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It’s coming! You better believe it!

I’ve spent the last month emailing until my fingers are raw doing my utmost best to get together an impressive prize-pool to excite you all, and I’m pleased to say I think we are almost there.

All the pieces as starting to fall into place and this is going to be most excellent!

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I’ve been playing around with the idea of doing something in a very retro style - ZX Spectrum palette and UDG type graphics, so I wrote a little function to recreate the BEEP command so that you can play sounds just like on a Speccy.

The example tune from the ZX Spectrum 48K manual works without any alteration, apart from the removal of line numbers of course.

Here is the code and example for anyone who is interested…

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As posted on Retro Remakes recently I have been robbed from my bank account. Thankfully it seems that my bank is on the case and they locked everything down so no more money can be taken, although that’s a joke because I don’t actually have any.

Please please if you have played any of my games and enjoyed them in the past. Consider donating by clicking on the Buy Me A Coffee in the sidebar. It is a paypal link - If you need a Nochex link please get in touch or let me know here and I will be able to set that up too.

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I went out for the day to help a friend collect some furniture yesterday and got lots of fresh air and exercise as well as a lovely 15″ TFT monitor which had been rescued from being buried in a landfill. What a nice surprise that was, I can tell you.

I’ve had a play with it now and didn’t notice straight away that it was rotatable. I was well chuffed I can tell you when it suddenly twisted in my hand when I was adjusting the viewing angle on my desk and I realised that it could be put into portrait mode as well as landscape.

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Someone offered and iMac G4 (the one with the dome base and TFT on an arm) on Freecycle but I wasn’t lucky enough to get picked out of the hat. Am gutted. That would have been ace to do a bit of programming on.

I hope it went to a good home. They said the super drive (dvd/cd drive?) was knackered but that wouldn’t have mattered a jot to me, and who needs em with networking and pen drives anyway these days?

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Well the site has a spanking new coat of paint and feels a lot nicer to me.

Yummy. It is very caffeinated too with lots of coffee beans and cups of coffee all around the site. I feel very much at home here now, even more so than before.

I hope you like the new look - Hopefully this Wordpress install will be a lot easier to maintain and keep track of. Can you believe that e107 wasn’t even telling me if I had any comments, I had to plough through the posts looking for them and it ended up with some spam messages knocking around.

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