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Bit of cosmetic surgerySince my +2's ula gave up loading tapes I decided to get rid of the redundant cassette deck and give the speccy a make over, using some silver wheel …
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Whites are yellow - 48k Issue 2I have a 48k issue 2 that appears to be working fine. I've replaced all but 2 of the electrolytic caps (mostly because the 2 were not in stock at my…
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ZX Spectrum issue 2 has only blue tintsRecently I've bought a 16k speccy and ran into some issues with it. Faulty keyboard, broken caps, no stable frequency, faulty lower RAM chip, it bein…
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Spectrum CapacitorsLooking for some opinions here, if I may? In the 80's and 90's I used to repair Spectrums and other machines for a living so I'm reasonably famili…
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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…
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The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…
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Type a screen of text from the start screen.I've forgotten all the combo's of symbol-shift and so on, but is there a way, from Spectrum Basic to just type out a load of text? Problem is, as soo…
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Drawing some spritesI figured I want to draw some sprites. My target was to do a 16x16 masked sprite. There's no clearing here, just drawing the sprites. My first ite…
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Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…
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2068 IF INKEY$="p" THEN GO TO 3800 ... playback routine.
2070 IF INKEY$="g" THEN LET v=v ... +1
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Jumping Jack Hack Needed Please!Hi all. I really want to play Jumping Jack using my Recreated ZX Spectrum, but as you all know, there is no Symbol Shift on it (well there is but it …
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less well known but very good gamesI've been looking through this forum for some talk / enthusiasm / recommendations of good games other than the standard, well known classics. I'v…
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Magnetic moon
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Speccy Games that will be 25 in 2016!Yes, time for the annual list of games turning 25! A lot of Speccy owners would be upgrading to other systems around this time, if not before 1991, …
Silent Service - practical questions...first - is there a "Save/Load" option in game? I know... thanks to emulator, you can do with game whatever you want... but was there "built-in" Sav…
... done on Spectrum - just press Caps Sh. & 8 - and you ...12V ripple with lower ram installedI repaired a speccy this week. Before doing anything I replaced all caps and measured the transistors in the power section. When doing this I found t…
... doing anything I replaced all caps and measured the transistors in ...Publishers logos and biosAs we are getting more development done, we are looking at extra details not currently available, so will be creating new categories asking for submi…
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Red Shift Ltd
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Proxima Software ...Help with a faulty +2AHi everyone. A friend of mine has his beloved Spectrum +2A malfunctioning. Unfortunately we are half-country apart and I haven't been able to tak…
... machine that has never had caps replaced and that possibly worked ...What am I doing wrong here?[code]IF INKEY$=SCREEN$ (21,4) THEN LET SCORE=SCORE+1[/code] It's delivering a positive every time.
[code]IF INKEY$=SCREEN$ (21,4) THEN LET SCORE=SCORE+1[/code]
It's delivering a positive every time.140 characters Basic game contestHey there, I've announced a new micro contest on my blog (in Czech language only). However, it might be interesting also for the non-Czech/Slovak …
Hey there,
I've announced a new micro contest on my blog (in Czech language only). However, it might be interesting also for the non-Czech/Slovak speaking people like most of you (I guess ;-) )
The contest is about making a ...TommyGun with Debugginghttp://goo.gl/HfSXev?gdriveurl Ok, so this is a pretty big release for me and I have added a lot of stuff into the code editor. Mainly of course …
... to go to next bookmark, Shift+F2 to go back to ...Recreated ZX Spectrum - something positive for a changeI've spend the last couple of hours mashing rubber keys and playing various Spectrum classics on a 42" TV, wirelessly. Despite the bad press that …
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I noticed that Symbol Shift is not picked up in ...48K Issue 6a wobbly and flickering TV outputHi folks, Found an untested issue 6A Spec whilst tidying up and it had a warranty sticker on it from a past repair which seemed to be a socketed L…
... , TR1/TR2, the left-hand caps, swapped ULAs and just because ...Line DemoI was looking in the source code of another game (that Akalabeth game), with lots of line drawings. The difference was that they don't use the PL…
... it's own keyword, Extended Shift 3, so it's probably ...Spectrum chiptunes cassette AGAIN :)Hey. Not that new songs but at least for the tape-recorders' fans. :) Strudel Tapes Label from Russian Federation has published those, this m…
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5. Yerzmyey - Blazar Shift (ZX Spectrum / Atari 520ST) [2 ...Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
... , well I know how to shift bytes but I do not ...128k toastrack board changesI was working on my spectrums this weekend and opened up my toast rack to look at the possibility of changing out the Electrolytic caps. I was awar…
... of changing out the Electrolytic caps.
I was aware vaguely ...Speccy 128k Toastrack capacitorsDoes anyone have a list of all the electrolytic capacitor values in a speccy 128k toastrack they could post...I've looked around and see plenty for …
... but a few of the caps are seated in such a ...Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
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