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  • Faulty Grey Spectrum +2 - help neededI have a faulty spectrum +2. I tested the voltaged inside - all check fine. Well, within some limit, +5 for example is 4.83, but all other voltages a…

    I have a faulty spectrum +2. I tested the voltaged ...
    ArtemKuchin ArtemKuchin May 2012 Hardware
  • The Tripods C64 version / faulty Spectrum copies?I'm an occasional contributor to the website 'Games That Weren't' which researches unreleased games, particularly for the C64. One game they're looki…

    ... ', an adventure released for the Spectrum by Red Shift. As you ... C64 but actually containing the Spectrum version have been found. Is ... ? Or do you have a 'faulty' Spwectrum copy in your attic ...
    MartinUK MartinUK October 2015 Games
  • Faulty Spectrum?PLease can somebody help have just bought a ZX Spectrum 48K And the Hobbit game, i cannot get this game to load it crashes right at the end of the l…

    ... /> have just bought a ZX Spectrum 48K
    And the Hobbit ... ,
    can i test the spectrum?
    Spyda99 Spyda99 March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum spares / repair jobsI recently bought a few faulty Spectrum 48+'s and have built a fully functional unit from the best bits of them, however this has left me with two pa…

    I recently bought a few faulty Spectrum 48+'s and have built ... repair.

    Both spectrum circuit boards work fine albeit ... ).

    Both have faulty keyboards, one keyboard works fine ... .

    Both these spectrum + cases are in pretty good ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich November 2003 Sales
  • Faulty Spectrum (help requested)I have an issue 6a specci. It's Z80 has the fault m1 line problem (Multiface 128 does not work). So I decided to put in a new Z80 but unfortunately i…

    ... ULA and Z80 from another Spectrum (issue 4b). So these ICs ... different when I power the Spectrum up. But there seems to ... like bad RAM. But the Spectrum worked before I unsoldered the ... . It also seems that the Spectrum is not initializing, because there ...
    UTom71 UTom71 February 2008 Hardware
  • 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'…

    ... I've never owned a spectrum back in the early ... friends. Big John had a Spectrum 48K, I had a ... 64 is better than your Spectrum" type arguments, John won ... almost daily, but alas no Spectrum, Well that was until last ... a while I spied a spectrum in a box with ...
    Evil-Doctor-Arserott Evil-Doctor-Arserott August 2012 Hardware
  • Another "untested" dead spectrum...Hi, I'm looking for some suggestions on a faulty Spectrum I have picked up. I'll need to wait until tomorrow before posting pics, but the screen is …

    ... for some suggestions on a faulty Spectrum I have picked up.
    rune rune March 2014 Hardware
  • Help with a faulty Spectrum +Just bought it on eBay ( [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=2792353010"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll…

    Just bought it on eBay ( [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=2792353010"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=2792353010[/url] )

    actually, it was the Atari I ...
    thx1138 thx1138 March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • +2A with tape deck problem - sell as whole or spares?I've got a +2A with a broken tape deck from when I clumsily turned the Azimuth screw too much and caused it and the spring to come out. Other than …

    ... />
    I stripped down a faulty laptop last year and later ... not clued-up on the faulty Spectrum market.

    P.S ...
    Paul2010 Paul2010 June 2011 Hardware
  • Interface1Bis CompatibilityI picked up a couple of 'faulty' Spectrum 128 +2/2A to use with my Interface1bis. Luckily both were very fixable, only needing new drive belts and on…

    ... picked up a couple of 'faulty' Spectrum 128 +2/2A to use ... with it back onto the Spectrum 48k+

    Has anyone ... anything other than a 48k Spectrum.

    If so, how ...
    rune rune December 2013 Hardware
  • Next step for fixing my speccy?Hi guys, I've picked up my faulty Spectrum aiming to fix it. So I followed the excellent JouledperCoulomb videos on Youtube for the basics and I am …

    ... /> I've picked up my faulty Spectrum aiming to fix it. So ...
    Spekkie Spekkie August 2014 Hardware
  • Free or Swap - Faulty Spectrum Joystick InterfaceIdeally swap for a game, or ?4 for postage, UK only. [URL="http://oi61.tinypic.com/xdcee.jpg"]http://oi61.tinypic.com/xdcee.jpg[/URL]

    Ideally swap for a game, or ?4 for postage, UK only.

    [URL="http://oi61.tinypic.com/xdcee.jpg"]http://oi61.tinypic.com/xdcee.jpg[/URL]
    lesoleil70 lesoleil70 September 2014 Sales
  • Faulty Spectrum +2A from Ebay - advice?OK what would you do??? I bought a job lot off Ebay with a +2A in 'excellent condition' - didn't mention working. BUT it doesn't work... no red ligh…

    OK what would you do???
    I bought a job lot off Ebay with a +2A in 'excellent condition' - didn't mention working. BUT it doesn't work... no red light ....nothing.... yet, if I turn it upside down or certain angle etc, it works...briefly. REALLY ...
    retromad retromad December 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 48K Not booting properlyBought another faulty spectrum from Ebay. This one, when you turn it on, it looks like it's going to boot OK, but when it gets to the point where it…

    Bought another faulty spectrum from Ebay.

    This ... /> I found I had a faulty Lower RAM IC (IC 6 ... would expect for a 48K spectrum.
    I then tried to ...
    whoremoan whoremoan January 2015 Hardware
  • Looking to Buy a Speccy!Hi chums! I am living in the US and would love to have a real Speccy. I know there will be major issues with using it because of the differences be…

    ... />
    I've got a faulty Spectrum +, but it needs a new ... end in a very expensive Spectrum.

    What about eBay ...
    Zup Zup April 2007 Hardware
  • A question from a 'newbie'I have just acquired a ZX Spectrum 48k, but without a power supply. I tried it with a 9v power supply from a Sega Game Gear, and got a picture on my …

    ... the same polarity as the spectrum's.
    If the polarity ... , it seems you have a faulty Spectrum. Bad memory chip probably.
    gtsamour gtsamour November 2008 Hardware
  • Amstrad CPC6128...what can I use it for ?I found an Amstrad CPC6128 at a dump. Can it be used for anything ?

    That depends if it works or not! :-P
    If it doesn't I suppose it could be used to provide a working disk drive for a faulty Spectrum +3.
    If memory serves me right they're pretty useless without their monitor display as it contains the PSU.
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2009 Chit chat
  • Dead Spectrum SocietySo I'm getting back into real Sinclair computers rather than emulators. During the summer months I was lucky enough to buy a working ZX81 and was giv…

    ... proper picture coming from your Spectrum (composite video if possible), ... pattern. When a healthy Spectrum starts testing the RAM ... this was to diagnose a faulty Spectrum. His owner posted a ... initialization sentence). It called "Spectrum" by Ziga Ramsak, and ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2011 Hardware
  • RFC: Hardware Documentation ProjectI've noticed quite a few threads recently about missing schematics and suchlike. I've also been thinking about the low quality of some of the schemat…

    ... [/url]

    Faulty Spectrum, but not because the usual ... the-fix-a-spectrum-blog/16-inacetes-faulty-spectrum-flashing-blocks- ... .php/the-fix-a-spectrum-blog/19-stressing-memory ... [/url]

    Spectrum with glue logic damaged, that ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix March 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Strange INK behaviourThis weekend I hooked up two Sinclair ZX Spectrum with Interface 1 to try out the networking capabilities, and I ended up using parts of the Net Game…

    [QUOTE=mib5150;716214]
    Spectrum no 1 wouldn't print ... PRINT on two separate lines Spectrum no 1 wrote them out ... want to jump at a faulty spectrum or IF1, but it is ... . Does it stay with the spectrum concerned, or follow the IF1 ...
    u6c87 u6c87 August 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • The Spectrum Resuscitation ThreadKicking off this thread as a place where people who are fixing/restoring Spectrums (or indeed any other piece of related hardware) can show off their…

    [URL="http://youtu.be/IzgCmldm2H4"]Here's[/URL] a great YouTube video by Zorn of this parish, required viewing for anyone about to repair a faulty Spectrum.
    balford balford January 2014 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... found (among many things) the faulty Spectrum 128 board mentioned in this ...
    pkersey pkersey January 2014 Hardware
  • Another "untested" dead spectrum...Hi, I'm looking for some suggestions on a faulty Spectrum I have picked up. I'll need to wait until tomorrow before posting pics, but the screen is …

    ... for some suggestions on a faulty Spectrum I have picked up.
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix March 2014 Hardware
  • Spectrum Not Responding to Keyboard InputHello, sorry if this thread is not in the correct place, This is my first post and I'm not sure where to post this type of thread. :lol: Anyway, I r…

    ... are the photos of the faulty spectrum.

    [B]Overall View ... ULA to try in the spectrum. However this did not fix ...
    CornishManicMiner CornishManicMiner March 2014 Hardware
  • 48k Spectrum ULA issue?Hi All, Have a couple of Spectrums Plus' with their orignal ULAs showing the failure as in screen 2 on the left. [URL="http://hardware.speccy.org/i…

    ... /> If you have a working Spectrum, swap the ULAs around (move ... ULA to the known good Spectrum).

    If the ... something else wrong with the faulty Spectrum.

    After this test ... Spectrum.

    If you [B]only[/B] have your two faulty ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK May 2014 Hardware
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... , both the working and the faulty Spectrum+ had the same ROM checksum ... .

    Picture from the "faulty" Spectrum+
    [IMG]http://www.livewiredesign ... missing on the faulty Spectrum+.

    Picture from the faulty Spectrum+:
    [IMG ...
    Korinel Korinel November 2014 Hardware
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... have a picture of the faulty Spectrum and its extra "blob"'?
    Spirantho Spirantho November 2014 Hardware
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... have a picture of the faulty Spectrum and its extra "blob"'?
    Spectrum but it had been on ...
    Korinel Korinel November 2014 Hardware
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... 's one huge difference, the faulty one is churning through the ... same time on the working Spectrum it churns through roughly 0x100 ... on the working Spectrum.

    So the faulty Spectrum is interrupting 239 ...
    Korinel Korinel November 2014 Hardware
  • 48K Upper memory issues?Having more issues with the 48K spectrum I just fixed that had the black screen in this thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread…

    ... tried it on my working spectrum and it loads OK on ... make a difference, but my faulty spectrum is an Issue 2 board ...
    whoremoan whoremoan November 2014 Hardware
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