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Tim Holyoake
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RetroComputing. Liberal Democrat. Caterham 7 Owner. In remission from Mantle Cell Lymphoma. More often at https://oldbytes.space/@psychotimmy Blogs at https://z80.timholyoake.uk/ , https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/ & https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/
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It all seems a little more intense than Ashbourne's shrovetide football!
Sorted out the display of the upper 256 characters today. Took longer to figure out than it should have ...

#RetroComputing #SharpMZ700 #Emulation
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Top of the Pops (26th October 1978). Elvis Costello and the Attractions kick things off with 'Radio Radio'.
Using my trusty Sieve of Erastothenes program plus some trial and error, it looks as if overclocking a Pico to somewhere around 210 - 220MHz will work nicely for the #MZ700 #emulator

#RetroComputing #Emulation
Progress with the Pico #MZ700 #Emulator. Colour output works & I have a reasonable USB to MZ700 keyboard map.

Next up - timings (can I really emulate a 3.5MHz MZ700 on a Pico or is a Pico2 required) & the banked memory implementation, completely different to the MZ-80A.

#RetroComputing #Emulation
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I've got an original and challenging opinion that you won't here anywhere else. It's that this is the best film adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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It’s outrageous that many clinically vulnerable people, including those who have motor neurone disease, are not eligible for free COVID-19 booster jabs this autumn. Last week, I spoke with BBC Radio Surrey and wrote to the Health Secretary about this.
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The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it.

Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.
Looking forward to witnessing this madness for the first time!
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You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...
UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes
People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship
www.ft.com
Ottery St Mary morning
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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It's a start! Hacked the monitor into my mz80k/a code and it runs up. Now comes the painstaking stuff - keyboard mappings, colour, clock accuracy etc etc etc ... #RetroComputing #Sharp #MZ700
Just been searching out MZ700 monitor & graphics ROMs. Bitrot has set in on many trusted Sharp MZ resources, so only spammy download sites now claim to have them. Fortunately I'd downloaded the ROMs a couple of years ago, but it seems like a race against time to preserve what's left. #RetroComputing
I'm thinking about starting on my MZ-700 emulator for similar reasons, but can't be bothered to move from the sofa at the moment.
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How it started vs How it's going.

More details: buff.ly/GbIKw4P
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Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.
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The most interesting vote of the night imho and one that foretells a potential apocalypse in the suburbs of the south-east for the Conservatives. More liberal Tories go LD, more reactionary ones go to Reform.
Camberley West (Surrey) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 49.5% (+16.6)
➡️ RFM: 25.9% (New)
🌳 CON: 20.4% (-28.8)
🌹 LAB: 4.3% (-11.4)

No WPB (-2.3) as previous.

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.