Anyone of a certain age who has used Ms. Dos will have come across at some point terminate and stay resident programs or tsrs. The shareware scene was absolutely full of them... There were tsrs for music, for calculators, for notepads and all sorts....

But the undisputed master of the tsrs was Bal...

I've spent the last few evenings going back to a few of my old test programs I wrote for the SpectrumNext ages ago. I've got a handful, but none of them are really 'complete'. I was just writing them in notepad and copying them onto the SD image, so I decided to try out RemySharp's NextBASIC plug...

I've had my Kickstarter-2 Spectrum Next sitting on my bench since it first arrived. I played with it for a few weeks when it landed, and then I loaded up the Next Core on the MisterFPGA downstairs instead. Why? I prefer the full 101 key keyboard I have with the Mister. I also prefer the giant...

I've been using my Speccy Next for a few years. It's a wonderful machine, but the documentation and experience are VERY raw. The manual just doesn't have the immediacy of the original Spectrum manual.. It's tiny text, with long paragraphs, and there's just too much text. Text text text. I know th...

Last week I wrote about the diving I've done back into Spectrum BASIC coding.

I have to say that it's been a LOT of hard work to update the old code. Updating it to work on all the newer machines and emulators, while still being able to fit the original code's purpose; to work on a 16Kb con...

In this day and age most coders won't get out of bed unless there's a syntax-highlighting intellisense-enabled, bracket-matching, library-aware, compiler-linked IDE to use. It's a far cry from the old days when all you had was a keyboard..... yeah, not even an editor... you just turned the machin...

I once made a small five-room MUD using a java server. It was okay, but it was so painful doing session management, anti-spoofing and broadcasting that I never took it any further.

I've recently been reading about how good nodejs is at being a mini webserver with inbuilt socket management system...

I was pretty hesitant to switch away from a distro as solid and well regarded as Mint. It was a few throwaway responses to a comment I made on a game on Steam. "Try poops" said one. "Catchy is awesome" said another. It hadn't occurred to me that my distro was the possible cause of the issues I w...

I've recently taken the plunge and installed Wordpress for someone to share their stories. I won't say who it is, to protect her anonymity, but if she's reading this, she'll know I'm referring to her :)

It made me realise just how long I've avoided Wordpress, as I've always felt it was a bit too...

I originally joined Twitter way back during the Arab Spring. It really felt like the world was turning a corner and everything was getting better for everyone. IT was like, as a collective whole we had come together to celebrate throwing off the horrible yoke of oppression and we were rejoicing w...