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Most touching AY music on a Speccy?Speccy music composers have shown us that the the AY chip can do much more than it originally was meant for. There are many tunes that I like and adm…
... with a nice beat and low bass to oriental or classical ... music with no beat at all. There are many different ... particularly like the part starting at 2:10:
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BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…
... have been set a bit low initially, since [B]Winston[/B ... as many rows as possible at once). In the final game ... level you start on will at least control which of the ... -
Challenging the orthodoxy - Composite modWell, what's brought this on is two things: firstly I composite-modded an Issue 4S board this weekend in preparation for the Vintage Computing Festiv…
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If we look at an issue 4 board, and ... there are two amplifiers right at the end: first, ... and common emitter amplifier at some stage, and somehow ... first stage we're looking at, the common emitter amplifier ... we have a very low output impedance where the ... -
How to fix dc voltage on a 48+ psuAfter dinner, after a womble video out mod on a "new" purchased 48+ , just in the remaining time I tested the voltage of its psu and, surprise surpr…
... remaining time I tested the voltage of its psu and, surprise ... pcb for trimming the output voltage. Can I add a resistor ... to trim the voltage to a more cool 9 ... -
7805 Regulator HelpI am hoping to replace the 7805 regulator in my issue 3 48K Spectrum soon. Unfortunately I don't know exactly what to buy to replace it with (my fat…
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Nolan Bushnell at RetroEuskalToday Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari, and other things - [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell[/url] ) came and visited us this morning …
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Alex Higgins is dead at 61Alex Higgins has died of throat cancer at 61. He was probably more than anyone else responsible for the rise in popularity of snooker in the 70s and …
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Cheap Broadband (ADSL) and the PlusNet Rip off.Ok so I want to sign my parents up to a broadband connection. I looked at plus net and saw they were doing 8mbps with 10GB monthy usage limit for ?6.…
... a broadband connection. I looked at plus net and saw they ... in rural areas have a low subscriber rating and so have ... and not a rural area at all.
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You need this (Windows) programAs any Windows user knows, sometimes you HAVE to reset Windows. Sometimes it's because you've just installed or uninstalled a program, and Windows ne…
... the free RAM is dangerously low (how does this still happen ... resets, losing everything in RAM at the time.
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Memory mapping: Pentagon compatibility?I'm writing something that will rely heavily on the Spectrum's ability to switch screen buffers in hardware (port 0x7FFD). The original Spectrum 128K…
... from pages of ROM at present was at the given moment was ... /> Keeping bit 3 of A low will also function to switch ... -
I'm at work and i'm BOREDI'm currently sitting at my desk, totally bored out of my brain. I don't finish for another hour and i've had 4 calls since 9am. I'm not even sure …
I'm currently sitting at my desk, totally bored out of my brain. I don't finish for another hour and i've had 4 calls since 9am. I'm not even sure why i've been scheduled on today. That's why i've been posting frequently today. -
Help me understand ZX RGB signal (long)This will be a long post so please bear with me and most importantly help me. I have a 128K+ and +2A that I'm trying to get working with my 15kHz RG…
... RGB: 0.7V pk-pk at 75ohm
Composite: 1Vpp ... do with less voltage? What is the required voltage by SCART ...
Now let's look at my 15kHz RGB to VGA ... Amiga). When we look at the voltages required by the ... though, it requires 2Vpp at 75ohm. Which is higher ... -
whats the most you have spent at the dentist?this week is turning out to be quite expensive.. yesterday ?150 on my car service.. and now today, to get my teeth sorted ?198 (and thats nhs)... …
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PFN PRINT by Garry Rowland...Hi Folks, Whilst watching Casualty last night I thought I would surf the archive and look at some "classic" software. One I tried was a program cal…
... surf the archive and look at some "classic" software. One I ... /> I have searched high and low and I cannot find a ... -
Wanted: Spectrum ZX,48,Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, acorns (USA!)Hello everyone, I help some friends put on some vintage computer gaming events (they are free events at a local library.) In addition to this, I b…
... events (they are free events at a local library.) In addition ... /> I'm looking for a low cost Sinclair Spectrum ZX 128 ... -
Film ratings...This last week, I've been watching a few films and they got me thinking about how films are clissified these days. The films I watched were [B]Kick-A…
... have laned it an 18 (at least, the unrated version that ... are now freely available (in at least one case, the uncut ... a PG cert, but was at one point banned). I also ... seemed excessivly violent for the low certs that they got. -
Help with broken SpectrumHi There, Just received a ZX Spectrum computer. It's an issue 3B (48k version). When I power it up (9V centre pin -V) nothing happens. It's complete…
The Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All TimeYep, another "best of..." list posted on the 'net, and like all lists based on opinion it's contentious, but even by the standards of most lists I th…
... "Twenty-five best consoles list" at:
[URL]http:// ... sum up the list either at the start or the ... is the Playstation so (relatively) low? It deserves much higher than ... to see the PS3 so low down on the list.< ... but me, I'm not at all sure. For what it ...have you stayed angry / annoyed at friends for long?just curious.. thought it might be an interesting topic today, I was at work.. so couldn't be ebaying and someone finished their auction way too ear…
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today, I was at work.. so couldn't be ... 's tricky to stay mad at friends I guess, but I ...Possible tape loading modI've got an idea for improving the reliability of loading from mp3 players or computer soundcards on the +3 or Black +2... It seems to work but I ju…
... allows me to load reliably at half volume on my PC ... it's some kind of voltage clamp :???:
anyway, what ...I'm scared to death!I've posted on here before that I'm not very well. I've got a genetic kidney condition (Polycystic Kidney Disease...PKD) and it's fast getting to the…
... 7 weeks ago came in at 14% and I've now ... been refered to the low clearence clinic at the hospital.
At the moment, I'd like ... . I'd like a machine at home, but I'm probably ...On a phishing mission from god...Received this in my inbox this week and thought I'd share it with you. [QUOTE][FONT=verdana][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]My Dearest In Christ, M…
... up in africa, he have low manterity and my husband's ...
Email me at ( [EMAIL="sandra.makota002@yahoo.com ...TV report of the morning at RetroMa?OK, so it's in Spanish, but the pictures really say it all. Antena 3, a national TV broadcaster in Spain, this morning visited Retroma??a, which is …
... Retroma??a, which is held at the University of Zaragoza's ... for about 5 seconds :-) (right at the start of the video ... appeared were points and lines. At the University of Zaragoza they ...A night at the London O2I took my son to see Wrestling at the London O2 last night for his birthday and I thought I'd share my observations of this experience. Firstly, the…
... son to see Wrestling at the London O2 last ... However, there was a girl at the front who must have ... been at least 13, probably older ... and she was shouting abuse at one particular wrestler. This ... a "banker". I glanced at her mother next to her ...Contactless Credit Cards,I got sent a contactless bank card recently. I dont f***ing want it. :mad: You can make payments upto ?15 by waving your card at some RF device with…
... ?15 by waving your card at some RF device with no ... cash without being caught, but at least I can decide if ... the 50p transaction fee for low cost transctions. So the feature ...Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
... l, a ; load it into low byte of HL
;HL should now be pointing at the corresponding data block of ...Forum Calendar stops at 2010Has anyone else noticed this? I tried to jump to January 2011 but it wouldn't do it and the Year drop down box stops at 2010. Strange.
Has anyone else noticed this? I tried to jump to January 2011 but it wouldn't do it and the Year drop down box stops at 2010.
Strange.Carmageddon port crashes and burns?Why did no one post on here that the DOS classic Carmageddon was being remaded to run on Windows (well, a coder was writing his own version of the ga…
... , completer with software graphics (ugly low res), but I and a ... damaging Carmageddon's owners profits at all. But when do games ... few pixels in it's low res software mode) that you ...Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... using Z80 CPU's running at 20-25MHz, 512K-640K RAM ... can produce a Z80 machine at a low enough cost for hobbyist ... any recent Spectrum machines aimed at the community with these specs ...
