Monthly Archives: February 2006

ACB Stereo and Divide’s

February 23, 2006 – 12:01 pm

So finally, thanks to LaesQ and his skills with the heatstick (that’s soldering iron to you), I have ACB Stereo in my “main” Spectrum. I say “main”, as it’s the one I use for all the “real” work. It’s a classic grey-case +2, and for the demoscene most closely represents a “pure” ZX. I have [...]

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Temporary Theme

February 8, 2006 – 7:51 pm

Frankly I was getting annoyed with the default theme here, so until I get time to design a theme of my own I’ve plopped “Pool” onto the server. It’s a nice simple theme by Borja Fernandez, and can be grabbed here. It’s released under the GPL, so I may well use it as the basis [...]

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1024 Bytes!

February 8, 2006 – 4:49 pm

My code is finished. Well, kinda. I’ve managed to compile the code, along with most of the stuff I wanted to happen, into exactly 1024 bytes. That’s pretty much the ideal length for a 1k Intro competition. I still plan to do a little “tweaking” of the code as there’s some bits that I just [...]

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Banned from WOS

February 5, 2006 – 12:57 pm

I thought I’d go onto WOS and download a few games to play on the ZX. Not many, just a handful of games “from my past”. You know, stuff like Valhalla, Feud, things like that. Now like so many people I don’t recall all games I used to like, but I’m reminded of them when [...]

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