olifiers.bsky.social
Co-Founder, Gamer-In-Chief of BAFTA-winner Bossa Studios. Chairman tinyBuild. Driver of the ZX Spectrum Next. Retro computing fan. Maker. Space enthusiast.
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Plasma goodness...
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What has this world come to?
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Back in the days before it, a game had to support multiple different video cards, or fallback on a common denominator (say, VESA).
With Direct X (and OpenGL etc.) a game talks to Direct X only -- and Direct X talks to the video card using a video driver made by the card manufacturer.
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Vista's older sibling.
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These are built like tanks. Not surprised it came back to life! Nice one.
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Whale a minute...
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Amazing! Handy link to a previous performance:
youtu.be/hwsQmsKJa-Y?...
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It certainly was the only sidescroller shmup my MSX friends would stop to look at on the Speccy.
Those smug MSX folks, with their amazing Gradius, Mambow and whatnot...
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Long shot, but you seem to be in that territory now...
Shorted cap on one of the RAM chips?
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Can't think of a better reason!
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Underrated one.
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Most IBM PS computers are like that too. Pros and cons... But yeah, I rather have a BIOS at boot.
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Sometimes we get one of those troublesome fellas. It's all worth in the end!
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Masking will have to be a specific value you elect, and when using the data in the DIM, ignore that value.
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If I understood correctly, that's fairly simple to do on a Speccy by copying the image to RAM (say, address 32000) then use a FOR loop the size of the image with a PEEK command writing the values out from 32000 up to 32000+image size.
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Are you thought? Or is it a TLM (Tiny Language Model)?
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Oh, him again, is it? Busy guy.
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It is.
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Such a weird and gory game in a way... Played this endlessly at the time.
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This looks decisively apocalyptical and I'm a millimetre away from buying this for no good reason!
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There's not much to be afraid of, and not a lot of retro stuff is as easy to repair as the Atari 2600, it's a good start to acquiring the skill.
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Start at the pins 12 and 13 at the TIA chip and trace them from there to see where the failure lies.
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Lucky strike on that, eh? Let me know how the cosmetic restoration goes!!!
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I had a 5 1/4 and by the gods it was a game changer back then.
The controller I had could dump memory into a file, so was easy to transfer all my tapes to floppies.
Great time!
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Who in their right mind would play this given what the original did to us?!?
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So one could vote for Samus Aran as their political representative?
Japan always ahead of the curve.
I hope Doomguy runs next. That would get politicians back in their place.
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And why so long?
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Yep, I'm slowly but surely replacing Firefox with it across all my devices.
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Nice indeed!!!
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Some are always in vogue...
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We are indeed brewing a KS3 for late July. But we also encourage others making compatible boards such as the N-Go!
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It's a sought after collectors item. Depending on the condition, could fetch upwards of $200-300, I reckon.
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My breakfast is trying to get back out now...
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Here. What do you want to know?
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I'm torn between 'it's a bot trying to get a rise from people' or 'wtf?".
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This is the best port of Out Run bar none. Black magic. Thank you, sir!
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Then don't ever go to Wikipedia's homepage.
Ever
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Look at that bezel
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Next weekend project
unlocked
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Those drives are notorious for being their heads stuck. You can try some 'percursive' maintenance by bumping it on the left side as it spins up.
Last resort, open a s push the back of the head as it floats / spins.
You may get in back to life!
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I'm willing to bet this is a bot.