Haha, spam blocker

This was a great news, I just posted that messaga about my trip, and guess what. A short time there after, less than 5 seconds I got a loooooooong guest comment. "Give me a dollar to pay my student...." More like he is a some kind of terrorist or something, he IS not a student, that's sure.

And every time some leaves a comment, I get a mail to delete it or allow, so This place won't have any stupid comments about moneybegging "students" or anything :D

bye for now.

My trip

Hi everyone, I am back here.
My trip were perfect in Haapamäki, and I am glad to be home again. What to say about my trip... It was all about trains. Finlands trainhistory and many many many other things.

As you all know, I am a train/tram fan, love these stuff. That's why I visit often the site:

http://www.jarnvag.net/

the swedish site for trains and network.
here is some "bilder" (pictures) :P
http://www.jarnvag.net/bildbank/

writing to you sooner or later

/emma

Planed trip next month

Planing on a trip on April 4th 2007. Going to haapamäki for train and railway show. It is about 3-4 days.

But everything, the ship and so is full, so we have to extend our visit to about 5-6 days. But that will be ok too, there is plenty of stuff to see anyway.

Writing to you soon and if I find a internet connection on my trip, then I will blogg from there.

Now much to tell, so little time

Starting.

World of warcraft BCCE.

Long time ago... got the game from www.discshop.se. I haven't had even time to play wow so much these days. If it continues like this, I won't pay more money to play the game until I got more time. This is near madness.. what do I do home that destroys time?

hm.. let me think a moment...

1. I play too much with my c64 and other retrostuff.
2. I got to be in the work.
3. I don't watch tv.!!
4. I watch too much movies. about 3 in a week...

oh well... times changes.

I won't tell you anything about the wow, because I wan't to keep this as a retroblog or some kind of emma blog.

Bye for now and writing soon.

The Vic 20

Long time again... but now it's all about Vic 20.

I got one couple of weeks ago, haven't had time to write about it because, too much to do and even my birthday there too.

So... the Vic 20. Got it on eBay, European version. I think it is the older version, the transformer is the old one, the black one.

With the package come the tape unit, the old Vic 20 one, and a couple of game tapes. I have not the time to test everything right now, just tested some game tapes to make sure that the Vic 20 works fine.

It also came with a couple of Vic 20 Basic instruction books, learning basic programming, and that was the whole machine. anything else important?

Oh yes, the joystick. 1 button 1 stick. :D primitive and great. Even my grandmother can use it. (if i had one)

I am happy to own a real Vic 20.

My future experiments with the machine will be downloading various Vic 20 demos and testing it on the real hardware.

Writing to you soon

Here is the Vic 20 with it's joystick

and here is the tape unit.

My christmast presents.

Hi finaly time to post my presents, sorry no picture available now, but maybe tomorow, i am a bit ill right now.

So, what did I got?
I got most of my presents in retro way.

But I tell you the first one that isn't retro.

A new mobilephone, an Sony Ericsson K310i. <-- from "mother and father"
Nothing I have waited for, it was a complete suprise.

And now the 2 others.

1. 50 Moviepack SciFi Classics. on 12 double side DVDs. <-- from my pretedsisters.
2. Sega Classics collection for Playstation 2. <-- from my work. (Front cover may vary from my version)

That's all from now. Writing more soon, tomorow maybe? We'll see.

Problems :(

I have very problems with google Blogger... my password isn't right... I reseted it. and hurray it works... only today. Tomorow I need to reset my password again to get blogging, even if I use my simple password it won't work.

Anyone of you know what is the problem? I have converted this to google blogger. Hope these problems are temporarry.

Christmas tomorrow

I wish my all readers a very merry cristmast and a happy new retro and all other year :D

I wish good luck and that everything is working fine.

Tomorrow I'll write my present collection. Good star night.

Blogger is not beta anymore!

Hi, just sayint that I've uppdated the "engine" (?) at my blogger :D
it's now stuffed with google.

Great, writing more soon...

Hi, I havent forgotten you!!

Hi Now it's time to write, the clock is 00:06 at the night. And it is quite cold outside... only around +-0 C
(32 F)

Freezing.

But that's only smal bytes... What I am now talking about is a great great news. I have discovered a strange radiosignal on 65 Mhz, it is on english and I have recorded it. It sounds like a british speech synthesis. I am not sure. But hopefully I can post you that.
I have read on this fenomenal at wikipedia, have a look, they caled number stations or number transmitions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_station

quite interesting. So I have plans to order the 25 year collection on number transmissions. on 4 CD's.

The christmas is rushing at high speed and I am not ready for it. Not yet. Maybe in couple of weeks bot not now. Only 7 days left. Aahhh... And my pretend sister wan't something great and I have no idea what to give... or I have but I wan't this christmas to be more like a remembrance christmas. Not the usual one. But Oh whell...

Not much retrostuff this period, because I am working and this autumn (fall for you US) is drilling me crazy... and as usual, I try to do 10 man's or woman's job at the same time. And it is possible if you know how to do.

But now, the biggest interest at the moment is numberstations. and the PV radio Band. fron 148 - 174 Mhz, it sounds fun and you can find speach there.
But the file later on, now signing off and sleeping.

Writing to you realy soon.

Long time since but I'll have an update here

I've been too bussy these days, so no time for blogging.

My blog question for LCD TV were:
Where did you buy the cable that converts the c64 signal to scart ??

Here is the answer.

I got mine cable via auction.
www.tradera.com It isn't ofthen there but I think you find one at ebay too.

the swedish searchword were:
RGB Scartkabel till Commodore 64.

otherwise, contact Spelfyndet, they should have:
http://www.spelfyndet.se/

writing to you all soon.

Picturetest on spectrum

I did an test on how to load an picture direct in the in the menu. I thought that SCR files were possible to load in with no separate program on the spectrum system I got a picture that tells how the file system looks like. It is my second test. If you interested to run these on a spectrum emulator, you can download the TAP files from my webpage. HERE!

In that picture you can see everything, step by step as they would be on a tape (or tape image)



















0001 is the commandline for and it types the "Starting 1" text on the screen

0002 is the program code that allows to load images into screen

0003 is another note and it will start the loading sequence

0004 is the main picturefile

0005 stops the tape.





The text is quite different in the test 2 i saw... And I tried to change the name's but it won't work.

But the old loader it will work by changing the name.

Experimenting again

This time it is 2 games on real Tape, look att my pictures. I did buy these tapes for 2 Euro, cheap.

Why did I that? It's because I have an theory in my mind that If i download wav 2 tap converter from the internet then I would play the game from my tapes in a emulator. So Yesterday I did my test.Recorded the beeps from the tape to a wav file (no compression on the wav quality)

Then runned the program mtzx233w which can be downloaded at:http://tzxvault.retrogames.com/tools.htm
(The link may not work allways)

I extracted it up and dropped the wav file to the exe file.The program starts to calculate and when it's done it turns off and you got the tape image file for spectrum on your root folder (C:\)

Then It were just start to playing after the load to a spectrum drive (emulator)I never use fast loaders because it ruins the feeling of loading something real.

The Game which work were "Heavy on the Magic" but the second tape had so much errors in the tape that it failed with the conversion from wav to tape image. the game were "tapper"

But fun that this works.

My new Webcam

I've got the webcam today in the mail today. I have 2 pictures taken with it, sadly it is dark outside now and I took the pictures in plain lamplight from the roof. It looks quite ok.

The picture is from a retro game sold in 2006 (NO ABANDONWARE!!!)

It is an Creative WebCam Live!
It came with microphone, but I can't use it, My soundcard doesn't suport that kind of sound plugs. EMU-X card you know.

But I can snap pictures in resolution 1024 x 768 and shoot video in 640x480, that's great.

Some day I collect pictures of my retrocollection and post them to flickr.com

And ofcourse, I let you see my collection of retro computers.


Oh, I almost forgot. I won the Auction on the Vic 20.
More of that later, from now on, topics that can have a picture will have an picture. Continuing to listen on The retrobits podcast.

Serverproblems?

One of my favorite forum sites has crashed?
Or maybe hacked?

http://www.folkvagn.commodore64.org/phpbb

the site is backupreseted to beginning of september 2006, and I have lost many threads and posts to threads. And poits.

And the moderator can't get the backup working that he did copy a few days ago. weird, just wait and see what's happening.

I hope all goes well.

Forums

Naming a few Forums I daily visit.

One of my best forums are the Commodore 64 Folkvagn. I got the link to it in my sidebar, but here it is:



the next forum is in english and all about retro gaming.
http://oldgames.nu/forum/ the host site is http://oldgames.nu/ At their site you can download game emulators for free, but you have to pay for the roms. The payment is in kilobytes (KB) if a file is 34 kb it kosts 34 kb to download. You get 10 mb to start with and and you get points when you post forum posts, (SPAM = BAN) So don't spam. 1 Post = 3 MB


The last forum site is by retrobits podcast, Just registered to there. Quite complicated registration because the moderator has to accept my account... but anyway. It is a forum about Retrocomputing and all kind of that stuff.

http://forums.petscii.com/ <-- select Retrobits podcast there, then you come to the right place.

The Experiment and new retro coputer stuff

First of all, I've found A Retro computer on Ebay. An Vic-20. Ends this sunday, more of that later. Still no Amstrad tape testing, I got much to do right now. And Just Now, listening on The retrobits Podcast, and it is great, Earl knows what he is talking about.

Writing to you later, oh, getting an Webcam Monday or atleast Thuesday. Then Posting more pictures, atleast one picture per point.

future Experimenting

Some day now I will do a big test with my Spectrum tapes. I got an Emulator for the Spectrum system. And with that I can load Wav or Voc files directly into the system. And then start the game. I did buy the tapes (2 of them) for cheap price. 4 Euro did everything cost. (on a secondhand here in Åland)

But I won't do it now these days, I need time and peace for it, to think if something goes wrong.
But i'll let you know when the time and test is.

And a message to you Unsource, I didn't do it today but I will do it near future.
But I will also write it when I do it.
So once again than's for your tip.

Picture later of them, I have ordered an Webcam aswell so I can soon post pictures of that I am talking about.

Mu TFT LCD TV

Finaly my TFT LCD TV has arrived.

it is 20" and great for me. Not too big and not too smal, a Bigger TV takes so much space and my room is smal.

Did buy too a cable that converts c64 TV signals to standard European Scart cable. No more seeking for the channel in TV, just plug in and start to play.

Easy and fun.

The TV got 15 ms responding time, it is quite big but an human eye doesn't see the difference in moving picture between 8-15 so i thought if I can't see the difference between 20ms (laptop) and my TFT screen on my computer (2 ms) so why would I see the difference then in 15 ms?

Even the flickering picture when you load games from tape is good, no mixing of colors, it is exactly (almost) like in my old TV but this is mych sharper.

Did the test by loading some demos on my c64. and one Game. Everything works fine.

The game were on tape where i did the flickering test and watched how the screen is, and the demos from a 5,26' floppy disk. Sidescroll, scroll from bottom to up and diagonal scroll, everything floats smoothly, nothing to complain.

A perfect TV for me. Say no more :D

Laserdisc

Am I stupod or what... (stupod is the new version of a human that wont listen to anyone, just his or her brain only)

Anyway :D
I did bid on auction... 7 days left now, and ques what it is?

A NTCS Laser disc, and I do not have any laserdisc players. :D
I'v posted an picture aswell so you can have a look what that is.

The movie is Flipper.
And about in a week it is one part of my gigantic collection. :D
And my first ever Laser disc disc :D Anyone got a CD Video for me? (not a VCD)