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  • Ram test / diagnostic software for 128k?I need a ram test program urgently (as I have to bring this machine into the party place tomorrow) yet I couldn't find any in infoseek by typing "ram…

    I need a ram test program urgently (as I have to ... infoseek by typing "ram test" :) And most of the test suites based on ... .

    Are there any ram test suite which runs from ...
    Arda Arda December 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Still stuck with BREAKOkay now I'm getting desperate! Can anyone rustle up a small 128kBASIC routine/working example to prevent the 128kBASIC program from stopping when a …

    ... 128 BASIC:

    POKE (PEEK 23613+256*PEEK 23614), 0: POKE (PEEK 23613+256*PEEK 23614 ...
    Marko Marko July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…

    The RAM test that the ROM program does is just to work ... out where physical RAM finishes ... full memory test.

    Some faults allow the ROM program to ... use the "upper" RAM. So sometimes the ROM program gets as far ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK April 2014 Hardware
  • Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…

    ... QUOTE=1024MAK;764954]The RAM test that the ROM program does is just to ... work out where physical RAM ... full memory test.

    Some faults allow the ROM program to ... use the "upper" RAM. So sometimes the ROM program gets as far ...
    Brian Brian April 2014 Hardware
  • Zx Spectrum 48k vertical black lines on boot problemHi all! I've just bought a Zx Spectrum 48k one eBay: all it was working goof but I made a mistake: I've extracted the Kempston interface before pl…

    ... , I made the Ram test with

    PRINT PEEK 23732 + PEEK 23733 * 256 ... the ULA and not the Ram...

    [quote="harriusherbartio;913704 ...
    AmintaSpectrum AmintaSpectrum July 2017 Hardware
  • ZX-81 Ram Pack problemHi! I know this is a ZX Spectrum forum, but I am hoping someone here might be able to help me out... I have posted this to c.s.s. but noone was able…

    ... is probably normal since ram
    test takes a bit more ... original
    Sinclair ZX 16k ram pack issue 3 .
    basic (as if I didn ... I did a small memory test program above RAMTOP like this : ...
    30 POKE N,A
    40 IF PEEK (N) A ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …

    ... of RAM, I used POKE to set it to various values and PEEK ... -up memory test works. The relevant section of the ROM program is ... initialise the rest of the BASIC environment.

    Given what ... any fault by testing from BASIC.

    I resorted to ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2012 Hardware
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... br />
    To prevent "Program: foo" or "Bytes: bar" ... use this poke:

    POKE PEEK 23633 + 256 * PEEK 23634, ... br /> ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * ... if you want to test only if a UDG ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…

    ... ]"Switches from +3 BASIC into 48 BASIC, maintaining any program in RAM. There is ... ]

    From a quick test, this appears to be true ...
    POKE 49152,123
    OUT 32765,17
    PRINT PEEK 49152 ...
    gasman gasman June 2011 Games
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... you use the typically ZX81 BASIC definitions of integers e.g ... understanding was that these save RAM (particularly in 1K scenarios) ... so nice Artillery game. (To test it: BREAK the game, ... use (POKE&PEEK) system variables for speeding up the program in many ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... also had a ZX81 POKE (or, more probably, PEEK) once which would ... K, so "16" if the RAM pack was on and "1 ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... knew this:

    Suppose BASIC encounters a variable reference while ... it just plain text, and BASIC has to search a table ... 't it be faster to PEEK/POKE values at an absolute memory ...
    GOC GOC September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Strange behavior of program compiled with HiSoft BASICA while ago I experimented with HiSoft BASIC 128 (1.2) and compiled [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=683349&postcount=140"]…

    ... ago I experimented with HiSoft BASIC 128 (1.2) and ... -13[/URL] as a test. All the emulators I ... a listing of the BASIC loading/calling program several times before ... />
    I did not test it on the +2 but ... is invoked. However HiSoft BASIC 1.2 supports PLAY, ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2013 Development
  • Seriously weird Issue 2 issue... (RAM-related)Hi guys; I have been trying to fix up my Issue 2 and have run across a bizarre issue that I haven't seen elsewhere in the forums. Hopefully one of …

    ... PEEK 23732 + PEEK 23733*256
    UPRAM85 = POKE 32768,85 : PRINT PEEK ... 32768
    UPRAM170 = POKE 32768,170 : PRINT PEEK ... MEMCHK returned 32767, upper RAM fault. UPRAM85 returned 93 ... and red bars" RAM test appears, after which ...
    Trafferth Trafferth August 2014 Hardware
  • JHCon 2014Hello, not sure if this is the right category but JHCon 2014 will take place[B] from 28. to 30.11.[/B] at usual place - gymnasium in Jindrichuv Hrad…

    ... completation of [B]ZX Basic megademo named Cowina[/B ... (in BASIC, surprisingly)
    --- type a BASIC program and save ... BASIC program must be LOAD ""
    --- usage of machine code (USR to RAM, POKE, PEEK ... allowed. POKE to modify your own BASIC program is also ...
    Factor6 Factor6 October 2014 Announcements
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... the POKE used to transform line 1 of a Speccy BASIC program to ... would be:

    POKE (PEEK 23635+256*PEEK 23636) + 1,0
    5 REM TEST
    1 REM TEST
    2 REM TEST
    3 ... REM TEST
    4 REM TEST
    5 REM TEST

    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.

    ... it's current location and test that location.

    Also ... 128K, page in each RAM block and test them too.

    test has reproted results.

    RAM (PRAMT) being set at 32768 in the sysvars. BASIC can peek and poke ...
    DEATH DEATH March 2007 Development
  • Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.

    ... RAM (PRAMT) being set at 32768 in the sysvars. BASIC can peek and poke ... 65535 with no errors (the basic version of the above listing ... lines.

    consider dodgy Ram chip A.

    ... bytes in the same ram chip) the program outlined above won't ...
    dekh dekh March 2007 Development
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... . Neither the hardware or the BASIC was designed for expansion. The ... me to eliminate the slow POKE/PEEK screen transfer method in the test program.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…

    [QUOTE=ewgf;579158]Thanks for this, Dunny, but is there an archive of programs I can try for it?[/quote]

    I shall pop an archive of demo programs up for you. Here you go:

    [url]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/demos.zip[/url]< ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Diagnosing a strange software fault in a 48kHi, A friend gave me a 48k, which I am very keen to restore. The spectrum 48k was my first computer over 20 years ago and I owe my ability to code t…

    ... of the upper 32K of RAM and so the Spectrum initialises ... or more of the upper RAM ICs, IC15 - IC22. These can ... may be possible to use POKE and PEEK to identify which are ... thorough (but far from perfect) RAM test program you could try. I'll ...
    Zorn Zorn October 2012 Hardware
  • Flashing coloured blocks - diagnosisHiya, hope this is the right place for this... Was given an Issue 2 48K by a someone yesterday that hasn't been powered on in 20 years, which works …

    ... the problem being RAM.

    Ran a test program I found ...
    and have followed the RAM test procedures section. The result I ... :

    PRINT PEEK 23732 + 256 * PEEK 23733

    ... problem, but when I POKE/PEEK the memory location on from ...
    junosix junosix April 2013 Hardware
  • Flashing coloured blocks - diagnosisHiya, hope this is the right place for this... Was given an Issue 2 48K by a someone yesterday that hasn't been powered on in 20 years, which works …

    ... :

    PRINT PEEK 23732 + 256 * PEEK 23733

    ... be passing the initial test carried out by the ... in some of the BASIC system area and this ... able to, try the RAM test program I created and post the ... the upper and lower RAM and leave it running ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2013 Hardware
  • Flashing coloured blocks - diagnosisHiya, hope this is the right place for this... Was given an Issue 2 48K by a someone yesterday that hasn't been powered on in 20 years, which works …

    ... bit (as happens with the POKE/PEEK test to a single location).
    RAM faults that cannot be discovered via BASIC, but they ... are revealed straight away when the same test ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2013 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum 48K working as 16K from factoryGood morning I Have a Zx Spectrum 48k working as 16K , it came like this from factory. What can i do to solve this , and put it to work as 48K? Wha…

    ... RAS signals for the upper RAM and so the ROM code ... only the lower 16K of RAM. The output of the ... wire touch anything else." The RAM test program would probably then load and ... />
    POKE 50000, 85 : PRINT PEEK 50000
    POKE 50000, 170 : PRINT PEEK 50000
    Zorn Zorn July 2013 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum 48K working as 16K from factoryGood morning I Have a Zx Spectrum 48k working as 16K , it came like this from factory. What can i do to solve this , and put it to work as 48K? Wha…

    ... 5 in all upper RAM is provided by IC20 ... should then run the memory test program I posted. It will ... revealed by the very simple POKE & PEEK test.

    ... lot of faulty upper RAM ICs, you might consider ... should have an upper RAM version of [URL="http ...
    Zorn Zorn July 2013 Hardware
  • Confounded DEF FNCan anyone see why this is going wrong? I've been tinkering with it since tea time and got nowhere. [code] 2 DEF FN t$(n,t,d) =STR$ INT (n/t)…

    ... DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256*PEEK (a+1):
    CLEAR ... /> REM The RND is for test; normally that byte would be ... TO base+7: READ c: POKE b,c: NEXT b:
    POKE 23563,PEEK 23670: POKE 23564,PEEK 23671
    [/code]
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Corrupt paper on zx spectrum 48kHi. When I power up my spectrum (issue 3) I get the light grey border, but the paper is black and it switches between thin red vertical lines and thi…

    ... infoseekid.cgi?id=1000328"]RAM Turbo interface[/URL] ... Sinclair/Interface2/Cartridges/Interface2_RC_New_RAM_Tester.htm"]RAM test program[/URL].

    ... a bad RAM chip without using the peek/poke routines? ( ... the upper 32k of RAM is suspected, you can ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2013 Hardware
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