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  • Emulator with remote keyboard input?(I've searched the forums before starting this thread) We've heard about the PC version of Jet Set Willy (which some of us were unable to run). What…

    ... would be nice to have keyboard input from TCP/IP connections, working ...
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2007 Games
  • Keyboard Input$/scan problemHi, I'm finally fulfilling my promise to get a reasonable understanding of the Speccy and embarking upon attempting a few simple routines in Assembl…

    ... colour based on an input value that varies according ... and retrieves values from the keyboard lines ABOVE AND BELOW ... 'm not scanning those other keyboard lines?).

    Can ... an alternative method of retrieving keyboard input data?

    ...
    Jagd Tiger Jagd Tiger January 2009 Development
  • mapping a usb to the keyboard input stream?Hi is there emulator suport for this, what i want to do is map a USB input from a game controler to the keyboard input. so when say press button 6 …

    ... a game controler to the keyboard input.

    so when say ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble September 2012 Emulators
  • Simple program why doesn't it react to keyboard input?[code] 10 FOR x=16385 TO 22527 20 POKE x,255: POKE (x-1),0 30 IF CODE INKEY$=119 THEN BORDER 0 40 NEXT x [/code] If you press the m key while r…

    ... line but no reaction to keyboard input. What's going on ? I ... used similar keyboard routine with PRINT AT statements ... and it responds to keyboard presses. I don't need INPUT INKEY$
    ivanb303 ivanb303 November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Kiwi OS for z80 computerHi everyone, Nearly made my z80 computer with 2K ROM 32K RAM. It has an OS im still writing called Kiwi (apple, blackberry, you get the idea ;D) he…

    ... A, (04) ;SCAN FUNCTION KEYBOARD
    CP $00 ;IS ... (3) ;SCAN THE BINARY KEYBOARD
    LD C, A ... br /> Port 3 is the binary keyboard input
    Port 4 is ... the function keyboard (enter etc)
    Port ...
    Robin Robin August 2011 Announcements
  • Original rubber key 48k'sThis question is to some point academic; But i seem to remeber the original 48k Rubber Keys Speccy came in versions 1,2 & 3! (way back when, occasi…

    ... in the Spectrum manual. The keyboard input port also reads in a value ... byte, and not just the keyboard bit, can no longer be ... sink is nearer the expansion port and appears as a visible ... bar through the rear expansion port when you turn the machine ...
    Mike Jeanes Mike Jeanes July 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Reading from the keyboard using the IN commandHi all, I'm working my way through Sixty Programs for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and I'm running into difficulties with some of the keyboard reading r…

    ... help:

    [QUOTE]The keyboard input port also reads in a value ... byte, and not just the keyboard bits, will not work[/B ... suppose to check the whole keyboard input byte, but lazy programmers did ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... ...
    Interfaces that use the keyboard input port don't work on the ... to 0) and a port 31 & port 55 joystick interface to ... /+2B/+3, add a port 31 & port 55 joystick interface to ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK April 2014 Hardware
  • An idea for a keyboardHi guys, I was just thinking there just now (first time for everything). I was thinking about an AT keyboard on the Speccy. I remember a few peopl…

    ... about ways of extending their keyboard for projects like building ... PIC microcontroller to decode the keyboard input and convert to a ... port which could be used to power the device and keyboard ... Using an RS232 device as keyboard input. Am I making any sense ...
    KeepGood KeepGood October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Broken keyboard due to broken ULARecalling csmith's thread about dead ULAs, a thread appeared in the Zonadepruebas (Spanish) forum regarding... a dead ULA, but only a partially dead …

    ... I could show that the keyboard input wasn't working, although there ... with reading bit 6 from port 254, which is the EAR ... Issue 2). This transistor decodes port 254, and if it was ... the 5 pin keyboard connector to the buffer's input pins. Then ...
    Winston Winston October 2010 Hardware
  • Using even ports for input?I've been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher interface. I understand that the spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input p…

    ... A0 when decoding its input port for reading the keyboard and loading from ... tape so any even port is ... considered a read of the keyboard and ... keyboard because all the high address lines are deselected, the EAR input ...
    Basher Basher January 2014 Hardware
  • 2-player games common on the Speccy, rare on the PC, keyboard as the cause?Hello everyone Does the Spectrum have an edge over semi-modern (from the 90's) computers, when it comes down to keyboard input speed? I've always …

    ... , when it comes down to keyboard input speed? I've always found ... no serious problems handling multiple input (although I do remember one ... bit). Is it the PC keyboard that communicates much more slowly ...
    torstum torstum July 2006 Hardware
  • Spectrum+ Keyboard problemI got a ZX Spectrum+ recently. This thing is never used and is in excellent condition. The previous owner told me he never used it and stored it in h…

    ... wrong? I hope the infamous keyboard membrane that I read about ... place to another – thus causing keyboard input problems? :-?

    Any help ...
    alba007 alba007 December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum Not Responding to Keyboard InputHello, sorry if this thread is not in the correct place, This is my first post and I'm not sure where to post this type of thread. :lol: Anyway, I r…

    ... accept any commands from the keyboard.

    Looking online ... down to two possibilities, the Keyboard membrane, or IC1 (the ... any keys pressed on the keyboard.

    Considering what ... Also I have seen replacement keyboard membranes on E-Bay but ...
    CornishManicMiner CornishManicMiner March 2014 Hardware
  • DivMMC Enjoy! and ZX Spectrum 128k +2 GreyHi guys,<br><br>First time poster but a long time Speccy enthusiast, from Canada. :)<br><br>I just obtained a DivMMC Enjoy! expansion, and I am using…

    ... either the keyboard not responding, or the kempston port not ... screen. Pressing buttons for keyboard or joystick selection just ... it won't respond to keyboard input.

    Random ... +2 Gray compatibility and kempston port enabled.


    x56h34 x56h34 May 2015 Hardware
  • Arcadia and Ah Diddums keyboard bugfixesHi all,<br><br>I did these while the forum was away and sent them to the Tipshop, but thought I might share here too for anyone who's interested.<br>…

    ... - POKEs to fix the keyboard input, rather crudely, by disabling ... will respond perfectly to keyboard control without jerking about ... Have fun! :-)

    Arcadia keyboard bugfix: POKE 29236,62: POKE ... ,255
    Ah Diddums keyboard bugfix: POKE 29568,62: ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks May 2015 Games
  • How does a Speccy keyboard work?Hi again. I saw a post a while ago about the Speccy keyboard. I think it referenced an old magazine article. I have no idea how a keyboard membran…

    ... a Ps2 keyboard adapter that attached to the keypad port. I ... interface that connects into the keyboard connector directly. I need ... translate a standard AT/PS2 keyboard input into what the specct ... expacts on the keyboard connector.

    ...
    KeepGood KeepGood December 2005 Hardware
  • Plug in the TV Joystick Games Thingys (Spectrum one??)I brought a from a car boot one of those plug in the TV joystick games thingys for a pound. This one happened to be full with 20 or so Commodore 64…

    ... add a PS/2 keyboard port and S-video port, and (with the ... hacked to add a cartridge port; portable console nutter Ben Heckendorn ... game can have a cartridge port connected so you can play ... easy to add joystick ports, keyboard input, ear/mic sockets etc.
    StuBruise StuBruise August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... the instantaneous state of the keyboard. All the printfs, scanfs ... the system variable LASTK for keyboard input. This means that it ... or interrupts, and scans the keyboard immediately.

    ... Or you can read the keyboard port directly with a call to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... need it)
    * Local port
    * Port on foreign host
    ... both a local and remote port, but typically just specifies ... the latter, and the port will need converting from ... that handles multiple connections and keyboard input simultaneously:

    [ ...
    Winston Winston July 2008 Development
  • Detecting Spectrum modelsIs there any sure-fire way a program can detect the model of machine it's running on (48K, +, 128, +2, +2A, +3, clones) even when running in the 48K …

    ... kempston attached (hw probably fills port with random values) and you ... programming to me - why disable keyboard input on the title screen just ... start just reading the one input device. Although it's rather ...
    joefish joefish March 2009 Development
  • Detecting Spectrum modelsIs there any sure-fire way a program can detect the model of machine it's running on (48K, +, 128, +2, +2A, +3, clones) even when running in the 48K …

    ... programming to me - why disable keyboard input on the title screen just ... start just reading the one input device. Although it's ... it is not true that keyboard was disabled, the menu routine ... was reading both of keyboard and joystick. as port $1F provide random ...
    Fikee Fikee March 2009 Development
  • Some C64 questionsI've been playing around on a C64 emulator recently, and I have the following questions that I was going to post on Lemon 64, but I thought that sinc…

    ... port 1 could confuse keyboard signals. So if a game used keyboard input ... , it would normally use port ... 2. Port 2 ... used. (Does the PSP port of VICE not come ...
    merman merman May 2009 Chit chat
  • Some C64 questionsI've been playing around on a C64 emulator recently, and I have the following questions that I was going to post on Lemon 64, but I thought that sinc…

    ... port 1 could confuse keyboard signals. So if a game used keyboard input ... , it would normally use port ... 2. Port 2 ... writes to a non-keyboard port) and I don't ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2009 Chit chat
  • Hypothetically....If you were putting together a "Spectrum +4" what presently available hardware would you include. My criteria would be total comparability (or as ne…

    ... br /> - PS/2 keyboard input, either in "keyboard" emulation (i.e.: ... in the spectrum) or direct keyboard mapping (i.e: ctrl+p ... VGA video output.
    - Cassette input/output.
    - A compatible ...
    Optional:
    - USB port for use with modern joysticks ...
    Zup Zup June 2010 Hardware
  • writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…

    ... and for now, assume any port reads return 0xFF.
    < ... and it has no keyboard input or means of loading programs ... emulate the beeper or memory/port contention.

    ... for the bitmapped display, and keyboard input. :)

    Alternatively look ...
    ccowley ccowley April 2011 Emulators
  • Proper mapping for joysticks in an existing emulatorThis may seem like a strange question, so I'll try to explain it as well as possible. In one of Rare's (Ultimate Play the Games) later games there…

    ... are accessed from port 31 (A2=0x1F) wheras keyboard input uses A2=0xFE ... the '1' key on the keyboard and clearly is unset in ... the keyboard register. As it is I ...
    Zoinkity Zoinkity March 2012 Emulators
  • Semi-Dead Spectrum - Help RequestedI have finally got my hands on my two old Spectrums - neither of which work, but ideally I hope to get both of them working again. Spectrum number o…

    ... some decoding chip for the keyboard presses? Is it all down ... ?[/QUOTE]

    The ULA input port is 0xFE and when this ... bits are the keyboard input.

    The 5 keyboard column lines go ... lines and reading the ULA keyboard inputs you can tell which ...
    guesser guesser October 2012 Hardware
  • Brazilian TK90X and TK95SpecEmu provides explicit support for Brazilian TK90X. Other emulators provide indirect support (perhaps the "Spectrum 48K NTSC" option in Fuse?). Al…

    ... , with a "professional" keyboard and case similar to Commodore ... rla ; test bit 7 from input port $FE
    04bb d0 ... nc ; bit 7 from input port $FE selects Portuguese (0) ... ; test bit 7 from input port $BF but ignore it!< ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2012 Emulators
  • The new Superfo cloneHi In the spanish forum speccy.org some guys and me have optimized the superfo clon to have less ICs. The actual design has 39 ICs versus the 45 ICs…

    ... on $1F port.
    2. SJS1, mapped on keyboard keys 1,2 ... .
    3. SJS2, mapped on keyboard keys 6,7,8,9 ... read by reading the Z80 input port $1F (31 dec).
    Sinclair ... the same way that the keyboard is read, and map as ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK February 2013 Hardware
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