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The Sadness of my Decaying Speccies.I've been avidly collecting ZX Spectrums since the late 90's and whilst at the time of the late 90's and early millennium my Spectrums and associated…
... been avidly collecting ZX Spectrums since the late 90's ... millennium my Spectrums and associated peripherals were all still spritely.< ... have discovered that my spectrums and microdrives are degrading at ... that almost all of the original owner spectrums are now ... -
128 port hardware patchReading the ULA book has reminded me of something. In The Spectrum Hardware Manual (Adrian Dickens) there is a hardware patch to allow free use of al…
... to allow free use of all I/O ports 0-127 ... be used with Issue 2 spectrums with a transistor soldered across ... -
Possible to find all TRD's in the database?Is it possible to find all TRD games in the database with a filter? I mean: *.trd This shows me only some TRD utilities and no games. Micky
Is it possible to find all TRD games in the database with a filter? I mean: *.trd This shows me only some TRD utilities and no games.
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ZX80 Games on your +2A/+3Hi all. Was just having a talk on irc about Paul Farrow's ZX80 games and his emulator for 128k Spectrums and IF2 and since I remembered I got them r…
Hi all.
Was just having ... and his emulator for 128k Spectrums and IF2 and since I ... these snapshots... they are of all three ZX80 flicker-free games ... the first 16k of the spectrums memory. Great stuff there Paul ... -
How hardware progressesWith much sadness my favourite gaming mouse passed away last week so I started to look round for a new one. I ended picking a [URL="http://www.bit-te…
... for ?30) and it has all the bells and whistles I ... RAM so you can carry all your settings and macros with ... same as the final official Spectrums. So now my gaming mouse ... -
The Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All TimeYep, another "best of..." list posted on the 'net, and like all lists based on opinion it's contentious, but even by the standards of most lists I th…
... on the 'net, and like all lists based on opinion it ... you having to go through all twenty-five pages to see ... .
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Question about saleshi all, i've just dug out all my spectrum stuff hardware and software, hundreds and hundreds of games all boxed with instructions, freebies, blah b…
... /> i've just dug out all my spectrum stuff hardware and ... of games all boxed with instructions, freebies, blah blah, 9 spectrums, a ... sam coupe 512k (boxed), spent 2 days listing all the ... treat, haven't tried the spectrums yet.
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Poll: how much *space* does your Sinclair collection occupy?I was going through my Sinclair stuff today (to gather various bits & pieces in 1 place), which made me wonder: how much [I]physical space[/I] does y…
... (4 functional, keyboard busted on all), two 16K RAM packs (1 ... 6 or 7 rubber key Spectrums, a Spectrum+, some power supplies ... -
Broken keyboard due to broken ULARecalling csmith's thread about dead ULAs, a thread appeared in the Zonadepruebas (Spanish) forum regarding... a dead ULA, but only a partially dead …
... t read the keyboard but all other functions worked OK ... read the keyboard isn't all that complex - so I ... tested this ULA in other Spectrums, but in none of ... programmable logic). It's all that's needed. I ... working as outputs, keeping all the keyboard lines at + ... -
Whole upper memory lostHi! I own a rubber key Spectrum with 48K RAM. Suddenly it lost it's whole upper memory. All diagnostic programs says that it's 16K model with workin…
... it's whole upper memory. All diagnostic programs says that it ... I own couple of 48K Spectrums which also have had upper ... find what has knocked off all upper memory? I know that ... -
R3PLAY report and photosWell, R3PLAY is now over ... and what a great event it was. I have to thank all the organizers, their hard work really paid off and it was a huge suc…
... . I have to thank all the organizers, their hard ... but families too - and all the way up to pensioners ... t connect to it at all) so the traffic ended ... -Fi. Perhaps the first Spectrums ever on a 3G mobile ... it was continuously being played all of Saturday and most ... -
Power GadgetHi All Does anybody recall those power gadgets that plugged into the power connection of the Rubber keyed Spectrums that allowed you turn the Spectr…
Hi All
Does anybody recall ...
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What model next ?Hi All I already have two 48k rubber kyed 48k Spectrums and a Grey +2 What to get next. ZX Spectrum + ZX Spectrum 128 Toast Rack ZX Spectrum +3
Hi All
I already have two 48k rubber kyed 48k Spectrums and a Grey +2
What to get next.
ZX Spectrum +
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Xmas / NY present for all ZX UsersHi there, wasn't sure where this should go, but this is a couple of years "work" during free time while not in the office. This is a package of 480 o…
... 3e image) so they are ALL fixed for +2a/+3 and ... about 95% for all speccy 128K machines. The ... tagged (Fixed) are for all speccies whereas the ones tagged ... machines.
Good for all you divIDE users?????
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Spectrum +3' AY sound issuesHi everyone - first time poster. I just got a Spectrum +3 for Xmas, and I am over the moon at this - I used to write games which I have here on 3" d…
... ended up having 4 different spectrums before admitting defeat and giving ... , I'd assume they were all like that, but this proved ... -
Not worth reading really - unless you have some spare time(Mods if you want to move it please do it does have a sort of hardware theme and a couple of recommendations at the end :) About two years ago now I…
... of ManicMiner and seeing spectrums sell on ebay I ... I had over come all sorts of hurdles not ... of buying electronic components from all over the world, but ... IF1 and some cartridges - all separately just to keep ... MicroDrive as busted. Not all glooom though as I ... -
ZX Spectrum 48K, issue - works fine till it gets hot (?)ZX Spectrum 48K, issue 2, works just fine, tested with Winston's diag board. At a certain moment in time however, it seems to run hot and stalls. Whe…
... run hot, I still measure all the right voltages on the ... 100% ok, works in other Spectrums and when I swap it ... -
newer plus d interfacehi all the plus d interface i have just been given is for the new +2a and +3 spectrums is their anything i can buy so i can use it on all my older sp…
hi all
the plus d interface i have just been given is for the new +2a and +3 spectrums
is their anything i can buy so i can use it on all my older spectrum systems too?
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Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
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ahh diddums gets no love?On this forum I see a lot of dislike for ahh diddums. Not saying it was the best game (it wasn't) but I certainly loved it, especially early on in t…
... , especially early on in the Spectrums life.
If you ... or peashooter to take out all the enemies in the room ... -
All of Birminghams Citizens Advice Bureaux to close from 11th Feb.[url]http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42339.html[/url] [quote]Category: Neighborhood Living Region: United Kingdom Target: Birmingham City Council…
... Information and Advice Service at all five bureaux across the city ... through the open door service, all of whom were seen without ... -
Twenty Reasons Why It's All Kicking Off Everywhere[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/twenty_reasons_why_its_kicking.html[/url] [quote]We've had revolution in Tunisia, Egypt'…
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Newbie question about my unwell Spectrum...Hi - I have had a couple of dud 48K Issue 3 Spectrums in the loft for 20 years or more. One would initialise sometimes but could not be guaranteed t…
... of dud 48K Issue 3 Spectrums in the loft for 20 ... other ICs in this block. All the chips are marked MM5290 ... -
New To Group....Hi All, A quick introduction as this is my first post. I am a Scarborough, UK based chap who is quite heavily into retro computing, more specificall…
Hi All,
A quick introduction ... , 6128, 6128+, GX4000), a few Spectrums (48k, +2, +2A, +3) and ... had a quick touch of all the chips to find one ... -
Humble homes of the big stars of the ZX Era!What I romanticise about mainly when I code spectrum games is to "have a shot in the 80s climate". Be able to learn, then code and create entire blo…
... have been playing on friends spectrums since I was 7 (I ... Dad went for a PC. All I used on that PC ... -
Zetr0's Catchup Time (hardware / software)Hello there my fellow ZX'ers I have been soaking myself into the "world of spectrum" and more I do, the more I realize I have to play catchup.... a …
... and I got the Zx48K all over again.... anyway out and ... />
Now, what about other Spectrums, like the 128 and the ... about that I really appreciate all the help and advice you ... -
can we all agree on a game we liked?reading some of the console mega threads, and from my own personal experience it seems that ones mans treasure is another mans poop stain. so can we…
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Can we all agree on a TV comedy we liked?Since there's a thread to see if we can agree on liking a specific Spectrum game, I thought I'd make a thread to see if we all liked any particular t…
... thread to see if we all liked any particular television comedy ...
