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Third-party ZX81 RAM packsOne of the things that's previously held me back from fishing for a ZX81 on eBay - other than "will the ULA on this machine sold as 'untested' be com…
... be completely fried?" was getting hold of a 16K RAM pack. ... figures, I knew of the existence of other RAM packs that ... in the few copies of Sinclair User I had ... , any good? I know of the Memotech 16K pack (and ...
Are they all much of a muchness, or are there ... -
I feel like such a moron having to post this but stillI started out to write a simple cursor move program to demonstrate how easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right. I started by setting…
... by three more of the same instruction except of course the ... changed as was the values of x and y appropriately. ... in a CLS to get rid of the trail.
... I got the Integer out of range message and D ... I tried using INPUT instead of inkey$ but it simply ... -
EBAY GAMES - JACKAL / GUTZ / HEAVY ON THE MAGICK etc.... n job lots tooI have some Speccy games for sale right now - cutting my collection down a bit... (getting out of hand!) [url="https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/personal_d…
I have some Speccy games for sale right now - cutting my collection down a bit... (getting out of hand!)
[url="https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/personal_demon"]https://ebay.co.uk/usr/personal_demon[/url] -
Eco Tank Printers.I'm thinking of getting one of those Eco Tank printers. They cost two or three times the price of a conventional bubble jet printer that uses in cart…
I'm thinking of getting one of those Eco Tank printers ... three times the price of a conventional bubble jet ... The benefit being that instead of cartridges, the printer has ... you refill from bottles of ink that are cheaper ... comes with two sets of ink bottles with is ... -
Sinclair 16k Ram pAck Issue3 schematicsHi guys, I am willing to repair a 16k ram pack for the ZX81 but I cannot find any schematic of the ISSUE 3 ram pack. I could only find a schematic…
... cannot find any schematic of the ISSUE 3 ram ... could only find a schematic of the first issue using ... I would like to get rid of the 4116 and replace them ... Problem raised when desoldering one of the 4116 ram, I lifted ... little tracks and some of them are cut out ... -
Multi-Platform Arcade Game DesignerFirst of all, I should say Hello, having left the Spectrum scene around a year ago. I'm not planning to make a return but figured that I have some n…
... using Notepad (or another editor of your choice, you can ... earlier.
The list of supported machines has been growing ... afterwards.
48K snapshots of AGD games can be imported ... press Escape to get rid of it. And of course there's a ... -
Spectrum in a BoxI had a Spectrum+ sitting around for quite some time collecting dust. The case wasn't much to look at, and the keyboard was already missing two keys.…
... over the past couple of months I rehoused the Issue ... TSR 1-2450 to get rid of the heat sink
- ... up to the Microdrive port of the Interface 1. It ... />
The USB ports of the two Arduinos and the ... serial port of the Interface 1 (via ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... on the two bottom rows of space on the screen, a ... posts on how to get rid of it in Basic, but I ... -
the loading screen.It wasn't so bad in the past, with all the colourful lines during the loading stage. But now that everything has improved so much it is kind of annoy…
the game is a *.TAP and I'm using zx32
But I can't get rid of it.... any idea? -
Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…
... humiliating defeat at the hand of the third guy (Bald Bull ... NES emulator is well worth getting hold of. It's not as ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... ' checkbox below. I'm getting sick of mail with you bitching at ... on here is the purpose of this forum... Thanks. -
pc 2 zx, problems!!! :(Ok I've recently bought a cd (not a copy either, I got it from HMC in chester) containing some 6000 games. Now as my spectrum was damaged some 2 yea…
... socket at the top left of the speccy (This only ... works with the later models of +2 - If your spec ... is one of these it should say in ... the middle of the underside that it ... absolutely no luck at getting either of these last two methods ... -
line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... memory (HL for the sake of arguement).
If it is ... /> This should save a lot of time rather than explicity recalcuating ... but frankly I would get rid of anything that does that in ... -
Zenobi Software?I know WOS are busy sorting through all the software companies, but these people whoever they are, created a game I have been after for many years. …
... /> I'd be interested in getting hold of such a CD, if ... complete pig to get hold of second hand - in fact I ... -
Microdrive fault.I guess some of you may know this... My microdrive has a problem: the motor starts running as soon as I plug the computer in, and won't stop! It is …
... contacts on all
edges of the connection (MDV and IF1 ... microdrive they want to get rid of???
-- ale ... -
Little Sinclair museum needs your helpHi, I run a little Sinclair museum at <a href="http://www.zx-spectrum.net/museum and" target="_blank">[url]www.zx-spectrum.net/museum[/url] and</a> …
I have piles of Sinclair User, Crash and Your Sinclair. I want to get rid of them, but, since I have been storing them for nearly 12 years, the dustbin seems a shame. So if you want them, and pay shipping, their yours. Otherwise the wheelie bin gets them. -
Little Sinclair museum needs your helpHi, I run a little Sinclair museum at <a href="http://www.zx-spectrum.net/museum and" target="_blank">[url]www.zx-spectrum.net/museum[/url] and</a> …
Hell, I wouldn't mind getting hold of a couple of the later Crash, SU and YS myself. -
ZX16/48Hello, I'm looking for an original Spectrum, rubber-keyed, 16k or 48k version, does not matter much. Need not be complete-in-box, as long as it's got…
Hi,
try Ebay.de
loads of Germans seem to want to get rid of theirs ( Silly,aren't they)
Generally sell at about ? 70.-
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The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…
I used to play deathmatch on Xybots. I'd cellotape a cardboard partition on the centre of the telly so that your opponent couldn't see where you were hiding.
What a nightmare getting it of the screen though. lol -
How can I play Elite on my win 98 system?Erm, as the title says, really. i downloaded a speccy emulator at work plus Elite from "World of Spectrum" site but it just seems to be a screenshot…
If you're using a PC, try getting hold of First Encounters (make sure it's the patched version!), which is basically Elite 3 :) -
What games shall I put on 1 floppy disc for a work colleague? Which emulator?Someone at work, in his 50's was talking to me about the ZX Spectrum. He has a Windows 98 PC, and mentioned that his kids used to like playing Head O…
... add the following: a combination of simple, playable games and those ... .
A couple of points about the above posts ... :
1. Of course, the Ultimate games mentioned ... the latest patch, which gets rid of the annoying "please switch your ... -
Transferring From Emulator Back To SpectrumI have windows xp and a soundblaster live card... what is the best way to transfer from an emulator file to cassette because everytime i've tried it …
... use the DIN output of a cassette player connected ... now as I have got rid of the computer.
of voc2tzx, one version to ... Amstrad stuff (the version of voc2tzx I have adapted for ... once I have filtered some of the signal.
... -
Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…
... is probably the most useless of the compression systems.
[/ ... s rather a simplistic view of the situation, as every compression ... used. RLE pretty effectively gets rid of any empty memory pages in ... assembly. Back in the days of 640Kb memory limits (and ... -
Crash cd`s being written now I am now in the final checking / writing stage of the Crash Cd`s, those who have forgotten, I have scanned in all 98 issues with bonus extra`s like…
Perhaps I'm being woefully dense here, but how do I go about getting hold of those Crash CDs?
Shall I just drop you an email, Mort? It'd be rude to do so uninvited! -
My own Home Computer (part 2) This one is set up because of the other one got locked... Oh, and anyone who tries to lock this one down will not get any satisfaction: i'll just s…
How about a
"Please clean all electrical appliances in the bath with you, to make sure the electricity is also clean"
general broadcast.
It will get rid of most of the population of Lincoln. (which is probably a good thing) -
ZX Spectrum + 3 ( Looking To Buy One ) Hi to all Spectrum fans I'am looking to Buy a ZX Spectrum + 3 it must come boxed and be like new condition with manuals insert etc , So if anyone …
... I have to say that getting hold of those 3" discs is ... not too difficult.
Getting the ... tricky, but there are plenty of blank 3"'s on eBay ... -
250,000 game auctionHi Guys, I posted a message recently about the need to co-operate if we want to secure this auction. BadBeard has been bidding recently but is not c…
... with sirclive1 upfront that one of us will bid high enough ... take him longer to get rid of the goods;
3 ... -
250,000 game auctionHi Guys, I posted a message recently about the need to co-operate if we want to secure this auction. BadBeard has been bidding recently but is not c…
... of hundred.
If anyone who is in on this wants rid of ... some of their share (who has ... room for 10000s of tapes?) I'd be very ... -
ANNOUNCE: vbSpec v1.60The latest, greatest, most wonderful and beautiful release of vbSpec, the free Spectrum emulator for Windows, is available now from:- [url="http:/…
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Here's the list of changes/fixes:-
Fixed ... routines a little to get rid of latency and improve performance.
