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  • 128k+2 IssueI have been a Spectrum user for many a long year, currently using a Spectrum 48+, and have just had a 128+2 bought for me for my birthday (to recaptu…

    ... appears to have developed a fault, in 48k mode when you ...
    sidney sidney September 2013 Hardware
  • Spectrum 48k unstable Colours on Composite Video OutputHi, I?ve an Speccy 48k here which has an Composite Video Out Mod (The Video-Modulators power input is cut from the board). On this I get an unstabl…

    ... do to find the hardware fault on this ?

    Regards ...
    Luzie Luzie October 2013 Hardware
  • New RouterOver the last week i'd been getting intermittent drops on my internet connection, it would last about a minute then come back on but the drops were g…

    ... was old and not my fault.
    Think i'll move ...
    zx1 zx1 October 2013 Chit chat
  • Official - Birmingham is in the 3rd WorldA water main has decided to have a little lie down and left a large section of Brummie town without water. I thought is was my fault at first becaus…

    ... /> I thought is was my fault at first because I had ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2013 Chit chat
  • IF1bis Communication ErrorHello again.... I've just been working again with my IF1bis, having had to re-install the basic and shadow ROMS (probably my fault corrupting the I…

    ... and shadow ROMS (probably my fault corrupting the IF1bis by swapping ...
    Simon_Carr Simon_Carr November 2013 Hardware
  • Sinclairscene, thank you all........ but I will be going on low level for long time with possibility of leaving the scene. Nothing your fault, but I am low in spirit of developping…

    ... scene.

    Nothing your fault, but I am low in ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Dr. Who starter question - how to watch this?hey... this is probably gonna be a heavy thread for receiving nos and yesses, so I'm gonna rather start lightly: being from a foreign country, solar…

    ... blasphemer, it's not my fault... :)

    but if I ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup November 2013 Chit chat
  • Tricky ZX RepairHello guys, This time I put my hands on a very nice Issue 3 16K, upgraded to 48K. To bertter explain "nice", it is absolutely mint, not a scratch on…

    ... RAM tester stopped showing a fault on bit 5, so I ...
    Falco-F8L Falco-F8L December 2013 Hardware
  • Idiot man reads dexcription and buys anyway only to demand a refund...[url]http://www.nottinghampost.com/Warning-student-pays-pound-450-photo-Xbox/story-20263203-detail/story.html[/url] Just as the title says really. T…

    ... so it's his own fault!

    The ?8 postage ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob December 2013 Chit chat
  • Spectrum +2 FaultHi fellow spectrum heads, A fellow spectrum fan here asking for your guidance with a problem im having. Right bought a zx spectrum+2 128k the grey o…

    Hi fellow spectrum heads,

    A fellow spectrum fan here asking for your guidance with a problem im having.
    Right bought a zx spectrum+2 128k the grey one with the datarecorder installed. Everything about the thing is great bar loading tapes ...
    kenny-rockit kenny-rockit December 2013 Hardware
  • Interesting 48K failureI thought I'd recount a failure I've not seen mentioned before that I saw tonight while fixing a 48K issue 6 board. The background: The initial fail…

    ... likely possibilities:
    1. A fault in upper RAM causing incorrect ... get run.
    2. A fault with the Z80 (pretty unlikely ... Z80.
    3. Intermittent ULA fault (easily testable - since the ULA ... that possibility)
    4. A fault in the ZX84 chip (PCF1306 ...
    Winston Winston December 2013 Hardware
  • Born again Speccy user with problemsHello all, Firstly I'd like to say a big hello - this is my first post! When I was 8 or 9 or so my dad bought a ZX Spectrum 48K and a whole bunch o…

    ... result of 32768. Aha. RAM fault.

    I did POKE ...
    namtip namtip January 2014 Hardware
  • ZX-Modules Updater 0.9.1 publishedDear friends of ZX Emulation, today I updated my downloading tool ZX-Modules Updater. I fixed an annoyinh bug with created autostart and Desktop ic…

    ... +W or B respectively by fault.
    I fixed this and ...
    clausjahn clausjahn January 2014 Development
  • DIY Issue 1 Internal 32K RAM expansionFollowing on from the information in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40173"]this[/URL] thread, I finally figured this ou…

    ... girl has an intermittent colour fault, to be remedied some other ...
    balford balford January 2014 Hardware
  • Blimey!Someone (tragically, it's not me :sad:) is selling a rather rare NES game, [B]Nintendo World Championships,[/B] on ebay. [url]http://www.ebay.com/it…

    ... . So it's Martijn's fault really!
    ewgf ewgf January 2014 Chit chat
  • Faulty 48+Hi I picked up a pile of Spectrum kit including a boxed "untested" 48k+ The Speccy boots to this screen... [IMG]http://www.scotek.net/zx spectrum/…

    ... get an idea what the fault is from this?

    I will look through the fault finding posts/doc s but ...
    rune rune February 2014 Hardware
  • Any Polish techs out there?Someone in Poland needs assistance with an upper memory fault, can anyone help?

    Someone in Poland needs assistance with an upper memory fault, can anyone help?
    Macc Macc February 2014 Hardware
  • My new Spectrum +3 has no start menu.Hi all, I recently took delivery of my 'new' Spectrum +3 from a Fleebay auction. So I serviced the drive on Saturday as it had a snapped drive belt …

    ... it's flow chart of fault finding, and it pushes me ... hang over from my PC fault finding days). Still no +3 ...
    Amplitude Amplitude February 2014 Hardware
  • Calling people with Diagboards.....and who have toastracks or grey +2's with all socketed memory :) I'm finishing off modifications to the Diagboard firmware to expand its testing c…

    ... specific IC(s) are at fault.

    Here's sample ...
    balford balford March 2014 Hardware
  • Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…

    ... /> Feel free to comment, pick fault, praise, or ask further questions ...
    LuMan LuMan April 2014 Development
  • Is it possible to have a Single Drive on Betadisk as Drive Letter B (other than A)Hello, I?ve problems with getting two drives to work on my Betadisk v4 Interface: I?ve tried a second drive as slave drive but can?t get it to work…

    ... i use or maybe a fault on my betadisk Interface.
    Luzie Luzie April 2014 Hardware
  • 128+ grey screen faultneed help diagnosing this picture,this is not my machine but a picture found online but this is exactly what i found on this +2grey i just picked up.…

    need help diagnosing this picture,this is not my machine but a picture found online but this is exactly what i found on this +2grey i just picked up.
    when i plugged the power cable in a piece of the black plastic surround from the power socket came ...
    zedexspectrum zedexspectrum June 2014 Hardware
  • 128k Toastrack EAR socketHi -my 128k Toast rack was fine but the EAR now seems to have an issue- sometimes the blue and red border bars do not flash - (showing no recognition…

    ... I tend to make another fault to go along with the ...
    retromad retromad June 2014 Hardware
  • Of parents and wives.Got the parents staying over for a while. My god they're hard work. For all the behavioural traits parents revel in accusing their teenage children o…

    ... is satiated apparently its my fault.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk July 2014 Chit chat
  • Good or Horrible: Horn and DeakinIvan Horn and Andrew Deakin. What do you reckon? Addams Family - only played this briefly and am not sure it was even on the Speccy so can't reall…

    ... sure if that's the fault of the coin-op but ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree July 2014 Games
  • widow of smoker gets $23 billion[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1304173/widow-of-chain-smoker-gets-23-6bn-payout[/url] so many things about this don't make sense. how did they arri…

    ... the company that much at fault?

    mad ...
    def chris def chris July 2014 Chit chat
  • 128k programs not working on +2aI'm having an issue with my +2a at the moment, in that I can't seem to get it to run any 128k programs, e.g. Renegade and Nigel Mansell World Champio…

    ... issues).

    Possible memory fault, and if it is any ...
    britain4 britain4 July 2014 Hardware
  • Problem Reading the KeyboardHi Folks, I'm working my way through Toni Baker's rather good book and thought I'd write some code to scan the keyboard and store the results so tha…

    ... my code which is at fault.

    The code is ...
    KrazyKattapilla KrazyKattapilla July 2014 Development
  • Play button on tape deck does nothingFirstly this post is in relation to a CPC464 not a Spectrum but I have heard it shares the same tape mechanism as the +2 - mods feel free to move or …

    ... like there is some electrical fault or something stopping play from ...
    britain4 britain4 July 2014 Hardware
  • +2A: issue 1 no sound but better picture than issue 4?Hello everyone. I have a slight problem here and I am trying to figure out what could be wrong. :-( I have two spectrum +2A with two board revision…

    ... a wild guess here) the fault on issue 1 board causing ...
    Renegade Renegade August 2014 Hardware
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