And next is... ZX Spectrum NEXT

I got my very own ZX Spectrum NEXT (XBerry clone)! Thanks again RCL! Just created my first demo for this platform (2nd place at Speccy.pl 2026):

First programming meeting with Vectrex

This is Vectrex:

Until quite recently I didn't even know it existed. It is some nice piece of hardware! Just learned some basics of 6809 asm (it seems similiar to 6502) and managed to create this (it is animated) for starters:

I'm going to create yet another Turbo Wieszcz++ - this time for Vectrex.. Also maybe some nice vector demo...

Your old archives may contain real treasures!

I'm scrapping my old CD-s and DVD-s archived from 1996 onward... Just found old dh0..dh2 Amiga disk images (Grych's Amiga)... and also some of my old motorola 68020 asm sources for A1200 (seems like from 1995-1996)! Managed to run the system on WinUAE and compiled the source with vasm cross-compiler to binary... It runs!!! However the intro seems totally unfinished. The time is coming to (finally) create new Turbo Wieszcz incarnation in ASM for Amiga!

Windows... and CD-ROMs... and files... old files...

Did manage to create my 1st virtual image of real old HDD

Just moved my old HDD with FreeBSD to VirtualBox VDI image... and it works! :)

Recovered my collection of old computer magazines!

Old PC-s...

Turbo Wieszcz++ for Playdate is born!

Repo: Github.

First steps in LUA

Another incarnation of Turbo Wieszcz ++ is born: TurboWieszcz in LUA @Github. This time in LUA! (My first attempt @ learning this language). This is actually the first step in preparation for Playdate version.

ZX Spectrum still alive!

Sad news, Sir Clive Sinclair had passed away earlier this year. But the great ZX Spectrum he created is *still* alive! From time to time I come back to it. I'm currently working (as time allows) on some new demos that I hope to present at Speccy.pl party in 2022. Pictures below are from Pixel Heaven 2021.

Another checkpoint

So busy, so busy... No matter nobody reads this... Well... another (micro/semi) milestone (was hard to get around this hardware). Just compiled my first Lazarus test app on Mac OSX :) I always wanted to try OSX, but had problem to get my hands on one. Turns out my company has it and no one ever told me, and I didn't ask. Here it is as an immortal proof:

So busy, no time to write anything...

A lot is going on, I save this for posterity:

Something new in 8-bits

I want to mark this date. Just created, compiled and run my very first 6502 asm code on 8-bit Atari and Apple II (on emulators that is). Now I only need to repeat the same for Acorn Electron. And then... I'm going to rewrite my old Turbo Wieszcz++ for C-64 (from 1993) with new data and code and (re)release it for: C64, Atari, Acorn and Apple II at the same time :)

New 'achievement unlocked'

Just compiled and run the very first ever code (not mine really, only sligthly modyfied) for 6502/6507 CPU on Atari 2600 console emulator. Pretty awesome oldschool...

Speccy.pl 2018.1 is behind us

And I'm happy to anounce that
http://www.pouet.net/party_results.php?which=1728&when=2018
#1 in game compo, #2 in demo compo, #2 in intro4k is mine! :)

Fortran?

I wrote my first program in FORTRAN. And guess what it is my classic new language test: Turbo Wieszcz (too bad it is Polish only). Github: monstergdc/TurboWieszcz-Fortran

GitHub page is set

And it's here: monstergdc. Two repositories so far: Turbo Wieszcz ++ in Python (!), and some of my old but cool Delphi components (more is to come).

GitHub

Another "historical" day: 2017.10.10. Today I created my account on GitHub. As I have warned someone, I'm going to open source some stuff. Soon, I hope. Probably Turbo Wieszcz is going to be the first. Also on the sidenote I'm becoming quite fond of Lazarus. It's cool when one wants to go crossplatform. I've used it before to compile code for ARM/Android. But now it is even easier and works well also on Rapsberry Pi for example. That means there will be Turbo Wieszcz for Linux/Raspberry PI soon. :) Currently managed to migrate T.W. to Lazarus: it compiles and it works. But has some issues yet.

R.I.P. Jean E. Sammet

early software engineer and co-designer of COBOL Jean Sammet died on May 20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet

Quotation of ...

A quote:
"The payee providing this certification is not a United States person (i.e., a citizen or resident of the United States as determined for U.S. federal tax purposes, a corporation or partnership created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State, any estate that would be subject to U.S. federal income tax on income from sources without the United States which is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States, or any trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust), that the income to which this certification relates is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States, and that the undersigned has examined the information on this form and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true, correct, and complete."
How can I even f*in respect them/that?
This is more retarded that comunism, christianity, islam and nazis alltoghether.