Updated Spigot to put the titles on my blog postings. Hopefully now it'll look better on identi.ca.

Thanks to Jan Kusanagi for the pointers on how to make this happen.

Problem:

SYLK files that are just CSV files with ID as the first few characters. CSV files can also have ID as the first few characters.

You are Excel, a widely used (and mis-used) application for reading in .csv files. You encounter a file with ID as the first two …

Days 28-Fin (the end of the month) had me looking more into the ZX Spectrum's memory mapped screen memory. I don't think I completely understand it yet but what I do understand is it tries to make it really simple for folks to map out what is on the screen …

Day 27 and I'm playing more with the screen rendering. I'm going to need to re-read this though as there's a lot to unpack in this section. Nice bit through is there's some baked-in shortcuts in the ZX Spectrum for mapping screen memory that I remember reading in the ULA …

Day 26 and I looked into how to handle 16 bit loops. Spending a little time while my father-in-law is in the hospital for observation keeping my mind occupied. Looking into how to do the example code that the book showed in BASIC and translate it to Machine Code. Fun …