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Sigmund Freud Pervert of Genius?On and off I sumble across the work of Sigmund Freud, and can't help thinking he was nothing more than seriously perverse. One such example he descr…
... rape victims it was their fault.
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Yareks Kempston Interface?I have built a kempston interface following this; [url]http://8bit.yarek.pl/hardware/zx.joystick/kjschem.gif[/url] But now I am not so sure if this…
... rule that out of my fault searching on my own built ... -
Intermittent reset on 48K (issue 4S)I'be been fighting an intermittent selfreset the whole day. Changed ULA - did not help. Tested TR6 as i could and compared the reading with another…
... my amplifier which had a fault. It distorted the signal in ... -
BRITISH TELECOMI'm getting slightly infuriated. Twice in the past two weeks, I reported my crap, slow internet connection to BT. I'm getting download speeds of a…
... told me there was a fault which they would try and ... tell me there is a fault on the line, plus my ... -
Another Roger Jowett oneHello guys, I want print here the conversation with Roger Jowett. He is spamming all e-mails he can get hold of. Especially for the Spectrum30 show…
... dont worry its never your fault is it
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Faulty +2, What could it be?Hi, ZX Spectrum +2, grey model with a barrel connector for power. When powered up the screen has lots of flashing coloured blocks each with some ru…
... idea what might be the fault, know its difficult from that ... -
4116 replaced by 4164 - "Noisy" paper?After I replaced my 4116's with 4164's and hooked them up to +5V, disconnected -5V and +12V, I have what looks like vertical lines in the paper, like…
... not a pixel fault, and not like any fault I have seen ... -
+3e Strange IssueHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am absolutely perplexed by the following problem, I am hoping that someone more enlightened than I can help [I](no…
... ([COLOR="Blue"]with this peculiar fault[/COLOR])[/INDENT]
[B]Extra ... to be a RESET line fault, so I replace C13 and ... to believe its an M1 fault is that the DivIDE simply ... -
Issue 4S Schematics and DC-DC circuitA while ago I bought a Spectrum 4S that had problems tuning. I removed the RF tuner as I was not going to use it and did the composite mod. It worked…
... a bit difficult to do fault finding on the DC-DC ... -
+2 OverheatingMust first give thanks to Dazza75 for supplying me a replacement +2 however it seems to be overheating and corrupting graphics in games making them u…
... may be?
Ram fault? ULA loose. If it requires ... -
ds lite screen issueright heres the story my kids had a pink ds lite after a couple of years it developed a fault, where its not calibrated properly, even when weve tri…
... of years it developed a fault, where its not calibrated properly ... -
Disco Light Repair.I found in my loft set of disco lights, you know the ones you might have found in Tandy for ?30 with four Red, Green, Yellow and Blue bulbs. We it s…
... this did not cure the fault.
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Replacing Upper RAM in 48KHi Folks Well, my fun continues :) After sorting the display issues with this machine I found I couldn't load software meant for 48K machines. Havin…
... looks like an upper memory fault.
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Issue 2 Failed 48k to 128k upgradeI have been trying to upgrade my Issue 2 with the help of Velesoft, using this schematic; [IMG]http://i764.photobucket.com/albums/xx284/arioch1973/4…
... /> I can not find the fault, and I am starting to ... -
48K and wavy lines.It seems all Spectrum related things are breaking here at casa de Don Pedro. After the problem with my old ZX81, I went over to my issue 2 ZX Spectru…
Us post office rantThe US post office is still gov run so basically it's shyte with rude employees that dgaf. I've had 2 packages go missing in the last 4 weeks..stuff…
... it's not really their fault.
(one of missing ...Kempston Interface/Divide RandomnessI have just complemented my system with a Kempston joystick interface and am having some terrible stability problems. I have an Issue 4 (4a I think)…
... my power setup be at fault? - I've read about someone ...Faulty 128K toastrack keeps resettingHi. I have this toastrack which worked nicely for let's say 40 minutes and then a weird fault showed up. It keeps resetting over and over, sometimes…
... minutes and then a weird fault showed up.
It ...Just bought a Spectrum+. Doesn't work. Red bars on screen.Hi all, Something of a noob here. Having recently been on holiday, I came across a Spectrum+ in a box, with a collection of games in a shop, and, af…
... to try and diagnose the fault? Hopefully it's something reasonably ...Issue 3 board - Free to good homeI have an issue 3 board that someone could scavenge for spares or even repair if they're willing to pay the p&p. I got it off someone on Amibay in a…
... saying it had a keyboard fault, failing to mention that at ...Hey Guy's & Faulty spectrum :(Hi, My first post after lurking around for a little while I thought I should really register. Now I've never owned a spectrum back in the early 1980'…
... be something more sinister at fault.
There are quite ...Dead Disk HelpYep I need assistance again this time regarding another drive. I have a 1TB 2.5" SATA drive that I have been using in a USB Caddy for about 18 mont…
... trip the caddy developed a fault and would not work nae ...How to get consistent speeds from BT Broadband?I was wondering if anyone's had a similar situation to mine with BT Broadband and found a solution. The service is reliable but usually slow. With th…
... ; checks and eventually discover a fault on the line or at ...Diagnosing a strange software fault in a 48kHi, A friend gave me a 48k, which I am very keen to restore. The spectrum 48k was my first computer over 20 years ago and I owe my ability to code t…
Hi,
A friend gave me a 48k, which I am very keen to restore. The spectrum 48k was my first computer over 20 years ago and I owe my ability to code to this rubber keyed little box.
The 48k I have been given is in a custom box made ...Semi-Dead Spectrum - Help RequestedI have finally got my hands on my two old Spectrums - neither of which work, but ideally I hope to get both of them working again. Spectrum number o…
... 't made any difference. The fault remains.
A visual ... be looking at a RAM fault?
Ideas anyone ...Strange failure modeI just had a 48K machine "fail" in what seemed like an odd way. Problem: Random keypresses (not from any particular part of the key matrix) appearin…
... the TV has developed a fault, and is putting something like ...Is this Spectrum dead?Hello. First post and all that... I have an old Spectrum +3 which has sat on a shelf for many years. Yesterday, when I plugged it in for the first…
... repair? It's my own fault, really, I should have looked ...ZX Spectrum Core EmulatorHi All, Here i have my ZX80 Core Emulator. Which im working on to help me complete the Spectrum PLAYBASIC Emulator. I hope this comes in use for o…
... free to add instructions pick fault or even changing ones that ...MegaLZ unpacking problemEverytime I try to unpack something with MegaLZ's build in decompressor (using the -d option), the second half of the data is corrupted. The Z80-base…
Everytime I try to unpack something with MegaLZ's build in decompressor (using the -d option), the second half of the data is corrupted. The Z80-based decompressor unpacks it as expected. Any idea if it is my fault or there is a bug in MegaLZ?