Jean-Marc Gillet
@duende24.bsky.social
Is that all ? We want more !
Now, seriously : it's impressive. I'm sure that Douglas Trumbull would have been delighted, too.
Now, seriously : it's impressive. I'm sure that Douglas Trumbull would have been delighted, too.
January 25, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Is that all ? We want more !
Now, seriously : it's impressive. I'm sure that Douglas Trumbull would have been delighted, too.
Now, seriously : it's impressive. I'm sure that Douglas Trumbull would have been delighted, too.
Be sure to post some nice pictures for those of us abroad.
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Be sure to post some nice pictures for those of us abroad.
January 13, 2026 at 8:22 PM
You're right. A continuation of the ZX81 cover art indeed.
Thanks to Simon Holdsworth' site : www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/book/Pe...
Thanks to Simon Holdsworth' site : www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/book/Pe...
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
You're right. A continuation of the ZX81 cover art indeed.
Thanks to Simon Holdsworth' site : www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/book/Pe...
Thanks to Simon Holdsworth' site : www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/book/Pe...
What ? A true C5, a NeXT cube and a Sun pizza box ? It's the dragon's lair with its treasure, like the cover of the Hobbit book 🙂
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
What ? A true C5, a NeXT cube and a Sun pizza box ? It's the dragon's lair with its treasure, like the cover of the Hobbit book 🙂
I don't live in Britannia but I do know that it's the title of a Blancmange album.
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I don't live in Britannia but I do know that it's the title of a Blancmange album.
A great game opus by Steve Lamb, Tony Mack, Dave Dew and Mark Alexander for the ZX Spectrum version. Published by Melbourne House in 1985.
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
A great game opus by Steve Lamb, Tony Mack, Dave Dew and Mark Alexander for the ZX Spectrum version. Published by Melbourne House in 1985.
I like that hands-on style too - from what I could read. What did you achieve with meek and moke 🙂 on that 8 KB RAM micro ?
January 8, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I like that hands-on style too - from what I could read. What did you achieve with meek and moke 🙂 on that 8 KB RAM micro ?
The wonders of AI.
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It's a joke ! 😉
I like it a lot, actually. Do you get contacted/contracted sometimes by space agencies or the BBC e.g. for such works ?
NB I couldn't read your LinkedIn profile until now (mandatory login). My apologies if it's written clearly there, IDK.
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It's a joke ! 😉
I like it a lot, actually. Do you get contacted/contracted sometimes by space agencies or the BBC e.g. for such works ?
NB I couldn't read your LinkedIn profile until now (mandatory login). My apologies if it's written clearly there, IDK.
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The wonders of AI.
...
It's a joke ! 😉
I like it a lot, actually. Do you get contacted/contracted sometimes by space agencies or the BBC e.g. for such works ?
NB I couldn't read your LinkedIn profile until now (mandatory login). My apologies if it's written clearly there, IDK.
...
It's a joke ! 😉
I like it a lot, actually. Do you get contacted/contracted sometimes by space agencies or the BBC e.g. for such works ?
NB I couldn't read your LinkedIn profile until now (mandatory login). My apologies if it's written clearly there, IDK.
Are you aware of the famous Goldberg paper ? docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01...
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
docs.oracle.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Are you aware of the famous Goldberg paper ? docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01...
More than amazing. Hat down !
January 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
More than amazing. Hat down !
Strange. I always assumed that Steve Vickers had done a neat floating point package for the "new ROM". Choosing Chebyshev series one one hand and losing mantissa digits on the other hand doesn't add up. I understand the use of x**0.5 instead of Newton-Raphson however : lack of ROM space.
January 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Strange. I always assumed that Steve Vickers had done a neat floating point package for the "new ROM". Choosing Chebyshev series one one hand and losing mantissa digits on the other hand doesn't add up. I understand the use of x**0.5 instead of Newton-Raphson however : lack of ROM space.
I concur. Benj learned magic from Claude the sorcerer.
January 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
I concur. Benj learned magic from Claude the sorcerer.
You're not alone! What a great game it was. Many hours spent... All those little vortons lacking initiative. 😀
January 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
You're not alone! What a great game it was. Many hours spent... All those little vortons lacking initiative. 😀
It reminds me of fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ts... (comic strip heroine created in 1970)
Yoko Tsuno — Wikipédia
fr.wikipedia.org
January 4, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It reminds me of fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ts... (comic strip heroine created in 1970)
The first models were imported from Michigan to France but this one of 1983 with a Z80 at 5 MHz (the fastest at that time probably) should be from France. RGB output, so you avoid the SECAM issue.
January 4, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The first models were imported from Michigan to France but this one of 1983 with a Z80 at 5 MHz (the fastest at that time probably) should be from France. RGB output, so you avoid the SECAM issue.
The colour clash seems respected indeed 😀
January 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The colour clash seems respected indeed 😀
1980 ? Or maybe earlier ?
January 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
1980 ? Or maybe earlier ?