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Spectrum Use for ZX81 Pseudo Hi-ResHi Folks, I've been looking around at some of the "Hi-Res" stuff which was achieved on the ZX81 and I came across the faq https://www.landley.net/…
... been looking around at some of the "Hi-Res" stuff which ... It also used a feature of the ZX81's hardware that allowed ... only have 128 different combinations out of the 256 possible ones. These were ... a "library" of lines of pixels - if so perhaps the ideas could ... -
ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …
... one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum ... switching regulator added. With the heat sink "out of the picture" ,so to speak ... to all the chips.The aim of this thread is to find out more ... about this approach and to gain the knowledge ... -
SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
... crash with focused mouse moving out of the window
Added graphics mode ... saving
Changing the height of the editor now clears the old scrollbars properly ... br /> Horizontal scrollbar now extends the width of the window.
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Tapes 85-88Hello! I am hoping this will be of interest to some of you. I've recently rescued everything I could from cassettes that have been sat in my loft …
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Phase of the Moon: Late 1986 - Early 1987 ... the game was a Logan's Run rip off, get out of the dome ... , through the woods to the safety of the ice palace. ... like are in with the rest of the files. This game was ... -
Can CD's rot away?Since my move, i found an old Jimi Hendrix CD that had been at the bottom of a box, untouched for god knows how many years (i actually thought i'd lo…
... CD that had been at the bottom of a box, untouched for ... but when i took the CD out of the case the silver side was covered ... wasn't lying open.
The CD is only about 15 ... have caused this? Some kind of chemical reaction? -
Top Five Spectrum Reads for HolidayHello all, I was wondering what your top five Spectrum books would be for holiday. I thinking preferably of books from the 1980s but you can pick…
... . I thinking preferably of books from the 1980s but you can ... pick one more recent title out of the five.
Mine ... at many of the Machine Code books of the time, but most of them don ... very good (as born out by most of the reviews in Your Sinclair) -
Using a digital voice recorder as tape recorderI've been on a second hand store and I've seen a cheap Olimpus DS150 digital voice recorder. That thing has mic and ear plugs, and PC interface (=it …
... or they can save/load out of the box? Did anyone have tried ... -
Good MAME gamesJust as everyone has a list of must-play spectrum games, which arcade games are worth playing either because they are still good, or are just a big n…
... br /> All of those Sega sprite scaling games, Out-Run Space ... Virtua Fighter
Golden Tee- the golf game that people are ...
New Zealand Story- The spectrum and Amiga versions were ... /> It's weird that out of the thousands of arcade games released, I ... -
I can't get my +2B to work over RGB to SCART.Hi so I have a black +2B and no matter what I do I get a black screen using the RGB-SCART scart cable (specific for the model ) and I'm using a SCART…
... already did the mod where you change the 1kOhm R44 ... resistor, I piggy backed another 1k on top of ... it so that my meter reads 500ohms with the ... is supposed to be the blanking correct anything above ... get a signal out of the RF to the tv which is ... -
Anyone here played Ramble Planet?I stumbled upon [url="https://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=6028"]this mighty fine game[/url] which could just as well have been made on th…
... have been made on the Speccy for the Speccy.
the game:
[spoiler]
out of the 70.
... what to do with the shadow that turns into ... /he is in the north of the Desert and disappears within ... -
Something my dad did for me...Today, what's left of it, is what would have been my dad's 75th birthday, but he never made it past 50. Here's something he did for me, other than…
... any problems with them - the amount of storage space I could get ... out of the case and plastic flaps on top that could be folded out of the ... way to expose the write-protect hole ... what he'd have made of the 32 GB SD card lying ... -
Reviving a Microdrive (and its notoriously fragile media)eBay has been getting a [i]lot[/i] of business out of me lately, which brings me to this... Context: some years ago I bought a job lot of Spectrum…
... 'll open up the microdrive again and clean out the bits of disintegrated foam ... I do this just pulling the tape out of the cartridge slightly, or am ... neither does the Elcaset (where the machine pulls the tape out of the cassette shell to ... -
Reviving a Konix Navigator joystickAaaaaaaaaaaand my next bit of required advice comes courtesy of another eBay package I've just received in the post this morning - with a Spectrum +3…
... br /> I undid the screws and the innards of the joystick exploded everywhere, ... working had the contact on the wrong side of the plastic ... supposed to be by the force of the microswitch springs.
... and find out which wires sticking out of the circuit board ... -
TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... think it's just because of the custom turbo loaders.
... and there, or the length of the block doesn't match ... BZZZZZZZZZZ all the way through the supposedly-silent part of the tape; it ... the +2B and routing the sound out of the TAPE/SOUND socket into the ... -
I love my dogShe may have saved my life. I very nearly stepped on a copperhead snake coiled up in the long grass and she barked and pushed me out of the way. I wa…
... barked and pushed me out of the way. I was so ... as it slithered off into the rock pile nearby.
... bared, bloody impressive and the stag took one look and ... like nobodys business and the funny thing is that ... Herbert just got into the habit of following me and ... -
Cable mod for original vega?I expect there is a well known solution for this, but I don't seem to be able to find any info. The original vega (I said original, no flamewar plea…
... any info.
The original vega (I said ... a whole bunch of ugly cables coming out of the back, making ... we can disconnect the cables from the vega and just ... gamepad for a PC, without the other stuff.
Yes, I know the original vega is ugly, but ... -
New Game: Astrosmash! ZXHello Spectrum fans! It's been a while. After a few months of health issues and larger projects getting put on the back-burner, I decided to work …
... put on the back-burner, I decided to work out my AGD ... muscles with a (relatively) quick and easy port of the ... never played it, the game is a mix of [b]Space Invaders ... you feel like blowing meteors out of the sky.
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Saboteur vs Saboteur II - Which is Best?!Hi everyone and welcome to the February 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed the arcade classics Ghosts 'n Goblins again…
... everyone and welcome to the February 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best ... ?" series.
Last month I placed the ... Ghosts 'n Goblins is the winner gaining 22 votes with ... do you think is the better game out of the two (not version)?!, ... -
Loading Images/Screens mid-gameHi all, Looking to get back into a bit of coding and I couldn't figure out a way to do the following: I have an image/SCREEN that I'd like to b…
... of coding and I couldn't figure out a way to do the ... too clear, I've been out of the loop for a long while ... -
Graphics Card ProblemsI bought myself a new Nvidia mini GTX 1060 graphics card from Overclockers to replace my current one. I got it on Sunday but i can't get my old 1050…
... my old 1050 out of the machine (this was the one that came ... />
This the back of the PC where the monitor plugs into
the above view of the card The thin card on the left with the ... cable going in is the ... -
Please guide me with this decision!Hello, I have decided I would like to try and create some simple ZX Spectrum games of my own. The problem is that machine code is totally and utter…
... simple ZX Spectrum games of my own.
The problem is that ... totally and utterly out of the question now or in the future.. so that ... /> Question is:- Should I use the Spectrums Basic to program with ... I also know it limits the kind of games you can make ... -
My 128k +2 Clean upI decided to pull my old 128k +2 and 48k rubber key out of the attic this weekend. Not been switched on in 30 years or so. The rubber key is dead …
... 2 and 48k rubber key out of the attic this weekend. Not ... 'll leave him alone for the moment.
... and pull a couple of games out of the attic and give ... block left over from the reassembly . It's ... was loose as I removed the case).
Nice site with historic photosI discovered a website which has a lot of historic photos and you can also check just specific decades, so naturally I picked the 80s - [url="https:/…
... lived in the UK, the photos look similar to those of Germany from ... had plenty of unique shops while nowadays it's the same chains ... taking over, pushing everything else out of the market ... Unless it's a ... little shithole town of course, the big chains won't ...Replacing voltage regulators - need to sanity check a few things pleaseHi Everyone I'm in the process (with a lot of help from some friends at Greenford Computer Club), of giving my three Speccys some much needed prev…
... key board put into one of the official + upgrade kits)
the ULA out of the +2 in order to get the remains of the metal heatsink clip out ... ?
[b]Transistor TR8 on the ...Grey +2 with lines on some games on RGB connectionHi Everyone, Is it OK if I ask a question? I dug my +2 out of the loft after far too many years about a month ago, and I have finally got it ba…
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I dug my +2 out of the loft after far too many ... downer on the whole experience is some of my games ... show vertical lines down the screen, ... it is being caused by the 'unrain GAL' fix I ... as I'd never seen the 'rain' problem before but ..."Congraturation, you suC5ess"?(Maybe I've posted this before, or something like it, but I used the Advanced Search and didn't find what I was looking for, so here we go...) Jus…
... , and the foreign land is the Netherlands. Most of the country is ... a whole new province rose out of the sea. Flevoland welcomed its ... Flevoland - not to mention the rest of the country - are queuing round ... Sales, even in the flattest parts of the UK, had been ...Silly things I used to do(and in this case, somewhat spectrum related) When I was much younger I had a strange behaviour: I liked wrecking toys and throw them out of the…
... wrecking toys and throw them out of the window!
That ... significant lengths of tape-thing carefully winded in the reel.
the same kind of mechanism Batman and Robin ... a building on other side of the street, shoot it with ...Request: bury x-ratedSomewhere in the original text of WoS it said that it wanted to keep the adult material away from kids browsing the site. I can't find the page anymo…
... anymore (largely because a lot of the old URLs don't work ... of speccy fans), can the so called X-Rated category be buried out of the ... main viewing forum of the ...Millipede invasion.It feels like an early 80s video game come true, the back of my home is teeming with millipedes. I found 17 millipedes in my finished basement, I wen…
... game come true, the back of my home is ... throw them out of the back door and found the back step ... on the walls of my home all progressing to the back ... 5F37D1CA
The back step:
https:// ...
All over the walls heading towards by basement ...
