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Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…
... last to go was the floppy drive which I took out when ... 128mb Ram (same case, keyboard, floppy drive and PSU as original machine ... is the floppy disk, floppy disk cable and one hard drive cable.
floppy. Now no original parts.
Unexpected issue with +3DOS port of Pro BMX SimulatorI'm continuing to port my tape-based games to 3-inch disk (you may have noticed my previous post about PSSST!). Today I started on Pro BMX Simula…
... disabled, so doing will impair floppy drive performance. I'll therefore create ...Unexpected issue with +3DOS port of Pro BMX SimulatorI'm continuing to port my tape-based games to 3-inch disk (you may have noticed my previous post about PSSST!). Today I started on Pro BMX Simula…
For the use case of loading a game (load up to 128k of data from a single file on the floppy drive and then never use the drive again) I wouldn't expect there to be much of a performance hit from turning the cache off.Unexpected issue with +3DOS port of Pro BMX SimulatorI'm continuing to port my tape-based games to 3-inch disk (you may have noticed my previous post about PSSST!). Today I started on Pro BMX Simula…
... disabled, so doing will impair floppy drive performance. I'll therefore create ...Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …
... answer NOTHING except maybe a Floppy Drive A that I had not ...Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …
... the front is this the floppy drive controller?
I have ...Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …
Ok on the brown floppy drive power plug (there is a ... the socket on the actual floppy drive. The pressing contact of this ... the component side of the floppy drive pointing down , this means that ...Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …
... picture shows this. The (male) floppy drive usually has a mark '1 ... the 'landing strip' of the drive connector. The 'bump' is ... allowed myself a cheap 'Gotek' floppy emulator last week. With 'Fast ... -Floppy' firmware.
Worked right away ...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 …
... plug position/orientation to the floppy drive . This pic shows it:-
Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …
... top plate/cover of the floppy drive (the black part shown above ... rear) was fouling the optical drive mechanism so I re-shaped ... at the back. The disk drive looks new however i followed ... -restorer.com/repairing-1-44mb-floppy-drives/
I will ...what spec pc are you running your speccy emulator onAll them giga hertz and bytes and what do i do with it mainly...play speccy games and old arcade games.. What spec pc do you have at the moment? I up…
... disk
32x CD-Rom drive
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No floppy drive anymore, sadly.New WoS quiz. Name that power supply!Can anybody tell what this power supply unit is from? It's heavily engineered and was way to OTT for the use it was used for. It was used to power th…
... a Teac 5"1/4 floppy drive, which had been added onto ... -1 interface, to used as drive B believe it or not.What floppy disk drive system do you own AND use on your ZX Spectrum or compatible computer?What floppy disk drive system do you own AND use on your ZX Spectrum or compatible computer? By use, I mean you actually use it regularly (more th…
... the power around on the floppy drive (I was aware of this ...Bit of fun - one change onlyI also posted this on another marque's forum (for their products) to see. Its just a bit of fun really. OK, if you could of made one change to a S…
... single built in 3.5 floppy drive ? I have to confess despite ... the 'suggestion' is: A single floppy drive inbuilt would of been loads ...Faulty as sprctrumsHi guys I have just received a dk tonics keyboard and to my surprise there is an issue 6 as spectrum inside and an interface 1 yay me but I am ge…
... ) and replacing it with old floppy drive type data cable .I think ...+3 PSU vs +2 PSUI'm referring here to the black +2's :) Now, a closer look shows the differences between the power supplies for these really is: "The 5V line is …
Yes, besides the floppy drive all the circuitry using the 12 volt rail is the same.+3 PSU vs +2 PSUI'm referring here to the black +2's :) Now, a closer look shows the differences between the power supplies for these really is: "The 5V line is …
[quote="guesser;949876"]Yes, besides the floppy drive all the circuitry using the 12 volt rail is the same.[/quote]
Thank you! :) I suspected as much per my post but wanted to be sure.Raspberry Pi and Arduino Projects.All, So at my work I've just joined a learning community for micro computer and micro controller learning community. for this I recently acq…
... easy to add a tape drive and Floppy drive connector? Also, how did ...Raspberry Pi and Arduino Projects.All, So at my work I've just joined a learning community for micro computer and micro controller learning community. for this I recently acq…
... easy to add a tape drive and Floppy drive connector? Also, how did ... vice so emulates tape and floppy drive (and the slow speed of ... the floppy too for that real c64 ...Emulators that can read from real +3 disk?Are there any emulators that can read/write and run games from a real +3 disk drive plugged into a FDD header? (like samdisk and cpcdiskxp can)
AFAIK, the only one who could do that was RealSpectrum. It needs a [b]real[/b] floppy drive connected to a [b]real[/b] FDC (no USB support) like samdisk, but I don't remember if it needed some kind of DLL to do that or if it was included.If Sinclair computers had not been sold...I was just having a random thought. If Sinclair Computers (or the rights to them, not sure how it 'worked' back then) had not been sold to Amstrad…
... tape deck and later disk drive of the +2 and ... were all sharing the same drive format. It is interesting the ... the +3's 3 inch drive: I think this was ... instance had a 3.5 floppy built in instead of the ... of had the 3.5 floppy drive fitted.
...Atari ST Thread.I've just purchased a 4mb upgrade for my Atari STe. I always loved my STe, which I got in 1990, amost as much as my ZX spectrum. Way back in 1991 I h…
... . It still works, though the floppy drive is kinda picky about what ... now ordered a new compatible drive.
However, some of ...Emulators that can read from real +3 disk?Are there any emulators that can read/write and run games from a real +3 disk drive plugged into a FDD header? (like samdisk and cpcdiskxp can)
... the +3 drive into a standard PC floppy controller? Is ... you need a real floppy drive controller chip on the ... the disk drive interface used by 3” floppy drives is ... to connect a 3” floppy drive to a PC that ... /> There is no USB floppy controller that fits in a ...Disks (3 and 3.5 inch)Does anyone have boxes of new (old) stock 3inch and 3.5inch diskettes that they are willing to part with? Or a place I can buy them at non-crazy pri…
... PC's have had a floppy drive built in for about 5 ...Have you got a project or are doing anything interesting during lock down?I’m “having” “fun” cutting shapes in wall tiles to fit around the electrical switches, sockets and heating/boiler control box in the utility room. …
... . I also found the external floppy drive I bought with it. Booted ...did the +3 disk system ever have any computer viruses?i think there were 2. i am also wondering how they were written. they must have been done in code.
... , the normal way for a (floppy) drive based virus to ‘breed’ would ...Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…
... got some black 3.5 (floppy drive size) to 2.5 converters ... be put into an old floppy sized bay .The hard one ...Things that people >= 40 (ish) would recognize (and others would likely not)#1: Used to see these all over the place, usually right above the bath tub. [img]http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A052-01718/3/A0…
... ports and a 3.5inch floppy drive with much more storage and ...Things that people >= 40 (ish) would recognize (and others would likely not)#1: Used to see these all over the place, usually right above the bath tub. [img]http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A052-01718/3/A0…
... ports and a 3.5inch floppy drive with much more storage and ...What Good Serious Successful Software Was Written Exclusively in 128K BASIC?I realize now that 128K BASIC has its serious enthusiasts . But I know very little about this type of BASIC . What good titles were written exclusi…
... differently again for the RAM drive.
Amstrad then ... added support for the +3 floppy drive… (don’t forget, the + ... without any of the disk drive circuitry and obviously no disk ... there were third party disk drive systems, the Acorn official system ...
