering for fee an old but working 20Mhz dual trace occiloscope model Crotech 3132
It's to big and heavy to post so is for collection only

John

Fee or free? Opposite ends of the spectrum there

That picture looks so much better on a CRT - almost life like. Nice program also.

Ok, £5000 to spend. I'd be after one of the early XT clones (not a real IBM one). Stupidly, I got rid of one in the early 1990s. It had 8-bit interfaces, a very small (20mb?) MFM hard drive, hercules monochrome monitor (that ran a TSR to simulate CGA graphics), ran at 4Mhz and had a turbo mode that ...

Funnily enough, I have been writing the Mandelbrot in a BASIC program on the ZX Spectrum recently as I am a member of a facebook group called BASIC on the ZX Spectrum. My code includes a zoom rectangle, three dithering methods (to avoid the famous Spectrum colour clash it is in monochrome) - simple ...

Of course the next possible speedup is to realise that if you have the 0 imaginary axis somewhere within your top y and bottom y range then the negative value pixels are the same as the positive values (e.g. the image is mirrored at the 0 coordinate on the imaginary axis).

When I first saw this post about GoL I immediately recalled a version that used MODE 7 on the Beeb that was on one or two of the Disk User disks. I was going to post about it and then promptly forgot. I believe the programs were called Life and Super Life, and they were possibly on successive issues...