Tag: Spectrum
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Testing the emulator
Boy was this hard, testing took far longer than writing the code and debugging was a major pain… Writing an emulator is quite different from coding normal applications. Mainly because with an emulator you don’t get to see it working until it’s completely finished. There is no watching it as it gradually matures. Unit tests…
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Removing the Sinclair ROM from the emulator
The Spectrum has a 16K ROM. The ROM being the primitive operating system (monitor) for the computer, one of the first tasks was to reverse engineer it so a complete understanding of the machine could be gleaned. The exercise was largely trivial as it was well documented, as shown here in The Complete Spectrum ROM…
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Later RARE
A couple of months later, with our degrees in hand, one in Computer Science and the other in Professional Media, we headed down to London to attend a Computer Show, wishing to see Rare. Here the dreams would surely come true! I met a Lead Dev, and to say it didn’t go well was a…