@Ivafakename I love how cornflakes were a total accident because kellogg was a massive fundie weirdo and made branflakes to try and stop people masturbating (like I said, he was hyper religious) but some of the corn went off and they used it anyway and it turned out it was delicious so his brother went "holy crap we can make money off this instead of feeding gross bland tripe to people" and sold it against the main dude's wishes and he threw a hissy fit?
@tom "gee tom how come your mom lets you have TWO swords?"
a half inch thick solid mass of flamin hot dorito dust came out of the bag: attempted bite
@Linda linda oh my god no XD
@iodrgain oh dear it is the time of unpleasantries
@mavica weh indeed ;w; it'll be okay tho! I'm like 99% sure it works just fine and most people who'd want to buy it are probably more than willing to crack it open and mod it so it works even better than it did at release. So many guides about how the +2 second issue has faulty video connectors that are wired the wrong way online
@mavica sadly also a no ;w;
@mavica now, that COULD be a number of things. It could simply be my tv is too new to pick up the signal, it could be the cable is trashed, ooorrr it could be the spectrum's video output through the TV socket is fragged. It'll most likely work fine with one of the other outputs but I have no way of testing that sadly
@mavica yeah I'm sorry. I totally spaced and forgot what the name for the cable was. ^^; I suppose in my defence it's been literally decades since I used this poor old thing but I'm hoping it'll go to a good home. I at least know it definitely WORKS, because it makes the key pipping noises when you plug it in and press keys while listening to the sound through a pair of headphones, just ... can't get a picture on it it seems.
I'm PRETTY sure the spectrum DOES actually work but without having a tv I can test it on because I don't have a (assumedly) working cable I can't really tell. Supposedly the spectrum has a built in speaker but I think that's only the older versions, and the newer +2A etc send sound through the tv... So I can't even tell if the "clicks" of selecting menus or pressing keys is playing. :<
@tom oh man it's like being in a dungeon crawler game and watching an npc or enemy sprite get closer if you sit around too long at a door you just opened. :D
@Felthry I sadly only have the default RF cable which is a single cable that connects to the old analogue aerial socket on the back of the tv and a single port on the back of the spectrum labelled "Tv". I never managed to get the old composite RGB DIN plug one, which would be handy honestly because RGB DIN to Scart is fairly common apparently??... but ... I dunno, I don't really feel like sheling out to get it working to sell it c_c;
@mavica ah also known as an RF/UHF cable apparently. that might be helpful Ren, giving the right names for things ._.;
@mavica nah it's the old analogue aerial type cable that goes from the "TV" socket to the tv directly. but it seems to not actually send a signal to my current TV
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.