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Speccy stuff for free - you collect from SW18Hi chaps, Righto, all my Speccy stuff has to go but I can't post it (sorry Craig!), it's far too much hassle. If you want all of the below, feel fre…
... your hands, especially as my 128K recently died and my 48K ... it's a 16K (dodgy RAM somewhere!)
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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…
... graphical quality and requried video RAM), but they should have added ... , at the price of extra RAM being used for the screen ... so much space in the 128K of RAM, or he could just ... end of the traditional screen RAM, if necessary, surely?
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…
... "proper" one.
The 128K machine had an interesting genesis ... computers with less than 64K RAM had to use the Spanish ... language; sticking the extra RAM in - which was dirt cheap ... of CPU power to graphics RAM that it enjoyed and introduced ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... /> You'd probably need 128K of RAM to make it work really ...You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
... was 30% slower in 128K mode than 48K mode when ... would be faster than a 128K Spectrum in 48K mode as ... and UDGs are in uncontended RAM.
All this in ...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…
... , it supplies +12V to the RAM. I have several spare ZTX650 ... i find ULA for speccy 128k, this one is from AMSTRAD ...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…
... 7 MHz Z80H CPU, 128K of fast RAM, and a set of ...+3 Joystick interfaceI have just purchased a +3, never had one and I wanted to here the 128K music on my games. I know the built in JS ports are wired differently, so do…
... a 128k/+2), you may be able to use your ram turbo ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
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The 128's 128K of RAM is divided into eight physical ... configuration (13467) are silicon disk RAM. Ramdisk files are stored one ... the bottom of silicon disk RAM and the ramdisk catalogue ... of silicon disk RAM. The silicon disk RAM is logically ordered ...+2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…
... like it was loading all 128K in a single block, but ... (time wise) to page the RAM into whatever configuration you require ...
