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  • how does the printer port work?I know nothing about printers, I gather that when the spectrum has an output to something to represent a letter, it sets the strobe to low and back t…

    ... some more detail on the parallel port operation.

    ... this ancient dot-matrix printer working happily with Windows ... character based operations on a parallel port printer.

    However ... about the original Sinclair printer it may do things ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Dixons - and the "death of the video"MIKE: Right. That's it. "Your video is now ready for use. Insert cassette, rewind to beginning of tape, and press play. Happy viewing!" VYVYAN: Ha h…

    ... make more profit margin from; printer ink, paper, batteries, PC software ... Dixons here, the cheapest scart cable is ?6.99.

    cable.

    [quote]
    I ...
    The Starglider The Starglider November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How many of you lot still own your original Speccy?I have reason to believe the majority of you still own your original Spectrum. I think thats great, but it also really suprised as well. I was obsess…

    ... tape player connected to the printer port on the pc???? hooooly ... buy parts and built the cable for it.


    Sadako Sadako February 2005 Games
  • Output through the Printer portIs It possible to use the +3 Printer port like the BBC user port, if so how?

    ... unclear about what address the printer port is at on the ... Printer port address at &xxFB was re-used for the parallel ... port. That's what I did with my printer interface ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Power issues for multiple Speccies - questionWould like your opinions on some power issues I will be coming across soon! I am building up a collection of working Spectrums to form a music Midi …

    ... you must run them in parallel and each 128 must have ... maybe three per disk drive cable. If you are talking +3 ... use tiny thin 3A rated cable for output??? It must be ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2006 Hardware
  • divIDEAnyone knows what is happening with divIDE project? I would really like to have one of that boards, but can't get reply from Pavel? Did someone made…

    ... powered. Does not need IDE cable

    This CF2IDE:
    parallel to the motherboard. FDD powered. Does not need IDE cable ...
    miskox miskox August 2006 Hardware
  • External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…

    ... QL serial-parallel convertor to allow you to connect a printer. Alas ...
    rwap rwap October 2006 Hardware
  • External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…

    ... PC, and had a nice parallel interface and would interface nicely ... don't have a laser printer :)
    DEATH DEATH March 2007 Hardware
  • Printers for Spectrum +2 and +3It seems that the only printers availables for ZX Spectrum were ZX printers and compatibles (connected through the expansion bus), but Spectrum +2 an…

    ... describes printer operations in detail, the default setting is the parallel port ... .

    any centronics compatible printer should work, many seem to ... should just plug into any printer with an LQ mode and ...
    guesser guesser April 2007 Hardware
  • Printers for Spectrum +2 and +3It seems that the only printers availables for ZX Spectrum were ZX printers and compatibles (connected through the expansion bus), but Spectrum +2 an…

    ... printer socket, on either end of a length of IDC ribbon cable ... DEATH made Mr AlchResearch a printer lead and they became the ... drive interface. Once a cable made and the printer connected, Mr DEATH ... very happy in their own printer heaven, they both lived happily ...
    DEATH DEATH April 2007 Hardware
  • Printers for Spectrum +2 and +3It seems that the only printers availables for ZX Spectrum were ZX printers and compatibles (connected through the expansion bus), but Spectrum +2 an…

    ... not very exciting. An RS232 printer can be plugged into a ... mouse came with a centronics printer interface which is supported in ... get a printer which supports the old Apple serial cable. It's ... that information for a speccy printer but thanks for the info ...
    spectbeginner spectbeginner April 2007 Hardware
  • Kempston printer interfaceHi all, I won an Kempston Printer Interface from eBay and I am awating the arrival of it. At present I got hold of a Spectrum Plus2B today working or…

    ... I won an Kempston Printer Interface from eBay and I ... has already got a Printer Interface on board but ... compatible with the Plus2B printer interface on the back ... The 2b has a dedicated printer port - why would you ... works on #3. A cable is dead simple to make.
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Hardware
  • Kempston printer interfaceHi all, I won an Kempston Printer Interface from eBay and I am awating the arrival of it. At present I got hold of a Spectrum Plus2B today working or…

    ... the ease of building a cable for it. One end must ... . You can buy such a cable from Tesco's (of all ... enough though, the +D drive/printer interface uses a completely different ... a picture of where the cable goes - maybe we can help ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Hardware
  • Spectrum Amstrad printer leadHi, just been doing a search on the Spectrum+2A/+3 printer leads. Now as I understand it the Amstrad CPC464 and CPC6128 printer leads are compatible…

    ... colour, and an Amstrad DMP2160 printer attached to my +3.
    printer, it's fine. Use one ... /> I can confirm that the printer lead is a 34 way ... , a length of grey IDC cable and a Centronics plug. Two ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Hardware
  • Spectrum Amstrad printer leadHi, just been doing a search on the Spectrum+2A/+3 printer leads. Now as I understand it the Amstrad CPC464 and CPC6128 printer leads are compatible…

    ... 4.0 ROM with the parallel port and has been fixed ... to input pokes for the printer port to work correct with ...
    swift240 swift240 June 2007 Hardware
  • speed of my Broadband connectionI have done a speed test on my Broadband connection and got a result of 2.5 and 4.2 megabits, the thing is i have just upgraded my connection to 20me…

    ... used ICS with a crossover cable between the PC and an ... : 2 PCs, XBOX 360, Laser Printer and soon to be another ...
    Quazar Quazar July 2007 Chit chat
  • Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…

    ... be made with your PC parallel port. SPI leads for in ... are nothing more than a parallel cable and four 1K resistors.
    Winston Winston August 2007 Hardware
  • Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…

    ... it directly to PC's parallel port and it worked! :-)
    cable connected to PC' parallel port )

    Jose_Leandro Jose_Leandro August 2007 Hardware
  • Zx Spectrum +2 Datacorder - Discman To Car Cassette Tape AdapterHas anyone tried using a discman to cassette adapter on a ZX Spectrum +2 datacorder and loaded games with a CD or direct from a PC Soundcard?

    ... -matrix type printer, you can use the print head ribbon cable to ... find any photos for this cable to give you an idea ... /> I think the adapter audio cable can be hacked to have ... particular type of print head cable inserted where the deck's ...
    Marcelo Marcelo October 2007 Hardware
  • Build your own Pentagon 1024SLAlexey aka KingOfEvil was so kind to give me an english manual for the Pentagon with most (except for the floppy controller) chips adapted to "wester…

    ... cable and a PC with a parallel port. Price for such a cable ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 November 2007 Hardware
  • It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…

    ... a DIY programming cable out of an old printer lead with the ... off from making a programming cable :-)
    Winston Winston December 2007 Hardware
  • Wafa Drive VS Microdrive,From my limited knowlege, it looks like the Wafa Drive and the Microdrive were mechanically similar in operation (relitively speaking). Which format…

    ... dual-drive system complete with printer interface and a good word ... an RS232 printer interface (or none). Most printers were parallel in those ...
    glancaster glancaster February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Would you buy Apples latest OS for your pc if you could ?If Apple released their latest OS for the PC would people who use Windows buy it, because i am sure if they did they would get a significant percenta…

    ... buy a printer for £30. It comes with no USB cable. How ... , buy the cheap printer but don't buy the cable. Then go ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk June 2008 Chit chat
  • AudiophoolsGood grief, there must be some really gullible audiophiles about if Denon is selling this: [url]http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp[/ur…

    ... thoughts were on oxygen free cable, gold connectors and painting green ... and replace the cable between your PC and your printer with a ...
    IN31 IN31 July 2008 Chit chat
  • joystick questionhi i have a kempston joystick with the zx spectrum connector. i wandered if it is possible to make a converter from this joystick pin to the PC one(t…

    ... />
    - The atari 2600 to printer port converter: it needs special ... works. Linux can work with parallel adapters... the kernel supports it ... [/url]. They are EXPENSIVE, but parallel and joystick ports are R ...
    Zup Zup August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • joystick questionhi i have a kempston joystick with the zx spectrum connector. i wandered if it is possible to make a converter from this joystick pin to the PC one(t…

    ... />
    - The atari 2600 to printer port converter: it needs special ... works. Linux can work with parallel adapters... the kernel supports it ... [/url]. They are EXPENSIVE, but parallel and joystick ports are R ...
    hillelr hillelr August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…

    ... in the tray..... when the printer ground to a halt (because ... 's something wrong with this printer.... I'll use the other ... take a look at his printer which wasn't working, it ... them to check if a cable is plugged in, we want ... check *both ends* of the cable.....
    Zoffy Zoffy October 2008 Chit chat
  • Found 128k +2 in the garbageHey there, I had a 48k Plus when I was a kid (still have, actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so I know the basic of these computers. …

    ... . Complete with a SCART cable (a bit damaged) and ... just because the SCART cable was defective or just ... Once I found a thermal printer using fax-style roll ... A nice, forever-working printer (because it doesn't ... interfaces too since the printer doesn't have any ...
    anny84 anny84 November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cro S2008Hi everybody!!! I hope this is right thread? :-) I want to share with you my new project. I call it ?S2008?? The idea was to build Spectrum48K clo…

    ... well as a simple parallel port for a printer). You could offer ...
    ingo ingo January 2009 Hardware
  • Ultimate Sinclair Spectrum Collection!!![url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ultimate-Sinclair-Spectrum-Collection-Over-400-Games_W0QQitemZ180324516999QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VintageComputing_RL?hash=i…

    ... Dot Matrix Printer (1994) (Boxed - New) Spectrum compatible - includes ribbon cable for ...
    retrogod retrogod January 2009 Sales
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