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  • Transferring soft from PC to +3?Hi. A friend of mine has bought the +3 after longer break in Spectrum using. Which is good. He would like, however, to use it with real 3" diskette…

    ... a 3" drive connected to the PC as a 5.25" drive and ... the speed of the drive to be pretty exact ... adjust the RPMs of my drive downwards (SAMDISK has an ... to tell you the drive speed) though I can ... external 3.5" DSDD drive to the +3, swap the external drive to ...
    JeffB JeffB February 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • +3 upgrades?Hi this is my first post on becoming a member of this forum and I'm hopeful and excited about some of the hardware I have found. Hi I found my old …

    ... />
    On +2A, +2B and +3 Spectrums, you can upgrade the ... is possible to connect 3.5" floppy drives to the +3, then you can ... use normal DD floppy disks.
    1024MAK 1024MAK February 2014 Hardware
  • +3 upgrades?Hi this is my first post on becoming a member of this forum and I'm hopeful and excited about some of the hardware I have found. Hi I found my old …

    ... and simplest upgrade is external 3,5" floppy. those diskettes are dirt cheap ...
    orange orange February 2014 Hardware
  • Why are rotozoomers on C=64 so fast ?Hi, I noticed rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best coder on Speccy but I know my pet I never succeed to do rotozoomer (or rotating ch…

    ... if they had done a +3 job on it e.g ... , revised hardware, 512K RAM, 3.5" disk drive etc. Whether it would have ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2014 Development
  • Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…

    ... have been replaced with a 3.5" floppy too. Other than that, it ...
    retrogod retrogod July 2014 Development
  • Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…

    ... have been replaced with a 3.5" floppy too. Other than that, it ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2014 Development
  • Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…

    ... />
    Amstrad offered a 3 inch floppy drive CPC for around ?400 in ... , full size keyboard and a floppy for around the same price ...
    retrogod retrogod July 2014 Development
  • Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…

    ... a decent keyboard, proper disk drive, full 68K processor and 512K ... offered a standard 3.5inch floppy drive built-in like a +3, a GUI ... as the CPU running at 3.5MHz in 'Classic Mode'.
    retrogod retrogod July 2014 Development
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... rather than the standard 3.5" floppy drives? The +3 would have probably been ...
    zx1 zx1 July 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... approach with separate keyboard
    3. Provided easy memory expansion so ... a business machine
    5. 3.5" disk drive plus hard disk as an ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... on.

    The first 3.5" floppy drives and disks - single sided ...
    carlsson carlsson July 2014 Games
  • +2a/b power questionWill a power supply from a +2a/b be sufficiant to run a +3 if no other devices are connected to it? i know its not ideal but its all i can put my ha…

    ... PSU coming with those cheap 3.5' hard drive's enclosures, and having ...
    bugpat bugpat October 2014 Hardware
  • Favourite Speccy PheripheralsWhich are your favourite Speccy pheripherals that you have owned/used? Mine were: 1) Quickshot II Turbo (with Kempston interface) Q, A, O, P and SP…

    Datel +D interface and 3.5" disk drive. Never looked back.
    Specdrum. Actually used it to create live backing tracks. Hi-Hats were too loud.
    Multiface 128: For grabbing screens.
    Epson LQ100: 24 pin printer.
    Dave Fountain Dave Fountain November 2014 Hardware
  • So what did you get?so...what did you get for Chrimble? I got Game of thrones t shirt Motorhead earphones Walking dead card game Sonic the hedgehog mug pack of Pacman re…

    ... shaped and looking like a 3.5" floppy disk, beer, 20 quid play ...
    polomint polomint December 2014 Chit chat
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    [quote="karingal;828435"]How many Spectrums had 3.5" floppy disc drives back in the 80's?

    [/quote]

    Some of them... like lots of other obscure things which are emulated... :p
    guesser guesser July 2015 Emulators
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... /> As a Spectrum +3 owner with 3" and 3.5" floppy drives, I am very ... transferring disk images to a floppy disks (and vice versa), as ...
    Pegaz Pegaz July 2015 Emulators
  • Older PcsDoes anybody collect older pcs? whats the oldest you have? personally im not as such, i have an older one mi mate gave me, but its only maybe 10 …

    ... 8088 CPU with a single 3.5" floppy. I forget the name/make ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2015 Chit chat
  • 7mhz CPU?One of the things I like about Spectaculator, is that I can zap the clock speed of the emulated CPU up. Doing so makes me wonder about why the desig…

    ... users) and a single 3.5in floppy disk drive (and better management of ... a decent keyboard and a 3.5in floppy drive would have shook the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2015 Hardware
  • 7mhz CPU?One of the things I like about Spectaculator, is that I can zap the clock speed of the emulated CPU up. Doing so makes me wonder about why the desig…

    ... a decent keyboard and a 3.5in floppy drive would have shook the ...
    Mysterion Mysterion December 2015 Hardware
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    If you are you talking about the mounting machine screws for a 3.5 inch drive, the data sheets that I have for a couple of FDDs show these as M3 thread size.

    [b][i]Mark[/i][/b]
    1024MAK 1024MAK February 2016 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... to obtain a ready made 3.5 inch drive and relevant cable in ... from the archive on my +3. Would this be possible? All ...
    Guitari Guitari March 2016 Hardware
  • Speccy Retro TypologyHow many types of Speccy Retro are there?

    ... , and I also bought a +3 but it had the sound ... (fantastic!) +D interface and 3.5" disc drive), and I still play Spectrum ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The health of the high streetToday i walked past Wh Smiths in Redcar while out shopping and it got me thinking, i know weve lost some long standing big name retailers before but …

    ... was still selling packs of 3.5'' floppy disks up to about a ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum June 2017 Chit chat
  • The health of the high streetToday i walked past Wh Smiths in Redcar while out shopping and it got me thinking, i know weve lost some long standing big name retailers before but …

    ... was still selling packs of 3.5'' floppy disks up to about a ...
    mel the bell mel the bell June 2017 Chit chat
  • The health of the high streetToday i walked past Wh Smiths in Redcar while out shopping and it got me thinking, i know weve lost some long standing big name retailers before but …

    ... was still selling packs of 3.5'' floppy disks up to about a ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum June 2017 Chit chat
  • The ZX Spectrum as a Business MachineMaybe it is time to treat this"business" side of the Spectrum more seriously . What spurred me int action was the arrival in the post today (from Eb…

    ... fully working and with a 3.5" floppy rather than Microdrives this could ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The ZX Spectrum as a Business MachineMaybe it is time to treat this"business" side of the Spectrum more seriously . What spurred me int action was the arrival in the post today (from Eb…

    ... fully working and with a 3.5" floppy rather than Microdrives this could ... /> If only the Spectrum had 3.5" drives instead of ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Parallel to serial z80 i/o portI have an Opus Discovery and an Alphacom 32 printer. I want to see if I can make a cable that will use the Opus Parallel printer port. The question i…

    ... load "Zeus" from tape
    3) At this point no issues ... need to load zeus from 3.5" Floppy not tape - I don't ...
    hedge hedge April 2018 Hardware
  • Features that never made it into the SpectrumAlthough kind of a Hardware question (a kind moderator might want to move it, I was 50/50 on where to post it, I don't mind) , I was thinking about t…

    ... happened if the +3 was released with a 3.5 floppy instead, ignoring the ... of a warehouse full of 3" drives and the fact that ... and PCW 'greenscreen' both had 3" drives. Then again not that ... software was relatively out on 3" I suppose so it may ...
    spider spider September 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…

    ... a fan of the Startech 3.5in trayless Hot swap mobile ... cheap plastic adaptors for 2.5 SSD drives. SSD drives are ... so why bother with these 3.5 in rack versions? . One reason ... an old 3.5 scrap drive and mount the 2.5 SSD drive in the ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio December 2018 Chit chat
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