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Happy Birthday balford !Hope it's going well! :)
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happy birthday Balfordhappy [strike]braid[/strike]birthday
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Blowing new eproms for a Spanish +2b<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I'm hoping someone can provide a bit of hand-holding and advice?</span></font><div style="…
... tube of 27c256 and the Balford approved minipro eprom programmer. I ... -
Spectrom interface ?Hi all, I got 2 of this devices ... :) [img]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/spectrom/20151006_151428.jpg[/img] [img]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/sp…
... programmable eprom... :)
I put balford digiboard test rom and all ... -
Faulty Issue 1Hi all, thought I'd document my efforts in getting another speccy working. I've never done this before so please bear with me... I recently took a p…
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Spectrum 48+ 4S - Upper RAM issue, and now a self-created problem!I recently picked up a known-flaky spectrum off eBay, to have a bit of fun fixing it and reliving youth. It was labelled as 'keyboard duff, shows…
... 16k. The tape version of Balford's ram test diagnostics said ... -
Speccy won't bootHi all, I've got an issue 3 48k that won't boot properly. When I turn it on, it either does one of the two following things, it either displays a …
... use a SMART card with Balford's diagnostic test ROM, it ... -
Exact emulation of the Snow effectAs the original post on another forum is outdated, and for those who don't know about that forum, I duplicate this info here: At the beginning of …
... to @Pheel (Alexander Filyanov) and @balford (Brendon Alford), who, at my ... -
SU Issue 27:G8 16 (odd link?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^SU+issue+127%3a+Great+Eight+16$&pub=^Sinclair+User$&loadpics=3"]SU issue 127: Great Eight 1…
... access here (proxy-restricted) to Balford's sample to re-check ... -
My FrankenspectrumHey all, I originally posted this on the Raspberry Pi forums, but thought people here might be interested also. Inspired by the guy on Flickr who m…
... ! :smile: But...
[QUOTE=balford;696884]Hey all,
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My FrankenspectrumHey all, I originally posted this on the Raspberry Pi forums, but thought people here might be interested also. Inspired by the guy on Flickr who m…
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Any questions, fire ahead!
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How much do you want for it..? :D
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My FrankenspectrumHey all, I originally posted this on the Raspberry Pi forums, but thought people here might be interested also. Inspired by the guy on Flickr who m…
... Kane applauding)
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+2 issue oneI can't remember seeing this model board before, so here we go: [IMG]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/20130605_153957.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http…
[QUOTE=balford;704493]Also curious that the part number for the issue 1 is higher (Z70700) than the iss3 (Z70500)![/QUOTE]
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SpecBAS and Linux (Debian)with my utter contempt for Microsoft I have removed Windows from my laptop and installed linux (wow this is not going to be as easy as I thought). s…
@Slenker error No Such File or directory
@balford just done that....nothing.
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Semi-OT Pi/Speccy keyboard interfacing thing[youtube]LOgmvhDIU9U[/youtube] It's ultimately pointless I know, but I said it would work and had to build it to prove it :grin:
[QUOTE=balford;705844][URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43541"]cough[/URL] :)[/QUOTE]
Excellent! That's given me some motivation to crack on with mine now. There goes my evenings!! -
Issue 2 colour problemsHey all, I've got a slight colour problem with my Issue 2 Spectrum, as can be seen below: [IMG]http://www.bennyalford.com/images/issue2a.jpg[/IMG] …
[QUOTE=balford;707210]Yep, fully functional :smile:[/QUOTE]
Good work :smile:
I do like news of successful repairs :D
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Issue 4A issuesHi all, I've been trying to get the Issue 4A board that came DOA with the case I purchased for my Frankenspectrum to work. I've recapped and socket…
[QUOTE=balford;707664]All of them :smile: < ... -
wtf spectrum +2 only shorter ???Just seen this ZX Spectrum +2 but the casing is shorter...dare i say it, but is this a custom job ? [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECT…
[QUOTE=balford;708767]A sawn off Spectrum : ... -
wtf spectrum +2 only shorter ???Just seen this ZX Spectrum +2 but the casing is shorter...dare i say it, but is this a custom job ? [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECT…
[QUOTE=balford;708767]A sawn off Spectrum :D
Wonder how they've modded the heatsink?[/QUOTE]
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Is there an SNA halt bug?Hello all, I noticed that some SNAs don't work on my emulator but they do work in almost everyone else's, SPUD fails with them too which is a tad sp…
[QUOTE=balford;709150]Ensure that you support ... -
Is there an SNA halt bug?Hello all, I noticed that some SNAs don't work on my emulator but they do work in almost everyone else's, SPUD fails with them too which is a tad sp…
[QUOTE=balford;709150]Ensure that you support ... -
Is there an SNA halt bug?Hello all, I noticed that some SNAs don't work on my emulator but they do work in almost everyone else's, SPUD fails with them too which is a tad sp…
... the other hand, with [B]balford[/B]'s version half of ... -
Is there an SNA halt bug?Hello all, I noticed that some SNAs don't work on my emulator but they do work in almost everyone else's, SPUD fails with them too which is a tad sp…
... the other hand, with [B]balford[/B]'s version half of ... originally had the same as Balford, and now I've switched ... -
Is there an SNA halt bug?Hello all, I noticed that some SNAs don't work on my emulator but they do work in almost everyone else's, SPUD fails with them too which is a tad sp…
[QUOTE=balford;709353]My bugfixed code, posted ... -
Is there an SNA halt bug?Hello all, I noticed that some SNAs don't work on my emulator but they do work in almost everyone else's, SPUD fails with them too which is a tad sp…
[QUOTE=balford;709353]My bugfixed code, posted ... mean this one:
[QUOTE=balford;709150]
Reading the IFF ...





