Hi - I have had a couple of dud 48K Issue 3 Spectrums in the loft for 20 years or more. One would initialise sometimes but could not be guaranteed to do so every time. With help from the service manual from WOS I traced the fault to a missing -5V rail, ...

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I have a question about any convertor (it can be ...

I am servicing my two QL machines (capacitor replacement, pcb and plastics cleaning, microdrives head cleaning, 7805 replacement etc).

I already finished the first one. I did the composite mod on this QL because the QL has the exact same RF ...

The pop-up suggestions box is a nice feature, but there is one sma-a-a-ll problem. I noticed that when I selected Books and typed "rom" (looking for the text version of the ROM Disassembly), it offered a list of which none had "rom" in the title. Actually, ...

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A friend has sent my a faultly divide + to see if I can repair it.

If I use this divide+ with a spectrum 48K (That works perfectly with my standard divide ) It shows the fatware screen but nothing more and the led busy is on.< ...

Hi guys,

Tell me this... (please)

DivIDE features an "auto-mapping feature transparently maps shadow ROM at important entry points". Depending on the firmware you are using (Fatware, Residos (if using DivIDE Plus), etc.) How ...

I have a question about the game The Trap Door.< ...

Say you have a game with a playercharacter and some items on the screen - pretty normal for most games, and now you need to check if the player has run over an item and collected it.

I'm no stranger to developing game for Windows, so I can ...

... Bless her). I have a question about the setup for this little ...

Good time. Excuse me about my english as i write ... /> Heare will be decided every question about making this AVR model of ...

Got speccy through post this morning.

I can do Load but I cant do the "". what keys do I need to press to do this?

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For those windows users here:

What screen resolution are you currently using?

My apps used to be 800x5500 max on fixed forms, but I think these can be too small nowadays.

I'm using the 'hello world' code borrowed from [url=http://equant-retrochallenge.blogspot.com/2008/07/zx-spectrum-assembly-programming-under.html]here[/url] as the basis of my text printing routine for the intro screen of a game.

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... you ask e a simple question, but it is greeted with ... I see it sometimes the question is so simple it requires ... wider problem rather then the question you originally asked. Then follows ... forum which I asked a question about Java Graphics. Please read it ...

When playing with Infoseek, I think it is not possible to find games that were just released on compilation and did not have a later solo release.

Looking for games using "Appear on compilation", the results are (for commercial games): 1871 < ...

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A question about the release of the game ... ]

And a Reportaje about the Spanish software with future ...

Hi Folks,

I should know the answer to this but I wanted to make sure I understand totally. If I execute a CLEAR then I know it lowers RAMTOP to the address specified. Is the first usable byte RAMTOP+1 e.g.

CLEAR 60000

... all, sorry to all about posting a question about zx81 in a forum ... mostly about zx-spectrum - i didn ...

Does anyone on here know anything about layouts for Android apps??

I have a question about layouts which is probably very simple to answer if I wasn't such a noob on this platform...

STeaMy xx.

I have been going through the spanish issues of LnR and I have spotted a couple of original spanish programs wich are not listed on WoS yet.

The thing is that I dont know if this is something which was already planned and its on the to-do list ...

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Also, I have a question about the composite video; this machine ...

Martijn, I came across a doubt;

There are some games, for example:

[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014376[/url]

which have the same publisher and authors, as, obviously, nobody released the game ...

I was wondering what exactly does this function? It is something that any type of TV had back in the day?

And another, what is the most normal setup for a standard TV from the late 80s, beginning of 90s? (with the SCART mode on)

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Did this publication come with cassette inlay back in the day when published?

If not, all its entries could be already tagged as "Does not use cassette inlay" and the number of entries in the archive tagged as "cassette inlay not available" ...

Hi,
I am ordering a fully boxed divide from divide.cz with esxdos on it.Recently i have been going through my sinclair manual and messing around with basic through an emulator,and using the 'save' command to save to a .tap file.
What i would ...

Should this demo have Tim Follin and Dominic Robinson listed as authors?

[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007807[/url]

(Its a demo which is using some of their graphics/music, but they didnt work on it ...

Maybe Juan Pablo will pop up later and help us too :)

I saw for example that Liberator:

[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002871[/url]

is listed as published by Proein, even if the Logo from PJ ...

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Got a quick question about labels in sjasmplus. I'm ...

[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0024368[/url]

In the magazine reference, it is also called "Xeno", but is it the famous "Xeno" game by A n F software? (I say that because the WoS link in the also known as, takes you to ...

[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012231[/url]

How can it be that a game participated in the 1985 game of the year awards, and it is MIA?? And never reviewed in the magazines properly? ANyone knows anything in particular ...