Spectrum Computing

uglifruit wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 10:23 am If I had loading noise as an alarm I'd be single very very very quickly.

If I can stay off Fortnite (if), I'll slap Audacity this evening



any use?

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:46 am Also, how come they're all square instead of 4:3?

I run Stable Diffusion on the PC and pretty much any resolution can be defined but the AI is trained on square images (512x512 on SD, 1024x1024 for SDXL) so most of the online stuff sticks to what it's trained on.

i could go for OutRun, top/bottom split

i'm going to need a bigger coffee mug...

spider wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:25 am Talking of Ultimate, I had no idea Pentagram was a 'big box' , at least our version.

I made it so it would fit in with the others

Pegaz wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 9:03 pm This is truly a feast for the eyes.

Oh, there's a bit of "stuff" going on in my living room

Getting a near as possible perfect pit stop in a Formula 1 manager game ( I can't remember the name of)

I did splurge once on a large collection of games because Pentagram was hidden in there
In all, I have about 100 games but they're purely for display and I've no intention of "collecting"

is Jetset Willy a mod of Manic Miner?

Well worth £1.81

Doesn't sound too bad via an emulator

I think you could outdo any adventure games' artwork through the spectrum years, really.. this is next level. The Hobbit is begging for this! wonders how many screens there are Wikipedia suggests 50 :? but the 128k version says 55 https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/zx-spectrum-the-hobbit-128k-edition

Looks pretty

After my rubberkey died (around 1988), I didn't get another until about 16 years ago - I had planned to shove the board inside an Asus Eee 700 I had lying around. This didn't happen as I coukdn't figure out how to connect the keyboard :? I have at least 3 rubberkeys lying around but they, like all m...

flatduckrecords wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:36 pm

That's how I ended up with one

Wall_Axe wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:02 pm Yeah some builds have to fail I suppose.
I always went for the guns and haven't tried intelligence or charisma builds yet.
I just heard about them.

Those are 2 that I usually put quite a few points in to - James Bond seems to cope...

Neil Parsons wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:07 pm is it now available for download?

If I rather had a Next...

Free download from the linked page

This is my "Greatest Of All Time" game
I'm even tempted to turn my Next on

The original "Lad's Mag"
I had them all, back then

Mort wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:46 pm
if anyone can help with titles missing

I can't see a list of what's missing

If you notice any magazine there (or anywhere else) that's missing from our own magazine section please let me know! AFAIK we are currently missing a few issues of Happy Computer and Load'n'Run, and some of the most obscure newsletters. These are in my TODO list. I don't know anything else that we ...

I've just finished scrolling, there's a lifetime of reading in there!

I haven't seen this mentioned before so thought I'd post a link to

8+bit Magazine Rack
https://sites.google.com/view/retromagz

As my 48k died, my choice was "computer" or "Yamaha RD200"

I buy the odd Spectrum game even though I never play them - sometimes they look like so much effort has gone in that I'm basically buying them a coffee to say "Thanks". I've been burned by the music and games industries by paying top whack and receiving utter sh*te (Fallout76 ??) and find ...