L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

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Blog: http://www.breakintoprogram.co.uk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BreakIntoProgram Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/breakintoprogram Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.

A James vacuum cleaner
Screenshot from the Domesday Disc (online)
A ZX81 with Memorex 16K rampack fitted.
Cat, crossword on laptop computer, coffee
This was a test of your ability to learn and recognise unfamiliar faces. Your score is the number correct out of 72. Your score: 44 Average score: 54.44 You scored higher than one out of every ten people who took this test
A Philips mp3 player with All About Eve’s eponymous debut album artwork displayed. The current track displayed is “In the Meadow”
Cat staring at the innards of my Tatung Einstein
Text thread Mum: Yes it's very tense Me: Nice! Yes enjoying this Mum: Want dinner to win xx Mum: Meant dinner lol
Cat, coffee in a mug with a bee pattern on it, laptop with crossword puzzle page open in browser.
Popeye on the ZX Spectrum
A shredded 20” bicycle tyre.
Mumm-ra from ThunderCats.
Psion Match Point tennis game on the Spectrum
Peter Purves as the Green Cross Code man.
Jason Momoa seemingly about to rugby tackle Henry Cavill on a film premier pink carpet. The caption reads: Henry Cavill Me 30 years later having changed career three times and preparing for retirement Jason Momoa Thomas the Tank Engine QA
Picture of a TV displaying static with the caption 'A cathode ray tube television displaying the tinnitus pride flag"
Some kind of half-man, half-chicken kind of thing
Me beating a 45 year old computer at a word game.
Psion Scrabble on the 48K Spectrum
A Lego Sega Megadrive/Genesis set
Code snippet using std::vector // Look-up tables for ALU operations // vector<void (Registers::*)(uint8_t)> lut_alu1 = { &Registers::adda, &Registers::adca, &Registers::suba, &Registers::sbca, &Registers::anda, &Registers::xora, &Registers::ora, &Registers::cpa }; const char * txt_alu1[8] = { "ADD", "ADC", "SUB", "SBC", "AND", "XOR", "OR", "CP" };
Running Psion Scrabble in my emulator
A swan by Pull’s Ferry
Near The Forum
A purple/pink effect in the corridor of Norwich Cathedral
A very old rusty tractor on a coastal promenade
You wouldn’t steal a jet
A dump of Z80 in the console window of Visual Studio Code below a snippet of C++.
Book cover The ZX Spectrum ULA How To Design A Microcomputer Chris Smith
The Tomorrow’s World presenting team in the show’s heyday, from left: James Burke, Judith Hann, Raymond Baxter, Maggie Philbin, Peter Macann and Howard Stableford. Photograph: PA
Peter Davison as the fifth Doctor stood outside the TARDIS wearing a Panama hat with a red ribbon.
A foreign voltage adaptor.
Girl with head in tuba: “ME TRYING TO THINK OF A #TOTP MEME” Girl playing the tuba:”THE RELENTLESS HEAT”
The goose chasing man meme First frame: Gooses headshot saying "Goose was not valued" Second frame: Goose chases man saying: "It was the goose that created value"
Scene from Sunshine with some fella looking at a massive sun through the windows of his spaceship.
Photo of some trees with a gravel and dirt path in the foreground.
A massive old school EPROM eraser.
A cable that has a USB plug at one end and what looks like a tiny two pin shaver plug at the other.
Cat on Friday
The Nintendo Famicom R.O.B. robot
Code snippet.
Father Ted illustrating perspective with cows to Dougal.
The meme with the girl who's playing a tuba with the caption #TOTP. There is another girl with her head in the tuba and her back against a wall. She's captioned "me wittering on about emulators"
Code snippet: void Ports::out(uint16_t address, uint8_t data) { if ((address & 0x0001) == 0) { // Only interested in even numbered ports ports_out[0] = data; } }
Out Run on the Spectrum 48K, complete with flickering border
If ever there was a roving reporter that could cover a fuel shortage. Shot of local BBC reporter Phil McCann outside a petrol station.
The game Vectron running in my emulator on Ubuntu.
Spectrum emulator screen Result: all tests passed.
Picture of the front sprocket on my bike with the new pedal fitted to the crankset.
The no maybe girl meme with Commodore 64 phone in first caption and ZX81 phone in the second.