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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... we can take it that microdrives aren't one of them ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... we can take it that microdrives aren't one of them ... -
Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…
... some of the Interface1s and microdrives and produced the repair manuals ... -
ZX Shed Issue 3I'm putting the finishing touches to Issue 3 over this weekend, so if anyone had anything they would like to submit now's your last chance....
... couldn't release said ZX microdrives on (real) time. Although technical ... -
Questioning CCSLet's continue discussing some titles from the publisher that I like most of all - CCS. Let's also keep this discussion to what it's about, or I'll …
... it's pretty clear that microdrives were not widely adopted by ... -
History Channel documentary doesn't even mention the SpectrumI recently saw this documentary about the history of computers and it didn't even mention the Spectrum. Was it really irrelevant when it comes down t…
... /> Surely a Speccy with 8 microdrives and various other add-ons ... -
WafaDrives - with the MultifaceI know there were problems using the Wafadrive as it used up so much of the speccy memory. I read that the multiface 1 could be used and load a full…
... were more robust than the Microdrives. Looked like moden date compact ... -
HELP BTTF on Speccy 48khello, fellow spectrum owners! I have won a Back To the future game on cassette of eBay that is for my 48k. I run it, by typing LOAD "", and it sta…
... any additional hardware, for example microdrives, attached?
Another possibility ... -
Anyone have any pics of their collection?I'm an Atari 800XL owner and the main media that games were on for that were tape. Trouble is I've seen loads of pics on the net of peoples collectio…
... was mainly for the printer/microdrives etc.
I've ... -
ZX spectrum as a PC usb keyboard?One of my commodore brained friend showed me an interface which converts the keyboard of c64 to a standard usb keyboard. I quickly searched this for…
ooh yeah, and replacing your hard disks with microdrives, and your ultra speed CD re-writers with a cassette deck!
and swapping your NIC for a interface1 LAN
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Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…
... discontinuing the QL and the microdrives were mercy killings in both ... -
Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…
... discontinuing the QL and the microdrives were mercy killings in both ... kill off the QL and microdrives. The QL was quite a ... effectively Spectrum+ keyboard and the microdrives were a classic case of ... -
Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…
... kill off the QL and microdrives. The QL was quite a ... effectively Spectrum+ keyboard and the microdrives were a classic case of ... of an underpowered CPU and microdrives, the QL just couldn't ... -
Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... programs will work with the microdrives and net as originally intended ... -
Network cableSorry for almost flaming with all my... er.... two questions now...! ;) I read in the Microdrive 1 manual about network but I cannot find out what k…
... made one of my 8 microdrives so a network transfer will ... -
Network cableSorry for almost flaming with all my... er.... two questions now...! ;) I read in the Microdrive 1 manual about network but I cannot find out what k…
... made one of my 8 microdrives so a network transfer will ... -
Network cableSorry for almost flaming with all my... er.... two questions now...! ;) I read in the Microdrive 1 manual about network but I cannot find out what k…
Here are my eight microdrives
[url]http://video. ... /videoplay?docid=7744297797233161593&q=microdrives[/url]
The previous ... /videoplay?docid=2011691753416908964&q=microdrives[/url]
The camera ... -
MS Windows on SpeccyWonder if the new Windows Vista will also run on the speccy..... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SMRRmaIzgE[/url]
... twenty years ago that allowed microdrives to be examined or programs ... -
MS Windows on SpeccyWonder if the new Windows Vista will also run on the speccy..... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SMRRmaIzgE[/url]
[QUOTE=Geoff;169445]A GUI for the Spectrum from over twenty years ago that allowed microdrives to be examined or programs to be launched using a mouse[/QUOTE]
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Stupid ponderingsI just got a XM1541 cable for my C64 hard drive to allow me to write d64 images directly to c64 disks. Works great and I love it. Anyway, its got m…
... 1 to read/write to microdrives or maybe hookup to the ... -
Stupid ponderingsI just got a XM1541 cable for my C64 hard drive to allow me to write d64 images directly to c64 disks. Works great and I love it. Anyway, its got m…
... 1 to read/write to microdrives or maybe hookup to the ... -
Stupid ponderingsI just got a XM1541 cable for my C64 hard drive to allow me to write d64 images directly to c64 disks. Works great and I love it. Anyway, its got m…
... use the hardware and particularly Microdrives. Kind of like why use ... -
Eight ZX MicrodrivesOk so the ZX Microdrives can be dasiychained up to a max of eight, but why! I can kinda see the point of having 2 MDs but 8? Not only would you need…
... QL could also support 8 microdrives, but alas the separate QL ... (although you could attach ZX Microdrives, the slots face the back ... sort of principle with ZX Microdrives, to save you having to ... -
Eight ZX MicrodrivesOk so the ZX Microdrives can be dasiychained up to a max of eight, but why! I can kinda see the point of having 2 MDs but 8? Not only would you need…
Here's Geoff's video of his "microdrive farm", 8 microdrives connected to a speccy:
[url]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2011691753416908964[/url] -
Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.
... me a Spectrum with 8 microdrives, 1000 monkeys and a million ... -
exploring zx interface 1...I got an IF1 from a friend as a gift, and I realized I don't know what to do with it. I dont have any microdrives, I cant event test it to see if it …
... it. I dont have any microdrives, I cant event test it ... -
Will an interface 1 work with a +2?I don't want to break anything, can I bugger up the +2 by connecting an interface 1 and microdrive to it? Are they compatible? If they are, with no…
I can confirm that I've had an IF1 and microdrives working successfully with a (grey) +2.
Never had any problems physically connecting it either, which slightly puzzles me... -
Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.
... me a Spectrum with 8 microdrives, 1000 monkeys and a million ... genius!
Get those Microdrives humming, boy!
PS: Sorry ... -
Reasons for buying a QL ?It seems, from what I have read, that the QL was a bit of a failure back in the days. But apart from being a collectible, is there any useful/intere…
... a dongle, and with unreliable microdrives and slow Psion business software ... -
Eight ZX MicrodrivesOk so the ZX Microdrives can be dasiychained up to a max of eight, but why! I can kinda see the point of having 2 MDs but 8? Not only would you need…
... of the Spectrum and microdrives has eight microdrives connected but has a ... of a Spectrum with 8 microdrives on his business website.