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My printer scares me !!!!!!!I have bought a new printer and I did a print and set the printer to do duplex printing, as i was waiting for the printer to stop and then ask me to …
... did a print and set the printer to do duplex ... as i was waiting for the printer to stop and then ... print on the other side, the printer took the sheet back into the printer and ... printed on the other ... -
Woohooo!Thanks to DEATH, I can relive the glory days of yesteryears on a true, original, rubber-keyed spectrum 48k! Yes sir! How proud it looks next to my ps…
... completely stumped until I checked the tv leads and a bit ... had plugged it into the Video-In instead of the antenna connection! I ... had completely forgotten where the speccy plugged in! I blame ... Auto-search with the remote later, I had the familiar and friendly ... -
Serendipity!I was just thinking of how many great games I'd come across completely by accident. Being in India with no speccy mags around to guide me, buying gam…
... , Thundercats, Way of the Tiger, Fairlight, Jack the Nipper 1 & ... . I can still remember the feverish excitement with which I ... trawled the tapes for hidden gems ... make me budge from the speccy until well into the night! Those were ... -
Fuse for Mac OS X 20061114It's been a long time between drinks, but I've put up a public beta of the next version of Fuse for Mac OS X up at the new dedicated sourceforge proj…
... up a public beta of the next version of Fuse for ... Mac OS X up at the new dedicated sourceforge project:
into the main source or whatever.
the last official version, but the headline feature for ... -
Opus Discovery (.OPD) support ?Hi folks, The only emulator I know that supports the Opus OPD disk image format is Real Spectrum. Does anyone know of a Windows Speccy emulator tha…
... emulator I know that supports the Opus OPD disk image
the disk
part ?
into the SDP project, here's what ... -
Those plastic tabs stuck on end of keyboard membranesI am going to be buying some membranes for some speccies of mine, the thing is, u know the small oblong opaque pieces of plastic that are stuck on th…
... of mine, the thing is, u know the small oblong opaque ... some membranes where they slot into the motherboard, its to make ... it easier to slot the membrane in, i want ... that could do the same job ? at the moment i am ... thinking of using the plastic from old butter ... -
That Game ShopI thought I'd mention "That Game Shop" in Newcastle, it was literally a game shop called "That Game Shop". It had no signs outside apart from one say…
... /> The robbers broke into the flat above the shop pulled the floorboards up and dropped into the ... shop through the ... -
Speccy dead? :-(I've been playing around with my Speccy and a Discovery disc drive unit, and tried to do the NMI modification to allow a multiface to be plugged into…
... a multiface to be plugged into the side port - my desk is ... 9 lines in from the notch) from the Opus's Speccy connector ... , but when I pressed the button on the Multiface, I got coloured ... the Multiface in between the Speccy and the Opus. This time I got the ... -
Hey people, I'm new and in dire need of help pleaseOk I have just now found a XZ Spectrum+3 in my loft with a box of games and software. I have got it up and working; but I am having trouble getting g…
... putting Floppy Disks into the drive; selecting LOADER on the Menu but all ... /> I am putting the Floppy Disks in the right way; so I ... are not being read. Could the drive just be not working ... I need to connect to the Spectrum.. a standard cassette player ... -
Cheap IPod Car Chargers.I brought an IPod in car charger from Hyper Value (Wales answer to pound stretcher) for £1.50 the other week. Well you get what you pay for, de…
... pound stretcher) for £1.50 the other week.
... pay for, delivered 12v straight into the battery thus rendering it fried ... />
I looked at the technical specs (huh technical for ... or replaced.
The morrel of this story???? DONT ... -
chipmusic on a speccy? =]ive heard AY riders music and personally think its awesome im really into the vintage stuff, so i wanna invest into a zx spectrum, which one is best …
... its awesome
im really into the vintage stuff, so i wanna ... invest into a zx spectrum,
which ... how the hell to i get the program onto the tape for the zx ... -
Linking FPS games to rampages - your country's take on this?Some of you may remember the news from a few weeks ago, where a high school boy went on a rampage in a school in Germany, intent of doing in classmat…
... himself in the end.
Inevitably, the media and politicians ... "Killerspiele" (Killer games) - when the police searched his house, they ... to which games would fall into the category of a "Killer ... want to turn this topic into a discussion about what ... -
Tee shirts, thongs and baseball capsWhile I have been working on the Preservation Team shop updates I have been doing a bit of research into the possability of offering things like Tee …
... I have been working on the Preservation Team shop updates I ... doing a bit of research into the possability of offering things like ... and similar (you have seen the idea on loads of sites ... was thinking about something along the lines of a new "Spec ... -
Christmas should be biannualDiscuss... I skipped and ignored Christmas last year as I really wasn't in the mood for it, and this year I'm well into the Christmas swing of thing…
... well into the Christmas swing of things, loving the music, the TV, the radio, the adverts, the ... get-togethers, the Xmas markets ... Xmas shopping.
As the Christmas season now lasts three ... -
Wii EmulatorIs anyone out there thinking of developing a spectrum emulator that runs on the Nintendo Wii? This system is absolutely gagging and ready to unleash…
... spectrum emulator that runs on the Nintendo Wii? This system is ... unleash this side of the retro scene on the unsuspecting Nintendettes out ... if you could hook it into the Wii points system...now there ... my family to the zx scene via the TV without having ... -
Top 25 PlatformersAt Retro Gamer we love feedback from readers and are constantly looking for ways to integrate your thoughts and opinions into the magazine. Anyway,…
... integrate your thoughts and opinions into the magazine.
Anyway, I ... know and we'll print the best answers in a future ... issue of the magazine.
Please list ... -
ZXSpin 0.61 Available nowHi all! Well, after a lengthy few testing cycles, I'm taking the plunge and uploading the latest version of ZXSpin, to replace the rather aged old 0…
... 2. You can find the option on the display emulation options page ... a pain, as the documentation for the device is less than ... br />
- Added the ability to import binaries into the DivIDE EEPROM/RAM ... MIDI commands out of the RS232 and into your PC's MIDI ... -
Keyboard oddnessI was recently given a Speccy (the 48k '+' model to be more precise) by a chap I work with who was clearing out his loft, & earlier tonight I thought…
... was recently given a Speccy (the 48k '+' model to be more ... boot up okay into the usual white screen with the sinclair text at ... the bottom, but (horror of horrors) the keyboard ... and 5 work correctly, pressing the left arrow key prints a ... -
Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... developments that fell by the wayside and one of ... C.
The reason I stopped was down ... data files from memory into the engine on the Sam. I had ... converting it by hand into an array of unsigned ... prefer not to dive into BASIC or revisit assembly.< ... -
Platform Game DesignerI've just noticed - with some surprise - that PGD has jumped into the best 100 games list at number 5, albeit with only 5 votes. While this is all v…
... surprise - that PGD has jumped into the best 100 games list at ... title really be considered for the list as it's more ... -
My security program doesn't like Spin or Spectaculator?I just tried installing both Spin and Spectaculator, and both of them triggered the security alert on my PC's internet security software. When I tri…
... unavailable"
Meanwhile the security program simultaneously claimed that ... exe was attempting to modify the system, and "probably a ... Spin tried to "write into the memory of another process by ... global Windows messaging hook." The Hook ID was 0000000E. ... -
Help identify a game, please.Hello all! In the game you control a one-eyed pirate. Maybe his one-eyed-ness was incorporated into the title — don't remember. You start an a…
... br />
In the game you control a one- ... one-eyed-ness was incorporated into the title — don't remember. ... have to fight (fence). The game's goal (or ... that of the first level) is to ... beutiful princess.
The game is isometric, your pirate ... -
Little character trouble with BASinWell, I'm having some trouble loading fonts into the speccy with BASIC, using BASin r13 for an easier job. When I run code, such as this example... …
... having some trouble loading fonts into the speccy with BASIC, using BASin ... so when I convert it into a TZX file and load ... it under any emulator. Meaning, the program works flawlessly, except it ... uses the default BASIC fonts instead of ... -
Good weather for kitesIt's whipping up to ~90mph outside, maybe more. So, naturally a few of us went out for a walk to the river and onto a pier - I work right by the Riv…
... roof flying into your
face - in the end I ... to) the edge of the pier was one of the most
The waves on the
Mersey are ... of mist. Even
the cordened off port bits were ... 'd better head
back into the office.
I ... -
Ear/mic sockets...I have 2 128K toasters. The ear/mic sockets are different sizes. 1 is slightly too small to take the lead I made up for audio into the scart, or fo…
... 2 128K toasters.
The ear/mic sockets are different ... to take the lead I made up for audio into the scart, or ... for the lead I made up for the amp. Is the ... versions?
Both take the proper ear/mic lead. Just ... -
Nostalgia or just pure quality?I was just thinking - if it wasn't for emulators and I played my last speccy game back in 1990 (on a real speccy) - would I look back with a fondness…
... it's memory have faded into the distant past, recalled only briefly ... unknowingly slipped the name of an old speccy classic into their everyday ... of stonkers?"
Was the speccy really *that* good that ... -
ResiDOS v1.92 and +3e ROMs v1.30 releasedI've just updated ResiDOS to v1.92, and the +3e ROMs to v1.30. Full details can be found at: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/"]http://…
... /residos/[/URL]
The improvements to ResiDOS include:
[*]The Task Manager now saves snapshots ... old non-standard ResiDOS snapshots into .Z80 format
[*]Hard ... SD/MMC interface which plugs into the Spectrum's Z80 socket. ... -
A grave threat to speccydom...Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great regret that I announce that my evil twin has commenced to allow pre-orders on the C64 book... I would sugges…
... to allow pre-orders on the C64 book...
I ... foul plans by pre-ordering the book so that they can ... learn and know the enemy... Then they should burn ... its foul miasma cannot escape into the wild to pollute innocent young ... -
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…
... campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against ... as vulnerable, but the updates for the forthcoming OS release ... , sure. The free versions?! Sure... The smaller the company, the longer it ... , or the stand-alone version without the discount. The cheapest way ... -
Hello from America!!!Hi there! Well, I've now been in Arkansas for a week now, and I would like to post a few things that have made me chuckle while I've been here: 1) T…
... are half the size of ours. Not the thickness, but the actual size ... container, see it zip up into the bank, and then a couple ... home-made speccy shirts (The one with the huge Miner Willy on ... on the back, both with the Sinclair rainbow on the front in the corner ...
