Great loading screen$ (Wizball - 1987 - Ocean). No obvious colour clash.

The best version of JB's theme is of course the 1977 one, the apogee of disco. youtu.be/PGvk2DXxIGE

Someone able to do such a demo of Atari VCS quality is a guru for me : Simon Owen tells the making of his Pac-Man. simonowen.com/blog/2012/01... youtu.be/69J3D-XGdlg #Pac-Man #SamCoupe #z80 #sprite

Another cool thing... The Zorkulator! @lockfarm.bsky.social #RetroFest2026

On the appropriate and good use of #AI, here is an article of superstar Andrew Tridgell (you know, rsync and Samba) relating his experience with #claude . I think that @benjedwards.com will be interested. medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

If you play four times and win only once in Ant Attack. PS It isn't a Spectrum, I know, but you got the idea.

17 years ago, spinning HDs were still a thing. Brendan Gregg was (and still is) a Sun Solaris guru and was monitoring disk latency with his invention DTrace, the ancestor of BPF/eBPF. One day, he was in the DC and ... youtube.com/watch?v=tDac...

My own small contribution to Z80 coding. Clean, hand-crafted HTML (download and rename to .html) pastebin.com/EwjgNDaM

Let's hope that AI won't steer too many people away from IT. We need them to manage AI rigorously and validate what comes from it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do you remember n:=(75*(n+1)) mod 65537-1 print n/65536 ? Explanation here www.worldofspectrum.net/ZX81BasicPro...

That is what I call proper credit to the Agon light firmware author by thebyteattic.com

Please accept my apologies for a post yesterday about the weakening Gulf Stream. I didn't verify the consequences enough. The *extreme* temperatures will get significantly lower. I was too alarming. A lesson for me. I won't post something on that topic for a long time.

The humble ZX81 now has style.

Who remembers this strategy game ... without resorting to an image search? I never managed to win a campaign. Wehrmacht reinforcements keep pouring in and surround you.

The BBC advanced UG describes the neat CRC 256-byte tape block checksum at 16.10 Cassette filing system. It would have been great if the Speccy had put some ROM space aside for a similar technique using e.g. the (anachronistical) CD error corr. algo on 1 KB blocks - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-i...

I'd like to have the (informed) opinion of @benjedwards.com on this.

A good one from Simon Holdsworth, the author of the JavaScript port of EightyOne (usable online) zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.... "For more information about how to use the ZX81, there is an online version of the ZX81 Basic Programming manual" www.worldofspectrum.org/ZX81BasicPro...

There was at least one correct printer for the Spectrum (and the ZX81 but with an adapter): the Seikosha GP-50S www.sinclaircollection.site?page_id=530 I printed many loading screen dumps like this one, the most beautiful coming from Ultimate, of course. Many Z80 assembly listings too...

Computer Gamer cover (Feb 1986) #zxspectrum #retrogaming

Here's a rather original ZX81 emulator written in Perl! It was last updated in 2013. Even if you don't use it, it contains interesting PDF reference documents. github.com/domahony/zx81/ #zx81emu

I was fond of my Programmer's Hex & Time Calculator in the 80s. Hard to press rubber keys, powered with 2 AA batteries. The back reads "Custom manufactured in Japan for Radio Shack". I wonder if it was Casio.

www.reids4fun.com/566/infinite... m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQwA... At last, a way to have a continuous hello world on the ZX81. 🙂 It's an interesting walk within the ZX Basic internals by Steven. Let's make the ZX81 great again! 😊

Could be useful. I'd like to find the same on Z80. github.com/TobyLobster/...

I think this could be a big deal in the fight against degrading plastics. There are all kinds of ideas being dreamed up since I told people about this stuff. Can you think of a way it can be used?

@breakintoprogram.co.uk About www.breakintoprogram.co.uk/computers/in... , do you think you would have had the same protocol issue with a FDI chipset (made for USB) such as www.adafruit.com/product/5446 ? I have to interface with old hardware like Sun Fire or HP rp/rx and I'd like to avoid trouble.

For the sake of reinventing the wheel and partly about #retrocomputing, what would be the best strategy to draw (single pixel width) an ellipse with a given tilt e.g. a 100*200 bounding rectangle rotated by 15 degrees ? I know how to do it the Bresenham way ... but without any rotation.

@superchartisland.com Durell's (or Clive Townsend's) Saboteur! Maybe an idea for a (un)charted post. Even if I never completed the game, I returned frequently to it to enjoy its design and the sound effects - albeit very limited on the ZX Spectrum. teknamic.com/product/the-...

@superchartisland.com You were a bit harsh on Bullfrog's Syndicate. I literally spent hours on it. superchartisland.com/syndicate/

One of the cubes is not in the right place :-)

I'd rather follow Tux' whereabouts than AF1 these days :-) www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Those were the days...