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Who read announcements?Had 23 views about a new issue of our magazine in two weeks, which really disappointed me. Maybe the announcement section is not the right place to "…
... last years we made a plus and we will use this ... . 71
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Laptop helpRight, mate at work just gave me his old laptop cos the screens broken (i think) i'm not that up on laptops tbh as ive only really had a second hand …
... XP laptop with a floppy drive is worth keeping hold off ... handy thing that I'd be lost without. Plus its powerful enough ... -
DYNAMITE DAN I vs DYNAMITE DAN II - WHICH IS THE BETTER GAME?Welcome to the September 2016 edition of Which Is Best? Last month I placed three Amiga top down racers, Nitro, Super Cars II and Overlander. Overl…
... starting screen.
I'd also forgotten how disappointing the ... , unZIP the "Dynamite Dan 2 plus snapshots.zip" file into the ... to:
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USB Portable Hard Drive Poor Reliability is my Experience (Mechanical not SSD)Dear WOSers, I am writing this post because yesterday I had a horrible day at work. My USB portable hard drive failed on me an…
... stored on Google's machines), plus every night I back them ... them on my work PC plus the network, and sending them ... my home stuff, until I'd lost a fair bit of ... /music/photos/films/etc, hard drive images of desktops or laptops ... -
WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …
... ve not found my +D and 3.5" drive either (which I ... when I had a +D (the +D made loading and saving [ ... suppose was a plus. Due to the limited +D's spare RAM ... audio file, then you'd want the computer to continue ... against a lack of either +D RAM, will-power, or ... -
WOS Members carsWe've just got a car after being without for about 3 months :) It's a Peugeot 406 LX Diesel Estate, P reg, old but well looked after. Same as my las…
... , it died when it's drive belt shredded and couldn't ... 1.1 Fiesta MK3 Popular Plus. I then moved onto the ... built engine. Great fun to drive. :D -
Getting Tasword to save to CF cardHey chaps I have a Plus 2 with a simple 8bit IDE interface installed. I was hoping I might be able to use the +3 disk version in conjunction with …
... Sinclair QL and the Spectrum Plus 2B. I've been using ... . Luckily I have a floppy drive hooked up to the QL ... you had a Spectrum you'd have stored documents on tape ...
I love my Plus 2 but I have to ... out if I missed much, plus it an excuse to fiddle ... -
Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…
... the connection I thought I'd just made).
... towel.[/quote]
Right, I'd assume that means disconnecting the ... metal casing of the disc drive, the other... hangs loose, and ... gate array chip (pin 30) plus the associated resistor (R11).[/quote ... -
C5According to BBC Breakfast Grant Sinclair who is SIr Clives Uncle is producing an improved version of the C5.
I think you'd look such a wally riding one of those over here, plus eventually you'd end up crushed by the axels of one of those crazy four wheel drive trucks the Americans seem to love so much. SMIDSY. -
Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…
... I liked for the machine, plus a few turds as well ... played was on the Mega-Drive. What a massive, steaming ... like the animation features of D-Paint III all day long ... me over, and I'd just get bored while they ... kicking myself knowing that I'd blown 500 quid of my ... -
Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…
... 'd paid the same, might as well have bought the computer. Plus ... the same for a new drive, I had a rather well ... out of date and he'd only had it a few ... -
128k memory musingI've been pondering on the 128k memory thing a bit, and it's just bloody stupid. The 64k memory space is divided in four chunks. One is always los…
... not really used much. I'd probably not sacrifice another 7K ... , 1, 3, 4 and 6 (plus the non-video portion of ... for addons/driver/disk drive controller. I'd probably overwrite that if ... -
128k memory musingI've been pondering on the 128k memory thing a bit, and it's just bloody stupid. The 64k memory space is divided in four chunks. One is always los…
... you had z80, disc drive and 64k of memory, you ... really used much. I'd probably not sacrifice another ... C.[/quote]
I'd gladly sacrifice the 7K ... , 3, 4 and 6 (plus the non-video portion of ... addons/driver/disk drive controller. I'd probably overwrite that ... -
Good engine, boring levelsWhich games suffer from this ? Shadow of the beast is example no.1 Most Amiga platformers.
... ), the occasional section where you drive a vehicle, and the occasional ... placement is sometimes pretty bad. Plus the environmental puzzles that you ... last as long as you'd like. For example, the the ... -
Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …
... CLOSE b=file#
D=SETDRIVE f$=drive A-P, or Q ... $
F=FREESPACE f$=drive A-P, returns HL
f=FLUSH f$=drive A-P
g= ... />
which includes dos_demo.zip plus some other +3 DOS routines. -
Troubleshooting my +2To put this in context: a while back (i.e. late last year and earlier this year) I was looking to put together a compilation of modern Spectrum games…
... have working ULA's (plus one with a dead ULA ... two +2Bs and I'd prefer to experiment on one ... idea hit me: I'd successfully turned the Z80 file ... the load, it briefly showed "Drive not ready, 0:1" before ... start screen appeared. I'd been using Loader and waiting ... -
VISTA apocalypse - FORCED into getting Windows 10So my laptop uses [b]Vista[/b] - it's old - but it runs fine... I've had this same computer for over 10 years! I hate change (when it comes to techn…
... ... I went for update. I'd already backed up and removed ... ... did some fixes - defragged the drive- got rid of updates and ... 've now proved its worthiness.... plus I'm broke anyway. Thanks ... -
VISTA apocalypse - FORCED into getting Windows 10So my laptop uses [b]Vista[/b] - it's old - but it runs fine... I've had this same computer for over 10 years! I hate change (when it comes to techn…
... ... I went for update. I'd already backed up and removed ... ... did some fixes - defragged the drive- got rid of updates and ... 've now proved its worthiness.... plus I'm broke anyway. Thanks ... . I'm thinking removable hard drive bay to switch the OS ... -
If you had four roms...Just wondering if you were designing a Spectrum from scratch, and you used a 27512 EPROM, which would hold about 4 spectrum roms, what you would inst…
... a small LCD screen and drive the video directly.
< ... key model and a few Plus's... ( I now have ... 2 Plus's, A faulty rubber key ... mangled keyboard, and a spare Plus case, and no sign of ... for tapes, I figured I'd modify some serial memory to ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... up way too much Hard drive space for a game I ... Fallout 4 I'd practically have my whole drive back, but I ... I'll play it through! plus I reinstalled it as a ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... shouts at you as they drive past you.
I ... Metal Gear Solid 2. I'd played through it way back ... for it to be removed, plus it's a mature rated ... -
Speccy emulation dead on Mac?I'm a longtime user of the Speccy (15 years plus) but now use Macs 99pc of the time, and although I have access to PC's I still wonder why there are …
... of the Speccy (15 years plus) but now use Macs 99pc ... same thing? I know I'd pay a shareware fee for ... -
Programing/iterfaceingsorry about my spelling. I have looked for a long time on the internet and havent found anythink about programing the expation port to drive l.e.d.s …
... the expation port to drive l.e.d.s etc please couuld ... -
AY musicThis is a format I'm proposing for an AY music player. If anyone can see any problems or anywhere it can be improved please say so. An AY music form…
... note with an echo
D Pattern Delay / Channel control - 2bit ... the instrument memory loaction offsets plus a final two bytes for ... the data, 4k per stream plus 4k for the instrument, with ... -
Vriting +D discsDoes anybody here knows of a way to write +D discs on a PC? Like, some utility to put .sna on +D discs, or something like that... Thanks in advance.
Does anybody here knows of a way to write +D discs
on a PC? Like, some utility to put .sna on +D discs,
or something like that...
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Emegency....I posted a topic in "Miscellaneous" a couple of weeks ago about my 128K going bust, and it looks like it won't be repaired in the near future. This w…
... , if it works then I'd be interested, I don't ... as it isn't a plus 2) It would be put ... -
Spectrum stuff for saleSpectrum 128with colour monitorPRSM ql14 in black case cruiser joy stick Opus Discovery double disc drive with box Organ master in box with inst Saga…
... stick Opus Discovery double disc drive with box
Organ master ... todisc tape to tape
Plus romantic robot Multiface one with ... filled with crash mags
plus another 50 to 60 spectrom ... mags in spectrum folders
plus maps and other info for ... -
I have...I still have a working ZX-81 plus 16k RAM pack, still in it's box. I also have a ZX Spectrum 48k computer with the Sinclair Microdrive (plus Microdr…
... have a working ZX-81 plus 16k RAM pack, still in ... computer with the Sinclair Microdrive (plus Microdrive cassettes), and a very ... computer would continue until we'd had enough...such things are ... -
48 K SpectrumHi. I have 1 off 48 K Spectrum + PSU, Romantic Robot I/F, Opus 3.5 Disk Drive with Printer Port ALL WORKING plus many Games/ Utilities on Tape and D…
... 3.5 Disk Drive with Printer Port ALL WORKING plus many Games ... -
Just how rare is Sinclair stuff - are e-bay prices inflated?Just how rare is rare? I e-bay a lot, (my e-bay user i.d is thx1138ebn ). I have noticed that some Sinclair products starting to fecth silly prices.…
... , (my e-bay user i.d is thx1138ebn ). I have noticed ... />
Some sellers get ?30 plus for mint - still shrinkwrapped copies ...
