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Very Bad NewsHi all I'm posting this here because I know some of you care.. On Thursday night/Friday morning, Amy had a really bad nightmare and it really shot …
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My security program doesn't like Spin or Spectaculator?I just tried installing both Spin and Spectaculator, and both of them triggered the security alert on my PC's internet security software. When I tri…
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Map Book Updatepre-production work on teh map book.. I've decided to drop Lemmings from volume 1 due to it not being visually attractive. I've got the following …
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New BB codes availableAs requested by Daren, 2 new BB codes are available now (without the spaces of course): [B]Strike through[/B] <s>text</s> in HTML. [ strike]strike …
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Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
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Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
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Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
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A day in the life of postmen and milkmenI'm making research about postmen and milkmen for my book "the Happy Friendly Sharing House". So, all you postmen and milkmen out there, what's a ty…
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Renewing wedding vowsPlease delete this thread...
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Renewing wedding vowsPlease delete this thread...
... message wasn't about you. Besides, I heard you have a thing about ... to be some people doubting you. Like those on the Doctor ... Who forums who apparently think you're talking nonsense and your ... . Criticism is best taken on the chin, as you yourself know the ... -
Broken grey +2I have a grey +2 and the problem is it doesn't seem to be outputting anything via the modulator ( don't know about the monitor port ) when i turn the…
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If you have bog standard DSL you dont have a fixed IP ... one when you connect and it gets taken back when you disconnect (even ... if you yank the ... -
don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... all the server add ons you could think of SQL Server ... 2000". Oops, forgot to tell you it install as an open ... about that.
Thank you M$
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Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... the assumption that the time taken is proportional to the ... the time taken is still proportional. You would have to have a VM system ... the O(n) algorithm. You'd have to be working pretty ... , it just means that you have to include the practical implications ... -
128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…
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Keyboards - thanks to rwap!I've just completed repairing a rubber Speccy that I have (bad RAM and bad keyboard membrane). I ordered a new membrane off rwap just before I left H…
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128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…
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Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…
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you asap, I have a 16K Spectrum ...Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…
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It's possible you've taken out the ULA chip too ... for that ULA and you certainly won't be ... one. It's highly unlikely you have the equipment.
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Plus-D drives...Can anybody recommend somewhere that I might be able to find a 3.5" drive which would work with the +D interface? (I'm doubting that just any 3.5" d…
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yes, no mods at all, better still I'll take some photos and post a link here in an hour or two....Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…
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you still have all the right voltages around ... place. The RAM frying may have shorted and killed other things ...TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
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cool :-) I am not really ... of time. I will have a look at the mode ... specific, but it does have a lot of things tailored ...Plus-D drives...Can anybody recommend somewhere that I might be able to find a 3.5" drive which would work with the +D interface? (I'm doubting that just any 3.5" d…
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You can basically use any standard ... drive (not USB!) provided you have a PC power supply ... disk drives have jumpers to allow you to select ... br /> I have a TEAC floppy-drive that was taken from an ... old pc. It doesn't have ...Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... means that even if you've got uber soldering ... of the question, so you have to spend 40 odd euros ... pcbpool.de just so you've got something to ... like overkill - especially as you can probably do it in ... ULA substitute would be pretty cool - a Spectrum with a ...Oh not another Bleugh! case......Hey fellow speccy people, Just when I thought it might not happen to me... I recently bid and won an Ebay auction of USD.200 for some ROM cards for…
... mind most sellers wait till you leave feedback before they leave ... customer does not give you neg after you have left positive and cant ... also be allowed to be taken back within 24hours for review ...Spectrum +3 Problem & A Modification IdeaThis is a dual post. And it's also my first post, so I apologise if I get stuff wrong lol. My mate bought a Spectrum +3. I'm unsure about how many d…
... talk USB HID - so you will have to design either your own ... that's just me. If you have sufficient skills in other areas ... of construction though, you can buy the keyboard membranes ... designed to take (and keep cool!) a Nano-ITX board)
Yay ITV have seen the light.ITV has axed that gawd awfull phone in shite Play. Probably partly to exscape prosecution from offtel and the like.
Ha ha. You should see most of the ... it) but its the fact you have some fat frumpy 45 year ... look cool while doing sign language.
About 8 channels have ... women who try and act cool and dance/sway to the ...Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…
Cool! Another Speccy saved from the ... quid at Bowood Electronics. Must have 150 here just waiting for ... not going to run faster - you have faster RAM now, which means ...Pause after blocksI've added a simple CRC routine to my app (thanks Gilby) to check for dupe TZX files and it was magical as I've located about two hundred of them tha…
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Indeed you'll find many releases and ... completeness.
Also if you decoded even the same WAV ... bogus uploads, where people have taken them off CDs and FTP ...toasted soeccysHello, ive jsut bought a pair of speccys on ebay (one 16k issue 2 & a prob 48k issue 3) unfortunaly the genius who sold them tried to see if the wor…
... , and after all, I have a broken Issue 4S board ... have taken video refresh as DRAM refresh. So, to lay it like you ... need a special burner to have a ZXMMC or DivIDE ... I saw most posts by you referring to hardware, I ... didn't think you'd be confused. How ...What's the most probable......cause for this on a grey +2? (z80 is excluded) [url]http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/8087/plus2hk9.jpg[/url]
... quite cool, but im going to replace them.
If you have ... spectrum starts. If it starts, you have a ram problem.
