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Favourite speccy game cover-artSomething that was interesting about the 8-bit period was the cover-art for the games which tended to represent the very 1980s airbrushed/comic-art a…
I always liked the Side Arms cover art...
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PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... are raw formats on one side, and there is no need ... see it, are high data (size) reduction, which needs knowledge of ... -
Is Ferranti still alive ?And if not......why should there be any restrictions on manufacturing the ULA ?
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48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... it gives approx 12V, the hole in the plug end being ... messing about with the mains side of a PSU. There's ... -
Problems with TS2068sI bought 2 TS2068s, and this is what's happening: 1st computer: -The tv output doesn't work. The composite video output does* -The '7' key is dead.…
... membrane. Instead they have a pcb, so you are in luck ... have access to the KB pcb. The keyboard matrix has copper ... />
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New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …
... myself was more on the side of a link to the ... on USB to a pico size motherboard inside a case of ... -
Announce: Fuse 0.8.0Version 0.8.0 of [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/]Fuse[/url], the Free Unix (and OS X) Spectrum Emulator has been released. The major chang…
... have to resize it to double size every time I start fuse ... way to start it in double size? I've read the man ... -
InterfaceHi I'm building a spectrum emulator. I've tried to build it as modular as possible, for example I have a zx class that have input and output devices…
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TC2068 emulator cart - problemHi, Sorry for posting timex related stuff on a spectrum forum. So, this cart (spectrum emulator) can only adress 16K. I can load small games but i …
... the Richard Stallman sense) PCB design tools that will output ... be sent to a PCB maker like Olimex who ... using just a bit of double sided copper clad board, ... about half a dozen double sided PCBs that I ... one eurocard sized piece of PCB, which would probably make ... -
TC2068 emulator cart - problemHi, Sorry for posting timex related stuff on a spectrum forum. So, this cart (spectrum emulator) can only adress 16K. I can load small games but i …
... of solder connecting the "R" side of the trace near pin ... the trace on the component side leading from pin 20 (/CE ... connecting /CE to the through-hole nearby underneath the EPROM that ... solder blobs on the "E" side of the two marked R ... -
TC2068 emulator cart - problemHi, Sorry for posting timex related stuff on a spectrum forum. So, this cart (spectrum emulator) can only adress 16K. I can load small games but i …
... buy 2GB SD cards the size of your thumbnail for $20 ... manufacturing, online printing and online pcb manufacturing... -
Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
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Joystick interfacesWhich interfaces are both upright like the Kempston one: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000220[/url] But also have a throug…
... . All I need is undrilled, double sided veroboard. If you've ... exactly what I mean. The PCB would be 70mm x 25mm ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... ).tzx.zip]Rescue from Atlantis, Side A[/url] contains a large ... brain-dead utilities with fixed size buffers, but I'm guessing ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... doesn't exceed the block size. However if you compute the ... the limit of the block size. Now if the rest of ... example of how an unexpected side-effect can cause problems, but ... have to check against block size, that's yet another comparison ... -
Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
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side movements in one byte
You're gonna bloody well read this...I took the time to write this rubbish, so you can damn well read it! In the thread about Dan Brown (a third class writer who has achieved major fin…
... /> "Indeed", agreed Matijn, "absolutely top hole, old chum". And to make ... he turned to the dark side, and became Darth Vader.
Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... less 'stiff' on the ROM side because of this. However, the ... high resistance short on the PCB, yeah, I'd be suspecting ...Spectrum Diagnostics Board - 25th Anniversary projectWell, I said I'd try and get something online about this by today, and I have indeed done so. This web page still needs finishing off (in particular,…
... thing is (on the digital side) you can check that signals ... of 1 eurocard panel, each PCB would work out at around ...**Snarphing** Trufcupolistis ~twaintiesMeaded????
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... SIZE] [SIZE=2]core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy[/SIZE] [SIZE ... aquaface.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2] The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-[/SIZE] [SIZE=2 ...Office PlopHaving a dump in work. It's just not right is it ?
... , you actually go through a double door, that is one door ... positioned so that someone out side could see your todger if ...Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... compatible. But compiled program enlarges (size almost doubled) so it can ... /> To be on the safe side, after compiling is done, just ...After Clive - why did computing go backwards?Just a thought on from another thread a couple days ago. 25+ years ago Clive made a tiny computer which fitted in your pocket (ok it had to be a lar…
... is that CPU's will double in speed every 18 months ... going to have the same size issues.
As said ... to build a pc the size of a speccy using a ...Soldering surface-mount componentsWinston's latest posts about PCBs and joystick interfaces have reminded me of a question I'm really curious about. Basically: Soldering surface-mount…
... will rip tracks off the PCB, hence the use of the ... all the legs on one side. The solder will only stick ...Soldering surface-mount componentsWinston's latest posts about PCBs and joystick interfaces have reminded me of a question I'm really curious about. Basically: Soldering surface-mount…
... ending up ripping up a PCB track). Desolding braid is cheap ... (use it for pin through hole too).
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OT: PCB making service from OlimexI've just used Olimex to have my first boards 'factory made' (I usually just etch my own, but I needed a couple of my ALIAC-2 Z80 core boards, and th…
... /> Noooooooo, my thru port PCB is double sided feck feck feck.....
double sided vero board without the holes.
The Kempston PCB ... ago, I used to get PCB symbols and crepe "track ... these materials directly on the PCB laminate rather than clear film ...OT: PCB making service from OlimexI've just used Olimex to have my first boards 'factory made' (I usually just etch my own, but I needed a couple of my ALIAC-2 Z80 core boards, and th…
... PCB to be made, I get the following files for a double ... evening's work with gEDA PCB to do the job, since ...Woohoo for ME!!!!Well after 6 months of arsing around with immigration and stuff, I have a real job now (not helping the wife in the cafe), well actually including th…
... ]Hmm... I might want to double check that... Last I checked ... the view from the British side but its really not up ...Soldering surface-mount componentsWinston's latest posts about PCBs and joystick interfaces have reminded me of a question I'm really curious about. Basically: Soldering surface-mount…
... hot-air nozzle, and heating side by side, keepping them all warm ... , I place it on the PCB in the right position, and ...
