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Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…
... one with a dodgy z80/m1.. so how is that my ... ]their[/B] machine.
even tapes is a headache the ... -
z80 reverse engineeringI came across Ken Shirriff's blog today where he is reverse engineering the Z80 from images of a Z80 die. I guess this may be of interest to those of…
... direct use of the results, even if a new layout were ... the Z80, though... and might even help explain some questions about ... finding that the Z80's 'M1' line has stopped working in ... clear to me whether the M1 line itself is particularly susceptible ... -
HALT: Why always 4ts?Instruction breakdown of halt is like that: PC 4ts. That means it fetches instruction byte from ram which tooks 4 ts and then does nothing and read…
... out of the HALT state even though no interrupt occurred. That ... halt state is a normal M1 (fetch) cycle [/QUOTE]
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Newbie Hardware QuestionsI just recently aquired my first Spectrum, a +2, and I'm in the process of getting acquainted with it. Being a newbie I had some questions, which …
... being even less cooperative.
The more expensive AV-M1 converter ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... necessarily working 100%:if the M1 line of the Z80 CPU ... .It was not perhaps serviceable even back then. -
7mhz CPU?One of the things I like about Spectaculator, is that I can zap the clock speed of the emulated CPU up. Doing so makes me wonder about why the desig…
... memory access is rather slow even at 7MHz so the ULA ... probably have been the Z80 M1 cycle which is the shortest ... -
Disabling the ROM without removing the whole thingHi! I've got my hands on a non-working issue 6a. I suspect the ROM may be bad, but other things may be faulty as well. I've read that in an otherwis…
... (/RD, /WR, /MREQ, /IORQ, /M1 and /RFSH). I was following ... data bus, well I know even less. It does worry ... be always low? Also, /M1 and /RFSH are always low ... Z80 knockoffs with a bum M1? And shouldn't /RFSH ... I've already tried removing /M1, /RFSH and /WR from ... -
Why so few open source Spectrum emulators?A couple of days ago I started to look into converting an existing Spectrum emulator to Pocket PC (mainly the iPaq) and ran into problems directly. T…
... any new platform). It is even better if the source code ... -
Racing gamesI recently had a go on Superspring on the mame emulator, and found it a bit unplayable without the steering wheel of the arcade version. Then I tried…
... speccy version, and found that even harder to play, mainly due ... -
Missing 2000AD games (again...)Hello, I've posted this on the MIA/MIS forum previously, but nobody seems to have noticed it, so I offer it here for the perusal of all of you, hopin…
... released by Virgin (there was even a full 6-page Judge ... -
adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…
... of it was so obscure even shakespeare would have struggled to ... -
I can't remember the title!!Hi! I'm looking for a wonderful game I played very often on the Spectrum, but I can't remember its name! It'a sport game, even if this sport doesn'…
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Deus Ex MachinaAm I the only person who loved Deus Ex Machina on the speccy? Just wondering. I've even got the soundtrack that i downloaded as mp3 and put onto aud…
Am I the only person who loved Deus Ex Machina on the speccy?
Just wondering.
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Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …
... code for 20 years and even now i dont understand it ... -
another nameless game...I've looked at 3 or 4 other requests for names of games and the response seems to be really good so here's hoping... i had this game where you were …
... original i'd buy it (even tho' it prob. wont work ... -
what game is this?Can anyone name this game? It was a Monty Mole game, but not one of the normal platformers, i'm not even sure it was an official monty mole one. It w…
Can anyone name this game?
It was a Monty Mole game, but not one of the normal platformers, i'm not even sure it was an official monty mole one.
It was in 3D, and set in a prison, you had to escape.
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HELPHas anyone got any hints or even a solution to the following adventure games: Starship Quest Magnetic moon a shadow on glass moon magic
Has anyone got any hints or even a solution to the following adventure games:
Starship Quest
Magnetic moon
a shadow on glass
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mercenary: what did u think?mercenary was a fantastic game and i just started playing it again, it wasn't everyones cup of tea though, it had fast graphics (thx to the small scr…
... it was very playable.,
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Stuck in head over heelsHelp - I'm stuck half way through in bookworld - even with map. I've reached a pink room with only one entrance - I can get heads to a platform at t…
... half way through in bookworld - even with map.
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your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…
... our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished ... -
Missing 2000 AD gamesIn the past years, a handful of Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from the brilliant (Nemesis the Warlock) to t…
... game was released (there was even a full 6-page Judge ... -
Help making TZX filesHi. I've just found about 10 games that are missing perfect copies and i've tried using maketzx but i can't do it. When i run it it says 'searching …
... so below the max. level even if i put the recording ... -
loading programs using taper on a spectrumHello, I have the taper program and a bunch of games in a tzx and tap file format. I'm trying to load them to my spectrum/or make copies on new caset…
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ZX-2-PC Interface continue...A couple of months ago I started to built an interface for less then ? 5,00 which should communicate to the PC on a high speed. Yesterday I managed t…
SUUG MagazineDoes anyone out there remember SUUG (Spectrum Unemployed User Group) tape based magazine. I ran it for a while in '84 if my memory serves me well - …
... has seen a copy or even has one of the issues ...spectrum problemshello, I just recieved a spectrum 48k on ebay [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] (I live in the U.S.) I have a transformer to conver…
... /> I can though type commands even though they appear as more ...Sir Fred programmer died.Hi there, just want to inform that Paco Menendez, spanish programmer author of "Fred", "Sir Fred" and "La Abadia del Crimen" died. These games are i…
... best of spanish software ever (even thought there isnt so many ...
