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Which Speccy is the best to buy...I'd be using it for games really, and thats about it. I'd like a 128k but I seem to remember people saying 128k +2's had problems playing some games.…
... I was at a car boot and there was an Atari ... , well, I wouldn't say no put it that way! -
Arrggh! My computer is acting up!It's like this then. I boot the comp, I select XP from the boot screen, I see the loading bar, and then... screen goes blank (not standby mode though…
... no prob wotsoever. Isn't that odd? Incidentally, when XP did boot ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... same directory (reducible to a sequence of numbers on a disk ... />
Btw, since this debate no longer belongs to "Emulators" thread ... -
Ebay moan #86,400I'm looking in the Vintage & Retro Gaming section and yet all I can see are World Of Warcraft and Runescape gold purchases etc. I wouldn't mind a few…
... can be seen at car boot sales haggling over a 50p ... , so I told him in no uncertain terms. -
Amiga........Anybody else have an Amiga? I had a A1200, quite good actually after the speccy died! Any websites like this one dedicated to the Amiga?
... off a car boot sale. a quid a disc, no matter what ... -
What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?
[QUOTE=48K]I'm afraid I'd like to try it, but I only have a PowerPC based Mac, so no joy. But thanks for the support of 8-bit development nonetheless.[/QUOTE]
Maybe its time to upgrade to a WinTel Mac ;) with boot camp. -
Emulators on XBoxCould someone give me some private advice about running emulators on an X-Box please? Thanks in advance.
... . Whenever the XBox tries to boot a DVD, it always (and ... default.xbe. If there is no "default.xbe" in the root ... , then the disc won't boot. When you get used to ... -
What's the best Anti-Virus software?Is it Norton or McAfee? I've heard that Norton really slows your PC down. Is this true? What do you use?
... the symantec site everytime you boot.
I have a ... AMD64-3800, so its no slouch, but Nortons has really ... -
Did all Spectrum 128Ks have that large heatsink?Question as per title. I can't seem to find the answer to this. I'm sure I've seen a picture of one without it. Would this be because someone has car…
... walk away from. Ignorance is no excuse at all and the ... he got from the car boot sale or off the skip ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... at a critical time during boot up, then the laptop ... would never boot up again, instead it ... thousand times during boot-up. If [you have no battery, or ... error. OR it might boot and break down 2 seconds ... enough to survive a boot at least, even if ... -
replacement +3 psuok, who would be kind enough to help an idiot build a replacement PSU for the +3 / +2a , from a PC power supply? Guesser has already helped out a gr…
... just whatever it wants with no problem to the PC supply ... were allowed to try to boot up, strange results could occur ... . Such a system essentially has no Power Good functionality and will ... -
Whatcha listening to now?I'm listening to Audioslave's Revelations album. Fantastic work! Belting it at 12 in the night! Neighbours must be going crazy! :lol: Also listening…
... to post Death a Marillion boot. I've burned to disc ... ...[/QUOTE]
Hey no worries Mr K, no hurry here. -
Wanted: Magazine covertapesI'm trying to plug a few gaps in my magazine covertapes collection, if anyone has any of the following (With Inlays!!), please drop me a line to the …
... magazines.
It's no problem bringing up old threads ... okay, but in was a no no.
Actually, I remember ... />
SU Megatape 1 19 Boot Camp / Zar-Jas
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Could this be made to work for a sinclairI have asked the seller if he supplied the cables and software that could do the same job but for a +3, does anyone know if could be done, or maybe t…
... be able to boot into 'pure DOS', ie. no command-prompt in ... -
How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)
... , so copying there was a no-go. Cybernoid 1 i remember ... pick them up at a boot-fair first! (ahh, the 90 ... -
+2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…
... next physical page in logical sequence 1->3->4 ... next physical page in logical sequence
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No idea if it works. There ... -
Ever find something on tape that should not be there?I remember this from my school days,its an absolute classic this!,i borrowed a game from a school friend at that time(i cannot remember which game)bu…
... tape recorder at a car boot, so I could load up ... tape inside was a billy-no-mates, one-man-band Doctor ... -
Ever find something on tape that should not be there?I remember this from my school days,its an absolute classic this!,i borrowed a game from a school friend at that time(i cannot remember which game)bu…
... tape recorder at a car boot, so I could load up ... tape inside was a billy-no-mates, one-man-band Doctor ... -
Which Emulator?I?m interested to know which emulator people use! Which one has the look and ?feel? of a real Spectrum and which one has the most accurate loading e…
... [/B] lucky at a car boot![/QUOTE]
G'afternoon ... , that for ME, there is no point in paying for the ... -
Whatcha listening to now?I'm listening to Audioslave's Revelations album. Fantastic work! Belting it at 12 in the night! Neighbours must be going crazy! :lol: Also listening…
... Compilation called 'Give 'Em the boot' which had some pretty good ... Killers
13 I'm No Different - Westbound Train
14 ... -
Spectrum RAM Paks...This jogged my memory (excuse the pun!!) : [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CURRAH-32K-RAM-PACK-BOXED-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM_W0QQitemZ150057889352QQihZ005QQ…
... during the memory test at boot up and if it finds ... , which is what Basic does. No need to rewrite the ROM ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... /> Crikey, that's close, but no cigar :-)
Okay, I ... available from boot up you've got something that no current OS ... screen (as there will be no attribute squares to speak of ... -
Election of the new maintainer of the TZX formatHi folks, the topic says all, let the discussion begin :) Luca
... CSW block of a few sequence-of-pulses blocks?
no business being in the TZX ... -
PC ProbsJust been given a PC to fix. Everything is now fine except the damn thing won't re-boot. It'll start up on a cold boot no probs, but it will not, e…
... boots from switch on no problems. All the bios ... indepenent, has no problems with a cold boot but will not ... re-boot until power ... been and there are no user changeable settings for ... flash, that message is no longer there but it ... -
Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... the following, at random:
- boot loops - black screen and flash ... then a blank screen with no (c) 1982 message.
- black ... -
Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... the following, at random:
- boot loops - black screen and flash ... then a blank screen with no (c) 1982 message.
- black ... -
Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... head-scratching! Also I had no disk drive that would work ... on the DOS, that the boot code in my ROM (the ... -
Request info about Spectrum Live CD/BootHello, I've been looking for a linux live distribution with Spectrum emulator that allows me to put my z80,tap,sna etc files. [btw,for those that ar…
... refering to the 2 PC/boot emulators
@Marcelo ... .0 is the legal version (=no copyrighted roms inside-you know ... -
Why are people so sick?I have 4 cats. They all rarely go out and never get into fights or make a nuiscance of themselves. In the last two years I have had one kicked to d…
... some council estate - poor background, no intelligence and hope of any ... "council estate trash"....probs got no father figure, mom is on ... give the little fockers some boot pie!.....
WHOS CUMIN ... -
MP3 DownloadsIf you own a 7" or 12" Vinyl or Vynal album... Is it leagal to dowload and use a copy of the same music for your MP3 player to save you the troubl…
No I just wondered because a ... of condition) at a car boot sale and then download the ...
