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Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.
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What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
... the ZX Microdrive, ZX Interface I/Interface II, QL, 16K Spectrum ... (Direct Memory Access) MB02 Controller Interface
The datagear ... produce a series of external floppy drive solutions at an ... microdrives for a 3.5" floppy drive (similar to Amstrad + ... -
Dk'tronics and other similar "add on" Speccy keyboards . What can be done with them and when?. The underlying assumption I am making here is that people who have them will want to "hang on" to them and may also want to get them working . But …
... taking apart this Toastrack and Interface 1 in DK keyboard and ... repairing the faulty cable with floppy drive cable. It worked!
Send in the ClonesPlease name all the Spectrum clones out there ( I would say I need it back on my desk in 5 minutes , but I will be a bit more generous in this case!…
... (expansible to 48Kb) and joystick interface (DIN connector). Letter "C" ... Poland with a parallel printer interface replacing one of the ... TV speaker, built-in Sinclair Interface 2 joystick port, and ... CGA output video for TV, floppy drive bay, 2 ISA slots ...ZX ROM in 64 characters a lineDear ZXS users, I am glad the today's release is not only concerning MB-02+ as it is normally the case with me, but it concerns really everyone, sinc…
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It's a floppy disk interface developed in 1995 in the ...LnxSpectrum - one of the best emulators?Anyone is using the LnxSpectrum? Supports DivIDE (master and slave, up to 1MB of memory), RTC, DMA (!), SAA and 2xAY, ULA+, K-Mouse, CPU up to 20 …
... fetures via the mb-02+ interface, but I cant make it ... and asking for a boot floppy or hdd image to work ...The ZX Spectrum as a Business MachineMaybe it is time to treat this"business" side of the Spectrum more seriously . What spurred me int action was the arrival in the post today (from Eb…
... /> When Sinclair did launch the Interface 1 and Microdrives, the syntax ... a text based system), a floppy disk system (choice of 5 ...Floppy drive fixI know this might be a long shot but does anyone know or does anyone fix floppy drives I ha e an nous discovery and the controller on the floppy driv…
... than certain it's the floppy drive as there was a ... try and pick up a floppy drive at weekend to test ... was plugged in to the interface and powered up the unit ...Floppy drive fixI know this might be a long shot but does anyone know or does anyone fix floppy drives I ha e an nous discovery and the controller on the floppy driv…
... of abbrevations for jumpers on floppy drives
This list is ... on pin 34 of the interface connector
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SR Issues the ... /> NC Pin 2 of the interface connector is not connected
ZEsarUX 6.0 stableHi! ZEsarUX 6.0 stable is out! This is a major version, it includes some new machines and a lot of new features and bug fixes :) You can downlo…
... boots, but doesn't emulate floppy yet
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Exiting ... (TRDOS v4), Beta48 compatible Gamma-Interface (TRDOS 4) and Beta128 (TRDOS ...Yet another Microdrive emulator...Hi there, I just got a prototype of a hardware Microdrive emulator working. I opened a discussion about it over on the Spectrum Computing forum. I…
... etc so that say the floppy images could be copied to ... Plusd came with their own interface, if I'm not mistaken ...What causes "The disk has been changed" problem on a +3?I've seen this posted here on this forum and no explanation as to what causes it or any solution that doesn't involve writing a DSK image back to the…
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Older PC's with floppy controllers still have their uses ;)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 ... Amstrad DDI-1/FD-1 interface, to used as drive B ...Req: Tintin on the Moon Kryoflux dump to repair my original disk!!Obtained a copy of Tintin on the Moon but the disk has been completely formatted and needs repairing!! Have the DSK image and created Kryoflux stream…
... 5v down the floppy cable for the DD1 interface I believe, that ... a molex to 3.5" floppy adapter for powering 3.5 ...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…
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[*]Interface 2 released
[*]80k ZX ... RAM, upgraded ROM)
[*]Interface 1 released
[*]ZX Spectrum ... output, support for the interface 2 dropped for this ... 3.5” floppy disk drive, support for the interface 1 dropped, ...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)
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He ... the disk drive interface used by 3” floppy drives is the same ... PC. External floppy drives that have a USB only interface operate completely ...Lets hear it for the USBOf all the numerous improvements that have been introduced over the years - some of which like Bluetooth I have never used (at least knowingly) - th…
... SCSI, the Shugart Associates floppy disk interface, ISA, Sinclair’s ... least being a proprietary interface, the standard appears to ... standard (unlike with older interface ‘standards’ were manufacturers just ... went the “cut-down” interface route to keep costs low ...Happy birthday... Walkman ![url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman"]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman[/url] Introduced 40 years ago today. Man I'm getting old. :D
... /> And no device's user interface to learn. Just put tape ... [/u]isk, etc. Even a floppy disk if you want and ...Harlequin G 48K - Keyboard failHello All, I built a Harlequin G 48K over the weekend and it appears to be running! Well with the exception that I can't get the keyboard to work!…
... used with any other IDE interface if no IDE device (CF ... internal), and with SDI-1 interface ( https://www.8bits4ever.net/product ... /sdi-1 ) there is +3 floppy support. This is the most ...Harlequin G 48K - Keyboard failHello All, I built a Harlequin G 48K over the weekend and it appears to be running! Well with the exception that I can't get the keyboard to work!…
... Harlequin +3, it has floppy disk interface on board but no 8 ...+2A vs +2BFrom what I understand, the +2A like the one I have is black, while the +2B is grey. Logically, the +2B came after the +2A, but why is there a prefer…
... ZX Spectrum 128k with the Interface 2 joystick chip and joystick ... . This had a 3 inch floppy disk drive in place of ...Wanted:Installation Tape/File for Disciple Interface (ZX Spectrum)Need to rescusitate my Disciple Interface. The last time I worked with it - I fitted it with a new chip - that uses DOS version after 3b. That was …
... cassettes or 3.5 inch floppy discs in disciple double ... "]Need to rescusitate my Disciple Interface.
The last ... killed myself for letting the Interface gather dust, much of ... still working with the Disciple Interface - wuld really appreciate it ...If you had four roms...Just wondering if you were designing a Spectrum from scratch, and you used a 27512 EPROM, which would hold about 4 spectrum roms, what you would inst…
... in a turbo switch, PC interface, etc, while still maintaining the ... in a virtual disk interface too. If floppy drives were still a ... other necessities such as the Interface 1 Rom paging logic so ... , even those that need an Interface 1 to operation. I can ...Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …
... intent is to build an interface-1 replacement chip that can ... cartridge format as a 720K floppy disk usually holds.
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…
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Hence why the Interface 1 had to include an ... added support for the +3 floppy drive… (don’t forget, the ...Currah MicroSourceThis is an interesting one for the experts to mull over. I've got (and love) a MicroSource interface from Currah which consisted of an 8K ROM provid…
... got (and love) a MicroSource interface from Currah which consisted of ...Help for my Speccy DatabaseI know this off topic, but I need some input. I am in dire need of someone givning me a name for a project I've been involved with for some time. …
... with a v. easy user interface. Threre is much more too ...Making a Speccy-Like Text Adventure for Windows (follow-up)Hi to every1 who took an interest in the previous thread. I've decided to take up what I suggested previously and make a Windows version of a speccy…
... has a v. good user interface).
Hopefully by the ...How did people program GamesI have been wondering how people wrote games. Did they use basic and just type in to the spectrum interface and save it. Or did they use assembler, a…
... type in to the spectrum interface and save it. Or did ...Comcon programmable interfaceRemember this beast, back in 83/84? You used plugs to determine what key each direction on your joystick responded to. It apparently had two fire but…
Remember this beast, back in 83/84? You used plugs to determine what key each direction on your joystick responded to. It apparently had two fire button options. Does that mean that it would work with a standard 9-pin joypad with two fire buttons?
