Kevin Palser

It’s been about 35 years since the boy was used but my 6 year old seems to be loving it #speak&maths

@NotoriousNoto92 @wartranslated Perhaps concern that loved ones back home might suffer repercussions is a factor.

This Russian serviceman of the 200th Brigade's 3rd battalion informs his family about the intention of the command of the brigade to “nullify” (shoot) him and his colleague with the call sign “Kalmyk”. According to the soldier, executions of their own soldiers in the 200th brigade are a common practice, and the bodies of those executed are simply abandoned in positions or buried in marches.

@eduo The app has been on App Store since December 2016. The tape loading was disabled up to this version. It supports the .P (ZX81) and .O (ZX80) file extensions.

@kpalser Wait. You mean loading tape files. Understood. I can't load .tzx or .tzx.zip though. What're the file extensions supported?

First and foremost I don’t encourage piracy. I was surprised this was approved as I was testing the waters with Apple’s new guidelines. My submission included a video loading a file and quoting the 2.5.2 rule. Pigs fly.

So does Apple’s change to their rules today mean I can turn on the ability for users to load tape files in my #ZX81 & #JupiterACE iOS/iPadOS apps?

@douglasmun They seem to target free apps to mask their activity. I ended up having to remove my free iOS/iPadOS from the App Store for a certain nation (you can probably guess which). It would get crazy download figures on a random day eclipsing everything else by a thousand fold margin.

*Evolution of click farm fraud.* 1st generation click farm fraud, fully manual labour.

@EruchAdams @albafella1 They might have other considerations such as how their family / loved ones will be treated if they start an uprising.

@albafella1 Is there a point where they turn on their commanders? I mean they pretty much have nothing to lose if their losses are this bad.

“Of our three assault groups, only 3 people returned yesterday. Our wounded were not evacuated. Barrier troops [anti-retreat forces] were set up against us, snipers [of the Russian army] worked against us. Those who returned from the assaults alive, the commanders sent back to the attack without weapons, only with knives,” — the Russian occupiers complain on video. 📹 The 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade from Vladivostok, Russia. Due to the huge number of losses in the orк army, this brigade is called “Black Death”

@Rainmaker1973 Seems more tech savvy than my parents

Imagine sharing your planet with a more evolved species that shows you this kind of magic and you try hard to figure out how it works, but to no avail. [📹JC Pieri]

Latest retro computer book. Signed by the the author. Thanks @MarquisdeGeek

@JohnKennedyEsq How do you find the time? Downloading!

A wee game what I wrote. apps.apple.com/us/app/cubical…

@fr8d Well, he was aware of the Apple Watch under the general umbrella of wearable devices. And in a broad sense he’d seen many ideas about wearable devices and glasses would certainly have been amongst them but unlikely any brief that would have aligned well to the Vision Pro

Did Steve Jobs himself sanction the Apple Vision Pro project?

@fr8d @zx81gaming Thanks for the kind words! You might also like its sister app, Jupiter ACE, developed from starting from the same base project code. If you have time please leave a review on the App Store.

I love this app! #ZX81 #Emulator #iOS Thanks to the developers! Nice trip down memory lane

@ezContents @level106 A sort of related Easter egg in the ZX81 iOS/iPadOS app: Change settings to NTSC and >1K RAM to update the logo & keyboard styling. This was broken in the app until I saw your tweet, which prompted me to test and fixed it with an update.

@level106 Indeed.. you are right. :-) But there are some changes. RUBOUT and NEW LINE in the UK version.

Which one is your favo(u)rite?

@Molitronix72 @ezContents The ROM was slightly different in the T1500. It fixed one bug and introduced another.

@ezContents The Timex/Sinclair 1000, produced under license from Sinclair, was a modestly improved version of the Sinclair ZX81, with 2K RAM. The 1500 version had 16k.

@Molitronix72 @ezContents If memory serves me they also had more shielding in the form of a small metal panel to meet US regulations.

@ezContents Have both. The only difference is 2k in some USA Timex models..

@ezContents @Raxor1Robin NTSC models have less vertical margin lines. Z80 processor time is used to generate the screen output and the user program is executed during these lines. Less lines / more frames for NTSC results in slower execution of user programs and ocasional race incompatibility conditions.

@Raxor1Robin I think it could run more software because of the 2K.

It’s been almost 8 months since the previous #ZX81 iOS/iPadOS app update.

@80sNostalgia Took me a few attempts for this to go on my device. When bugs did arise back in the day it was a far more painful affair. If there was a problem we had to live without a fix. Remember even the ZX81 went through three ROM editions.

Having issues trying to install update 16.4.1(a) on my portable Apple telephone. Remember the problems we all had in the 80s installing the endless updates on our Spectrums and Commodore 64s? No… me neither…

@ashleymills Definitely interested in testing - have already sent you an email on Saturday

I'm working on a Core Data graph viewer, to replace (and hopefully improve on) the one missing from Xcode 14. I'm on the hunt for beta testers; if anyone is interested please reply here, or at contact@ashley-mills.com #coredata #iOSDev #macOS