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Crayon21 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:16 pm holy crap this was awesome. How did you manage this? Basic? Machine code?

Short: M/C player on the ZX81, movie encoding on the PC.
For a better explanation: https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtop ... f=6&t=3326

I just tested it in EO successfully, and here are the settings:
- make sure that both files are in the virtual SD-card folder, snowman.p and snowman.rvc
- 32k RAM
- Chr$ Generator: CHR$16
- ZXpand+ checked

The reason for the repeated text-message is because the player does not find the rvc-file.

The snowman was a favourite when I was much younger, but my memory clocked it at far less than its 25 minutes. I still enjoy the story and style of the movie, even when played on the ZX81 :D So here is a ZX81 video player and file to watch the film in all its monochrome glory. As usual, UDG128 and Z...

Well, another year coming up: Since I bought a Minstrel 3 I'll try to get it working at 3.6864 and 4 MHz to get 40 (or more) column graphics and a small speed bump. Requires changes to the divider, 236 or 256 instead of 207. Also a new ROM to deal with the changes in timing and number of rows. Might...

I just pulled the trigger on a Minstrel 3 ZX81 clone. It went on sale yesterday, so I had all night to read the schematics and think about it. I look forward to a stable ZX81 that will never develop a faulty ULA, and I will CERTAINLY mod the heck out of it :) Details at: http://blog.tynemouthsoftwar...

Nice utility! Will be a bit of work to do some tests, but very good looking when done.

What if the ZX81 could have been made to play DOOM, what would that look like? No way to know, it simply isn't even remotely possible to code the classic shooter with the poor performance of our beloved door-stopper. Now however, I've made a 30fps widescreen video of someone playing DOOM episode 1 m...

Looking forward to the trip!

I've looked with delight at your different posts regarding your project over the years. It is a well documented build that I would love to get to build sometime. Even more, I'd love a version that is through-hole, hope there is a kit in the end. I'd also say the silence regarding most projects is qu...

Updated the first post with a new release, version 0.4