niallquinn

Tis a splendid BluRay set, well worth the money.

Hi W, Yeah there's a lot of us still around, most layouts have been done with all the roms that have been dumped, and run okay. We're coming to the end of the £100 Betcoms at the moment. Other manufacturers don't run as they're sc6 or whatever. Future scenewise, it stops sort of here, unless someone magically creates a new emulator, or hacks the ipub / t7 / t8 images so they work in real mode on a PC, other than that, I can't see anything forthcoming. But there's a fair few of us still here for the crack. Talking of cracks remember that lass, Viv, who posted pics of her arse in the shower on FF?. Happy days.

Aye, got it, fully Patreon paid up to Jotego, Sorg, and few other devs. Cheers.

Cheers for the update. Sarcasm mode on - Now what is that windows background, I don't think I've heard of a Spectrum, just what it exactly? Sarcasm mode off.

So I should be okay with my Ryzen 9 9950X, 4080, 128gig ram, 48TB online storage.

JUst grabbed this, you might wabt to download agaib. Load of things fixed in tn the release a few hours ago.

4 months on, how's this going? Any further forward? Left everything for dead in arcade sim, even the clubbers. Could just start again I suppose. Thanks.

Who signed Peter Reid? At a guess without cheating Howard Kendall @ Everton? RE sc6, emu, well it would keep us going with more layouts!!! RE Fruitsnapps vid, I think that looks like an emulator, but it's an in-house dev kit? Bit like the one that's about for Pluto/Heber?

This coder, blueonesaresafer, is it someone we know? Cos they haven't submitted much, just to mpu3 that I can see. That said, I find a git a pain in the arse, as they never document what's actually been done.

There's one on ebay now, sadly I don't have a spare £1800 to buy a Falcon. Demos are really good for it, past amiga standard in some cases. There is a project to replicate the board, and sell that. Sure I read it on Atari mania. THe Falcon itself is severely flawed though, it's 32bit, but can only run in 16bit etc. Atari Falcon - Wikipedia

I'd have a Falcon now if I could get me mitts on one, Falcon scene is still alive and kicking.

Off topic, but the whole Atari Jaguar is a good story. Sinclair Research, remember the Loki, a super Spectrum, designed and built by Martin Brennnan? Sugar takes over Sinclair and sacks everyone. Brennan goes onto create it as the Flare1, then flare2, then the great Konix (saw it at the PCW show in 89 complete with chair it was mint), Konix goes bust, takes the tech to Atari, creates the Atari Panther, again scrapped, reworked it into the released Atari Jaguar. Now imaging having the Loki in 86, instead of 93?

It knocked us all for six mate. Still have a non-alcoholic lager in August on that day to remember him.

So a mate tells me. ^

Regarding the clones, Qtech and Takis. There's little nuances appearing, they're not complete clones. Eg the latest Next core, uses the main sd to boot, and it's the only core that can use the secondary sd as another drive, well that didn't work on the clones, as according to Sorg they don't have that bit wired up, so the core had to be modified for that to work. Other ones I've heard of, no sound in various arcade games, again due to a shortcut. Various gfx problems, various input problems. I'm sure more things will materialize. Don't get me wrong, I bought Takis megapack as a 2nd Mister for 150quid, but it's not a complete clone, as I found out and made it dual ram. The dual ram works, but then you can't plug in the audio board, so don't get analog sound out, only digital. Nor do you get it via HDMI, cos that bit isn't there either. Bought a 20quid convertor this week, to convert the fibre 3.55mm lead digital sound back to analog. The public are buying them in 1000's, but the cores have to be modified in the case of the Next to work with them, most of the devs don't like them. It's hard enough to copy a chip with 50,000 transistors on it without having to fanny on with other stuff. I wish I knew Verilog, and had the patience. The devs are fantastic people, I pay most of them on Patreon. Sorg for everything, Jotego, Electron Ash (do you read his posts on the Dreamcast core in discord, it's fascinating stuff). Even if it is aimed at Mikes Replay 2 which should see the light next year.