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slightly different question - how long ago did you pack away the speccy ?if at all ;) personally I think I was about 19 when it, and all the games, went into storage - SNES and PCs etc took over. I'm 32 now, and only in …
... . I had also then my +2, a +3 just the computer ... load of games, and my 2 Atari 2600's(long rainbow ... old stuff. The +2 just displayed a green border and black paper image, +3 ... , a like brand new Speccy +2 007 James Bond pack, Amstrad ... -
P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…
... the ground, will either be white or yellow (look to right side ... are either wood (yellow and black) or concrete (white and black, might have cyan ... png[/img]
Section 2, has more wood and metallic ... t have every building in yellow and gray, or else it ... -
Which great games had terrible Loading screen/title screens?Which great games had terrible Loading screen/title screens and could do with a remake? :) This will be interesting
... (instead of just being all black PAPER) it could be pretty good ... the whole hog of garish white/yellow/red solid-coloured flesh tones ... -
Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... BC,3B0E ; Timing constant 3B, Border Yellow + MIC off
0xEA93 ... A,0F ; MIC on + border white (ROM)
0xEAE4 OUT ( ... CALL 05E3 ; LD-EDGE-2 in ROM (get a bit ... CALL 05E3 ; LD-EDGE-2 in ROM (get a bit ... -
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…
... .org/forum/viewforum.php?id=2
This code is ... c lib also contains a black and white grahpucs library that will ... / audio size is not an issue and would be loaded when ... -
PHP class for ZX Spectrum images parsing/convertingI've taken a class from ZX-Art, made it composer-friendly, refactored it and published on Github. https://github.com/moroz1999/zx-image Now every…
... of attributes, 4224 bytes of border "pixels".
"bmc4" - ... of attributes, 4224 bytes of border "pixels".
"gigascreen" - ... for mixing paper+ink for ink and forcing black paper.
... /> "multicolor" - multicolor 8*2. Size: 9216. 6144 bytes of ... -
Impossible Mission TweaksGood to have some free time today messing around with, possibly my favourite game, [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002462"]Im…
... br /> ; improved map glyphs (yellow/black stripes)
; black border throughout game
; proportional ... terminal colouring
; yellow font
; white/bright white casing
; background ... -
Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... have set INK and PAPER all the same then ... screen completely to attribute 0 (black).
Note ...
60 INK 7: PAPER 0: BORDER 0: BRIGHT 0: FLASH 0 ... REM Initialise:
210 INK 2: PAPER 8: BRIGHT 1
... 510 FOR l=1 TO 2
520 REM If ... -
SAM Revival magazine issue 25 now out!It's finally out! * SAM Revival issue 25 - 56 pages packed with SAM Coupe goodies for the 25th Anniversary of the computer. * Brand new SAM Robot…
... a black and white paper magazine a cover disk was introduced from issue ... next change occurred with issue 14 where I introduced a ... couple of colour pages per issue.
So ... Going forward, instead of the black and white (and occasional colour page ... -
Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…
... have 3 contacts separated by 2 black rings like this:-
[ ... 2 mono left/right phono connections. Usually having a red and white ... responding with loading bars, or border flashing red/blue, you have ... it still should make the border flash red/blue.
< ... -
Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …
Issue 3B Mystery
... as I had done an Issue 3 before (now recased) ... it up as on the Issue 4 these pads are ... powered on but got Black and White Vertical stripes . The ... Smart Card just shows Black Screen and Red Border ... -
ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …
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1) A partially depopulated Issue 2 board . This needs caps , a ... the sockets.
2) An Issue 4B board that should have ... shows a grey screen and white border on power up . So a ... .
I suppose the Issue 2 board is less of a ... -
Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... I'm just getting a yellow bar about a quarter up ... screen area. This is on white paper, and white border area. When I press ... -
Spectrum 128k +2 video issueHi Guys, I just got a Spectrum 128k +2 from ebay. It came with its power supply and the scart video cable. The machine is working pretty good but …
... Ratio control
Pin 2 --> black wire --> pin ... 3 --> white/purple --> pin 2 Audio right channel< ... br /> Pin 5 --> yellow wire --> pin 16 ... the SCART between pins 2 and 6 (audio left ... 2 (I presume you have a grey version and not a black ... -
Best and worst loading coloursWas just thinking the other day about this, what are the worst / best loading colours that have been seen ? :) Apart from loaders with either mult…
... .
You mentioned black and yellow - that's a combination I ... , then the loading stripes went black and white. I think the Kixx ... loaders that blacked out the border while they were loading actually ... bars, just that they were black and black? -
Best and worst loading coloursWas just thinking the other day about this, what are the worst / best loading colours that have been seen ? :) Apart from loaders with either mult…
Black/Yellow does work quite well in some cases, as does Green/Black. ... it.
Cyan/White and Yellow/White = horrible. Can't recall anything ... AND 0 to AND 2 to get black/red for instance. ... up with firstly green/yellow then yellow/red (which does not ... -
48k Issue 6a Very sick indeed.Hi Guys. I have a 48k Issue 6a board that shows a white screen with grey border. The white screen has three black squares spaced equally on the le…
... ok, whats the next potential issue that would give me these ... BRIGHT WHITE screen containing three black squares and a normal intensity WHITE border. ZX ... Spectrum computers can only display the border area ... -
What's going on inside this ZX Spectrum? [Newbie]Hello folks Last year I got hold of a ZX Spectrum. At the time it appeared to boot up fine, but more recently when I've tried to boot up I've had…
You have an early issue 2 ZX Spectrum with the original ... is very likely.
2. Faulty ULA.
3 ... /> Does the picture's border turn white at power on? If it ... capacitors is usually wrong in issue 2 ZX Spectrums - pay attention to ... -
ZX Spectrum keyboards : all and everything about them and how can the Speccy keyboard be improved? This discussion can include of all the main types of Spectrum keyboard from the past (inc addon / aftermarket) , their strengths and weaknesses , …
... 1980s but usually in paper and black and white. DKtronics used plastic stick ... would be 1) coloured
2) a choice of the background ... -
ZX Spectrum +3 repairI have my first +3 here, and it needs repairs. Hoping someone here can help me out. When I power it on I get this screen with black and white line…
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Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White, Gold, Silver ... hell of a lot of 2.2 kOhm resistors. So, red ... =zero. The opposite of black is white (the “opposite” of ... knew that red stood for 2.
Tolerance bands ... -
Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…
... Unknown - Nov 2017
;v1.2
org 0fa00h
xor a ;Black PAPER, Black INK
slp0:
ld ... ,slp0 ;
out (0feh),a ;BORDER 0
entry:
Redesigning the ZX Spectrum 128k - A lifelong dreamHello, I am myPinballs (Jim) and i run a small business here in the uk making replacement 8-bit hardware pcbs for arcade pinball games as well as…
... grey border, and a black and white checkerboard pattern, with some small yellow squares ... in some of the black ...ZEsarUX 6.1 BETAHi I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX BETA version 6.1. You can download it from the usual beta url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zesarux/files/…
... the slight yellow-green colour in the black and bright black. This happens ... reference point. A ZX Spectrum Issue 3 uses the average of ... the result that on both black and white, B-Y is slightly ...Short unattended type-in'sThis follows a similar topic on the BBC/Acorn forum (said topic can be found [url="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14919"]here[/url…
... ... The POKEs set the paper and border to black. It draws 10 connected ... 's done with white (7) it loops back to black again. For ... :
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10 paper 0:window origin 0,0 ...Spectrum 48K / composite mod / LCD TV: voltages out of the ULAHello Spectrum World I have juste bought again my first computer on ebay... a Speccy 48k issue 2 with a 5C112E-2 ULA. Just had to replace TR4 and …
... /> a) The amplitude of sync/black/white on the Y signal is ... (issue >2): 3.4-3.6V for sync, 2.2-2.5V for black, 1 ... .25-1.6V for pale white.
c) The voltage between black and pale white level is smaller than ...+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... dead, it flickers with black square and white border and looks like it ... that displays is the test border (with accompanying beeps) the card ... there's some sort of issue. No text is displayed in ... central screen area, just a black box.
I have ...Another Spectrum is brought back to life.Hi Spec-chums. I have been having bit of busy afternoon with repairs today. I've brought back to life a Panasonic Super-VHS recorder, and more intere…
... it starting up to a black border and white screen? I know sometimes ... the seller meant a white border with a black paper area, then that would ... . But the other way round, black border, white paper would need a bit more ...Shrinky challengeInspired by this contest on c64: http://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html Make the smallest possible .tap t…
... "Default colours"? If I issue a PAPER and INK command before I ... won't be the default black-on-white you get after NEW ...Shrinky challengeInspired by this contest on c64: http://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html Make the smallest possible .tap t…
... "Default colours"? If I issue a PAPER and INK command before I ... won't be the default black-on-white you get after NEW ...Donkey Kong And The Wrong ColoursI vaguely remember asking this question many years ago, but it seems worthwhile in the context of the frankly amazing hack/mods I've just discovered …
... correct cyan ladders everywhere, not white.
- has correct blue ... green.
- has correct yellow rivets on level 4, not ... RGB values. Especially the issue 1 and issue 2 boards where the colour ...
