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Where to get Spectrum RAMSigh. Even obsolete nixie tubes seem to be easier to get hold of than Spectrum RAM. I've tried the usual suspects (eBay and google searches), but not…
ZXSP Emulator running too fastHi All, I was wondering if any of you have had a problem whereby the zxsp emulator runs too fast so won't load games etc? For example, when loading…
... difference through the speaker and EAR port if the speaker itself is ...Highest price of a Speccy gamePicked up from left field in the Mire Mare thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14621"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…
Bit like Guinness with a port in it, definitely an acquired taste...External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
... commands for serial communication in 128K speccies. Port is used only ... for printers (in those times many ... printer had serial port).[/B]
port in BASIC? I can assure ...External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
[QUOTE=DEATH;177050][B]Are you saying it's not possible to access the 128K machines serial port in BASIC? I can assure you that it is - I used to have my +3 talk to my Amiga, PC and 48K Spectrum/IF1.[/QUOTE]
Ditto with my +2 and Z88.Low Sound output + Sound distorting pictureHi, I am having a problem with my Grey +2 at the moment while trying to use RGB output. When I load a game the loader tones are fine but the actual…
I've also noticed the sound out of the EAR socket (for AY music etc.) is rather weak on my toast rack 128K machine. I've not got around to looking into why this is so yet.Low Sound output + Sound distorting pictureHi, I am having a problem with my Grey +2 at the moment while trying to use RGB output. When I load a game the loader tones are fine but the actual…
... sound out of the EAR socket (for AY music etc.) is rather ...Eprom blowerdoes anyone know a site with plans for an eprom programmer project that'll blow 27C256s. I attempted to build one called Kisseprom, but the software …
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The programmer code is in C and runs under Linux ... driven from the PC parallel port in EPP/ECP mode, so writing ...Codies CD packDoes anyone remember Codemasters CD pack of 30 games from around '89? If so was this the only release of its kind on the spectrum or was there more C…
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ISTR the games loaded in about 30-40 seconds and ... the time was that the EAR socket wasn't up to ... MP3) player into the EAR socket in the last few years, rather ... than Back in the Day. It would have ...DarkStar.tzx in Spectaculator 6.25Hi all I think I have found a bug in Spectaculator. Darkstar.tzx(OriginalRelease) wiil not not load. DarkStar.tap loads The DarkStar Re-release t…
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The offending error in the loader is here: $fc7d ... of the signal level (EAR bit) up until this ... above code clears the EAR bit in C. This is okay ... of the actual data coming in (since it misses the ...
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FD2E ...Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... /> Contention starts at T1 in the spectrum, because the address ... at T2. For port IO 0x??FE the ... contended when accessing a port in the range 0x4000 to ... an IO instruction reading port 0x7FFF, whose IO part ... same instruction but reading port 0x00FF.
The ...Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... of 224, the memory in range #4000-#7FFF is ... is any odd page paged in #C000-#FFFF range. The ... contending also ports in #C000-#FFFF range in case a contended ... page is paged in. This is the part ... contended as any other odd port in this range (C:1x4). ...Fastest Baud Rate On A Loader ?Following on (sort of!) from the thread about the best loading.... Which game(s) had the fastest (highest baud rate) ? I seem to remember a couple …
... the ULA that senses the EAR level, you could do ... Spectrum itself AC couples the EAR and MIC sockets to ... fixed DC voltage to the EAR input on a Speccy ( ... audio equipment) will result in the EAR bit in the ULA (or ... results in a zero you've already got at the EAR ...New (easier) speccy games testI've created a new speccy games test: [url]http://www.sometests.com/tests/Gaming/ZXSpectrumGamesTest_EasierVersion_.html[/url] Again it's 20 questi…
... 8: the code improvements in the Alien 8 file format ... ; it is "optimised" in Knight Lore onwards. To ... to a port and then read in from a port. In earlier ... pentagram, etc), they use it in a subroutine.
... Sabre Wulf was coded in between Atic Atac and ...Compiling FUSE from source for a complete and total beginner...?[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b] A message above tells me it's been nearly 14 months since I last visited here. Ye gods. Wel…
... help here about compiling FUSE in Ubuntu (I didn't ... the origin of the port of FUSE to Windows.[/ ... the Windows port was started by Marek Januszewski in late 2003, ... I mentioned the Windows port in that thread was that ... way to run Fuse in Windows. I am sorry ...Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)
... stdio is special -- most things in it are tightly coupled so ... simple strings.
But in your specific case I would ... individual chars to the serial port in a loop rather than fputs ... to custom C routines although in your specific case the difference ....TZX to TapeHy, I´ve been trying to transfer some games that I have in .TZX format to a real tape. I downloaded Taper, opened the game file, connected the …
You may try using a different method:
Get an external 3.5" hdd case and a pc cd-rom drive with a play button and a headphone socket. Burn the waves to an audio cd and hook the headphone socket of the cd-rom to the ear port of the spectrum.MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
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... must set high adress of port as 0 or use RESET ... user modify high adress of port in DMA as %01xxxxxx then all ... occurs on 128K Speccy for port %11xxxxxx.Spectrum Ethernet updateThis week's theme is [B]Frustration.[/B] [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_events[/url] But I'm confident it will come right.
... thinking about picking a standard port whose device behaviour is ... bytes is written to this port in a certain time window, ... high.
This removes port clashing. Another sequence re-enables ... the extent of downstream partial port decoding.
Edit: ...2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
... 's difficult, because trackers compile AY music differently, some already have ... a few more questions about AY music:
-I ... wish I could have it in .AY format with that same beat ... could be exported as .AY (or several .AY files). Yay!
How to load tzx files into REAL spectrumI have 2 zx spectrum computers, and have been trying to load tzx files into them. I have used several programs to convert them to wav files and them …
... -mono adapter > Spectrum's EAR port
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And the volume ...Next step in MIDI to AY conversionI e-mailed the author of MID2AY with a few questions. While I wait for a reply, I would like to expose my ideas. There should be a better way to conv…
... the file, twiddle the midi port. In fact there is a rom ...Amiga softwareWill PAL Amiga games (originals) work on a NTSC Amiga? I'm looking for Carrier command and Starglider II but they are thin on the ground over here. …
... and the ST got the port. In a way tho I think ... my speccy with a 520STFM in '91, I bought it ... over an Amiga, the difference in the games between the two ... with each other, at least in the games anyway. Demos are ... was working at an office in the UK that happened ...Cool new weapon - The Crap Cannonsee the link [url]http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/10/activists-preparing-against-use-of-brown-note-at-dem-convention/[/url]
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the surgery in 'robocop 2', not a lot ... br /> the hobling scene in 'misery' is perfectly excecuted, ... action.
the ear scene in 'resevoir dogs', shame you ... /> the woman tied up in 'wolf creek' nice humour ... her hands taken off in 'man behind the sun ...Cool new weapon - The Crap Cannonsee the link [url]http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/10/activists-preparing-against-use-of-brown-note-at-dem-convention/[/url]
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the surgery in 'robocop 2', not a lot ... ha.
the hobling scene in 'misery' is perfectly excecuted, nice ... man action.
the ear scene in 'resevoir dogs', shame you cant ... br />
Some good scenes in the Toxic Avenger films too ...How to read AY Registers from M/C?Gentlemen, I will appreciate if you can provide me some details on this, as I could not find info in other sources. I would like to know if it's pos…
... very accurate in AY sounds and also in the combination of AY+BEEP (#FE ... modulation by software instead. In any case, AY sounds tend to be ... for music. (Jon, I noticed in Egghead games you only included ... to decide between using AY-only or AY+BEEP sounds.
...How does dhcp work? any Linux know-how here?So I'm trying to set up a dhcp server to my second ethernet port so that I may share my internet between my main computer and a laptop, but I'm runni…
... other computer listening on the port in order to have the dhcpd ... configured with an IP address in the netblock you're interested ... in (192.168.10.0/24 ... (just put the interface name in there on a line on ...Was Knight Lore Really Written Before Sabre Wulf?Was Knight Lore really written before Sabre Wulf or was this a clever form of self promotion by the Stamper brothers? It was a great piece of journa…
... if you check the code in Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, ... changes; it is "optimised" in Knight Lore onwards. To ... to a port and then read in from a port. In earlier ... pentagram, etc), they use it in a subroutine.
in between Atic Atac and ...The ProfessionalsBelieve it or not, I've never seen this before, and it's now being shown on one of the ITV digital channels. It's rather good, isn't it?! Dated at t…
... the dial tuning and rabbit ear aerial in the bedroom :) It was ... on the 21" BIG TELLY in the front room :D Iirc ...
