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I watched the video on Friday evening - one of TJ's 'best' yet!

Wait, I see a different poster upper right now. 😂

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Something told me you would make one more video about this. hahaha

Gotta love Baileys in coffee.

Great video and I've got to agree music also lol. Looking forward to the retro gaming event 😉🕹💻⌨ Great T-shirt by the way 👍🌈

lol, another great one! The music is a fine choice.

Hillarious... well done!

Thanks for a really interesting video about firing up your Timex Sinclair 2068 and typing in one of the first games you typed into it. Would this Basic program listing work on a ZX Spectrum 48K as I'd like to give it a go. I could double check my Fuse emulator as it may be ale to emulate a Timex Sinclair otherwise? 😀

Too bad it doesn't support breakpoints on READ/WRITE on a particular memory address. ...and it absolutely doesn't even try helping finding POKEs by snapping and searching throughout the memory. Nonetheless I was able to hасk quite a few games I was dreaming to hасk in my childhood 😊

It is always so rewarding to enter these type-ins and have it work! Back in the early-90s we had a second hand Commodore and CoCo 2 and our local library had type-in books. I remember us renting one and spending seemingly forever to type one that was a reaction test with scoring and all. But it was my brother and I's first experience programming anything and to be able to actually have a working game after all that work was amazing. We did not have even a tape drive for ours so once typed in it only existed until we shut off the computer but I remember keeping it going for a whole weekend. Also this video inspires me to get mine going again. I have it with the twister cart and some other peripherals as well as the Backbit multicart adapter but haven't used it in a very long time.

Interesting to see that both the moon and the duck had a not so dark black background. That makes me think this used to be a Spectrum game as both BRIGHT 0 and BRIGHT 1 black were just black whereas on the 2068 you'd see a difference between those 2 brightness levels.

I wonder how many 2068s they sold in the US. If I remember correctly the twister boards to play Spectrum games had color issues for the software?

It's always a very special thing for me to see these old computers and the incredible technique behind them. You have to imagine the genius of the people that developed something like this ... Wow! 🥰 I wish i could travel back in the 80s. ^^

I'm quite surprised development tools aren't readily available with this machine given its close similarity to the Spectrum which has to be one of, if not the best-supported 8-bit micro from a community perspective!

I am looking on the walls... see no easter eggs of new Jay Mundy games to come. We need a teaser. ;-)

Is there an art package for next?

z80 heaven writes it doesnt work in rus and belarus due to violation of human rights and the international law :) so they mean capturing power in a country with foregn supported and sponsored coups, burning people alive in odessa, discriminating russian people and language - it's all within the international law?.. that's interesting, made a note... i joined it through a free web proxy in next two minutes anyway

Great video Jay. Now I want to make boxes for my games!

very cool dude. Lots of hard work went into making the box and video. Thanks for sharing.

Great vid that. Nice end result.

Very nice! Thank you for sharing!

The rings around the thumbsticks are a good improovement they're on the Elite series 2, they're called friction rings. they make your thumbsticks glide a bit more smooth without tearing the joysticks but would be better with metal thumbsticks but still i'm pretty sure if ER did it with good quality will help the default plastic ones from microsoft, altought i didn't get much quality from this third party company with some faceplate for my elite series 2 a while ago. and result thier plastic was more brittle and cheap feeling so i can't tell from your faceplate but adding friction rings that's a +

retro assembler is written likely in C# or F#, that's why it needs the .NET framework to run.

A great series of ZX Spectrum Z80 educational videos. It's criminal that this video only have 558 (at time of typing this) views and no comments. You are a good teacher and explain the each process really well. I haven't programmed Z80 Assembly since I was a kid, this course has brought back so many fond memories. I don't know if you realise but your playlist "Z80 Assembly Language/Machine Code" isn't in correct lesson order. FYI. Keep up the great tutorials.

Now to see that controller showing easter eggs of a Jay Mundy new game "Mundy's Hell Torture Dunegon"

When the team built the boards the correct sockets for the RAM chips haven't been available. Because of this larger ones have been used. - Fun fact: Not sure, but I think that the Sockets have been at least as expensive as the RAM chips itself...

Very helpful, thanks!

Looking at some of the source code, this is still beyond me!

Good to see you're supporting the next. I still need to get you on my podcast. Funny thing is upgrading the next to 2mb was one of my first ever videos 3 years ago! How time flys. Ill be in touch about the podcast.👍

good video mate ,nice to see more next stuff

I have a second SD card reader built into one of my ZX Spectrum Nexts (the board only one). It is a microSD card reader.

The Tiles Demo was very jerky (not smooth scrolling!). Is that what you were also seeing first hand, or is it a symptom of the video capture?

Captain Casey Nydahl here. I wanted to say that I enjoyed your video and after seeing your gameplay action, if you keep practicing, you could eventually be a top pilot in the cloud force. Keep up the good work and train hard to join the ranks of the elite captains.

Great video mate

Wow! This comprehensive look at the physical release is a home run! Great job Jay! 😀👍

All done. Thanks for being so thorough and appreciate all the nice words and tips as well. Did you have to GLUE Clod to your shoulder at the end? haha. And BTW, the shadowing of the text on the main arena screen of the game for the letters were all by hand and are tiles I made and placed. Thought it made the name pop more so I did it. Wanted it to be like I was doing graphics from the 1980s when I was a teen. haha

Great video! Fun! I need to make my Clod Popples one of these days!

1/2 way done with the video. Will watch other 1/2 later.

That CPManual below the .SNA file for the 48K game is the manual. Graphical manual too. Check it out. ;-)

Sticker BAST!@#$%^^!

Awesome! Thanks for the fun review!

Nah, you can't spell 'coolest computer' if the phrase is not followed by 'ZX Spectrum'. But I admit Aquarius is an excellent computer for educative purposes for the reasons you have explained before in other videos.

Not bad that Aquarius Plus AQ+ mini computer. .mite try and get me one . good video ,thanks

I keep looking on the wall to see if I can find any secrets about new AQ+ games come from you. Like an easter egg.

Just started to watch. Is this the one you forgot to start the recording? hehe

The coolest modern retro computer ever? No, that's the Spectrum Next.

Hmmm... I do seem to have a problem with the assembler. When I type something in it, it displays random ASCII characters. The keyboard works perfectly in the emulator, but it's the assembler part that refuses to work. My keyboard is set to US, so what is the issue? I tried several versions of ZX Spin with no luck. @Spriteworx

My spectrum used to have rubber keys. I used to enjoy typing out programming for simple animation or games. I was 8-11 years old , 1980 onwards I think or ‘81. I wish I’d carried on .

I remember writing BASIC program back in 1994 or around that year. I needed a picture to be moved from memory into screen memory so I user a small machine code program consisting of one command ;-) I simply POKEd those bytes into free part of memory straight from BASIC and used RANDOMIZE USR 'some addredd I don't remember' to make that. The machine code program was LDIR, which moved some bytes of memory (6912, quantity according to one of CPU registers) from starting address indicated in another register to 16384, stated in third register. This was way more fast then PEEKing and POKEing 6912 byted in cycle of BASIC :-)