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My new Spectrum +3 has no start menu.Hi all, I recently took delivery of my 'new' Spectrum +3 from a Fleebay auction. So I serviced the drive on Saturday as it had a snapped drive belt …
... it's flow chart of fault finding, and it pushes me ... hang over from my PC fault finding days). Still no +3 ... -
Calling people with Diagboards.....and who have toastracks or grey +2's with all socketed memory :) I'm finishing off modifications to the Diagboard firmware to expand its testing c…
... specific IC(s) are at fault.
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Creating your own BASIC-commands on IF1bisThe old Sinclair IF1 has offered an easy possibility to create your own new BASIC-command: The use of the shadow variable VECTOR. This is described i…
... of Ian Logan, the "Spectrum Microdrive Book". Since the IF1bis is ... -
The Spectrum Show Episode 27Welcome to The Spectrum Show, the show dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. In this episode I take a look at the news from April 1985. I review th…
... ZX Interface 1 and ZX Microdrive.
I review some older ... -
Is there a way?I would like to know if there's a way to have a zx microdrive version for multilevel games such as robocop. Thanks in advance.
I would like to know if there's a way to have a zx microdrive version for multilevel games such as robocop.
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Two disk systems together on one SpectrumHello, does anybody had experience with connection two disk systems together on one Spectrum (48k or 128k) ? e.g. Can a Betadisk operate together …
... together with an Interface 1 / Microdrive
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Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…
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Is it possible to have a Single Drive on Betadisk as Drive Letter B (other than A)Hello, I?ve problems with getting two drives to work on my Betadisk v4 Interface: I?ve tried a second drive as slave drive but can?t get it to work…
Libreria di Software (Italian Series)I've been able to find all the tapes still sealed! This is issue 01, [URL]https://www.dropbox.com/s/2zrxvrd34frqdjl/LibreriaDiSoftwareIssue01%28Ital…
... an invoicing utility working with Microdrive only. ;)
...just 29 ...Bob's "Save it from the Skip" hardware sale.Recently I mentioned that I'd skip any items I had been trying to selling if they didn't find a taker, so here is the full list of Spectrum hardware …
... individual items)
A) Microdrive - assumed to be working as ... no cartridge inserted.
B) Microdrive - assumed to be working as ...128+ grey screen faultneed help diagnosing this picture,this is not my machine but a picture found online but this is exactly what i found on this +2grey i just picked up.…
need help diagnosing this picture,this is not my machine but a picture found online but this is exactly what i found on this +2grey i just picked up.
when i plugged the power cable in a piece of the black plastic surround from the power socket came ...128k Toastrack EAR socketHi -my 128k Toast rack was fine but the EAR now seems to have an issue- sometimes the blue and red border bars do not flash - (showing no recognition…
... I tend to make another fault to go along with the ...Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... disk with a microdrive 3. (I had a microdrive 3, so I ...Interface 1 ROM replacementHi All! I wrote down my story because I think that somebody might have similar problem and can find some ideas here how to overcome it... :) Recent…
... /> Recently I have bought a Microdrive and an Interface 1 from ... to experiment with the 8 Microdrive configuration, but that it another ...Good or Horrible: Horn and DeakinIvan Horn and Andrew Deakin. What do you reckon? Addams Family - only played this briefly and am not sure it was even on the Speccy so can't reall…
... sure if that's the fault of the coin-op but ...Less MIA - Spectrum Mail MasterIs Mail Master by S&B Software still missing. The tape looks to have Text Master on the other side - although it is hard to tell if that if the labe…
... ? I can include the Euro microdrive cartridge I also mentioned....128k programs not working on +2aI'm having an issue with my +2a at the moment, in that I can't seem to get it to run any 128k programs, e.g. Renegade and Nigel Mansell World Champio…
... issues).
Possible memory fault, and if it is any ...New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…
... a single enhanced capacity virtual Microdrive (all without the need to ...Play button on tape deck does nothingFirstly this post is in relation to a CPC464 not a Spectrum but I have heard it shares the same tape mechanism as the +2 - mods feel free to move or …
... like there is some electrical fault or something stopping play from ...+2A: issue 1 no sound but better picture than issue 4?Hello everyone. I have a slight problem here and I am trying to figure out what could be wrong. :-( I have two spectrum +2A with two board revision…
... a wild guess here) the fault on issue 1 board causing ...Seriously weird Issue 2 issue... (RAM-related)Hi guys; I have been trying to fix up my Issue 2 and have run across a bizarre issue that I haven't seen elsewhere in the forums. Hopefully one of …
... . MEMCHK returned 32767, upper RAM fault. UPRAM85 returned 93, so IC18 ...Catastrophy struckLast Monday my basement was filled with 80 cm of water/sewage. A lot of stuff was ruined, including most of my ZX Spectrum collection. I'm still in…
... meantime, I have recovered 16 microdrive cartridges which looks intact that ...Ubuntu Gnome HelpI've been workng wih UBuntu Gnome increasingly in my work and on my home computers. So much so that when my company surplused a dual core laptop I wa…
... first thought was a ram fault. So I ran Ubuntu's ... it's the HD in fault either because if it was ...Spanish unlisted MIA in MicrohobbyAs per this issue of Microhobby: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=MicroHobby/Issue025/Pages/MicroHobby02500025.jpg[/url] The gam…
... game was distributed only in Microdrive as the magazine remarks at ...Short Circuit Damage?Hey Spectrum fans, Currently trying to diagnose what is wrong with my 48K Issue 4B ZX Spectrum. The initial problem was the fact it would not boot -…
... assume that there is a fault in the lower 16K of ...Interfaces & ROMsHi everyone, I'm currently looking into the various modern interfaces for the Spectrum to allow me to run all my games from an SD card. I have a few…
... Spectrum with a 16K RAM fault, I could boot from the ...
