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Significant machines by yearI'd roughly divide Spectrum's hardware history into four periods: Sinclair (1980 to 1985), Amstrad (1986 to 1988 ), Russian (1989 to 1996) and Homebr…
... machine did mean you could just about teach yourself BASIC without ... it in 128 BASIC.
[quote]SAM basic was speccy basic ... trying to replicate on a speccy[/quote]It was a combination ... gray clone of the original ROM.
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Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…
... longer than the screen and just pad it with 0s. So ... , and if it's just off the top or bottom ... 0 and just sends that row's data to the ROM instead ... only 256 bytes long for 128 possible rows, and you only ... />
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Plea for new hardwareI'm posting this as a poll as I want to judge if I'm a solo loon going on about this, or if people really are interested in either of the following S…
... can then listen to the 128's own page-swapping OUT ... plugged in to a 48K Speccy. But you'd have to ... -screen and mapped over the ROM; then, like SPECTRA, it would ... add another trick. Instead of just one jumper on the board ... -
Newbie Hardware QuestionsI just recently aquired my first Spectrum, a +2, and I'm in the process of getting acquainted with it. Being a newbie I had some questions, which …
... you can use the rom from a Sinclair 128 in the Amstrad ... your speccy up and running... (snip)... Part of the fun is just ... trying things out on the Speccy... Back in the 80's ... -
Preservation prioritiesHi all! Firstly, thanks to the WoS staff for setting this category up. Secondly, thanks to you for all for backing the idea, and in anticipation o…
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Multiface 128
V35 board, Eprom ... are the only Multiface [i]128[/i] photos on WoS. ... a fair amount of change just now.
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Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …
... // Patch the ROM Reset Routine - it moves at normal speccy
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Memory[$386E] := 128 + Ord('?'); // Skip-over byte
Memory[MemIdx] := 128 + Ord(Str[Length(Str)]);
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
Multiface 128 success on "Peripheral Through ... button : this worked using just one of the 3 Multiface ... are:-
1) Just because it showed up as ... them again and then with Speccy 48k (all 3 of ... with a slightly different ROM but neither of these ...ZXBaremulator v3.0Hi all, I've released a new version for my bare-metal emulator ZXBaremulator. The enhancement list and binaries can be found on my project web pag…
... be my go to for Speccy emulation anyway, since its plugged ... TV (which displays the emulator just perfect, I might add!)... I ... the tap images and not just load... There is great potential ... Gosh wonderful rom instead of the 48, the standard 128, and have ...Features that never made it into the SpectrumAlthough kind of a Hardware question (a kind moderator might want to move it, I was 50/50 on where to post it, I don't mind) , I was thinking about t…
... Rack 128 was ever considered to have them built in, perhaps just ... actually being there in the ROM ? :D , as was iirc intended ... mis-read it as said Speccy having a microdrive with it ... mass bulk, as each new Speccy would have them in the ...If you had four roms...Just wondering if you were designing a Spectrum from scratch, and you used a 27512 EPROM, which would hold about 4 spectrum roms, what you would inst…
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So rather than just rebuild the "add on", I ... in RAM over the ROM space anyway.... 128K will ... remaining to add to the ROM selection.
... consider writing the final ROM as a bootloader for ...Questions about microdrivesHi! Bought an Interface 1 and two microdrives along with around 10 microdrive cartridges. Installed (great but very expensive) vdrive zx into one …
... to use the multiface just before the screen is ... circumvent. Just work around it. BTW, the Multiface 128 circuit boards ... I used an old ROM and even a cache ... I've owned a speccy for almost 40 years but ... perfect.
* Also just showing people how cool your ...HellShocked.com - play >4000 speccy games<a href="http://www.hellshocked.com Hi" target="_blank">[url]http://www.hellshocked.com[/url] Hi</a> there, just like to tell you about my site, it…
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Hi there, just like to tell you about ... the arcade you can play speccy games (about 4000), comment on ... 95% do. I love the speccy, and I hope you'll ...Speccy emulation dead on Mac?I'm a longtime user of the Speccy (15 years plus) but now use Macs 99pc of the time, and although I have access to PC's I still wonder why there are …
... a longtime user of the Speccy (15 years plus) but now ... why there are so few Speccy Emu's for the Mac ... 's of my hundreds of Speccy games before they slowly turn ... support etc. (or is that just wishfull thinking).
And ...Is it just me...?Maybe I grew up paying too much attention to films like Tron, Max Headroom, Robocop etc. - always the companies in them were huge faceless corporatio…
... hundreds of employees working on speccy games, helicopters ferrying artists and ... slowly sunk in that the speccy games industry wasn't quite ... later - some website about the speccy, with snapshots of games to ... i'd imagined, but was just some guy who had now ...Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …
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and I just thought I'd recommend it ... , just in case any of you fellow speccy fans fancy ... making a text-adventure just like in ...Long Live The Speccy!!LONG LIVE THE SPECCY! LONG LIVE THE SPECCY! LONG LIVE THE SPECCY! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (Just had to get it out) Thank You!!!!! (Going To…
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LONG LIVE THE SPECCY!
LONG LIVE THE SPECCY!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
(Just had ...128 +2 video connections.I have just got my hands on a Spectrum 128 +2 grey model all in working order, what I need to know is if I take a signal from the CVBS Composite Vid…
I have just got my hands on a Spectrum 128 +2 grey model ...Stop me from blowing up my original Spectrum 128!I have a Spectrum 128 (not the +2), and I want to play some of those old classic games again. The trouble is this. I still have the original Power Su…
I have a Spectrum 128 (not the +2), and I ... it will work on the 128, but...
I'm ... way round (positive, negative), the Speccy will blow.
What is ...128 mk1 + stuff for saleunboxed 128 mk1 for sale (with leads i think!!) together with 100+ games, dk'tronics dual joy interface and box of old speccy mags - mostly Crash. H…
unboxed 128 mk1 for sale (with leads ... interface and box of old speccy mags - mostly Crash. Having to ...Speccy Zone UpdateJust updated the website with a list of my own collection of retro computing. Includes all my speccy games and computers
Just updated the website with a list of my own collection of retro computing. Includes all my speccy games and computersspeccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and ... like this now it's just a pc mines faster than ...what will become of your speccyOk this is not meant to be morbid or anything like that...but when your days come to an end on this little blue planet and we pass on to wherever or …
... happen to your little beloved speccy and all its games and ... to be buried with mine just incase the egyptians were right ... i can play on my speccy whilst sitting on my cloud ...Speccy booksJust been to Abebooks.com, and found they offer loads of rare and out of print Speccy books for both the Sinclair Spectrum and ZX81. I've compiled a…
Just been to Abebooks.com, and ... rare and out of print Speccy books for both the Sinclair ...Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…
... thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather ... the list of the best speccy programmers according to WoS community ... best arcade conversion on the speccy!)
15. Steve ... a programmer or did he just script the adventures" - Mikie. ...Speccy +2 RGB to S-video?Okay, so I emigrated from dear old Blighty to a land rather less Speccy-friendly, the USA. I've finally managed to get a couple of Speccies over here…
... to a land rather less Speccy-friendly, the USA. I've ... 'd love to get a Speccy working over here - and of ... , UK-spec Speccy (pun intended) running in the USA just a pipe ...Where is my speccy now?Hi all, About 2 or 3 years ago, to somebody here in the UK, I sold my entire speccy collection which consisted of two or three 48k Issue 2 (full uni…
... UK, I sold my entire speccy collection which consisted of two ... 27128 eproms.
I just wondered if my kit is ...new speccy game here!!You may remember a while ago I posted a demo of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked at the time whether or not anyone knew of any software…
... any software companies still publishing speccy games.
I have now ... any level passwords to anyone just yet!).
The link to ...Maybe I'm just weird......but I love looking thru the old adverts for speccy games with their little order coupons for you to fill in, or a phone number to call with your a…
... thru the old adverts for speccy games with their little order ... the numbers on the coupon just to see what happens (almost ...ZX Spin 0.3 ReleasedStandard Cut'n'Paste from CSS post again! I can't get to my webpage, so I've uploaded SPIN0.3 to WOS, Alt.Binaries.Comp.Sinclair, and also Daren Pea…
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... the meantime...
So, just quickly, here's a list ... association - it *is* a speccy format after all.
Fixed ... not just the main window.
Added Support for external ROM files ...Spectrum 128+ production periodMy favourite version of the Speccy is the 128, the heatsink version, and I'm wondering when mine was made. I got it Xmas 1986 (after seeing the +2 on…
My favourite version of the Speccy is the 128, the heatsink version, and ... they stopped producing the original 128's?
