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  • ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …

    ... in the bottom 16K of RAM will get hit by memory ... , but isn't necessarily too bad an effect.
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • What did you do before WOS?Around 1992 I was still a very active Spectrum user, but had no one to talk about it. The stores stopped selling my favorite magazines and I was left…

    ... something), a Spectrum+ (had faulty RAM) and a Spectrum +2 - this ... TV, the picture was really bad.

    But it didn ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Your favourite Half-Life game?Right, I've posted a few polls up today, and I've had so many pm's (nearly one, so far) from people saying how much they liked them, and asking for m…

    ... ]Was the PS2 version that bad? That would explain why I ... usually do to keep the ram/graphics to a minimum (I ... 'm sure Q2 was bad for that). The loading points ...
    VincentAC VincentAC December 2008 Chit chat
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    ... Hardware Sprite Engine is a bad thing. The TI-99 is ... bytes (yes bytes!) of CPU RAM! The users BASIC program and ... actually stored in the VIDEO RAM (yep!), which is 16K in ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 4116 DRAM for 48KSomeone told me I got faulty RAM in my broken 48K. They should be 150ns, right? What would be a good place to buy them from?

    ... 16K memory bad) and tried replacing it with a static RAM (32K ... multiplexed address bus for lower RAM, so I connected an 8 ... reads / writes to the lower RAM. Snow gone, normal operation 100 ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie December 2008 Hardware
  • Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…

    ... alter the contents of the RAM pages without the programmer's ... Basic for USR adr is bad. Even compiled Basic games won ...
    LCD LCD December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • FatWare source codeHi, Does anyone have the latest FatWare source code for the DivIDE? I've e-mailed Baze about it but got non-delivery notices. The last I heard he'd…

    ... impossible use real TAPe operations (bad return adress to zx rom ... (original ZX ignore load to ram but FATWARE show error)
    velesoft velesoft January 2009 Hardware
  • Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …

    ... 48K machine and tests the RAM on it...[/QUOTE]

    DEFB 0
    MSBD DEFM "BAD memory! "
    DEFW 13,0 ...
    jp jp January 2009 Games
  • Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …

    ...
    ;at least 48K of RAM

    JR NC, ... />
    NoBitFade

    ;Blank RAM before printing message
    LD ... supplied in C
    ; The bad byte in B

    String2Edit
    DB "48K RAM",0
    String3
    DB ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2009 Games
  • grrr The Capacitor PlagueI'm getting fed up of The Capacitor Plague. If you don't know what this is, I'll tell you the result. Your computer stops working. Sometimes, it won'…

    ... of my PCs are showing bad capacitor syndrome and it's ... enough to buy some dodgy RAM a few weeks back, and ...
    Marko Marko January 2009 Chit chat
  • ZXCF conundrumsBefore I start spending time prodding my ZXCF, I ought to ask... Anyone else have problems with the ZXCF losing its memory between power cycles? I'v…

    ... there's power to the RAM when the board is disconnected ... never used to be this bad - it only lost its memory ...
    zboskovi zboskovi January 2009 Hardware
  • R.I.P. spectrum 48kRecently one of my 48k rubber key (issue 4) machine bit the dust the other day when I tried to power it on. When powering it on, it gave a weird 'bee…

    ... one...bet it's lower RAM going faulty. This seems to ... to test if they are bad, since it's quick and ...
    Winston Winston February 2009 Hardware
  • R.I.P. spectrum 48kRecently one of my 48k rubber key (issue 4) machine bit the dust the other day when I tried to power it on. When powering it on, it gave a weird 'bee…

    ... one...bet it's lower RAM going faulty.
    .... swap chips ... to test if they are bad[/QUOTE]

    The advice ... before (even try) swapping lower RAM!!!

    [QUOTE=Winston;334096 ...
    roko roko February 2009 Hardware
  • Keys don't work even with new membrane, HELP!Hi folks. I have a 1983 48k Zx Spectrum. It powers up fine, but none of the keys respond. I have tried fitting a new keyboard membrane from rwap, but…

    ... then there is a RAM problem as the RAM test failed. eg ... out faulty membrane or a bad solder/connection?

    [quote ...
    spec09 spec09 February 2009 Hardware
  • 1K Minigame : 3D RacerLast year I started to code a 3D Racer in 1K. The print of the road was however quite flickery so I put it away to pick it up this week again. I deve…

    ... only might not be a bad idea.

    Anyway, despite ... copy the DRAW-command to RAM and alter it on the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2009 Games
  • causes of spectrum buzzing when starting?Hello Do you know if might be a problem that a buzzing sounds sometimes when a spectrum is starting on? thanks

    ... about to die (bad ROM or lower 16K of RAM, most likely ...
    Winston Winston February 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DivIDE on Spectrum +3Hi all, Is it possible to use the DivIDE on the Spectrum +3 in 128K mode? I have the 'A' jumper set on the board, but my +3 resets into 48K mode wit…

    ... times so far and nothing bad happend.[/QUOTE]

    OUT ... mode low 16kB. ZX ram and divide ram will work parallel = data ...
    velesoft velesoft February 2009 Hardware
  • The Joy of Upgrades.Well, this weekend I am working on upgrading my computer and its gunna be a beauty. 3Ghz Quad Core, 4GB Ram, 16000 DDR2 Ram, 1 TB HD. ATI Radeon GT4…

    ... /> 4 gig corsair XMS 800 ram
    Thermaltake Soprano case
    ram in the P5KC mobo though ... at anything like stable. That bad I took it back and ...
    ADJB ADJB March 2009 Chit chat
  • sinclair zx spectrum issue 6a (again) - how to repairHi All, Is there someone who may explain what these jumpers can be used for. [url]http://forest.no-ip.org/repair/jumpers.gif[/url] <- this is from …

    Bad memory chip (lower or higher RAM), sure thing.
    I myself ... doesn't always happen. A bad memory chip can draw much ... hot.

    If the bad memory chip cannot be located ...
    gtsamour gtsamour March 2009 Hardware
  • issue 6a faultyHi All I got issue 6a pcb from ebay with status faulty pcb had bad voltages when I power up I changed tr4 ztx650 and all voltages got back on ic6 I h…

    ... memory track until i desoldering ram 3 in low memory and ... /> i hope that though my bad english you understand about 70 ... to work fine :) i have bad experience with issue 6a for ...
    gorski gorski March 2009 Hardware
  • Spectrum+ - multiple issuesHi all Yesterday I picked up a Spectrum+ (via eBay) to add to my collection. Now, before any of the names I recognise from the last few months of l…

    Your keyboard membrane is bad (the failed key pattern ... upper 32K of RAM is also almost certainly bad, too.
    ... test the upper 32K of RAM. You may need to ... chips easiest. Remember Spectrum RAM is one bit wide, ... bit position that's bad tells you which chip is ...
    Winston Winston April 2009 Hardware
  • Issue 3B problemHi! I have an issue 3B board that is having a strange problem: when I got it it didn't had the -5V and +12v, as usual. After replacing TR4 and TR5 t…

    ... if either Z80, ROM, lower RAM or ULA were faulty, the ... try / check:
    [LIST]
    [*]bad contact between ULA & socket ... , but possible
    [*]a broken / bad circuit board trace in the ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie April 2009 Hardware
  • are Doujin Shmups on zx-spectrum technically possible?Here goes a challenge for actual zx-spectrum game coders - are those impressive doujin shmups we were seeing available onilne, technically possible o…

    ... take that much room in ram)
    This is a random ... idea, but it looks not bad. It may be very hard ...
    LCD LCD April 2009 Development
  • What spec/age is your computer(s)?Not started a thread for a while so here goes. I have a Desktop Replacement Rock Direct Quaddra Ti 3.4Ghz machine which was 4 years old in January. …

    ... 6600 2.40GHz
    1GB Ram
    2x500GB HDD
    ... of some description
    2GB Ram
    500GB raid mirror< ... 1.7GHz
    1.128 Ram (iirc)
    160GB HDD< ... Core2Duo 2.8GHz
    2GB Ram I think
    160GB ... more but some of the ram went bad)
    2GB HDD
    guesser guesser May 2009 Chit chat
  • issue 4s for reapirHi All, This time I have issue 4s for repair :) Here is few screen shots and small movie after boot. [url]http://forest.no-ip.org/issue4s/[/url] I kn…

    ... /> Problem is solved!
    3 bad lower memory chips
    now ... sockets for cpu and lower ram :)
    result pictures here [url ...
    gorski gorski June 2009 Hardware
  • Microsphere's best game?Given how fantastic Microsphere's games were, we don't give them (the company) nearly as much attention as we should. They wrote some fantastic games…

    ... in a trilogy. Yes, more bad spelling and late nights next ... a +2A/+3 in 64K RAM mode then you can see ...
    Jimmy Jimmy June 2009 Games
  • not much gear and absolutley no ideaIm looking for some help with two spectrums that i have just dug out of storage and are both unfortunatley faulty. I had always regreted that during …

    Then it is almost certainly bad lower memory and possibly the ... , then the lower 16K of RAM will have died too (the ... the 4116 memory is probably bad. This is where you have ...
    Winston Winston June 2009 Hardware
  • building a PCIv'e decided to get my old PC and try and get the thing working again. not really sure what went wrong with it, and instead of buying a new one i pre…

    [QUOTE=karingal;366080]
    RAM - You'll need more and ... mobo for ?50, 4gb of RAM for ?35 and a decent ... /> ah doesn't sound too bad then, i did have a ...
    mile mile July 2009 Chit chat
  • divide plus back to life , preorderI have green light form authors to made DIVIDE PLUS, anybody interested? Promise from me , fully asembled and tested DIVIDE PLUS in plastic case. Qua…

    ... 128 patch is in DivIDE ram, no in EEPROM. Soon will ... ]
    Sorry my english is bad ... EPROM burner ???
    velesoft velesoft July 2009 Hardware
  • We British deserve everything we get"[B]The Lockerbie bomber is to be released on compassionate grounds, the Scottish Government has announced. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jaile…

    ... /capital punishment still existed Satpal Ram would've been put to ... who carry it out as bad as the people that commited ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2009 Chit chat
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