Compiling analog 6.0 on Cygwin
Again, mostly for my own use later. I had a need to run analog on my machine, and I didn’t want to download the Windows binary, because everything else I would be doing with the log files would be via...
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8bit Mid-life Crisis – part 5
Got a couple of parcels this morning. The first one was from DataServe-Retro and contained my new (old) power supply and a brand new RF cable. There’s no plug on the power supply, which was pretty...
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Another box of Retro Magic
Note: Can’t keep using the same title, so I’ve changed the posts to be part of a collection of articles. As well as that, they’re the only ones that will show up in the Retro Computing category. So,...
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Borderlands 2
I love the first Borderlands game. So much so that after completing it a couple of times on the PS3, I repurchased it on the XBox after my Sony-Rage meant I stopped using the PS3 completely. I was...
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Opening Pandora’s Spectrum
I wanted to have a look inside the ZX Spectrum +2, to see if I could work out why the TV image is so fuzzy from the RF feed. I couldn’t see if the connector was rusty or if there was some other issue,...
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It’s not just the Rust
The first 48k Spectrum to arrive works fine, but the image is pretty flickery. I’d assumed that was because the RF connector looked rusty, so after asking on Facebook/Twitter, I gave it a solid clean!...
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My memory of the ZX Spectrum is warm and hazy, but even I remember the pain you had to go through with tape players, and adjusting the azimuth of the tape head. I even had (and who didn’t?) a specific...
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It’s getting bad – I bought a TV.
A couple of years ago now, we finally got rid of our VHS recorder and the portable TV that Grete had when she first moved to Nottingham. We just never used it. We’ve never been bedroom TV watchers,...
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Testing the Spectrums
Buying second hand stuff always carries a bit of risk. Buying second hand electronics which are 30 years old, and notoriously troublesome even when brand new is something you have to go into with your...
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New Headers
I broke out my awesome (that’s irony) design skills today, in celebration of the retro thread on Spectrums, and put together four new random headers for the site. I’m actually pretty pleased with one...
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