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  • Spectrum 128K: distorted picture with composite to vga converterI'm trying to get my 128K Spectrum (toastrack) to work with a vasmon3 composite to vga converter, but all I get is a distorted image on the VGA monit…

    ... m trying to get my 128K Spectrum (toastrack) to work ... The RF output on the 128K is working fine on a ... of the 48K and the 128K with my antique 10MHz ... The output voltage on the 128K is about 4 V DC ... 11.8 volt.

    Picture of the problem:
    [url ...
    Knik Knik April 2012 Hardware
  • Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…

    ... ) could each have their own display?

    One simple ... simply produce a split-screen display, split the video signal ... picture?

    You'd either use a 128K and have it display ... its shadow screen whilst the ...
    joefish joefish April 2014 Hardware
  • Grey ZX Spectrum+2 128k Display problemHello, I have a grey ZX Spectrum+2 128k. I have the original power supply and I have recently tried to connect it up to a TV. The system appears…

    ... a grey ZX Spectrum+2 128k. I have the original power ... can't get it to display properly. Can anyone advise where ...
    Actionmainly Actionmainly November 2017 Hardware
  • Doubling the Spectrum's resolution?Before the advent of digital, PAL TV sets had a resolution of about 702x576 pixels. It was overscanned (i.e. the edges of the broadcast picture would…

    ... . the edges of the broadcast picture would be beyond the edges ... :1 interlace. By toggling the 128k display page with an IM2 interrupt ... vertical resolution of the Spectrum display. It should also work, ... is the bottom one. The picture will look bad if it ...
    ajmoss ajmoss October 2009 Hardware
  • 64x48 full colour graphicsHow feasible is this? Could an interrupt-driven routine be used to, for example, fill the top two thirds with a 64x32 blocky picture and leave the bo…

    ... thirds with a 64x32 blocky picture and leave the bottom third ... about it - just for 128K using the shadow screen it seems, but ...
    na_th_an na_th_an July 2012 Development
  • grainy +128k toastrack picturei dont know if maybe its normal but the rf picture is really grainy if thats the right choice of word,and i read some were that replacing the caps wi…

    i dont know if maybe its normal but the rf picture is really grainy if thats the right choice of word,and i read some were that replacing the caps will bring the picture back to as new is this true?
    zedexspectrum zedexspectrum May 2014 Hardware
  • Zx Spectrum 128k Toaster RGB pinoutHi all When I use my +2 scart cable on my 128k the picture looks terrible, so I have bought the din plug to make my own. Most sites from what I ca…

    ... +2 scart cable on my 128k the picture looks terrible, so I ... I can see say the 128k & +2/3 all use ... I can follow for the 128k

    Ta
    B
    Beaps Beaps August 2014 Hardware
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... big pixels for Spectrum 128K only, using shadow screen. It would work ... areas on both normal and shadow screens with $0F. Afterwards, ... to switch between normal and shadow screen every 4 pixel lines ... would be using NIRVANA to display 4x4 or 4x2 colored pixels ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2014 Development
  • Talking to your 1st love again......(Serious post by rubberkeys!)As a lot of spec-chums on here know, my missus has gone away for the week....so all I have been doing is eating/drinking/watching football and annoyi…

    ... put one on msn messenger (display picture), and then I asked for ...
    Dusti Dusti April 2009 Chit chat
  • enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…

    ... , the enJine written with 128K machines and shadow screen using in mind ...
    Ketmar Ketmar April 2011 Development
  • Why does Spectrum display has a border?Ok, this is problbly simple and very basic question but I don'r remember seeing an answer anywhere. Don't you think, that at first glance it is irr…

    ... because of how TVs, monitors display picture.
    Idea is in fact ... divide? - because of flicker, interleaved display scan), so we have 288 ...
    piters piters November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …

    ... Z80 chip, but also the display has to be decoded and ... screen.

    Farm the display code out to a separate ... to stop to get a display picture out.

    Now extend ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2008 Emulators
  • CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …

    ... Z80 chip, but also the display has to be decoded and ... screen.

    Farm the display code out to a separate ... to stop to get a display picture out.
    [/quote]

    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Emulators
  • The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…

    ... B] Zynaps
    [B]Best 128K Intro/Menu Music:[/B] Platoon ...
    [B]Best 128K Ingame Music:[/B] Amaurote
    [B]Best 128K Sound Effects:[/B] LED Storm ... Spectrum to use:[/B] Sinclair 128k, best picture, best sound, best connectivity ...
    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…

    ... php?t=13681&highlight=shadow+screen&page=3"] ... php?t=13681&highlight=shadow+screen&page=3[/ ... [*] Display the main screen
    [*] Load a new image into the shadow ... screen
    [*] Display the shadow screen
    [/LIST ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Development
  • The SAM CoupeDoes anyone own one of these? I remember being jealous of a friend who bought one of these machines which had a disk that made the system compatible …

    ... Worlds (128K)(with cheat)
    Mercs (128K)(with cheat)
    Shadow Dancer (128K)(with ... cheat)
    Heavy Metal (128K)( ... cheat)
    Madballs (128K)(with cheat)
    Shadow Warriors (128K)(with cheat)
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae November 2011 Hardware
  • Pics of your Speccy set-up?Had a look and can't seem to find a thread on this. - Be interesting to see pic(s) of everyone's "go-to" Speccy, the one that they use regulary. I'…

    ... /> As for video, it can display picture in many modes but I ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey October 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Zx Spectrum peritel helpPublished also on Spanish forum link: [url]http://foro.speccy.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4179&p=46000#p46000[/url] where a similar case was examined. G…

    ... not as perfect as a 128K RGB picture but I find it ...
    Renegade Renegade May 2016 Hardware
  • ****ing Awesome Spectrum Engine (FASE)This is a new engine (sprites, tiles, map) for all ZX Spectrum machines. The engine set ups a runtime enviroment that leave between 24K and 30K byt…

    ... bus to syncronize. If 128K it uses shadow screen. This is explained ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena February 2017 Brand new software
  • The latest build of Specemu?The latest version of Specemu (a fantastic emulator, BTW) I have is SpecEmu-3.1.b150912.zip, which is a year old now, but knowing Woody he's probably…

    ... /> Fixed a bug relating to 128K/+3 normal/shadow screen flipping timings.
    Luzie Luzie February 2020 Emulators
  • 128K Toastrack RGB SCART Picture QualityHi, I wonder if anyone with experience of using an RGB->SCART cable with an 128K Spectrum (Toastrack) can give some first-hand advice? I've composit…

    ... speccy+ gives a great picture on my CRT telly: crisp ... 128K has a different story. It always had an inferior picture ... the composite mod. The picture's brighter, but there' ... -white text has a yellow shadow.

    I' ... produce as good a picture as I'm seeing ...
    Muig Muig September 2013 Hardware
  • General question about "picture display" options in InfoseekI've been wondering about something in the archive entries that is not really an issue but it did not use to be that way, so here is my question - in…

    ... the entry title (tooltip "Change picture display to: Screenshot and inlays").
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG March 2011 Infoseek database
  • 128K blues, part +2: picture and tape driveI recently purchased an original (grey) +2 which sadly seems not to be fully working. The computer powers up but there is no way to obtain a stable p…

    ... way to obtain a stable picture, neither with the RF cable ... cable - which work with a 128K "toastrack" machine. The computer does ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2011 Hardware
  • Spectrum 128k+2a broken.I have a 128k +2a that is broken. It will not display a picture on the screen. Instead what one gets is a very out of sync (rolling diagonally) low c…

    I have a 128k +2a that is broken. It will not display a picture on the screen. Instead what one gets is a very out of sync (rolling diagonally) low contrast grey version of the boot screen.

    Is this worth ebay-ing or is it just junk?
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk May 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Double Buffering Artefacts on Real HardwareI have a project that I've played around with for a while and always tested using emulators, either ZX Spin or Spectaculator. It is a 128k game th…

    ... /> It is a 128k game that uses the shadow screen for double ... perfectly giving a rock solid display. I decided to try it ... my +2 grey and the picture has horrendous artefacts, bytes randomly ...
    dave18 dave18 May 2017 Development
  • Nasty vertical pattern on a 128K Toast Rack via RGBI managed to fix the busted membrane on my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-a…

    ... /55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a ... the display bitmap area, which looks like this (the picture ... I get a very clear picture (here, the moiré makes ... , and it shows a perfect picture.)

    Now, ... high-contrast areas, the picture is as smooth as ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore January 2018 Hardware
  • Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…

    ... a program that will display the existing title prompt, ... to a 128K model that reduces flickering via shadow screen this ... 'll have 48K and a 128K loader versions.

    128K models (because of the ... to load or save a picture). Or maybe it's ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Development
  • TV picture goes kaput on my 128I've been using the 128K model a lot recently and noticed a bit of flicker on the screen. Then a couple of days ago it rapidly got worse, and now the…

    I've been using the 128K model a lot recently and ... got worse, and now the picture cuts out completely. It doesn ...
    Spector Spector January 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Whats wrong with my 128k?The little power converter (the thing with three legs) that sits on the cooling fin was broken, so I bought a new power converter and replaced it. Bu…

    ... . But I dont get any picture on my new TV I ... />
    When I connect the 128k to my old 80'ies ... a very very very shaky picture of the bootmenu. Its almost ... usable at all since the picture is so bad. Also when ...
    cs060mk2 cs060mk2 November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New steel back plate(mini mod) for spec48k+ & 128k+Hi, Well I decided to do a sort of small mod to the original plastic back plate (that secures the membrane and keyboard) on my 128k+. I noticed after…

    ... membrane and keyboard) on my 128k+.
    I noticed after installing ... one.
    Here's a picture showing how the original bends ...
    thomas3120 thomas3120 January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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