Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Thomas Harte
2012/4/13 Simon Owen : > While I'm happy to stop short of bus signals for my emulation habit, I > do see the appeal in going down to that level to learn more about how > things work.  An incredibly accurate emulation is just a handy byproduct > of the learning process :) I've enjoyed it because it

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread david
Quoting Simon Owen : Bonus points if you then run SimCoupe on it, to see if it still feels wrong! I created a quick SimCoupe binary for the Raspberry Pi back in Feb, which I've tested in the development VM under QEMU. Still waiting for real hardware to see how well it runs though. I was k

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Simon Owen
ing original ZX Spectrum+ and working >>> original Sam Coupe. :-)) >>> >>> I think you are too focused on emulators - why would anybody put a today's >>> computer with an emulator inside an old ZXS box? It's just funny, not >>> worthy

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Simon Owen
why would anybody put a today's >> computer with an emulator inside an old ZXS box? It's just funny, not >> worthy. I prefer either emulator on a proper PC computer, or original 8bit >> Zilog Z80 in an original box. :-)) >> >> Aley >> >> -Původn

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread James R Curry
t; worthy. I prefer either emulator on a proper PC computer, or original 8bit >> Zilog Z80 in an original box. :-)) >> >> Aley >> >> -Původní zpráva- From: war...@wdlee.co.uk >> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:18 PM >> >> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Thomas Harte
#x27;s just funny, not > worthy. I prefer either emulator on a proper PC computer, or original 8bit > Zilog Z80 in an original box. :-)) > > Aley > > -Původní zpráva- From: war...@wdlee.co.uk > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:18 PM > > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no >

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Aleš Keprt
Yeah, nice photos. :-) A. -Původní zpráva- From: Stefan Drissen Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:49 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' It may have been the result of running the Speccy emulator Fuse on the Pi at the 30th birthday event of the

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Aleš Keprt
Also, you can find a lot of videos of ZX-related stuff people already created in the past on Youtube. A. -Původní zpráva- From: war...@wdlee.co.uk Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:18 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' Off on a bit of a non-SAM ta

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Aleš Keprt
r emulator on a proper PC computer, or original 8bit Zilog Z80 in an original box. :-)) Aley -Původní zpráva- From: war...@wdlee.co.uk Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:18 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' Off on a bit of a non-SAM tangent (but probably

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Tommo H
no] On > Behalf Of war...@wdlee.co.uk > Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2012 14:24 > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' > > ahh, now if Simcoupe works on the Raspberry Pi... :-D sure, there's nothing > like using the real thing, but I'd def

RE: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Drissen
-Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of war...@wdlee.co.uk Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2012 14:24 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' ahh, now if Simcoupe works on the Raspberry Pi... :-D sure, t

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread warren
games is in using the old kit itself. No amount of PC emulation and full stroke keyboard use can replicate that ZX feel. SAMwise it is different, the keyboard is of a good enough standard for emulation to represent a pretty accurate experience for me. Cheers Andrew ------

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Graeme Gregory
ch was used on that set up for a low enough price, it won't stop me >>> trying, though. >>> >>> Much of the experience in playing old games is in using the old kit itself. >>> No amount of PC emulation and full stroke keyboard use can replicate that >&g

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Simon Owen
t;> >> Much of the experience in playing old games is in using the old kit itself. >> No amount of PC emulation and full stroke keyboard use can replicate that ZX >> feel. >> >> SAMwise it is different, the keyboard is of a good enough standard for >> emulat

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread warren
e're up to at Blackjet ;) (sorry folks for yet another plug). All the best Andrew -- From: "Graeme Gregory" Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:13 PM To: Subject: Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' I have been planning for a while

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread warren
ZX feel. SAMwise it is different, the keyboard is of a good enough standard for emulation to represent a pretty accurate experience for me. Cheers Andrew -- From: Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:18 AM To: Subject: ZX Spectrum 'rela

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Andrew Gillen
st Andrew -- From: "Graeme Gregory" Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:13 PM To: Subject: Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' I have been planning for a while not to do this modification. But I was going to use an I2C IO Extender chip instead of the USB keyboard hack. With this I sho

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Graeme Gregory
ulation and full stroke keyboard use can > replicate that ZX feel. > > SAMwise it is different, the keyboard is of a good enough standard for > emulation to represent a pretty accurate experience for me. > > Cheers > > Andrew > > > ---------

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Andrew Gillen
AM To: Subject: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' Off on a bit of a non-SAM tangent (but probably somewhat related for most of us) I came across this the other day: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8304237/ZX-Spectrum-relaunch-gaming-goes-back-to-the-future.html Lots of you ha

ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread warren
Off on a bit of a non-SAM tangent (but probably somewhat related for most of us) I came across this the other day: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8304237/ZX-Spectrum-relaunch-gaming-goes-back-to-the-future.html Lots of you have probably already heard this, but I don&#