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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 …
... Shughart was the standard floppy drive and the PC floppy drive was the non ... height or thickness of the drive 3) the power feed connection at ... power up system ( see Option 3 above for an explanation of ... /> 3) a wooden block exactly the size of a PC floppy
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 …
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Yes it ... I included the original Opus Drive mounting plate for the ... solution was needed like "sliding" floppy drive caddies that are removable .
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... was one of the cheap floppy power supplies I ordered and ... bit
3) The cable on Drive 1 (on the Flying ... misplaced. Nevertheless the "soldered on" floppy cable is a bit restrictive ... hand tightness.This will make floppy drive removal a lot easier.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 …
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The Opus floppy drive power connector is a "3 cable" type (with ... with the +3 Spectrum?. Was the drive connector a 3 or 4 ... another aspect :- Did the floppy drives themselves become more ... today ,when these same "3 cable" connector standards were ...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 …
... get an old PC internal floppy drive from ebay. I used to ... black enclosure to match the +3. Let me know what you ...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 …
... can't use a USB floppy drive to write disk images as ... you can use a USB floppy drive to get data from a ... PC to a +3 but it's not simply ... a game up on the +3.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 …
... range with 128K and 2 floppy drives. "Opeless" they might ... !.
The 2 plate "floppy on top" method (as described ... " of this range will have 3 of the cheap Chinese supplies ... other sitting astride a new floppy drive case top enclosure . The third ...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 …
... of the proposed ultimate "floppy on top" super powered Ziggurat ... cool" inside.
3) The "flip" top lid with ... thought , the original Opus Drive plate with the Opus identifying ... to top the floppy drive case to support the 3 Chinese power supplies ...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 …
... used with the Opus so " floppy drive flexibility" is a good feature ... of floppies
3) Ease of use . Apart from ...
Variations on Power "Option 3" (additional power for the floppies ... up the leads for the 3 floppy power supplies I have "made ...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 …
... for the floppy drives . This "plated" floppy drive system is removable.
3) The ...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 …
... test is needed
3) Blanking in the gap at ... the removal of the 2 floppy drives
However today ... will just concentrate on the floppy drive gap "blanking problem"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 …
... 2) I wanted the small floppy "drive securing" bolt heads separated from ... minor point
3) I had envisaged storing the ... 2 plate" approach is a floppy drive storage solution . I had ... with different types of floppy drive so this is something ...Gotek floppy on the +3I just managed to get a Gotek floppy emulator flashed with the latest HxC firmware, but I cannot get it to work as drive "B:" on one of my +3 Spectru…
... work in ANY of your +3? Or does it work in ... from pin 1 on the floppy drive). This paragraph means: do your ... cable work with standard floppy drives?
Is your ...DivMMC and +3 BASIC questionHi everyone, sorry if I'm about to tread a well-worn path here but I looked and looked, and I found something in the DivMMC manual but I'm not sure i…
I got a 3.5" drive working with the +3 in the end, not ... use in my Mac (USB drive floppy) to transfer files across with ... old home-brew software (the +3 disks proving more durable than ... +3, booting the game and save/loading saved games via the floppy drive ...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 …
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...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 …
... power supply as I have 3; I try the more ... does it on Drive 2 with a Drive 2 drive ; it loads ... chestnut" "TRANS_EXPRESS" . But why is Drive 2 the only "side" that ... and the same 40T drive set to drive 2 . So I ... to power up a 40T floppy drive on their own . Could ...+2A PSU ResurrectionHi all. I have a couple of +2A machines and a +3 with PSUs for each but I'm having a problem with one of them. I've replaced the internal glass…
... the +3 from a black +2 PSU because the floppy drive can draw ... 12 volt supply in the +3 PSU is rated for a ...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 …
... the problems is that the floppy drive types are all different so ... specifically on the Opus 40T drive types. This is not so ... easy as the drive types are quite different
3) The degree of "stripping down ...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 …
There have been various different floppy drive types made over the years.< ... if these were available as 3.5" drives)
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... to the back of the floppy drive . Ideally this is an aspect ... in why some of the external power supplies did not power ... into the back of the drive . So it is difficult to ...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 …
... the back of a floppy drive.The obvious solution is ... into theback of the floppy drive) with a Molex on ... up
3) The 3rd and final cable ... to Berg into the floppy drive . This extension cable ... section is unplugged when the drive is removed.
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Floppy drive options for the Opus< ... testing shows that my floppy drives are mostly defective ... has the said "twisted" floppy drive cable still attached . So ... would then have 3 types of floppy tests:-1) Test1 ... for other Shugart types. 3) Test 3 would be for the ...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 …
... the Red Stripe on the floppy drive cable ( ie left or right ... ,hard soldered to the PCB, floppy drive 1 cable).
2) The ... of the metal case
3) The width of the metal ...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 …
Storing the later "PC style" floppy drives.
On ... and similar for about £3.. At that time I ... that the later PC floppy drives were a bit ... I tried these with the floppy drive I extracted from an ... these later "PC style" floppy drives I do not have ...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 …
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Test 3 was gong to be about ... floppies with the twisted floppy drive cable as shown on ... not need to do Test 3 yet . Of course I ... of these PC style floppy drives. But as the ... So far , although I have 3 independent power sources I have ...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 …
... leaves 3 , the Static Ram chip ,the PIA chip and the floppy drive ...Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.
... they should because then the +3 would have got it too ... on that if the +2A/+3 had the same contended pages ... so much more with a floppy drive instead but the disparate third ... Amstrad then went with the 3" drives)Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.
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Yep, 3.5 inch disk drive would have been far ...ZX Speccy +2A - B&W & snowy RF output + other issuesHi All, I am new to this forum and I am back to the Spectrum world after 25 years. Recently I've bought a second hand +2A (+2B board - Z70833 Issu…
... pic is from an unmodified +3 model with a broken floppy drive.
