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  • Modern PSUHello everyone, I'm looking for a modern PSU for my Spectrums and my dual set of 3.5'' floppy drive+HxC floppy emulator. The one for Spectrum should …

    ... two board with a floppy disk drive interface. I have one ... Regulator which feeds the floppy drive. Sometimes my drive does not initialise, but ... few milli seconds before the floppy drive is initialised. It is a ... . In my case the floppy drives should be powered on ...
    Pierre Pierre October 2014 Hardware
  • Help getting SAMdisk running on WinXP please.Hello speccy-chums. I was wondering if you clever folks out there could help me with my poor PC skills:lol:. Basically I want to run SAMdisk but it n…

    ... have several options for floppy drive types. I choose the ... 5.25" 380K drive option. I did have ... to fit an hard drive and install Windows XP ... Buggy Boy and the floppy drive came to life after ... a drive speed calibration by SAMdisk.
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum October 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Retroleum SMART Card InterfaceHi guys, Over the last few months I've been designing an interface board for the Spectrum 48 - seems to be all the rage :) It started off as simple …

    ... a spare +3 with no floppy drive, and I quite fancy installing ... SD card slots where the floppy drive used to be...

    balford balford October 2014 Hardware
  • Retroleum SMART Card InterfaceHi guys, Over the last few months I've been designing an interface board for the Spectrum 48 - seems to be all the rage :) It started off as simple …

    ... a spare +3 with no floppy drive, and I quite fancy installing ... SD card slots where the floppy drive used to be...

    Tekno Venus Tekno Venus October 2014 Hardware
  • humble bundle freebieevery monday , till 22nd [url]https://www.humblebundle.com/store[/url] sale on also, no looked at it yet though.

    [QUOTE=VincentAC;802109]Shame it's the new isometric trilogy rather than the original ones.[/QUOTE]
    anys better than none specially for a $1 lol, i only have the first original one on floppy (big box) but no floppy drive on this machine
    mel the bell mel the bell November 2014 Chit chat
  • New Floppy Interface for the +2a/b (black case)Hello everybody! For a long time I wondered about the posibility of adding a FDD to the +2a/b (black). I knew it was possible; All the logic is alre…

    ... used this pinout to build floppy ribbon cables...
    [/QUOTE]
    drive not a modern floppy drive :)

    [QUOTE ... is wired up from the floppy controller, if you've copied ...
    guesser guesser November 2014 Hardware
  • New Floppy Interface for the +2a/b (black case)Hello everybody! For a long time I wondered about the posibility of adding a FDD to the +2a/b (black). I knew it was possible; All the logic is alre…

    ... of course, on very stable floppy drive sony on brand new diskettes ...
    gorski gorski December 2014 Hardware
  • New Floppy Interface for the +2a/b (black case)Hello everybody! For a long time I wondered about the posibility of adding a FDD to the +2a/b (black). I knew it was possible; All the logic is alre…

    ... course, on very stable floppy drive sony on brand new diskettes ... also modify the disk drive to be on DD ... the old Amstrad 3' drive from the computer; this ... fuse). With modern disk drive is not a problem ... power the Amstrad 3' drive from the Spectum (either ...
    BCH BCH December 2014 Hardware
  • +3e simple ide interfaceHi guys, I want to make a +3e with my +2a. I'm thinking of making the simple 8bit ide interface (internal) and connecting it to a 40 pin ide to sd r…

    ... load TAP files from a floppy drive
    BCH BCH January 2015 Hardware
  • Favourite Speecy HardwareHi, Just wondering what your favourite piece of Spectrum add-on hardware is/was? How about the Alphacom thermal printer? Or the Currah Speach thin…

    Bens plusD - Dual floppy drive and snapshot device! Awesome. keep it retro!
    Riggz Riggz January 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Favourite Speecy HardwareHi, Just wondering what your favourite piece of Spectrum add-on hardware is/was? How about the Alphacom thermal printer? Or the Currah Speach thin…

    ... of the +D (extremely fast floppy drive) and Multiface 128, with my ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Zx spectrum +3 disk driveCan some one tell me how too put a spectrum 3" disk drive onto a PC do you just plug it in and it will work and then how do you back up the disks tha…

    ... pin connector on the 3" drive.

    Secondly and this ... order to on a PC floppy drive so if you plug it ...
    guesser guesser February 2015 Hardware
  • Zx spectrum +3 disk driveCan some one tell me how too put a spectrum 3" disk drive onto a PC do you just plug it in and it will work and then how do you back up the disks tha…

    ... -Schneider-CPC-664-6128-3-floppy-drive-to-PC-/231453097416?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL ...
    The_Bert The_Bert February 2015 Hardware
  • spectrum +2A loading problemHi new here ! I have recently purchased a 2A thinking it would be more reliable than my old rubber key machine and external tape drive. Problem i…

    ... and did away with the floppy drive connector.
    The Ram locations ... by other functions to access floppy disk controller and Plus3 related ...
    Wizballer Wizballer February 2015 Hardware
  • Funny Incident's With Your Old School's/College Computers.Reading a few threads on the WoS forum's got me thinking of the old computer's that we used at my primary/secondary school, and the sometimes very fu…

    ... the root of the hard drive with an appealing name that ... some pornographic stuff to the floppy drive, but in reality would just ... format the hard drive. It was a very rough ...
    pmsr pmsr May 2015 Chit chat
  • Wanted: Sam Original Stuff and Sam Drive too!I'm collecting ALL for the Sam Coupe. I've buyed all online but I miss: Prince Of Persia Lemmings Oh no more Lemmings Klax And some others. I …

    ... www.samcoupe.com for a floppy drive interface. SAM drivesare hard to ... IDE interface on the second floppy drive port.  Regards
    Russ
    bagpuss22 bagpuss22 May 2015 Wanted
  • Hardware damage due to software?<p>I'm not afraid to ask a stupid question, and I find it incredibly easy to do so in the hardware forum!</p><p>Is it possible to damage your Spectru…

    What concerns me more is some of the things people pass off as floppy drive cables or tape leads :)
    guesser guesser June 2015 Hardware
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... like to see +3 external floppy and +D emulation for USB ... floppy disk drives. Most modern PC' ... />
    Support for any physical floppy drive would be a start ;)
    guesser guesser July 2015 Emulators
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... like to see +3 external floppy and +D emulation for USB ... floppy disk drives. Most modern PC' ... />
    Support for any physical floppy drive would be a start ;)
    floppy drive!
    Arjun Arjun July 2015 Emulators
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    [quote="Arjun;828345"]Probably because it's an archaic format. Heck, none of my computers even have a floppy drive!
    [/quote]

    Many emulators can load from real tapes and that's even more archaic ;)
    guesser guesser July 2015 Emulators
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... my computers even have a floppy drive!
    [/quote]

    Many ... many Spectrums had 3.5" floppy disc drives back in the ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2015 Emulators
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... of emulating a 3.5" floppy disc drive (wouldn't know where ... />
    Not emulating a drive, sending the signals from the ... interface emulation to the physical floppy drive controller. On Windows at least ... by using obo's raw floppy driver, which is what ...
    guesser guesser July 2015 Emulators
  • Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…

    ... lots of RAM and a floppy drive. You can test how smooth ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar July 2015 New game ideas
  • Happy 30th birthday Amiga!A few days late but never mind. The first computer I could call my own, I have fond memories of the Amiga500 with Batman pack. For some reason I …

    ... and then another 1mb internally. Floppy drive, hand scanner (crap!), sound sampler ... Vidi12. Then followed a 120mb drive + 4mb to the external port ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins July 2015 Chit chat
  • Returning zx spectrum +3 owner - a few questionsHi everyone I'm a returning +3 owner, my spectrum has been dug out of the loft, not used since 1998. My setup was a +3 with a multiface 3 and a e…

    ... know, using a normal HD floppy drive on the +3 requires major ... machines. An old 720K DSDD floppy drive from an old PC is ...
    DEATH DEATH September 2015 Hardware
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    The floppy drive controller chip must be a WD 1770
    WDC means Western Digital Company, 82 means Year of manuafc
    roko roko October 2015 Hardware
  • Was there a POKE that broke the SpectrumHi Everyone I've been recalling myths and rumours from back in the day. You know "Lunar Jetmans" trailer and that sort of thing. But one rumour …

    ... poke for the C64's floppy drive too:

    [quote ... optional external 5-1/4" floppy drive. The Commodore 1541 contained ... -WRITE" commands to the drive (which corresponding to the POKE ... or firmware method to prevent drive damage. Continued "knocking" of ...
    leespoons leespoons October 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    [quote="harriusherbartio;841029"]Sorry Guesser I am a "technological Amnesiac" or similar . What should I call them?[/quote]

    Floppy drive cables would do :)
    guesser guesser November 2015 Hardware
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    A "Floppy Drive Friendly" slot at the back ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio November 2015 Hardware
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