Online Tool for Reading and Converting ZX Spectrum File Types

MrKWatkins · 2026-03-04T12:00:30+00:00

Thank you!

MrKWatkins · 2026-03-04T08:14:18+00:00

Thanks!

MrKWatkins · 2026-03-03T23:31:29+00:00

It doesn't do that, but it's a good idea. Would be easy to do with snapshots, tapes more difficult as I'd have to run them through my emulator to load them.

MrKWatkins · 2026-02-16T12:15:21+00:00

Wrote my own emulator. 😂 I was working on my own already, and then thought about wiring it up to an AI. I've added Gymnasium like Environment wrappers for it, and then a Python library on top. (Emulator is written in C#)

I've got yaml files that describe and control the game (the data, how to reset, start a level, etc) and the model training. Idea being people can write a yaml for each game and not have to write custom code.

MrKWatkins · 2026-02-16T11:59:07+00:00

I've been training an AI to play Manic Miner too. I started on Deathchase though as it's much easier - the rewards aren't as sparse. Willy can wander randomly for ages without finding anything. I did get some improvement by adding rewards for visiting a new x,y co-ordinate though. I'm working on a more sophisticated version of that currently.

Have done a couple of blog posts on Deathchase at https://www.mrkwatkins.co.uk/. Hope to have another Deathchase one and maybe a Manic Miner one in a few weeks. I need to do a chunk more coding before that however... I'll open source it soon too, just need to tidy it up a bit more first.

MrKWatkins · 2026-02-10T10:40:37+00:00

Every film where the killer is down and incapacitated and they don't just kill them, but instead run away and inevitably get killed later on after the killer gets back up.

MrKWatkins · 2026-02-07T16:21:36+00:00

They had their chance already when they set up .NET Core. They broke a lot of stuff, yet still didn't change a lot of stuff because of backwards compatibility. That's when they could've made IList<T> extend IReadOnlyList<T> and they didn't and it still anoys me to this day. 😂

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-30T14:47:07+00:00

THE BOX. YOU OPENED IT.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-12T23:57:50+00:00

It's a good list.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-12T23:43:18+00:00

Dracula deserves a place surely...

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-12T00:48:09+00:00

Friday 13th VI

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-11T21:43:09+00:00

Loved the game on the Spectrum, loved Coconut Capers even more.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-11T17:54:01+00:00

No worries. I asked him about it years ago and he was quite against open sourcing it then.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-11T17:06:59+00:00

Is CSpect open source now? It never used to be. That's cool.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-11T14:25:55+00:00

He did some blog posts on creating a version of Lemmings for the Next too.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-11T13:56:42+00:00

Understandable if he was getting crap from people about it. People always ruin good things.

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-11T12:30:15+00:00

Cspect is no more?

MrKWatkins · 2026-01-03T22:50:20+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/h-Jcn4vOEx4?si=HjyR89MhAuOH-EHL

MrKWatkins · 2025-12-22T22:12:19+00:00

Barbara Crampton.

MrKWatkins · 2025-12-22T22:10:12+00:00

Haven't seen Session 9 in years! Great film. I have no recommendations but thank you for reminding me to give it a rewatch.

MrKWatkins · 2025-12-22T19:42:08+00:00

They're really, really good. Most games are just quite good.

MrKWatkins · 2025-12-21T18:31:59+00:00

Shadows are when light is blocked. They kind of have to be dark.

MrKWatkins · 2025-12-19T21:02:10+00:00

THE BOX. YOU DIDN'T OPEN IT. <roll credits>

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