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Replacing lower RAM 4116 ZX Spectrum 48k - desoldering advice please?A long post, but interesting pictures perhaps. :) I'd like some advice: (also apologies I think I picked the wrong 'Hardware' category for this, plea…
... polystyrene insert, power supply. No indication of when it was ... keyboard membrane tore with no effort when we separated ... cart PCB for Mega Drive games, but that's ... old and there's no audio signal anyway. There ... current 4116 are faulty (no basis for this guess), ... -
Sinclair QL JOBLOT: 5 original boxes + 14 original MD's + Z88 stuffhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-JOBLOT-5-original-boxes-14-original-MDs-Z88-stuff-/172879791960 Have a nice bid ;)
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colour of magic no picsHi I started playing colour of magic and i see only text no pics(in 48K and 128K mode in emulator) - i am sure that this game have pics you can ev…
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+3 PSU fault, can it be repaired?First, i'm no electrical genius/engineer but can solder/de-solder when needed! Powered on my +3 today and the monitor was just flickering/breaking…
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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…
... from work that the company no longer needed because they'd ... the way an Iomega Jaz drive would be ten years afterwards ... like listening to it underwater. No wonder the computers didn't ... -
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…
... off a friend who had no more space for it; in ... -pack of four cartridges... and no way to connect them to ... to get a +3 disc drive working again - cleaning, fitting a ... for a while, still with no way to test the cartridges ... -
Street Treasure !!!Everyone loves street treasure, this time the junk gods smiled on me. I found a iMac and a small LCD TV! I now have a dedicated TV/monitor for my roo…
... sound out of my +2B no probs unlike my much newer ... 1GB RAM and 150GB hard drive all in one desktop thing ... -
Sinclair QL ULTRA/BIG/MEGA JOBLOT!!! 29 QL Boxes + 156 MD's!!! + More Stuff!!!!Direclty from my personal Sinclair collection that never end... ...Sinclair QL ULTRA/BIG/MEGA JOBLOT!!! 29 QL Boxes + 156 MD's!!! + More Stuff!!!!…
Direclty from my personal Sinclair collection that never end...
...Sinclair QL ULTRA/BIG/MEGA JOBLOT!!! 29 QL Boxes + 156 MD's!!! + More Stuff!!!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173022098224
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Floppy drive fixI know this might be a long shot but does anyone know or does anyone fix floppy drives I ha e an nous discovery and the controller on the floppy driv…
... the controller on the floppy drive has died and I am ... -
QL Cube Crawler questionCould someone who knows the QL better than me, have a look at the QL SuperBASIC program Cube Crawler, pictured here: http://www.users.globalnet.co.u…
Could someone who knows the QL better than me, have a ... look at the QL SuperBASIC program Cube Crawler, pictured ... -
Blue screen of Death on PCsI have had one of these on my PC for last two years on "Shut Down" . It was not doing any harm so I left it alone till it got worse and started appea…
... s 7 VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) to set up an " ... on a rather dodgy spare drive he had lying around . ... an option to choose which drive to use after booting ... system is on menu option no. 2 and the new system ... up indicates that there is no hardware problems , as the ... -
Spectaculator TZX and TAP file association breakdown (the PC version of Spectaculator).Untill a few days ago I had not noticed this much since I first joined WOS .But it has recently "reared its head again" . What is this all about?Well…
... ". It was significant though that no one appeared to know what ... appeared to be irreversible. (so no wonder the WOSSERS of 2 ... storing files
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New version: LOST IN MY SPECTRUM v2.0Hi everybody! Here is my New Year's gift to you: the new version of my first Spectrum game ever, [b]Lost In My Spectrum[/b]. The objective is simp…
... now visible and there is no exit, the game moves on ... object has been collected.
- No more “move or die” at ... end.
[url="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bQL22eHH3mi82yqY5iH1l1Q802nJ9FCe ... -
Sinclair QL Joblot: 12 boxes very rare!!!https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-Joblot-12-boxes-very-rare/173064215276 Have a nice bid ;)
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Sinclair ZX/QL BIG Joblot: 21 Transform boxes for Microdrives!!!https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-BIG-Joblot-21-Transform-boxes-for-Microdrives/173064221994 Have a nice bid ;)
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Hey! No way, man! What Game is this?I used to play a text adventure on my Spectrum when I was a kid. I can't remember anything about it except that when you try to go in the wrong di…
... ', it says:
'Hey! No way, man'
I ... uses a similar phrase, ('Sorry, no way, man!') but not 'Hey ... ! No way, man"
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Working away from homeAnybody done it? any pointers? Ive seen a CNC job in Shildon, County Durham which i think i'd have a decent chance at getting, however i dont driv…
... at getting, however i dont drive :(
Its £10-£15 ... after 9 am (again theres no times mentioned for starting and ... -
Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…
... the retailer pretty quickly so no harm was done!!
... PC and there was no documentation for the power ... case as there were no spare removable drive slots .I fitted ... was fine but the SATA drive was not . It was ... modular supplies there is no such thing as a ... -
Spectrum vs C64 faked sales figuresOn ITV's 'the Chase' 29th January 2018, there has been another speccy reference. I missed it live so have just downloaded and checked it. The ques…
... and change the figures, for no reason. I really hate it ... . Even the creator of the QL Operating System has written that ... -
SINCLAIR QL ULTRA JOBLOT: 308 Microdrive Tapes, for the ZX Spectrum too!!!https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SINCLAIR-QL-ULTRA-JOBLOT-308-Microdrive-Tapes-for-the-ZX-Spectrum-too/173130060764 Have a nice bid ;)
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Sinclair QL Vintage Computer: NEW with his original seal, working conditions!!!https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-Vintage-Computer-NEW-with-his-original-seal-working-conditions/173142290093 Have a nice bid ;)
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Sinclair QL vDrive!!! A Microdrive on a SD!!!https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-vDrive-vMap-not-included/173157398533 Make your offer :)
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Windows 10 v1709 is breaking external usb mice and kbThis started happening a few days ago. One or more cumulative updates caused my ext. usb devices such as keyboard or mouse to stop working after rebo…
... has usb 3.0 ports, no usb 2.0 option in ... BIOS, and no ps/2 ports, none of ... and have a W10 flash drive.
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QL & Sam Coupè stuff on eBayhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-14-Boxes-Manuals-super-mega-BUNDLE/173186370571 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sam-Coupe-Dyzonium-Parallax-game…
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Speccy +3 / QL Stuff on eBayhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SINCLAIR-SPECTRUM-Plus-3-JOBLOT-PAWN-FOOTBALLMAN3-SENTINEL-PACMANIA/173216262321 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOBLOT-OF-6…
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im having trouble using drive image to read and write to disk.hi, it just says probably a pc disk and access to drive denied if i try to initialize the disk. i am using a usb to ide converter but is works fin…
hi,
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Drive Your SpectrumHi I ended up with a copy of Drive Your Spectrum by Anthony Camacho as part of an eBay purchase. It's a BASIC programming book but seems a bit…
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USB Floppy Emulator Drive for the Spectrum +3I've just finished the first draft of my guide to building a Gotek drive for the ZX Spectrum +3 (http://tomdalby.com/other/gotek.html). Found it work…
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USB Floppy Emulator Drive for the Spectrum +3I've just finished the first draft of my guide to building a Gotek drive for the ZX Spectrum +3 (http://tomdalby.com/other/gotek.html). Found it work…
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Mad Mix 2: No Castelo dos FantasmasMad Mix 2 portuguese version including a new loading screen now released... You can download it for free or buy the physical version (soon also in sp…
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