There was Z80 code to record from the MIC socket in one of the small books (Melbourne House maybe?) that came out in the early 1980s. I remember borrowing it from the library and it worked! Heavily quantized of course…
It’s a Spectrum. You’re going to do a HALT to sync with the start of the frame and then cycle count to prevent tearing. You can disable interrupts if you know how long you have to render your frame before the beam…
And there’s still mercury contamination from the gold rush in San Jose.
If I remember from poking around at the 16 bit version in that timeframe (1.52?) there was still an option to generate P-code and (this is now nearly thirty years ago) that was used by Excel to minimize code size for…
Did you ever work on the cross edition that would compile Windows apps for the Mac? I think that was a version 4 fork that never got another version.
After Visual C++ 6. They broke a lot of the C++ IDE features and they weren’t as good as the prior versions (dialog editor etc) so for a long time we preferred staying on 6. I think if we could have the newer compilers…
And then there’s the apex sex in The Player Of Games. I think at least Excession has one of the protagonists transition at the end of the novel.
He wrote Programming Windows 3.1 which was the classic reference for Windows programming in the 90s and just known as ‘Petzold’. All Win16 and C. The managed languages are much later.
ClearCase?
I seem to remember on one of the special features on the DVDs that they needed to change to a lighter more comic style with Moore because of the reaction to the Vietnam War.
Google TV for two completely different products. The initial one was an OS on Sony / Logitech devices that came out in 2010.
There is SourceLink where you can get the mapping into the pdb files: https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink
Good luck getting that through a regulated company’s Quality Management System or their legal department. Way too much business risk and the last thing you want is a yellow or red flag to an inspector who can stop ship…
Along with the reasons others have mentioned, it would also bypass any filter driver in the file system stack (Windows has the concept of a stack of filter drivers that can sit in front of the file system or hardware)…
There was some game (and I think a program in a book) where the border color would be changed at a specific scan line to get a horizon that would span the entire screen. I pretty much knew all the clock cycle counts for…
Cycle counting was key on the Spectrum - for obvious things like the tape load routines but also for advanced techniques like the ‘Rainbow processor’ - updating the attribute bytes (those responsible for the infamous…
That’s great! Back in the day I’d have to take a snapshot with my +D and then disassemble parts of it and print them on my dot matrix printer. At least the HiSoft Devpac Mons debugger was relocatable so you could move…
But you would use unbuffered writes if you really cared. Otherwise there’s nothing actionable that can be done by the application unless there was some kind of signal or callback / APC.
There is something like a 171 clock cycle delay in the regular tape loaded routine between looking for edge transitions in the audio signal. You just break your program up into pieces that fits into that. I did one that…
It’s your brain. You could always do that in ZX Basic
It wasn’t CompuServe that had the patent. The gif format uses LZW, which was patented by Unisys. I remember having to get a special option on some vendor’s toolkit to unlock the GIF handling. Either an add on or you had…
Thanks! I remember that cover now! The article has both the hex and the asm listing. I think I did an update to it to use the bank switched memory on the 128K to get 8 16K Spectrums. Of course with something like a MGT…
There was a program called Switcha published as a listing in Your Sinclair. You could make a 48K Sinclair Spectrum appear as three 16K machines. It installed an interrupt mode 2 handler and checked for a key combination…
You could also visit the Wylfa nuclear plant on Anglesey. Not sure when tours stopped (probably due to security) but you could see the reactor. All closed now.
I used to do that but you can record screen video with the Snipping Tool now. Works fine, mp4 file as output.
There was Z80 code to record from the MIC socket in one of the small books (Melbourne House maybe?) that came out in the early 1980s. I remember borrowing it from the library and it worked! Heavily quantized of course…
It’s a Spectrum. You’re going to do a HALT to sync with the start of the frame and then cycle count to prevent tearing. You can disable interrupts if you know how long you have to render your frame before the beam…
And there’s still mercury contamination from the gold rush in San Jose.
If I remember from poking around at the 16 bit version in that timeframe (1.52?) there was still an option to generate P-code and (this is now nearly thirty years ago) that was used by Excel to minimize code size for…
Did you ever work on the cross edition that would compile Windows apps for the Mac? I think that was a version 4 fork that never got another version.
After Visual C++ 6. They broke a lot of the C++ IDE features and they weren’t as good as the prior versions (dialog editor etc) so for a long time we preferred staying on 6. I think if we could have the newer compilers…
And then there’s the apex sex in The Player Of Games. I think at least Excession has one of the protagonists transition at the end of the novel.
He wrote Programming Windows 3.1 which was the classic reference for Windows programming in the 90s and just known as ‘Petzold’. All Win16 and C. The managed languages are much later.
ClearCase?
I seem to remember on one of the special features on the DVDs that they needed to change to a lighter more comic style with Moore because of the reaction to the Vietnam War.
Google TV for two completely different products. The initial one was an OS on Sony / Logitech devices that came out in 2010.
There is SourceLink where you can get the mapping into the pdb files: https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink
Good luck getting that through a regulated company’s Quality Management System or their legal department. Way too much business risk and the last thing you want is a yellow or red flag to an inspector who can stop ship…
Along with the reasons others have mentioned, it would also bypass any filter driver in the file system stack (Windows has the concept of a stack of filter drivers that can sit in front of the file system or hardware)…
There was some game (and I think a program in a book) where the border color would be changed at a specific scan line to get a horizon that would span the entire screen. I pretty much knew all the clock cycle counts for…
Cycle counting was key on the Spectrum - for obvious things like the tape load routines but also for advanced techniques like the ‘Rainbow processor’ - updating the attribute bytes (those responsible for the infamous…
That’s great! Back in the day I’d have to take a snapshot with my +D and then disassemble parts of it and print them on my dot matrix printer. At least the HiSoft Devpac Mons debugger was relocatable so you could move…
But you would use unbuffered writes if you really cared. Otherwise there’s nothing actionable that can be done by the application unless there was some kind of signal or callback / APC.
There is something like a 171 clock cycle delay in the regular tape loaded routine between looking for edge transitions in the audio signal. You just break your program up into pieces that fits into that. I did one that…
It’s your brain. You could always do that in ZX Basic
It wasn’t CompuServe that had the patent. The gif format uses LZW, which was patented by Unisys. I remember having to get a special option on some vendor’s toolkit to unlock the GIF handling. Either an add on or you had…
Thanks! I remember that cover now! The article has both the hex and the asm listing. I think I did an update to it to use the bank switched memory on the 128K to get 8 16K Spectrums. Of course with something like a MGT…
There was a program called Switcha published as a listing in Your Sinclair. You could make a 48K Sinclair Spectrum appear as three 16K machines. It installed an interrupt mode 2 handler and checked for a key combination…
You could also visit the Wylfa nuclear plant on Anglesey. Not sure when tours stopped (probably due to security) but you could see the reactor. All closed now.
I used to do that but you can record screen video with the Snipping Tool now. Works fine, mp4 file as output.