Category Archives: ZX Spectrum

Forever 9 demoparty

November 8, 2007 – 1:13 pm

In case you’ve not seen it already Forever9, the premier European 8-bit demoparty has been announced. This is known as a “Good Thing”. The party is taking place in March 2008, slap bang between my wife’s birthday and my own (in fact about a week before my birthday, and a few days after hers). It’s [...]

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Sundown 2007

March 29, 2007 – 10:51 am

RC55 has announced this year’s Sundown, the “other” UK demoparty, a multi-platform scene event featuring “old-school” platforms such as the ZX amongst the other, more “standard” competitions. Again the event takes place in Budleigh Salterton on the south coast, about an hours drive from my home. I’ve already mentioned this on raww.org, so why mention [...]

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Large Storage, uhm, storage

March 25, 2007 – 6:36 pm

Ok, this is a bit of a techie article that will interest only a small handful of the people who view this site. Basically during an afternoon coffee-break (and a quick read of the WOS forums), I got to thinking about the influx of large capacity storage solutions for “old” computers such as the ZX [...]

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I did it! 1k! Almost…

March 15, 2007 – 2:16 pm

Time is an odd thing. There are times when you seem to have nothing but time, and seek to find things to fill it up. There are other times when you seem to have no time, and enough things to do to create a 72 hour day. Now is one a time of zero time. [...]

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One week away

March 9, 2007 – 9:27 am

Forever8 is one week away. 7 days. 7 days in which I have very little time to spare. But I’m determined to finish something for the party (especially as I can’t make it to the party this year). My intro currently stands at 523 bytes. It does very little (tho’ that “little” does look kinda [...]

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How to use 1k?

February 19, 2007 – 4:34 pm

So the raww.orgy is over, my recent illness has pretty much cleared (maybe 98%), and it’s time for my next project. It seems like months since I last coded an Intro (indeed it is months), and the project I had planned for Sundown just didn’t see the light – the result of too late planning. [...]

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Freedom to Geek

January 17, 2007 – 11:27 am

If you’ve spotted my current playlist (to the right, it should be) you may have noticed some very geeky stuff. No, I’m not talking about the 70s prog rock, tho’ that is fairly geeky. I mean the AY tracker tunes. I’m trying to get into “Retro Mode” for the upcoming raww.orgy. I’m working on this [...]

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