Which I will not elaborate here, not exactly on the nature being discussed. My lawyer told me, this kind of provisions only are enforceable while you work for them by our local laws, and since you are not an employee anymore, this clausule is void. That guy knows what he is doing...
So they would better be back to sell comics than DVDs? At this moment on time, using pen and paper is as good as going out of business...it is not doable for a large multinational corporation.
Online archive of the most popular magazine for the ZX Spectrum in Portugal and Spain, and for those saying ZX Spectrum was only a uk craze. http://www.microhobby.org/
Are you sure? I am from Portugal, and in Portugal and Spain people were crazy about it. In Brazil, they invented clones because of stupid restriction on trade and heavy taxes on imported computers. In the USA Timex sold TC and TS clones, that were also used a lot in Latin america. In Russia there were lots of "pirate"/non-licensed clones too, that were widely used in the former east block country. The thing with Spectrum is that it was cheap and the hardware was quite easy to understand.
Exactly. Z80 was doing it for quite a while when I wrote an emulator in DOS with opensource code that either sample sound blaster and the parallel port, and some other emulators used it. Later on someone also wrote a program to interpret WAV files due to DOS being on the way out.
Thing is ZX Spectrum is part of my childhood, and as my thesis I wrote the first emulator for Windows. I cut my teeth on understanding how a computer worked, and BASIC was too limited for me, it was almost assembly from the very beginning. The best present my father gave me was either a book of Z80 programming and I asked for money to buy the ZX Spectrum ROM listing. And thanks for the MicroHobby and their articles, we knew that machine inside out. But besides this, at the time, we had the notion that games were too limited, and that darn tape interface was horrid and slow. Some things are best left in the past. While I enjoy the ocasional peek or game on an emulator, it is just ocasional. An iPad or iPhone nowadays is a world of distance in capabilities, and whilst that games are the basis to many of the ideas of later games, they are rather poor on the interface side, and the sound is terrible. The speccy would be another machine with a proper sound chip. It would be far more interesting to have a interface to develop and debug assembly as an educational introduction to programming. P.S. I still have a directory of around 6000 speccy games on my NAS at home.
Interesting tidbit. So it is still up and was inherited by this contract the legal permission that Amstrad gave on the 90s for everyone to use ROMs in emulators?
Nope. Amstrad has the license to the ROM, and gave permission to everyone to use it on their emulators in the 90s. However it is entirely possible mr. Sinclair has some exception on this...
There are emulator that emulate all that quirks. I wrote the first emulation for Windows and emulated ghost keys, Z80 undocumented modes, and the timings. I also discussed some of the timings with Mr. Ian Collier in the heydays of Sinclair newsgroup. The guys from Warajevo and later mr. Gunter from Z80 emulated the ULA quirks for special effects on the screen. Amstrad also released a public statement somewhere in late 90s where it gave permission the original ROM to be used on emulations.
I had a Timex 2048 in Portugal. Some friends had a 2068, but it had a lot of compatibility problems with games, and the promise of better games for it never materialised besides the games made to launch it.
Good times. I actually maintained some correspondence with the authors of warajevo, and their original tape routine was "stolen" from me with my permission.
The beauty of the Spectrum was that the design was ingeniously simple, and the hardware and software/firmware was so well documented, that actually you knew the machine inside in and out, and could do whatever you fancied with it.
Many of them for almost anything you can think of. The newer ones for iOS are quite interesting and it seems Apple has relented on the stupid rule you could not give access to a programming console, so you now can boot them, and use Basic. With the new personalized keyboards in iOS it is fun to see the modifies take life in iZX for instance. I also wrote the first ZX emulator for Windows, but I no longer keep it up to date.
The problem with the Spectrum was manyfold. It was slow, how to get something of it you had to program it in assembly. I dont know where you attended classes, many of us did program on it, and besides it was in it I cut my teeth on programming at home. I also programmed exclusively in assembly because basic was slow and boring. I also wrote the first ZX Spectrum emulation for MS Windows, while in UWE, in Bristol.
With the custom keyboards in iOS 8, iZX is far more interesting than this, and cheaper too. And no need to connect it to the TV or have another piece of crap at home.
You do not need to recreate the sinclairs main system ROM. Amstrad, who has its rights, has made it available to any emulator free of charge. It could be however interesting to fix all the known bugs, and reenable the NMI code, but then, you will be creating incompatibilities with games, that were also present on clones from the eastern block and latin america.
How do they know it was NK? Are they 100% sure of it? Besides probably being just a stunt, hey, lookie it was the bad guys, poor us...even if the attacks came from NK IP addresses or there are NK files...who knows if it was just an infected zombie machine used as proxy? And as someone pointed out, the grammar errors on the message points to eastern europe. This is a technical forum, people should know better than listening to probably fear mongering and political propaganda, look the chinese, russian and nk are the bad guys they are hacking us. Last time I checked Snowden, Assange and Maning where neither chinese, nor russian nor from nk. Something does not sound right here.
I say fuck the historical context and the political correctness bullshit. Due to this nonsense, we are pussified to accept that whatever minority has to have equal rights, even when they are a 10-15% minority, and as a minority, it is perfectly normal that in a few privileged settings, there are 10 to 1, well because it is pure math you know. And then, all this nonsense even for my own sex. Yo have no balls, do you?
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Which I will not elaborate here, not exactly on the nature being discussed. My lawyer told me, this kind of provisions only are enforceable while you work for them by our local laws, and since you are not an employee anymore, this clausule is void. That guy knows what he is doing...
So they would better be back to sell comics than DVDs? At this moment on time, using pen and paper is as good as going out of business...it is not doable for a large multinational corporation.
Online archive of the most popular magazine for the ZX Spectrum in Portugal and Spain, and for those saying ZX Spectrum was only a uk craze. http://www.microhobby.org/
Pity you post as anon. Long live MicroHobby.
Are you sure? I am from Portugal, and in Portugal and Spain people were crazy about it. In Brazil, they invented clones because of stupid restriction on trade and heavy taxes on imported computers. In the USA Timex sold TC and TS clones, that were also used a lot in Latin america. In Russia there were lots of "pirate"/non-licensed clones too, that were widely used in the former east block country. The thing with Spectrum is that it was cheap and the hardware was quite easy to understand.
To be fair I had IT classes since 14 so my demographics at school were a bit different.
Exactly. Z80 was doing it for quite a while when I wrote an emulator in DOS with opensource code that either sample sound blaster and the parallel port, and some other emulators used it. Later on someone also wrote a program to interpret WAV files due to DOS being on the way out.
You are aware the first generations of Full HD were not exactly the HD standard of today, right?
Thing is ZX Spectrum is part of my childhood, and as my thesis I wrote the first emulator for Windows. I cut my teeth on understanding how a computer worked, and BASIC was too limited for me, it was almost assembly from the very beginning. The best present my father gave me was either a book of Z80 programming and I asked for money to buy the ZX Spectrum ROM listing. And thanks for the MicroHobby and their articles, we knew that machine inside out. But besides this, at the time, we had the notion that games were too limited, and that darn tape interface was horrid and slow. Some things are best left in the past. While I enjoy the ocasional peek or game on an emulator, it is just ocasional. An iPad or iPhone nowadays is a world of distance in capabilities, and whilst that games are the basis to many of the ideas of later games, they are rather poor on the interface side, and the sound is terrible. The speccy would be another machine with a proper sound chip. It would be far more interesting to have a interface to develop and debug assembly as an educational introduction to programming. P.S. I still have a directory of around 6000 speccy games on my NAS at home.
Do not even remind me that. One of the nicest thing about emulators is not having to deal with that nightmare anymore.
Interesting tidbit. So it is still up and was inherited by this contract the legal permission that Amstrad gave on the 90s for everyone to use ROMs in emulators?
Nope. Amstrad has the license to the ROM, and gave permission to everyone to use it on their emulators in the 90s. However it is entirely possible mr. Sinclair has some exception on this...
iZX for iOS is damn good...you can also export the screen to an Apple TV and presto.
There are emulator that emulate all that quirks. I wrote the first emulation for Windows and emulated ghost keys, Z80 undocumented modes, and the timings. I also discussed some of the timings with Mr. Ian Collier in the heydays of Sinclair newsgroup. The guys from Warajevo and later mr. Gunter from Z80 emulated the ULA quirks for special effects on the screen. Amstrad also released a public statement somewhere in late 90s where it gave permission the original ROM to be used on emulations.
I had a Timex 2048 in Portugal. Some friends had a 2068, but it had a lot of compatibility problems with games, and the promise of better games for it never materialised besides the games made to launch it.
Good times. I actually maintained some correspondence with the authors of warajevo, and their original tape routine was "stolen" from me with my permission.
The beauty of the Spectrum was that the design was ingeniously simple, and the hardware and software/firmware was so well documented, that actually you knew the machine inside in and out, and could do whatever you fancied with it.
Many of them for almost anything you can think of. The newer ones for iOS are quite interesting and it seems Apple has relented on the stupid rule you could not give access to a programming console, so you now can boot them, and use Basic. With the new personalized keyboards in iOS it is fun to see the modifies take life in iZX for instance. I also wrote the first ZX emulator for Windows, but I no longer keep it up to date.
The problem with the Spectrum was manyfold. It was slow, how to get something of it you had to program it in assembly. I dont know where you attended classes, many of us did program on it, and besides it was in it I cut my teeth on programming at home. I also programmed exclusively in assembly because basic was slow and boring. I also wrote the first ZX Spectrum emulation for MS Windows, while in UWE, in Bristol.
With the custom keyboards in iOS 8, iZX is far more interesting than this, and cheaper too. And no need to connect it to the TV or have another piece of crap at home.
You do not need to recreate the sinclairs main system ROM. Amstrad, who has its rights, has made it available to any emulator free of charge. It could be however interesting to fix all the known bugs, and reenable the NMI code, but then, you will be creating incompatibilities with games, that were also present on clones from the eastern block and latin america.
How do they know it was NK? Are they 100% sure of it? Besides probably being just a stunt, hey, lookie it was the bad guys, poor us...even if the attacks came from NK IP addresses or there are NK files...who knows if it was just an infected zombie machine used as proxy? And as someone pointed out, the grammar errors on the message points to eastern europe. This is a technical forum, people should know better than listening to probably fear mongering and political propaganda, look the chinese, russian and nk are the bad guys they are hacking us. Last time I checked Snowden, Assange and Maning where neither chinese, nor russian nor from nk. Something does not sound right here.
I say fuck the historical context and the political correctness bullshit. Due to this nonsense, we are pussified to accept that whatever minority has to have equal rights, even when they are a 10-15% minority, and as a minority, it is perfectly normal that in a few privileged settings, there are 10 to 1, well because it is pure math you know. And then, all this nonsense even for my own sex. Yo have no balls, do you?
I have been working in the last 15 years well for clients, and I am most sought because I deal with Unix/Linux...
It would not be a problem, would it?