What Clive Sinclair and Gary Kildall had in common, aside from being red-bearded.
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-red-bearded-visionaries
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Are you watching a #MAGA TV/radio station in California? If it's owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, you are.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/Q5n5WBdo1noR3bxuHg7Eu
#trump #sinclair #California
Are you watching a #MAGA TV/radio station in California? If it's owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, you are.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/Q5n5WBdo1noR3bxuHg7Eu
#trump #sinclair #California
New video! Testing the Chat64 cartridge which gives you a plug & play instant chatroom on your vintage home computer.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/k7gfhEC5BWg
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/hv8FZE9TzUzW2SS4aRWr6u
Baltimore Sun fires its longtime cartoonist, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher
After a 31-year career at The Sun, he’s pretty sure his progressive views ran afoul of conservative broadcast mogul David Smith, who’s owned the paper for less than two years.
Baltimore BrewBaltimore Sun fires its longtime cartoonist, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher | Baltimore BrewAfter a 31-year career at The Sun, he’s pretty sure his progressive views ran afoul of conservative broadcast mogul David Smith, who’s owned the paper for less than two years.
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anyway here's a patched z88dk that cleans up the ZX81 tape output, whoever wrote it clearly wasn't a DSP signals person 
https://github.com/SegHaxx/z88dk
makes it all nice and symmetrical, no more DC offset
i'll make it nice sine waves someday
...i was unable to write readable tapes and after driving the SO nuts listening to screeching i determined the super clean outputs on a modern PC cause the vintage cassette recorders aggressive AGC to max out, resulting in mangling the signal when it comes in
the ZX81 has zero error correction and this fails the load
after adding a pilot tone inspired by the Apple II i can write tapes that load 100% reliably and it gives you something to orient on when scrubbing through a tape looking for the start of a file
it also shows as a solid white screen on the ZX81
near as i can tell a real ZX81 is so goddamn RF noisy the video buzz fulfills the same purpose of priming the recorder's AGC
80's tech, man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
...with that i'm kinda burned out on the ZX81 lol
GitHubGitHub - SegHaxx/z88dk: The development kit for over a hundred z80 family machines - c compiler, assembler, linker, libraries.The development kit for over a hundred z80 family machines - c compiler, assembler, linker, libraries. - SegHaxx/z88dk
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using the incredible compatibility afforded by the front panel headphone jack, i can write a tape from a modern PC and load it into the ZX81
and i run headfirst in to z88dk's limitations, compiling with sccz80 renders in a lethargic 5.4 minutes, sdcc is much faster at 2.5 minutes
but sdcc doesn't seem to support the ZX81 compatible floating point library, so it glitches the video
the inner loop is 16bit fixed point but using it all the way through gets real raunchy precision wise so i thought i'd just use floating point on the outside hahahah
i'm way behind on my ZX posting
need some proper mono cables to make the cassette deck go brrr so i grabbed a handful of various vintages from axe man
including this chonky vintage Sony RK-64A cable? sure looks like it came from the 1960s
Are you a fan of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum?
There are lots of PeerTube videos about the Spectrum (and other Sinclair machines) on this playlist:
https://fedi.video/w/p/fKcNNx7EdTxa4pcV5AcfgE
- On a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist
- On a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen
- If you're watching embedded: Click 
or 
to see next or previous videos in playlist
cc @zxspectrum
Not many breweries have a building that was opened by Sir Clive Sinclair, but Pastore is one!
However, when it was opened, their building was originally home to Win-Born products, makers of metal stuff.
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The last thing I photographed before leaving the Flea this past Sunday was a Timex #Sinclair 1000, in its original box. I have an acquaintance who had a ZX81 (of which this is a variant) long ago, and we sometimes talk about our respective old computers and what we got up to as children.
Echtzeitstrategie auf dem ZX Spectrum? Klingt verrückt – ist aber Realität!
Dune II wurde mit beeindruckender Liebe zum Detail für den 128K Spectrum umgesetzt – inklusive Sprachausgabe, Sandwurm und epischer Atmosphäre.
Jetzt am Blog nachlesen:
https://www.jungsi.de/dune-ii-the-battle-for-arrakis-sinclair-zx-spectrum/
#ZXSpectrum #DuneII #RetroGaming #Homebrew #8bit #RTS #ZX128 #Sinclair #SpectrumDev #RetroLiebe
https://www.jungsi.de/dune-ii-the-battle-for-arrakis-sinclair-zx-spectrum/
Jungsis Corner · Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis [Sinclair ZX Spectrum]Dune II – Startscreen Dune II: The Battle for ArrakisAutor: R. Stolyarov, S. Filippov, V. KropachevJahr: 1997/2014/2019/2021Genre: StrategieSystem: Sinclair Spectrum 128KDownload Dune I…
81Zombies is now officially a thing! It's possibly the best turn-based-desk-building game that's been released for ZX81 all day, so feel free to check it out! https://hundstrasse.itch.io/81zombies
itch.io81Zombies - ZX81 by HundstrasseTuesday Wakes to a ZX81 zombie nightmare
Canal Hecho Con Pixels: MICROHOBBY Así será la portada del 218 y los precios...
¿10,49 euros, la edición en papel? 
Tal vez me la compre, tal vez no... Lo consultaré con la almohada.
The Keyboard Sinclair Never Made - For those of us who’ve spent far too long hammering rubber keys into submission, a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-keyboard-sinclair-never-made/ #peripheralshacks #retrocomputing #classichacks #zxspectrum #pcbhacks #keyboard #sinclair #spacebar #keycap #pcb
Hackaday · The Keyboard Sinclair Never MadeFor those of us who’ve spent far too long hammering rubber keys into submission, a glorious solution has arrived. [Lee Smith] designed the ZX Mechtrum Deluxe, the ultimate keyboard upgrade fo…
Recién tecleado "Shop-List". Programa en BASIC para Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16/48K con el que realizar compras domésticas, publicado en la revista británica Sinclair Programs, número Marzo-Abril de 1983.
Para su buen funcionamiento, se necesitar tener la ZX-Printer (presente en algunos emuladores de Spectrum) para imprimir la lista de la compra.
Al archivo de Spectrum Computing que va.
#ZXSpectrum #Preservación #ListadosBASIC #revistas #Sinclair
Su ficha: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/35641/ZX-Spectrum/Shoplist
Remakes del clásico arcade "Scramble" de Konami, versiones modernas lanzadas recientemente para consolas Atari y sistemas de 8 y 16 bits, reunidos en este video.
#Arcade #Remakes #Videojuegos #Atari #Amiga #Amstrad #Commodore #Sinclair
Scramble - New home Ports - Amiga,Amstrad CPC,Atari 2600,7800,Commodore 64,Spectrum
https://youtu.be/KUR8ikbhaBc?si=W4PkbNam1VieGR0k&sfnsn=scwspmo
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Roulette, de Paul Williams y Richard Oxborne. Juego de azar para el Sinclair ZX-81, publicado en la revista Sinclair Programs del mes de septiembre de 1983.
Ficha y descarga: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/29252/ZX81/Roulette
QUEEN BLIPS
Aliens: Neoplasma 2 (2024, ZX Spectrum Next)
REVIEW: The sequel to an immensely cool run 'n' gun game set in the Aliens universe, I look at how AN2 utilises the Spectrum Next (as well as giving a nod to the ZX Spectrum version). #gaming #sinclair #spectrum #retrogaming #review #aliens 
https://www.thepixelempire.net/aliens-neoplasma-2-next-review.html