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14 August 2024

Cheetah “Sweet Talker” speech add-on for ZX81

Written by S11
My first computer was a ZX81, even at the time it was rather outdated and only one other person at school had one, but it’s what we could afford and I loved it. Very much a hobby / enthusiast...
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General
13 July 2024

Blog restored

Written by S11
Well it’s back, but I had to update loads of components and replace the theme, everything is “kind of there” but I need to fix all the video links by hand one article at a time and check all...
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General
14 October 2017

Kaboom – videos

Written by S11
Well – for reasons too long and complicated to cover here, I managed to destroy my Youtube channel which had approximately a decade of content from various things on it. Some of it was included in articles on this...
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General
07 September 2017

Commodore SID chip variation videos

Written by S11
If you’ve been watching my streams or VODs recently on Twitch, you’ll have seen that I’ve got back into Commodore 64 stuff.  Since I only stream real hardware like the hideous poser that I am, I got a real...
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General, Music, Tech / Repair
29 July 2017

Visit to Whipsnade Zoo

Written by S11
Since we both had some time off work this week, we decided to go and visit Whipsnade Zoo.  The weather forecast was somewhat mixed and we got fairly lucky with a mixture of overcast, sun  and showers.  That’s reflected...
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General, Personal
17 August 2016

Fuck Pitney Bowes (and fuck the ebay Global Shipping Program)

Written by S11
Today I received another item from the states, which has come via the ebay Global Shipping Program.  Before we get on to that, let’s explain exactly what this means. Sellers enrolled in this (which is most of them, since...
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General
31 January 2016

Getting back on a bike

Written by S11
This kind of turned into an arcade only blog, but I didn’t really intend for that to happen, I lost a lot of enthusiasm to write a lot because my job wears me out mentally, for all the wrong...
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General
09 September 2015

Elusive artwork located!

Written by S11
I never thought I would ever find one of these, in fact I never knew this even existed.  Yet here it is, a mint unused Phelios POP (small cardboard display).  I’ve no intention of assembling this, it’s probably the...
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Arcade, General
22 August 2014

arcadetower, on ebay.

Written by S11
Looking at the recent hits to my blog, it seems like a few people read this now.  Given the content, at least some of them must be PCB collectors. For a while now, there’s been a real problem in...
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Arcade, General
13 February 2014

The Centre for Computing History (Cambridge computer museum)

Written by S11
Recently a computer museum has opened fairly close to me – called the Centre for Computing History.  It’s run with backing from a few local companies (notably ARM) and takes donations from anyone who may have old equipment that...
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General
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