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A very first computer, a very first gameMaybe i'm duplicating some other posts, but... what was your first computer and game??? For me it was a rubber zx-spectrum 48k and tape with only t…
... ' type of thing. I upgraded to 48k for my birthday in February ... for years, save changing up to a 'Fuller' keyboard when the ... -
DivIDE EmulationHi guys, I should have my DivIDE soon so I've been trying to emulate it to become familiar with the devices functions. I've fired up the EightyOne …
... moment. You may need to fiddle with the divIDE ... options/board jumpers to stop the onboard ROM ... 3e divIDE roms to Spectrum. And I had to remove the ... normal divIDE screen which booted to 48k mode.
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What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
... a Plus 2 (grey) or 128+, if it's very cheap ... ]
I have a 128 with heatsink that isn't ... what u mean by 128 + ? will have to make sure its ok ... , im sure we can come to some arrangement. -
What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
[QUOTE=swordheart]I have a 128 with heatsink that isn't ... what u mean by 128 + ? will have to make sure its ok ... , im sure we can come to some arrangement.[/QUOTE]
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Goonies helpplease help hooow should I play this game??? there´s CAPS SHIFT used as FIRE-button, which only switches the two characters for controlling...…
... like it´s not possible to tun it off :roll: what ... is jumping OFF the log - to move left on the water ... , but this makes your jump to the other bank from the ... it out how to jump there... my character always jumps to the wrong ... -
What was yor first spectrumgame ever played?What was your first spectrum game ever played, and where? I remember mine very well, it was Horace and the spiders at an electronics shop that had a …
... I upgraded the internal memory to 48K, I bought The Hobbit and ... , so they were my first 48K games. -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... /> why does Spin keep trying to re-set the window size ... FS (alt+enter) it always jumps to fit the screen instead 100 ... about the "rzx player" idea? (to play more rzxs in chosen ... -
for a stupid: what?s NMI?erhm, yes, I?m not familiar with it... :rolleyes: I know the function of a hardware ?snapshot? button from Didaktik M/Kompakt, but I?m not familiar…
... IFF1 and then set PC to 0x0066.
With ... and the Z80 would jump to that location on an ... would be done. Unfortunately due to the inversion of a condition ... it is non-zero, and jumps to it if it is zero ... if so asserting /ROMCS to page their own ROM in ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
The Spectrum 128 was designed to be as cheap as possible ... them.
I have to disagree with the opinion of ... it was a fantastic design. To have a 128K machine that ... plus 2, which was designed to make money, and looked it ... -
Spectrum won't load data when warmI've got an interesting observation. I put iPodLinux onto my iPod and got TZX files playing back as the proper audio waveform. I also removed the vol…
... Linux communities don't try to accommodate the users rather than ... reading twenty posts about how to set something up. There ... all it's pretty central to the whole project. Apparently ... other ICs necessary to upgrade it to 48K - something I wanted to do back ... -
Which arcade game do you wish...... had been converted to the spectrum? There`s a lot of people who seem to not like arcade convo`s but personally I loved most of them, I know they…
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Dr Beep... Would love to see a Colecovision emulator for ... be too much for Spec to do, but anyways, reduce the ... when there`s important timed jumps to make,although apart from the ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
I had a normal 128, and have to admit the keyboard was a bit rubbish for typing long bits of text with (it was fine for arcade games though!).
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Spectrum won't load data when warmI've got an interesting observation. I put iPodLinux onto my iPod and got TZX files playing back as the proper audio waveform. I also removed the vol…
Send it to me, I'll try and ... this machine fixed and upgraded to 48K, yes? -
External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
... fixed finally my ZX 128 (just need to patch damn keyboard membrane ... worked fine, but I want to try serial communication.
to phone connector's pins on ... PB, and will connect it to PC.
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The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... /> Firstly, I'm just going to rewrite the whole thing in ... 't be a problem, and to be fair it's only ... ukernel project has already bloated to 48k of compiled code, and that ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... ukernel project has already bloated to 48k of compiled code, and that ... :-)
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Black paper, white border. Ram fault?We have a speccy that wont work properly. When we power it up, we get white border around a black screen. We swapped the rom and ula with a working o…
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Go to 48K Information then scroll down and ... Sinclair Microcomputers Part 3' to go directly to the Speccy parts. I ... one of the 74LS157 multiplexers to disable the upper 32K ( ... Spectrums so I'll have to defer to someone else if that ... -
"chunky" gfxHas anyone some experience with coding "chunky" gfx routines ? (chunky is something like this [url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13204[/url])
... "framebuffer" which is easy to render to, consisting of pixels in ... /> ld sp,framebuffer
ret ; jumps to address 11YYYY0011XXXX00 (for instance)
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Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... instructions for error handling, equivalent to the ON ERROR GOTO of ... mode, instead of always jumping to 48K rom mode.
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DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... if it has a 128 icon next to it then it is ... -
DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... if it has a 128 icon next to it then it is ... v0.61 - the snapshot seems to work both with and without ... -
New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …
... by PAW running on a 48K Spectrum for the normal system ... when running on a 48K, so you need to load the various ... still used Overlays to make the system available to 48K users.
< ... document is available from Gilsoft, to genuine interested writers, which ... -
problem on the video output (spectrum 2+)Hello, I'am french. (Sorry my english is very bad). I have a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv) have 2 area where 2 t…
... you need to invert it, as I see by 128 schematic.[/QUOTE ... alternative is to buy an english grey 128 ! (and maybe to put it ... -
Help make Retro Gamer greatI'm more than happy with the articles that are now appearing in Retro Gamer, but I want it to become far more of a hub for the retro community than i…
... the street fighter edition, and to me the magazzine was briliand ... edition...not only its way to expensive in portugal (13?...and ... time and never get in to reviews and magazzines (action force ... favourite, because our mind always jumps to jet set willy or manic ... -
spectaclator and windows vistaanyone know if it will work on vista- I dont want to have to pay up again for a new version...
...Can't wait for rubber-key emulation (similair to 48K key helper in Spin) in Spectaculator. Version 6.25 stays on my XP SP2 PC... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... oddities is being able to fly through the block ... a movable block, it jumps to the left or right, ... shootable blocks and having to catch the movable blocks ... and lifting them to a position needed to get past ... but with the added things to do, smaller levels will ... -
Atic Atac 128k version?Can anyone confirm that the version of atic atac in the 'UPTG : The Complete Works' is in fact 128k compatible? that is can you load it on a spectrum…
... finished loading before it switches to 48k locked mode. So the plus3dos ... code, then switch to 48k to move game code to correct place before running ... could easily be altered to load any 48k only game from +3 ... snaphot of other games in 48k locked mode on the ... -
Issue 1 32K Memory Upgrade neededHi folks, as the title suggest im looking for the original sinclair memory board to make it 48k from 16k. Any other form will do or even instructions…
... 'The Lil Old ZX Spectrum 48k Service Manual - Section 4.1 ... ][U]32k Extension Memory - (16k to 48k)[/U][/B]
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The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…
... quotation is going to sway me. Mr Gray, is, to put it mildly ... if you like your commentators to be objective. Gimme Motty any ... -
ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
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when I switch over to 48k from Pentagon the "refresh" leaves ... ... AND even if I go to OPTIONS and change the machine ... re-appear if I switch to a diff. machine.
