Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum
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#2Some of those views are delightfully terrible, no surprise; but I did think the Google homepage and the HN new-comment form turned out satisfyingly clean.
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#4This is so ridiculous. Love it!
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#5But you can't click any of the links... :(
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#6Provided one had a network stack, it would've actually been possible to use Google on a ZX Spectrum until a short while ago, as it still listened on port 80 and the usual /search?q= was all that was necessary. Now Google has destroyed that, and even with HTTPS it refuses to do anything without JS.
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#7But you can't click any of the links... :(
I had the Datel Genius mouse for my spectrum. It came bundled with the OCP Art Studio (which never worked on my spectrum). You could 'peek' into memory addresses to find the position and button state, so I wrote silly little BASIC programs for it.
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#8Hmmm. There was an 8-bit IPv4 stack around that might compile to Z80 assembly, and we could always chirp out data at 1500baud or whatever, so… might well happen in real life some day.
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#9Gopher would be far easier, they already are some gopher clients for the ZX and you can visit an HN mirror at gopher://hngopher.com
Also:
gopher://magical.fish (web-like portal with news feeds, games and services)
gopher://sdf.org (blogs basically)
gopher://bitreich.org (huge directory a la Altavista/Yahoo back in the day)
gopher://gopher.icu (Nice personal page)
gopher://gopher.icu/7.gutenberg (Gutenberg project)
gopher://1436.ninja (Nice personal page too)Re: Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum
#10Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space.
There's Vaticanus[1][2] on a (mostly) 4x6 grid for 64x32. Or Tiny Talk[3] on a 5x5 grid for 51x38 if you prefer slightly more height.
[0] https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...
[1] https://www.fontspace.com/vaticanus-font-f128585
[2] With some tweaks to characters and using 2px for space[4], I think you can get e.g. "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." into 158px (61.7% of a line) instead of 344px. One of the headlines shown ("[2] Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?" would fit into 149px (58.2% line) rather than being truncated to "[2] Is Postgres read heavy or..."