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My Dell TFT Monitor deadMy Dell E171FPB monitor is dead... it wont turn on... even the LED wont come on.... I've checked the usual...cable and fuse.... I am trying to dism…
... the casing to get at the innards... to see if an internal fuse has gone...
I cant get ... I get in???
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The ZX Spectrum Book of MapsFollowing some discussion in a maps thread, I have decided to make THE ZX SPECTRUM BOOK OF MAPS - VOLUME ONE At the moment, I have the following in…
... to get a Speccy personality to write an introduction (looks like it's back to the address book - I ... this project worthwile, I will need to know how much intrest there is in ... from at least 30 different people and if I do before the end of December,
zeropolis79
December 2006
Sinclair Miscellaneous
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Component Equivalents/substitutionsA while ago, I mentioned to somebody in a thread that we should have a list of component equivalents and substitutions so that it's easier to fix our…
... it's easier to fix our Spectrums. The following is a short list of all the substitutions I ... think this is at all useful to you, you have implicit permission to use it in The Shed ... , 2, 3 and 6 on issue 3B and
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Spectrum +2 No TV PictureHi, As a retro collector in Australia I thought it was time to check out a real Spectrum as they were never popular here. So I bought the Spectrum +…
... tried everything but cannot tune in the picture on my 2 PAL TV's
The most I get ... I looked at he RGB din connector, however this appears to be only for an ... stocks the BC237
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don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... to the point, you can't tell topmost windows from other windows at all. And don ... . It's got all the fun and goodies of Home Premium, plus the power-user features in the ... . Just wanted to get this of my system and warn people. Now I have a… -
Dunny is a taffer...... or Dunny bees a taffer. Whatever the grammar is. Just thought I'd mention it. For anyone who doesn't understand, the word "taffer" is an insu…
... the word "taffer" is an insult in the game Thief 3, which Dunny recommended, and ... my all-too-short-at-the-moment free time. I've spent the ... and friends + having to move everything from room to ... 3 is great, it's very enjoyable and really atmospheric (some ofProject: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... made in the '80s and it is a crying shame it never saw a conversion to the spectrum. As this ... shown at the end of each round so everyone knows their place in the game ... from watching the game play on video and I think it's safe <…GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…
I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a ... /pc/TZX2WAV_02b.zip[/URL]
CSW from ... %2 /s s "%%~na.mp3" & lamealpha --decode "%%~na.mp3" "%%~na.mp3.wav ... This will convert all TZXs in the directory into lossless MP3s files using the ...SaxondaleI really do like Steve Coogan, love Alan Partridge and Pauline Calf etc and many of his other work i've seen. But try as i might i just cant like Sa…
... as i might i just cant like Saxondale. I really do 'want' to like it and i've ... for a classic but the constant 'I was roadie for Judas Priest in the 70's ... .
Anyone here like this show at all ?Recent Returnee to the spectrum fold needs hardware adviceHi all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. This is my first post to this forum after I stumbled on this site just a few weeks ago, i only reg…
... this banter and on to the nub of my problem
I sit in front of a PC all ... it's a viable option, here's my idea:-
I want to get programmes from my PC into my spectrum +Understanding extensions to the BASIC parserFor a while, I've had a rather 'rinkety dink' extension to BASIC via an RST 8 trap in hardware, just so that I can send stuff to a Spectrum over ethe…
... to change this to something 'proper' and capable of executing the double byte poke example in the ... at all - I think I'm just not seeing the wood for the trees. Using the ... and I get the same command to parse a second time (but only…Old media is brilliant......because you never know what you might find on them. I've just been going through some second hand microdrive cartridges and found what seems to be…
... by an anonymous presence in a white tower, sees a sleeping youth at a grange and finally ... the Mueden Water in order to escape before it bursts. Alcyone says farewell to the tribe, then ...Current games & future games rendering question: RaytracingI have been trying to read up on some of the excitement of the future of games with raytracing but I just cant get my head around it as its new to me…
... I just cant get my head around it as its new to me and some of the sites I ... This is what I thought current games go about things. I ... for today's technology but essentially the same, just ... a few years and a really detailed scene in Crysis that is running at ...Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…
... diffent to what we get in Blockeditor.
The second "BASIC" block at the end of the ... then? Because, I have tried and succesfully ripped ONLY the screen data from the original. And I managed to build a ...WOS Tribute SectionThis is something that I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while, ever since the tribute to Ian Weatherburn was posted to WOS by Simon Butler…
... I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while, ever since the tribute to ... on this occasion it's in incredibly bad taste to speak ill of the dead in such a ... him at all but is also poorly researched, contains loads historical errors and is ...300 600 1200 +++This thread has precious little to do with modems at all. Just wondering if the US-WoSsers have received their so-called stimulus package yet ... an…
This thread has precious little to do with modems at all.
the US-WoSsers have received their so-called stimulus package yet ... and ... to spend it on?
Me ... I get nothing ... nothing at all ... How's your modem connection?
Not baud at all, ...MP3 player annoyances and computer questionsAllright, firstly, my MP3 player has taken a turn for the worse, and has done so in just the same way as have all my previous MP3 players: the sound …
... happened to my last one and the one before. Am I treating them all wrong? Is it a ... simple fix? Am I too optimistic in thinking it's ... than is the case for HDMI) Will an adapter reduce the quality of the picture I get?Romance is dead, or at least it's got a dead armIt's the wifes birthday tomorrow and I've got her a really nice card, but I had no idea what to get her, she has everything. So I came up with an id…
... an idea for what I'd get her, and It's a good idea, if it's ... so this is where the thread title kicks in.
I ... from now, when I see the past.
When you see happy people I ... in about 20 seconds, and the sad thing is ISpecdrum 3.4 is out :)Yayyyyy Done loads more since the last version. in 3.4 The latest version is 3.4 11th October 2008 54mb (Stable 100%) Coming soon : The new upd…
... the bar then it would
start at position 3 and then every 3 ticks afterwards, also in the ... the cursor moved over them, this would then cause an error when you tried to move the cursor to the end ... /Specdrum3/index.html"]<…Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
... and made it into the paper. After reading this story my old flatmates starting using this method to ... and tried and failed to implement this program in that language. Now that I've succeeded in Speccy ...ZXSpectrum +3 - New SoftwareHello, This is my first post here on WOS, i'm very glad to be here and be a part of this community. To make this short, i've been programming on the…
... then, so i wrote my own and so "+3 TOOLS" was born.
Here's ... the +3. It features a Sector Editor, Directory Editor and Disassembler to name but a few features. I ...Old or new first person shooters?Yep, another poll, well it's either pester you lot or post on another forum, and they've all banned me. Martijn daren't ban me from here (tee hee :lo…
... this, then we should really define what new and old can mean in relation to ... on a certain period. It's not easy though, I mean, alright so Doom and ... 3 (Future Perfect) and so on. They tried to be inventive, fun and give the player ...PAL-I to PAL-B on a grey +2Hello. A friend brought over a grey +2 from the UK. The tv sets over here are PAL B/G and i can't tune the sound because of the frequency of the sou…
... /> A friend brought over a grey +2 from the UK. The tv sets over here are PAL B/G and i ... it to be L5 as follows bellow. There's no further mention about this ... /> I've tried messing with the coil with no luck and comparing the board visually
odious
December 2008
Hardware
Computer or console: Which do you prefer for games?Yep, the old argument again. I was talking about this yesterday to a mate (a World of Warcraft addict) who doesn't like consoles, and neither I (who …
... the other an inch. Anyway, I thought I'd see what we all thought about it ... then who buys a machine to look at it, so it's a bit of a non-point, here. The i ... />
PC games run from hard drive, and not their discs. This isWhich Clone?My first experience with a speccy was at an after-school club (I remember playing horace goes skiing and ghostbusters on it). But here's the reason …
... , with chunky grey plastic keys. If you can imagine an old style ... 's and people were'nt doing things like that back then (to the best of my ... I'm positive that it was only similar in looks to a c64, not the same (and the ...+2 keyboard problemsHi there. I'm new to WOS, please be gentle :-) I've just bought a +2A off ebay, having given it a thorough clean (inside and out - it was thick wit…
... are all working, but the numbers and some of the punctation keys are either not working at all ... board and everything seems to work ok that way, so I'm assuming it's the ... 's a white residue on both the back of the membrane and the metal plate - is
MrFlibble
March 2009
Hardware
resident evil 5got this on friday, and i must say i am really disapointed. 4 was a great game so was expecting this to be a real step up as it was appearing on the …
... this on friday, and i must say i am really disapointed. 4 was a ... a negative i suppose) you get the same types of men and women, the ... stepping in front of you all the time.
the game ... almost at the end after just a weekend, it'd take me longerRetro Reunited - 2 Day Retro Gaming Event - Sept. 2009[url=http://retroreunited.info][img]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e226/darthgord/2qbbud3.jpg[/img][/url] Apologies if this is a long post, I wil…
... I threw my hat in the ring and put on a little show of my own.
This 2 ... day extravaganza will give everyone the chance to play on the computers and consoles from the ... 't have then please let me know.
At the moment the Retro ...
