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  • Normal (Atari Style) Joystick -> SJS1 (ZX 128 +2) AdaptorAnyone here has a schematics for an adaptor that would let you connect normal joysticks (Quick Shot 2, Zipstik, Competition Pro, etc.) to ZX Spectrum…

    If you have a +2A here is how to rewire ... instructions from looking at a +2A of mine that sombody else ... be connected to the top keyboard socket so I am numbering ...
    Fraser Fraser November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help wanted with + 3Recently got a plus 3, checked it over and keyboard works etc. Just got a disc to try drive and nothing is happening. I select loader and when it a…

    ... 3, checked it over and keyboard works etc. Just got a ... belt is hte most common fault on a +3 unfortunately. I ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • 1943 Title MusicHow many of you are familiar with the music on the title screen for the game 1943? It appears to be 3-channel music; when I first got the game all th…

    ... rubber keyed Speccy had a keyboard membrane fault, and so I didn ...
    monty.mole monty.mole March 2004 Games
  • Expanded Profiles - Brief BiosExpanding on the post about Crimewatch style profiles, why not make a biography style profile. And I'll be the first... NAME: Patrick J.K. Furlong A…

    ... , 128K+2A, spec drum, currah speech, joysticks, lightgun, printer, midi keyboard
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty June 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • EmuZWin 2.5.0.1Version 2.5 Release 1.0 (10-Jun-2004): a lot of changes and fixes in ??? Map Builder ??? GFX Editor ??? Loading & Saving ??? Sound & Video ?? Speed…

    ... equal);
    - Smooth draw;
    - Keyboard/joystick remapping;
    - well working ... not. SPIN was not at fault there, I can assure you ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2004 Emulators
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    Not really a fault of the Spectrum but the ... Decathlon and Pssst using the keyboard.
    Was a totally different ...
    DOZ DOZ September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... wrote:
    Not really a fault of the Spectrum but the ... , but as you say, the fault of the software company, not ... made me get used to keyboard to the extent that it ... most games didn't support keyboard control. I don't know ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Games
  • Rewiring +2/+3 Joystick portAnyone have a simple guide for the differences between the Amstrad-crippled joystick ports and a standard Atari joystick port? I'd like to be able to…

    ... instructions from looking at a +2A of mine that sombody else ... be connected to the top keyboard socket so I am numbering ...
    Fraser Fraser September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Spectrum, new Spectrum... what about the old one?Suppose Amstrad were to release not a new spectrum but the old one, plain and simple. Well, "rapackaged", say the 128k with a proper keyboard, or wha…

    ... Sinclair machine, I think a +2a is the better choice for ... tape recorder and the real keyboard). Two additions would be nice ...
    J?rg Pleumann J?rg Pleumann October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • fzx32 on GP32 progressing nicelyJust to let you know that Rlyeh is working hard on his ZX Spectrum emulator fZX32 for the GP32 and should be released in the near future. Its based…

    ... , ZX 128, ZX +2, ZX +2A and ZX +3 spectrum models ... floating bus emulation,
    - Virtual Keyboard suppoprt,
    - Ericcson chatboard support ...
    Antiriad Antiriad December 2004 Emulators
  • Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…

    ... bug which was "fixed" on +2A/+3 machines.
    These games ... machine had some sort of fault meaning the bug was "fixed ...
    Unique Unique February 2005 Development
  • More RZX fun and gamesHi guys, as you may or may not be aware, xmikex and myself have been submitting recordings to Daren's archive for quite some time now. We still have …

    ... the 128k RAM paging at fault there - we currently use .z80 ... RAM pages, and therefore the keyboard read routine would be off ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Games
  • Stupid question: How compatible is the +2 anyway?Right, time for a stupid question. I've never really had a +2 or +3 until a couple of weeks ago, got myself a +2 in an almost-new condition. Since my…

    ... some real advantages with the +2a, real keyboard, no single key entry ...
    dasteph dasteph May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why emulators are not as good as the real thingI think I remember thx1138 saying before that emus didn't cut it for him. Well, I agree. They are good fun, and I got into the Speccy for a second ti…

    ... , snapshot saves, an infinitely better keyboard, easily categorised games files, no ... better compatibility (I had a +2A).

    Sure, I miss ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree June 2005 Emulators
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... you can't count the +2a and the 3 either, they ... memory didnt use the same keyboard, case, the added also a ...
    beanz beanz July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... you can't count the +2a and the 3 either, they ... memory didnt use the same keyboard, case, the added also a ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2005 Games
  • 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…

    dekh is right. The +2a/+3 has (almost) standard video ... that has this exact fault. A further fault in this +2 overloaded ...
    absorbentgnome absorbentgnome July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help with dead Spectrum +2aHello. My Spectrum +2a died some time ago. It was powered on, I looked away and next time I looked at it, screen was black. I have replaced the 4 r…

    ... I have a second working +2a: PSU and telly are just ... the other lines on a +2A. Are you sure the ... 4 memory ICs, Z80A and keyboard. I measured PIN 6 on ... do I change ULA on +2a?

    [quote]
    ... bought EPROM burner to change +2a to +3e and also to ...
    Timppa Timppa July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help! +3 won't work anymore!I've just set up my old +3 and it just won't work - it used to a few months ago but now it won't :( I'm in need of some expert help so here's the pr…

    ... the +3 into a +2A. The +2A and +3 are almost ... was removed in the +2A. Both use the same ... try. Like removing the keyboard and powering it up etc ... accurate, I use a +2A power supply with my +3 ... br />
    I doubt the keyboard would cause the computer to ...
    KeepGood KeepGood August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help! +3 won't work anymore!I've just set up my old +3 and it just won't work - it used to a few months ago but now it won't :( I'm in need of some expert help so here's the pr…

    ... same happend to my +2a some time ago. Power ... described). I bought new +2a from ebay, took everything ... ), it could start new +2a
    - memory chips ... z80 cpu was okay
    - keyboard was okay

    All ... modulator. Since my new +2a does not have socketed ...
    Timppa Timppa August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Starglider 128k TZXNow I would if I could, but I simply don't have a copy of the game on tape handy, but is there any possibility that someone could upload a working ve…

    ... . So if there's a fault with the TZX, at least ... it doesn't work on +2a/+3 but there's a ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2005 Games
  • Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …

    ... opted for a SAGA Emperor keyboard. No other repairs have ever ... will be down to your keyboard... even non Sinclair keyboards get ... replace the SAGA keyboard with an original rubber keyboard.

    Can ... have a +2, not a +2A, so there's really very ...
    Spirantho Spirantho September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …

    ... inputs so you can test keyboard/tape.
    The clever bit ... now: I have suspected ram fault (coloured flashing blocks). I first ...
    Timppa Timppa September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …

    About the INES keyboard - it is a really nice keyboard (has a ... is still place inside the keyboard for some accesories and PSU ... pieces together - and woila - the keyboard works again. Unfortunetly the other ... it must be some other fault.
    The one Spectrum ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Emulating the SamRAM on the ZX Spectrum SEGerton Lunter gave me permission to reuse the code, but so far I have not been able to get the software to work in paged RAM banks.

    ... .
    [/quote]

    My +2A can run software written for ... on the 48/128+/+2/+2A/+3.

    And the ... -in DivIDE
    - PS/2 Keyboard
    - PS/2 mouse to ...
    lordcoxis lordcoxis October 2005 Emulators
  • How many Speccy's Did U Own?Hey guys, just wondering how many Spectrum's you lot owned???? I had 3....I used to smash them up when I got pissed off on a game...Seriously....tha…

    ... hand 48k with a DKtronics keyboard from a mate with my ... another Speccy and got a +2a James Bond action pack which ...
    Glenn Glenn November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Emulators don't *FEEL* like the Speccy!I just recently played Ghostbusters II on my ZX Speccy emu and i miss the difference in graphics quality from playing on a lil old 15 inch CRT telly …

    ... "snow" crashes.
    No dodgy keyboard membranes.
    Fast access to ... ports introduced by Amstrad, the +2A/+3 joystick problem was the ...
    Jmk Jmk January 2006 Games
  • Slightly OT, but gotta ask: Which 128 would you buy?Guys, I'm interested in getting a 128 Speccy. Problem is, I never had one close to try, and I ignore which advantages has one model compared with the…

    ... />
    Pros:

    - The keyboard is as good as the ... 3" disks

    The +2a is exactly the same, but ...
    pottyboy pottyboy January 2006 Hardware
  • Slightly OT, but gotta ask: Which 128 would you buy?Guys, I'm interested in getting a 128 Speccy. Problem is, I never had one close to try, and I ignore which advantages has one model compared with the…

    ... />
    Pros:

    - The keyboard is as good as the ... 3" disks

    The +2a is exactly the same, but ...
    DEATH DEATH January 2006 Hardware
  • Slightly OT, but gotta ask: Which 128 would you buy?Guys, I'm interested in getting a 128 Speccy. Problem is, I never had one close to try, and I ignore which advantages has one model compared with the…

    ... /> It also had a better keyboard.

    I didn't ... like the +2a/+3 (though I own a ... +2a, and have added a 540mb ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2006 Hardware
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