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• Post #4217857

  If you're in our about Inverness, you can't miss it!

• Post #4217856

  David Gilmour, Dick Parry, and... Peter Parker??? Cambridge, 1963

• Post #4217855

  We have been assured by the group that this time they will definitely appear.

• Post #4217854

  By popular demand (???) https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117000773767865078

• Post #4217853

  Famicoms of love. https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117003407865681072 #retrogaming #famicom #nintendo

• Post #4217852

  The IT industry must be singular in that it's the one industry I know which keeps on coming back every year with new buzzwords and novel mystifying terms for things we've been doing since 1950.

• Post #4060153

  Bow Commanderby Shrek / MB Maniax, 2026 https://shrek128.itch.io/bow-commander BC looks genuinely interesting, it's a file manager and viewer inspired by Midnight Commander / Norton Commander for the ZX Spectrum 128k + EsxDos #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Spectrum #retrocomputing

• Post #3627672

  Bubble software in bubble memory, literally! How Konami used this unusual bubble technology in their games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJ9ED8mWt0 #retrogaming #retrocomputing #konami

• Post #3548863

  If you can afford it, after the untimely demise of the World of Spectrum database, it would be a good time to help leeching and seeding zxart as a preservation safe. Spectrum Computing and the Internet Archive are amazing resources, but it's public knowledge how archives are enduring persistent attacks. Nothing can beat redundancy of a full organised archive distributed globally. https://zxart.ee/userfiles/file/zxart_offline.torrent #zxspectrum #spectrum #speccy #torrent #retrocomputing #r...

• Post #3446334

  HORROR: World of Spectrum is down! Hope nothing terrible happened. https://worldofspectrum.org/ #zxspectrum #spectrum #speccy

• Post #3446333

  RELEASE: plus3 v0.9.3a Go tool & library for reading and writing ZX Spectrum +3 disk images (.dsk).Six commands: create, add, list, info, extract, delete — plus a BASIC detokeniser that turns tokenised Spectrum programs back into readable listings. The writer is verified against real Spectrum +3 hardware, and the pkg/diskimg library can be embedded in emulators, assemblers, and build tools. This project had been dead for too long, the code had been lingering there for two years incomple...

• Post #3446332

  plus3 v0.9.6is out — a maintenance release.plus3 reads and writes ZX Spectrum +3 disk images (.dsk), verified against real +3 hardware.plus3 is now dependency-free: the CLI was rewritten on the Go standard library, so it builds offline from a clean checkout with nothing to download. Prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows, and the BSDs are attached to the release. Also new: a full command manual (MANUAL.md) documenting every command and flag. https://github.com/ha1tch/plus3 #ZXSpectrum #Re...

• Post #3446331

  Not bugging people with more announcements, just leaving this here. House cleaning week continues with other tools I left unreleased or half-baked in the last few years. In the queue: bim, the barely improved editortbim/bimt a tmux-like multiplexer that embeds bim, shell , and hmop without consuming more than one ttycual, a minimal C runtime for ual that compiles ual code to small machines including CP/M and ZX SpectrumDeluxe GUI - a lightweight GUI toolkit for Go and RaylibDeluxe Draw - A s...

• Post #3446330

  I like high resolution desktops, mid resolution terminals, and low resolution games.

• Post #3437622

  I was finally able to correct my emulator, ZenZX, to make it work with ZX Spectrum +3 floppy discs which weren't so floppy. With many thanks to @FromTheFourthPlanet@mas.to for her wonderful emulator, SpecIde, I learned massively from her generous gift and her deep knowledge of the machinery involved. https://github.com/MartianGirl/SpecIde Now I'm able to load The Artist II by Ocean Software from a DSK image. I wasn't able to draw f** s** using its keyboard layout. Here's a dodg...

• Post #3404268

  Oakhollow is starting to look like something that could grow on me. #Spectrum #speccy #ZXSpectrum #retrogaming #retrocomputing

• Post #1803017

  Still in awe of how radically brilliant it was as both a UX decision and a branding decision to have created the Spectrum 128k menu at a time when nobody else did that. Looking back, this simple insight about discoverable complexity is one of the single most important tools I have used forever since.

• Post #1803015

  Every day is ZX Spectrum day. #ZXSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #retrocomputing

• Post #1803012

  The place you go to when you don't know what to watch.

• Post #1803010

  SAM Coupé MaxTile software tilemap in 16 colours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mdXW_5QtNg #samcoupe #retrocomputing

• Post #1803007

  It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up... IT'S DARE! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0/posts/4676856?ref=activity #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Spectrum #ZXSpectrumNext #SpectrumNext #retrocomputing

• Post #1126603

  Two views of Earth from the Orion spacecraft on its way back, nine hours apart. They'll be home in another 9 hours. Splashdown expected at about 8:07 PM EDT tonight April 10 / 01:07 UTC on April 11. #artemis2 #orion #integrity #nasa #space

• Post #1126602

  They've adjusted the brightness the camera lens can take and now Earth can be seen with more discernible features. About Seven hours to slplashdown. #artemis2 #space #orion #nasa

• Post #1126601

  Two views from the Orion spacecraft two hours apart, showing the acceleration before orbital capture, approximately two hours before splashdown. Splashdown expected at about 8:07 PM EDT tonight April 10 / 01:07 UTC on April 11. #artemis2 #orion #integrity #nasa #space

• Post #1126600

• Post #733400

  Popular Computing Weekly, week of 3-9 February 1983 "The artifical intelligence language is contained in just over 7k of code" https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/5/2/1983/2/3#4 #retrocomputing #lisp #zxspectrum #speccy #spectrum