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  • Spectrum +2 faultHave recently purchased a +2 but it is not working. When you switch it on all I get is a screen with lots of different coloured boxes on it and it wo…

    ... 've done a few +2s - CPU, memory or ULA is your ...
    GP GP May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is there anyway of fixing my spectrum?Hi people, i have just got my pride and joy back out of the closet (48k +) and turned it on and to my horror the arial socket is not working properly…

    ... likely that the ULA, the CPU or the memory failed (very ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi May 2003 Games
  • Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…

    ... from the fault-candidates, like CPU, ULA, and the lower 16k ... affect the ULA or the CPU.
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Graphics in bordersI am 50% certain that I remember a game that had graphics in the borders. This always made we wonder why none of the other games did. Am I right or h…

    ... more, and it was probably CPU-intensive enough not to be ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi May 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... blocky and they are too cpu intensive for a game i ... be to much for the cpu if too much is going ... be too much for the cpu.

    even if it ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... />
    thats multicolour and the cpu doesnt have enough power to ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…

    how much CPU time does it take? we could have severely reduced frame rates and proper cute GFX .. hmmm sounds like a C64 ; )
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a July 2003 Games
  • Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…

    No, it is not the same. What I call rainbow processing is this:

    You synchronize the CPU with the video, and then switch rapidly the color attributes for the 8x8 cells, resulting in selectig a new attribute for each 8x1 cell.
    windenNTW windenNTW July 2003 Games
  • GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…

    ... which takes up way more cpu.

    no hard feelings ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…

    ... :

    You synchronize the CPU with the video, and then ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…

    ... a similar spec, and same CPU as the Spectrum. I'm ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers July 2003 Games
  • Having problems with Falcon Patrol 2Ive recently discovered the wonder of TZX.files, giving my old 48k spectrum a new lease of life.. But im having problems getting a copy of Falcon P…

    ... crap and choppy due to CPU overheads.

    There you ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Huffman questionI'm pretty sure that the answer to my question is "no", but I just want a second opinion: Is it possible to somehow cram a Huffman decompressor + de…

    ... ". It was developed for 6502 cpu's (yeap, C64) and it ...
    pmsr pmsr July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... simply the AY has little CPU overhead if used to generate ...
    cyborg cyborg July 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... frequent on a 3.5MHz cpu, about 438 T states or ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    ... . The attainable resolution depends on cpu speed and the linearity of ... can be done with direct cpu control of a speaker. What ... range of complex sounds *without cpu intervention*. That's why these ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    ... Atari ST with its fast CPU make with AY?
    Well ...
    Yerz Yerz August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    F*ck, the first 2 examples You can ignore, they are only experiments with sound.

    Next 2 songs are what I ment.
    But probably ZX CPU is too slow to make such AY's sound.
    Yerz Yerz August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Paging questionI've a question regarding paging on the Spectrum 128K, +2, +2A, +3, etc, etc. Suppose we are running a program in the page that happens to be.. well,…

    Paging merely redirects the CPU to a different memory location - ... requested from memory by the CPU.
    When you have a ...
    cyborg cyborg August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum +2 problem...I've just had a Spectrum go down on me (not that way TK, so don't try it...) I was playing a game with no problems for about 20 minutes, and the Spe…

    Hmm, seems something went to /dev/null. Try to pull out CPU, ROM and ULA from sockets. Then put them back and try Speccy. If this will not help, you have to look for somebody who can repair Speccies.
    zoom zoom August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a decent games database manager pls!Seeing how many games are piled up on my disk, and that I seldom get to see the screenshots or inlay scans for a particular game, I was thinking of u…

    ... /> Disk Space: 3MB Minimum
    CPU: Pentium 233 or Higher
    thx1138 thx1138 August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cyber Punks Unity are the cream at cafe '03Jeezus - has anyone seen the last two CPU demos at Cafe 2003? ([url]http://www.zxdemo.org[/url]).. These guys have got spacey & artistic demos down t…

    ... style things (like ESI :), whereas CPU are more freaky and modern ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cyber Punks Unity are the cream at cafe '03Jeezus - has anyone seen the last two CPU demos at Cafe 2003? ([url]http://www.zxdemo.org[/url]).. These guys have got spacey & artistic demos down t…

    ... not really impressed with the CPU stuff, but on the other ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... -sound is a matter of CPU. Music in sid-sound mode ... , using full speed of our CPU. But then such trax couldn ... they would have took all CPU's power.
    Yerz Yerz August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... , using full speed of our CPU. But then such trax couldn ... they would have took all CPU's power.
    [/quote]
    cpu is kept busy, mostly in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SpeccyDo you think someone should go about creating a new spectrum computer? I'm talking about a spectrum compatible (not an emulator) with the capabiliti…

    ... , PC keyboard, etc. and a CPU capable of running Spectrum games ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... , but basically just uses the CPU to generate a proper (well ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2003 Development
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... AtariST. Player uses nearly all CPU time of course, but it ...
    zoom zoom September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... interrupt. If you want the CPU to recognize interrupts after a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • ZX81 and ZX80 emulator on Spectrum 128KA couple of weeks ago we were talking about a new ZX81 emulator for the 128K. Someone beat me. More details at [url="http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/S…

    ... error and increasing dependence on cpu speed to attain a high ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Emulators
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