2012/4/13 Simon Owen :
> While I'm happy to stop short of bus signals for my emulation habit, I
> do see the appeal in going down to that level to learn more about how
> things work. An incredibly accurate emulation is just a handy byproduct
> of the learning process :)
I've enjoyed it because it
Quoting Simon Owen :
Bonus points if you then run SimCoupe on it, to see if it still feels wrong!
I created a quick SimCoupe binary for the Raspberry Pi back in Feb,
which I've tested in the development VM under QEMU. Still waiting
for real hardware to see how well it runs though. I was k
I'm hoping a Raspberry Pi, USB CF reader and SimCoupe will pretty much
satisfy that, if it runs fast enough.
If the CF card is just for Atom Lite use, you'd probably be better off
with a an HDF image on the boot SD. Or if you want to share with a
desktop machine, maybe a low-profile USB stick ins
Perhaps Aley only sees the practical applications, and what he feels is
useful? If something that already exists, why would anyone want to
re-invent it, etc.
I'm quite the opposite, and a big fan of because-it's-there. I'll
happily spend hours investigating and implementing minor emulation
featu
Find me a hardware solution (Spectrum OR SAM) that'll allow me to run on a
modern TV (or monitor), use Compact Flash, has perfect (or near perfect)
compatibility and which isn't going to be hard work or very costly to obtain
and receive here in the USA.
I'll buy it tomorrow if you find me that.
For the purposes of debate, I think the counterargument would be that
a software approach is inherently more portable and so more
maintainable and more suited to a wide audience. Furthermore, there's
no automatic advantage to doing things in hardware, given that these
systems are fully deterministi
Yeah, nice photos. :-)
A.
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From: Stefan Drissen
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:49 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: RE: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'
It may have been the result of running the Speccy emulator Fuse on the Pi at
the 30th birthday event of the BBC micro
(http
Also, you can find a lot of videos of ZX-related stuff people already
created in the past on Youtube.
A.
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From: war...@wdlee.co.uk
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:18 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'
Off on a bit of a non-SAM tangent (but pro
I don't share your thoughts. There already exist a lot of Spectrum clones
based on real ULAs and real Z80 and imo these are much better alternatives
than what you described. You can already buy anything you can imagine. So
many alternatives already exist and were created by huge fan base in the
I think nvg's mail server is on crack... yesterday it responded to an
unsubscribe command that I'd sent on April 4*. Thanks Frode, if it was
you who kicked it. :-)
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:54:05PM +0100, Simon Owen wrote:
> Thanks for that Ian -- it does sound very similar to what I was aiming
If I dare bore by half mentioning it again, I've written a ZX80/81
emulator that's accurate at the bus level (to the nearest half a
cycle, anyway). In theory you could attach real hardware to that and
it wouldn't know the difference. It's a heavy-handed approach versus
something like an FPGA that e
Thanks for that Ian — it does sound very similar to what I was aiming for.
Though the standard screen$ capabilities seem very limited, with maybe just 1
change per line? (plus flash)
I've had a few more ideas about how to handle a running palette, with it tied
into knowledge of SAM's display t
It may have been the result of running the Speccy emulator Fuse on the Pi at
the 30th birthday event of the BBC micro
(http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2012/03/26/a-slice-of-raspberry-pi-at-beeb
30/).
"We'll have no more of that then, go find yourself another project to do..."
;-)
-Original M
ahh, now if Simcoupe works on the Raspberry Pi... :-D sure, there's
nothing like using the real thing, but I'd definitely have to build
myself a mini-SAM emulator, even if only for portability! Hmmm...
visions of a SAMtop spring to mind...
I keep checking those sites for the Pi, but to be h
I should run SimCoupe on my Pandaboard to actually give it a real use! I
have so many of these embedded arm board lieing around I should use them :-)
Graeme
On 13/04/12 14:10, Simon Owen wrote:
> Bonus points if you then run SimCoupe on it, to see if it still feels wrong!
>
> I created a quick Si
Bonus points if you then run SimCoupe on it, to see if it still feels wrong!
I created a quick SimCoupe binary for the Raspberry Pi back in Feb, which I've
tested in the development VM under QEMU. Still waiting for real hardware to
see how well it runs though. I was kinda hoping I pre-register
Just bookmarked the blog! ;-) I'll keep track of that. Keep plugging,
I say!! :-D
Warren
Quoting Andrew Gillen :
Hi Graeme
When you get round to doing it please feel free to publish a guide
so we (royal we perhaps) may follow suit ! :)
And while I'm at it to save spamming the list twice
There's something very cool about seeing a spectrum do all that (Even
if it's really just the case with something else running emulation). I
hadn't thought too much about the keyboard, but I suppose that would
really be the major difficulty: Getting something that plays exactly
like the ori
Hi Graeme
When you get round to doing it please feel free to publish a guide so we
(royal we perhaps) may follow suit ! :)
And while I'm at it to save spamming the list twice in a row, in reference
to your Essential SAM goodies thread, take a look at The Garden Centre of
the Universe from Th
I have been planning for a while not to do this modification. But I was
going to use an I2C IO Extender chip instead of the USB keyboard hack.
With this I should be able to map exactly the spectrum keyboard map into
Linux. Ive had the broken spectrum and a couple of beagle boards sitting
on my shel
Hi Warren
This idea reminds me of the ZX Spectrum that was modded to run linux.
Check out
http://www.retrothing.com/2009/04/modding-a-sinclair-zx-spectrum-to-run-linux.html
http://www.retrothing.com/2009/04/modding-a-sinclair-zx-spectrum-to-run-linux.html
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qh
The Sam does of course have line-based palette changes built into its
native SCREEN$ loader (before you say: yes I know that's not quite as
sophisticated as what's being discussed).
In... oh, 1996, I attempted to write a program that could translate a
256x192 image into a plain Sam screen with pal
Off on a bit of a non-SAM tangent (but probably somewhat related for
most of us) I came across this the other day:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8304237/ZX-Spectrum-relaunch-gaming-goes-back-to-the-future.html
Lots of you have probably already heard this, but I don't rememb
On 12/04/12 18:31, Stefan Drissen wrote:
What?! You consider a few friend requests DOS? ;-)
HAhahahha! ;-)
I'm hoping it's just co-incidence but I started getting hit with about
1,000 page requests per min a couple of days ago. Constantly cycling
through all pages on the site (I have > 2Gb o
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