Thursday, December 27, 2007
A fight at the Church of the Nativity
What an amazing example. I will leave it as an example to the reader to determine exactly what of...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Update on backing up my ZX Spectrum games
Elsewhere on this blog I have described how I have backup up my ZX Spectrum cassettes to my PC, but tonight I had some trouble.
It has been a while since I backed up my tape collection, but I finally got round to it. Unfortunately, my trusty old cassette player seems to have been mysteriously damaged - the pinch wheel is unattached and the motor seems intermittently jammed too.
So, I connected my WHSmith Computer Program Data Recorder to my PC, but the .wav files produced could not be reliably decoded by MakeTZX.
After a couple of hours of messing about with stereo leads, mono lead, stereo/mono adapters, volume levels etc, the following concoction worked and I've managed to backup my Cronosoft collection:
It has been a while since I backed up my tape collection, but I finally got round to it. Unfortunately, my trusty old cassette player seems to have been mysteriously damaged - the pinch wheel is unattached and the motor seems intermittently jammed too.
So, I connected my WHSmith Computer Program Data Recorder to my PC, but the .wav files produced could not be reliably decoded by MakeTZX.
After a couple of hours of messing about with stereo leads, mono lead, stereo/mono adapters, volume levels etc, the following concoction worked and I've managed to backup my Cronosoft collection:
- WHSmith Computer Program Data Recorder, with a volume setting of 4.8-ish
- A stereo/mono adapter in the LOAD socket
- The Spectrum's mono lead connecting the tape player to my MacBook's Line In socket
- Audacity recording the incoming .WAV file and exporting it to my PC as 8-bit Mono
- Running MakeTZX Foo.WAV -f on my PC
Labels: audacity, backup, cassette, Cronosoft, MakeTZX, Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Rossi: 5 more years
Interesting - I had a feeling it would be one or two, but we'll see.
Labels: Ducati, MotoGP, Valentino Rossi, Yamaha
Friday, December 21, 2007
Interview with Jonathan Cauldwell
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Adding colour to the Terminal in Mac OS X
This is something that Simon Green showed me when we were at Harlequin in another life.
I'm sure in those days we did it through .bashrc but I might be imagining it. I found a link that describes how to do it for Mac OS X's Terminal program though, by modifing ~/.bash_profile
Labels: .bash_profile, bash, colour, Mac OS X, Terminal
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