Hello,
have you ever heard about a BOINC core client for the ZX?
I can imagine there will be troubles to connect it to internet (or there is a solution?)
By the way it would be great just for fun!
I would really appreciate your comments...

With a minimum spec of needing 64MB for most projects (SZTAKI only needs 32MB), you're in need of a beefed up, souped up Speccy. ;)

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Oh damn! I hoped for this since there is something for C64 :-((

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There is?

If you got this information from this thread, then please go back and read what Steven and I are talking about. :)

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ZX-spectrum? I LOVE the idea but 48k would be pushing it though I expect a program running on the 48k RAM on a 128 with the remaining bank or RAM being used as data buffer space but it just means that the data will just have to come in smaller chunks: that's all!
Thing is, I recall a 48k (or was it a smaller?) Speccy attached to a piece of hardware that captured weather satelite signals and I have scanned thru a text that gave bits of nice Z80 Assy. for translating ship-2-shore radio code protocols so, providing that someone provided a nice bloc diagram of the task, but without much of the pretty front-end stuff you get for the machines with gigabytes of room to spare, we might be onto a good thing.
Also, from there, with the aid of a nice handy manual on the working of the Commodore 64 ROM kernel, transcription into 6502-type code should not be too difficult, and the same goes for those who may feel like attaching their antediluvian Apple II and IIIs, and I can get that IIGS to do something useful!

Subject of Apples, I, even after getting 94 modules done under the "classic", felt rather put off since I was never too sure whether the Mac section was purely for OS 9 and up or whether the trusty OS 8.5 (PowerPC 7200/75 on which I am typing right now!!) will "still" do the job as I am not (now or EVER!!!!!) going to rush off to get a new beast because someone says it is the latest!
I have heard some vague rumour that, somewhere under that bland win-doze-like exterior, lies a basically UNIX system core and, hopefully, the coding of the CLI-based download would be far nearer the core and far more tight than its pretty front-end point-n-click neighbour, but which one is any good or do I just assume that the project has dumped on the "lesser platforms" in which case I don't think I'll just forget it but the problem is that, with Windoze (and probably the big Mac too!!) is that because of sector allocation and the use of templates in programming, so much memory and storage is just wasted and the "advantage" of the latest system merely sinks to, not so much getting that result, but making it look pretty!!
Any advice welcome exept for any post which
1 Asks "Wouldn't it be easier if..." (A general rule!!) and chases the more "expedient" means while forgetting the goal.
2 Insists on chasing the latest systems/hardware.

I also, smaller-data-modules idea, was thinking maybe get versions for old MSDOS-beasts, CP/M terminals, and whatever the system that Z80 Amstrad beasts used to use but, since we were talking about coding to 6502 for the C64, it is not that far from the Acorn BBC and, if I can get that 128k properly started, at least its built-in Assy. programming utility would be pretty useful, so, how about it, folks??

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