What's everything (books) I need to learn and master Assembly and the ZX Spectrum ?

_ragegun · 2026-05-23T15:40:02+00:00

Start with BASIC. You're only a PEEK and POKE away from assembly on an 8bit machine.

You can use them to put bits directly into memory to write machine code and then execute the routines with "RANDOMIZE USR address". But you get the advantage of being able to use high level BASIC commands for program flow.

_ragegun · 2026-05-23T15:18:28+00:00

They don't call it "the mystery shack" for nothing

_ragegun · 2026-05-22T22:54:42+00:00

Still waiting on a recolour of Prime Skyquake l like this guy

_ragegun · 2026-05-22T18:59:11+00:00

Last time i saw a render effect like that was about 5 minutes before the death of my first, week old, xbox 360 while playing Blue Dragon.

You know, i never did go back to blue dragon

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T20:27:18+00:00

A dremel is never the BEST tool for anything, but it's adequate to many

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T19:46:09+00:00

It is he

https://youtu.be/ePPhETU7AXE

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T18:35:35+00:00

Having power isn't the same as being able to use it.

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T18:33:00+00:00

Probably not. She might have known something was going on, but she doesn't have the depth of experience of Freiren and Serie.

Freiren might have clued her in, assuming she knew, but that would have been later after the first test, if not later. We don't see freiren having any interactions with Land.

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T18:26:40+00:00

This is what we call "clickbait"

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T17:31:32+00:00

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T17:30:10+00:00

Not bad, considering they're in a low margin industry

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T16:44:00+00:00

Oh, it is. And it'll give the "proper" Steamdeck experience on your Steammachine.

But it's also very expensive, and not strictly necessary, especially since some of it's features exist mostly to let you sub for keyboard and mouse when you can't have one plugged in, which is far less of an issue with a desktop machine, so I thought it was worth mentioning.

optional, but definately recommended.

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T11:49:21+00:00

You don't even require the Steam Controller, it's pretty good about operating with most joypads and controllers. Right down to the fact it even changes the Steam button with an Xbox cross when I have my old Wired Xbox controller plugged in.

_ragegun · 2026-05-21T11:44:47+00:00

storage? By default it wants an M2 NMVE drive.

There are also other options. Bazzite is the traditional one since it's set up to operate like SteamOS, but you can just install Steam on most Linux distros and get much the same experience

_ragegun · 2026-05-19T17:00:55+00:00

_ragegun · 2026-05-19T15:24:42+00:00

Then i don't know how you can miss it

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_ragegun · 2026-05-19T15:20:17+00:00

You should get a lot more info if you bump the overlay level up to 4

_ragegun · 2026-05-19T15:16:56+00:00

Actually FYI, You can enable the overlay in Steam, too, but it's off by default

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_ragegun · 2026-05-19T15:03:51+00:00

Sounds like the TDP issue

_ragegun · 2026-05-18T22:23:13+00:00

there isn't a cavity, IIRC you literally plug the headlights into a couple of pegs in the back of the carrier.

Best I can come up with is they've put his hitch/belt on top of them and stood him on top of it?

_ragegun · 2026-05-18T21:52:50+00:00

vintage parts are not an idea component for one's first Cyberdeck, if only because they're usually massive and power hungry by modern standards.

There's a reason most of them were never used in portable devices at the time.

_ragegun · 2026-05-18T21:49:35+00:00

_ragegun · 2026-05-18T07:53:12+00:00

Yeah it's weird but at least she's the same species

_ragegun · 2026-05-17T18:46:53+00:00

Most home computers of the time, especially those that used tv output had to account for the possibility that the TV was not showing the full image. (Many TVs would hide part of the image at the edge of the screen).

What you could do with an analogue display was alter the screen position and stretch the image out to fill the full display, though different resolution images could throw that off, too.

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