[2016-10-24 21:02:41 CEST] * Outsoft joined [2016-10-24 23:34:08 CEST] * Outsoft quit (Leaving...) [2016-10-26 13:56:14 CEST] * Outsoft joined [2016-10-26 13:56:16 CEST] * Outsoft quit (Leaving...) [2016-10-26 20:54:10 CEST] * Outsoft joined [2016-10-26 23:30:43 CEST] * Outsoft quit (Leaving...) [2016-10-27 20:48:35 CEST] * Outsoft joined [2016-10-27 21:54:46 CEST] * Outsoft quit (Leaving...) [2016-10-28 20:37:55 CEST] * Outsoft joined [2016-10-28 22:21:28 CEST] * Outsoft quit (Leaving...) [2016-10-29 17:01:17 CEST] * Outsoft joined [2016-10-29 21:48:58 CEST] * Outsoft quit (Leaving...) [2016-10-30 19:21:10 CET] * rune joined [2016-10-30 19:21:32 CET] * rune quit (Leaving) [2016-10-30 19:54:28 CET] * heinz joined [2016-10-30 19:59:54 CET] * rune joined [2016-10-30 20:00:04 CET] hello Heinz, how are you [2016-10-30 20:00:30 CET] hello dave, fine. [2016-10-30 20:00:41 CET] nice to hearr you. [2016-10-30 20:00:43 CET] Good, how did you lecture go? [2016-10-30 20:00:46 CET] hear [2016-10-30 20:01:19 CET] the lecture was quite good, about 120 students. [2016-10-30 20:01:57 CET] main part was about kepler [2016-10-30 20:02:09 CET] and his solar system. [2016-10-30 20:02:17 CET] Ive heard of kepler [2016-10-30 20:02:34 CET] so you are an astrophysisist too? [2016-10-30 20:02:50 CET] he was living in the first half of 17th cent. [2016-10-30 20:03:11 CET] during the big 30years war [2016-10-30 20:03:29 CET] did you hear about that war? [2016-10-30 20:04:18 CET] a lot of kingdoms were involved. [2016-10-30 20:04:18 CET] No, I think Europe was mostly at war then but not that one [2016-10-30 20:05:02 CET] that was the most terrible one before wwi and wwii [2016-10-30 20:05:08 CET] 30 years is a long time to fight [2016-10-30 20:05:44 CET] yes, there were germans, austrians,#danish, swedish,... [2016-10-30 20:05:51 CET] troops [2016-10-30 20:06:07 CET] Looked on Google - religious war [2016-10-30 20:06:18 CET] yes. [2016-10-30 20:06:30 CET] lots of atrocities too, but that seems the normal thing in wars. [2016-10-30 20:06:59 CET] in prussia half of population died. [2016-10-30 20:07:03 CET] I wonder if that was part of the French Huegenots war [2016-10-30 20:07:17 CET] now, half a country gone is lots... [2016-10-30 20:07:31 CET] finally, the north of germany became pprotestant, [2016-10-30 20:07:51 CET] while the south stayed cattholic. [2016-10-30 20:08:13 CET] Is Dusseldorf in the south [2016-10-30 20:08:40 CET] the austrian commander was wallenstein. [2016-10-30 20:09:11 CET] did you heared that name? [2016-10-30 20:09:52 CET] No, I think England and Scotland had a civil war around then so we were probably taught about that [2016-10-30 20:10:06 CET] o.k. [2016-10-30 20:10:32 CET] so, kepler was the astrologe of wallenstein.. [2016-10-30 20:10:38 CET] Again it was mainly religeous but The scots wanted a different protestant version form the english [2016-10-30 20:11:03 CET] So, Wallenstein employed kepler? [2016-10-30 20:11:16 CET] i thaugt the scots wanted te be caatholi0? [2016-10-30 20:11:52 CET] kepler was living in linz, a city of austrian. [2016-10-30 20:12:06 CET] No, very much presbeterian. There was factions that wanted the catholic religion back, but they never had any luck [2016-10-30 20:12:32 CET] maria stuuart? [2016-10-30 20:13:35 CET] Ah, she was at the time of queen elizabeth, but Marys son James was next king and produced the King James bible which is still used today. [2016-10-30 20:13:52 CET] let us talk about another theme. [2016-10-30 20:14:16 CET] OK, how is you spech synth [2016-10-30 20:14:35 CET] we had craftmans in our flat for about 4 weeks. [2016-10-30 20:14:37 CET] speech [2016-10-30 20:14:56 CET] that was a story. [2016-10-30 20:14:59 CET] Are you getting renovations or upgrades [2016-10-30 20:15:21 CET] no, we are living in a rented flat, [2016-10-30 20:15:40 CET] what went wrong? [2016-10-30 20:15:56 CET] and 4 weeks ago the electrrician came to checkk the main. [2016-10-30 20:16:44 CET] he checked and one line exploded [2016-10-30 20:17:05 CET] did you need rewire? [2016-10-30 20:17:41 CET] yes. he started to slitting the walls. [2016-10-30 20:17:58 CET] in 3 rooms. [2016-10-30 20:18:04 CET] so, you need a plasterer and to redecorate [2016-10-30 20:18:17 CET] right. [2016-10-30 20:18:25 CET] do you have wallpaper or just painted [2016-10-30 20:18:29 CET] the painter was the next. [2016-10-30 20:18:53 CET] wallpaper, painted white. [2016-10-30 20:19:18 CET] meanwhile the temperature outside went down. [2016-10-30 20:19:44 CET] no, frozen pipes? [2016-10-30 20:19:54 CET] but the heating did not work properly. [2016-10-30 20:20:17 CET] only 400 degrees water temperature. [2016-10-30 20:20:47 CET] do you have hot water radiators? [2016-10-30 20:20:48 CET] so i waas calling the techhnician. [2016-10-30 20:21:09 CET] hot water radiators. [2016-10-30 20:21:30 CET] the water is heated by gas. [2016-10-30 20:21:59 CET] Dont say the radiator needed to be rreplaced [2016-10-30 20:22:07 CET] sorry boiler [2016-10-30 20:22:09 CET] ( also thaught about thhat problemm. [2016-10-30 20:22:26 CET] the boiler was perfect. [2016-10-30 20:22:38 CET] then i had an iidea. [2016-10-30 20:23:09 CET] there is a sennsor outside for controolling the temperature. [2016-10-30 20:23:36 CET] and th idea was that the electrician had cuut tthe line. [2016-10-30 20:24:46 CET] i have sk the mechanic to measure the resitancee of the sensor direectly at the boiler: 0 ohm. [2016-10-30 20:25:01 CET] he had cut it [2016-10-30 20:25:12 CET] yes. [2016-10-30 20:25:33 CET] did you get electrician back? [2016-10-30 20:26:04 CET] so i taid to the mechaniic he should come again next day, i will open the wwall aand solder. [2016-10-30 20:26:31 CET] ( have a small line finder. [2016-10-30 20:27:33 CET] and was able to find the cross point with a precision of 2 by 2 inches. [2016-10-30 20:28:28 CET] i opened th wall, found the cross point and the cutted linses. [2016-10-30 20:28:29 CET] Have you fixed it now? [2016-10-30 20:29:11 CET] yes, no it it fixed, the resitance is now 770 ohm as it should. [2016-10-30 20:29:39 CET] the small hoole in the wall i could rrepair and paint. [2016-10-30 20:30:00 CET] now all is working again. [2016-10-30 20:30:44 CET] did you also hve such experieences wits craftmans? [2016-10-30 20:30:58 CET] hole [2016-10-30 20:31:18 CET] with [2016-10-30 20:31:57 CET] Yes, lots off eejits working for the council. [2016-10-30 20:32:24 CET] I prefer to do as much of that sort of work myself. [2016-10-30 20:32:48 CET] that is not as easy in a rented flat. [2016-10-30 20:33:07 CET] But here in Yorkley, we needed an electrician who cme out on a saturday because a cable overheated and burned out the distibution box. [2016-10-30 20:33:11 CET] partially not llowed. [2016-10-30 20:33:49 CET] there was was a short? [2016-10-30 20:34:03 CET] allowed [2016-10-30 20:34:07 CET] He fixed the cable and went and got ne trip switches. The cost was very low considering it was the weekend and immediate response [2016-10-30 20:34:32 CET] I think the screw that secured the cable cable loose [2016-10-30 20:34:51 CET] came loose [2016-10-30 20:35:01 CET] this sounds likely [2016-10-30 20:35:19 CET] so there want a good connection. We smelled burning [2016-10-30 20:35:38 CET] what about your forth pgms? [2016-10-30 20:35:48 CET] On the other hand an electricitan I know was working upstairs from my gran. [2016-10-30 20:36:05 CET] He had the floorboards up and actually fell through the ceiling [2016-10-30 20:36:28 CET] He then ran out of my grans house and denied it was him that fell through [2016-10-30 20:36:53 CET] We called him John the Beast because he made a mess of everything [2016-10-30 20:37:24 CET] but he was a certificated electrician? [2016-10-30 20:37:39 CET] Apparently, he worked for the council. [2016-10-30 20:38:12 CET] you were asking for my speech board [2016-10-30 20:38:16 CET] He asked me to tune his carburators, was impossible because he stood on one slide and broke a large part out of it [2016-10-30 20:38:28 CET] Yes speech [2016-10-30 20:39:35 CET] the pascal pgm is almost fished. [2016-10-30 20:39:41 CET] finished [2016-10-30 20:39:57 CET] With german works [2016-10-30 20:40:18 CET] words [2016-10-30 20:40:33 CET] yes, just german texts from bookks. [2016-10-30 20:40:40 CET] boooks. [2016-10-30 20:40:45 CET] books [2016-10-30 20:40:56 CET] Are you still typing on ZX91? :) [2016-10-30 20:41:01 CET] sorry,#i use a real zx81. [2016-10-30 20:41:26 CET] OK, what about the pascal program? What is that for - thats new [2016-10-30 20:42:31 CET] the program is analyzing thrree consecutive etters in a word [2016-10-30 20:43:44 CET] and generates the sound for thhe first letter. then the first letter is dropped and thee fourth oone is added. [2016-10-30 20:44:14 CET] by the way, [2016-10-30 20:45:33 CET] the sound chip ay has two io-ports. one was used for the speech chip, nw i have connected to the second one a small uart-usb board. [2016-10-30 20:46:23 CET] Thats impressive, so you can use SD cards? [2016-10-30 20:46:26 CET] so i can connect my speccy or zedddy to a pc using microsoft hypertrminal. [2016-10-30 20:46:40 CET] not for sd cards, [2016-10-30 20:47:11 CET] but foor data transfer to the pcc, if i want to print out some pprograms. [2016-10-30 20:47:16 CET] Can you control the ZXs from the PC or is it to transfer files [2016-10-30 20:47:43 CET] just one direction, files to the pc. [2016-10-30 20:47:49 CET] 9600bad. [2016-10-30 20:47:53 CET] baud [2016-10-30 20:48:10 CET] OK, still way beyond me. Im really impressed [2016-10-30 20:48:27 CET] the funny thing: just two more resisstors ere needed. [2016-10-30 20:49:11 CET] of course, and a driver ppgm written in assembly [2016-10-30 20:49:40 CET] you could do the same with your mrx card. [2016-10-30 20:50:07 CET] Really? With the AY sound chip? [2016-10-30 20:50:48 CET] did you had a look into the datasheet of ay? [2016-10-30 20:51:23 CET] No, if it works i tend to leave alone. Otherwise I fix things until they are wrecked [2016-10-30 20:51:52 CET] look to tliienhardt forum: zx81 [2016-10-30 20:51:56 CET] I havent done much on the ZX for a while, nothinh on any computer for a while really [2016-10-30 20:52:08 CET] OK, what to search for [2016-10-30 20:52:18 CET] zx81, [2016-10-30 20:52:35 CET] then sprachboard mit sp0256 [2016-10-30 20:52:50 CET] final entry. [2016-10-30 20:53:21 CET] sprachboard mit sp0256 [2016-10-30 20:53:28 CET] yes [2016-10-30 20:53:38 CET] final contribution. [2016-10-30 20:53:40 CET] I meant to paste [2016-10-30 20:53:44 CET] ... auch problemlos am ZX Spectrum. Daher ist das Sprachboard auch für Speccy-Freunde interessant und kann mit nahezu identischer Software (bis auf die Position ... Vielleicht ist der Speccy zu schnell gegenüber dem SP0256, so dass die Abfrage IN A,(223) zu früh kommt. ... [2016-10-30 20:54:06 CET] no [2016-10-30 20:54:19 CET] zx81, not zx spectrum [2016-10-30 20:54:24 CET] You are correct, I've scrolled down [2016-10-30 20:55:02 CET] Oh, that was in the ZX81 section... [2016-10-30 20:56:10 CET] I'm lost can you email me a link please [2016-10-30 20:56:29 CET] i will do. [2016-10-30 20:56:41 CET] I need to finish now heinz [2016-10-30 20:56:50 CET] got my lunch to make for tomorrow [2016-10-30 20:57:05 CET] there is my home brewed board and a second one from joaachim. [2016-10-30 20:57:13 CET] ook. [2016-10-30 20:57:24 CET] next sundayy? [2016-10-30 20:57:29 CET] I'll talk next week [2016-10-30 20:57:32 CET] yes [2016-10-30 20:57:35 CET] bye. [2016-10-30 20:57:40 CET] was nice talk. [2016-10-30 20:57:41 CET] byegoodnight [2016-10-30 20:57:48 CET] yep as always [2016-10-30 20:57:57 CET] * heinz quit (EOT) [2016-10-30 20:58:01 CET] * rune quit (Leaving)