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  • What hardware Sinclair and not related has everybody got?Just had to try to list all my clutter in the attic and my dads garage (this has got a bit out of hand), anybody else got as much Retro as this (boug…

    ... of of)
    +2 grey
    +2 black
    +D, Disicple and ... megacd 2
    white jap sega saturn, black pal saturn
    dreamcast ... and jap aqua ps2, plus black pal ps2
    oh yeah ...
    vanpeebles vanpeebles August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…

    ... , with the exceptions of Black and White, but are close enough ... bright black is still black and not a very dark grey as ... he rightly said, white would be a light grey.

    [ ... Green; Black + tad of Cyan; Black + tad of Yellow; Black + tad of White
    Sadako Sadako August 2004 Development
  • RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…

    ... and 255,255,255 for Black and White, respectively, otherwise, as ... he rightly said, white would be a light grey.
    [/quote ... ).

    White still looked a bright white despite it only ... into believing it really is white. :)

    [quote]
    ...
    monty.mole monty.mole August 2004 Development
  • How did you make it load?I used to have great difficulty getting games to load on my old Speccy + and found using superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape…

    ... three or four with the black and white stripes (Xeno, Agent Orange ... /> Was is the +2 (Grey) or the +2a (Black) ?
    [/quote]
    grey version, bought in December 1987 ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2004 Games
  • +3 and microdriveHi guys, does anybody know if an interface 1 and microdrive are compatable with a +3 thanks Uzzzi

    Short answer: No. :)

    They are compatible with the 16k, 48k, +, 128, and Grey +2, but not the +3 or Black +2A.
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cylu doesn't work in 128KI've played hundreds of 48K games on my original Spectrum 128K+, and all of them load fine, which is more than can be said for the plus2 Spectrums. H…

    ... out included...
    [B]Ghostbusters 128[/B] music and speech added ... /> [B]Daley Thompson's Supertest 128[/B] four extra events, and ... later owned a grey +2 and also a black +2A at one ... the grey +2, just a few troublesome games, but the black +2A ...
    jil jil September 2004 Games
  • NTSC Spectrums?Being in the U.S., I missed the whole ZX Spectrum thing in Europe in the 80's. I've never seen an actual ZX Spectrum. I know that in the states the…

    ... the 128+ (the model on the front page) and the grey +2 ... machines. The later versions (the black +2a and the +3) are ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum programmingI have a Spectrum+ at home. I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote a breakout clone in which you had to hit those spider-like characte…

    ... colours are:

    0 - Black, 1 - Blue, 2 - Red, 3 ... , 5 - Cyan, 6 - Yellow, 7 - White.

    The bitmap file ... 5000h start lines 64 and 128.

    [quote]How the ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2005 Development
  • video problem with 128kHi. I bought a 128K (the one with the huge heat sink in the right side) some years ago. Everything seems to work properly except the screen. It doesn…

    ... see a strange black and white picture using your 128 and a normal ... very similar to the original 128 that has this exact fault ...
    absorbentgnome absorbentgnome July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amstrad CPC464I bought myself a CPC464 today, ?5 at a local car bootie thing. So, I went home, plug everything in, with that curious power-supply-modulator-adapte…

    ... band where I get a grey picture, at the top of ... says. And it's in black and white.
    Any ideas
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm October 2005 Chit chat
  • ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…

    ... it is down to the Black and White border. Go onto any ... you will frequently see black and white patterns along with something like ... seconds and watch the white squares turn grey - I think this is ... idea. How about if the black squares are colour coded instead ...
    ADJB ADJB December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Here to go!Welcome to the new look! This migration took [B]a lot[/B] longer than expected (2 hours on the test setup, 5 hours on WoS), but everything ought to b…

    ... (every other ?header? is in grey field)
    2.) the background ... shade - very close to white colour
    (white in rgb=255,255 ... , and the stripes to be grey and black with speccy logo.
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... with spaces that are black ink on white paper.

    " ... background is drawn with black on white spaces (which now look ... the range is -127 to 128. The rel_vrot and rel_hrot parameters ... the range is -127 to 128.

    sp1_MoveSprPix() will ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Bought a speccy from ebay but need helpJust bought a speccy now so i don`t have it here yet but i bought one that might be broke have a read on what it says and tell me if you think it`s f…

    ... 128+ version which does work.

    Is it a +2 (Grey ... ) or a +2a (Black) ? Have you tried ... 've seen on my +2 (Grey) that sometimes it does that ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker May 2006 Hardware
  • Spectrum 128+2Greetings to all My Speccy Tape Drive has died. Fully blown :( Is there any way to hook up a external cassete player to the +2? I can't see any "lin…

    ... to TEST, on my +2 (grey) tape deck, it's a ... at the same location the black wire does on the tape ... /> Curious. Do your blue and white wires go to the same ... pad marked 306, and the white wire goes to the end ...
    trellis trellis August 2006 Hardware
  • Questions from the new owner of a grey Spectrum +2I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with cheap shipping (I'm in the US... it was $13 total and it has a Donkey Kong tape inside) and …

    ... with the grey +2. The grey +2 is basically a 128 with a ... single 32K ROM chip). The black +2 is basically a +3 ... feet looked like on the grey +2. If they were standard ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Hardware
  • 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…

    [quote=NickH]The 128 really was a cheap rush- ... of a BRIGHT black (maybe should have been grey?), I think the ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... is similar model to Spectrum 128, but is not the same ... on black screen with white ink (instead of BASIC white screen with black ink ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2006 Development
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... is similar model to Spectrum 128, but is not the same ... ZX Spectrum and the Pentagon 128."

    [QUOTE=Ralf]2 ... on black screen with white ink (instead of BASIC white screen with black ink ...
    aprisobal aprisobal September 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... /> Given the difference between the 128 and +2 board I'd ... wasn't too difficult. The Black version of the +2 would ... full design cycle but the Grey one shouldn't have. But ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …

    ... difference between black and bright black, but some say bright black is visible ... "grey" (not dark white, a real grey). So I can use it on white/black ...
    Arda Arda October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …

    ... that you'd have 64, 128 or 256.[/QUOTE]
    Well ... - I would choose dark grey to replace bright black (on standard TVs ...
    monty.mole monty.mole October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Nooooo my speccy died!??!!Hi! I am quite sad. :( Tonight I got a kempston interface so I rushed home to try it on my spectrum+ The edge connector of the interface was narrower…

    ... the picture was a moving black and white mess like that
    grey border and a white paper ,when I ...
    piters piters December 2006 Hardware
  • 5 albums (only) that you could only have for the rest of your lifeamebix - arise (fucking awesome heavy as fuck, paranoid anarcho nihilist punk) leftfield - leftism (perfect mix of dub and dance) snuff - snuff said …

    ... to be a fuss about black music not being represented, there ... Japanese Metal act dir en grey. That's it. In the ... they have 2 or 3 white members as well) Also didn ...
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan January 2007 Chit chat
  • 5 albums (only) that you could only have for the rest of your lifeamebix - arise (fucking awesome heavy as fuck, paranoid anarcho nihilist punk) leftfield - leftism (perfect mix of dub and dance) snuff - snuff said …

    ... Japanese Metal act dir en grey. That's it. In the ... they have 2 or 3 white members as well) Also didn ... /> yeah we have lots of black and asian music over here ... have the MOBO (music of black origin) awards in the UK ...
    mile mile January 2007 Chit chat
  • Spectrum +2 No TV PictureHi, As a retro collector in Australia I thought it was time to check out a real Spectrum as they were never popular here. So I bought the Spectrum +…

    ... you sure you have a grey +2 there?

    Many ... grey case rather than the nice solid black of the Sinclair built 128 ... and have a look. A grey +2 will have a long ...
    DEATH DEATH January 2007 Hardware
  • +2 / +2a : What's the difference ?+2 / +2a : What's the difference ? I still haven't managed to find out this yet. Yes, I know I'm an idiot.

    ... 2a is more a dark grey, almost black.

    ... The main differencies are internal. The grey ... +2 being mopre a toast rack 128 machine ... br /> Compatibility wise, the grey +2 is better, but ... D interface and Multiface 128 don't work on ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…

    ... say here is that your 128 isn't working because maybe ... about the white grease since ULA's from the grey +2's ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Hardware
  • 128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…

    ... say here is that your 128 isn't working because maybe ... about the white grease since ULA's from the grey +2's ...
    netomc netomc February 2007 Hardware
  • +2 blurry TV pictureHi, I'm a Spectrum user from Argentina, this is my first post :smile: I've recently got a spanish ZX Spectrum +2 (the grey one). Hooking european c…

    I have a grey +2 that outputs a bad ... can be highly fuzzy and black and white most of the time ... point when it is black and white is probably the closest to ... and my friend has a grey +2 that has a picture ... there was a batch of grey +2s with a fault in ...
    Jmk Jmk February 2007 Hardware
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