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The Spectrum and it's rivals...This has no doubt been posted and debated many times before, across hundreds of messages boards and across hundreds of playgrounds before that, but h…
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On 2003-01-13 01:00, karingal wrote:
'while the ZX Spectrum 128 production stopped in 1986 (or so). It was because of the C5.'
Absolute bollocks!!!!!!!!!!!
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Will my joystick adaptor work with a heatsink speccy?Ok ive just bagged a 128k heatsink spectrum on ebay. I have one problem though i have a RAM joystick interface mk2 and im not sure if its ok to use w…
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need helpw with speccy i found in a binToday what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an atari box, after more investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads for…
... an 'old' rubber-keyed spectrum, spectrum + or original spectrum 128 (none have built in ... an internal speaker in the spectrum itself and not the TV ... with/turn a small screw on the modulator until you get ... -
Relative price of the spectrum As Im sure you all know one of the biggest selling points of the speccy was its price.I was reading the other day that the 48K Spectrum cost ?175 - …
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Graphics in bordersI am 50% certain that I remember a game that had graphics in the borders. This always made we wonder why none of the other games did. Am I right or h…
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SPECCY DOOMI'm sure most people on this forum have a copy of the wonderful Doom conversion that's been knocking round a few years.My point is,on the demo I'm su…
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Funniest Thing I've Ever ReadThis from Amstrad's company information page: 1984 Amstrad launches the first mass market Home Computer package (CPC range), designed by Amstrad e…
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GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…
... see BUST-A-MOVE on the Spectrum. She has Spectrum 128, so it can ... game is possible to convert on the Spectrum, although to avoid colour ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
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YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …
... main question: "YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?"
on IVP 2003 meeting, all songs ... be played ideally on Spectrum (but for now only on ZX 128).
Crasched Spectrum+ 128, HELP!Hi! I recantly bought a Sinclair Spectrum+ 128 on a seconhand store. It shows random colour squares spread over the screen, mostly the upper part a…
... the screen when you got on to a ram that had ... menu of
a working Spectrum+ 128.
A big THANK YOU ... was edited by: Charles Bigstone on 2003-09-23 22:13 ]Long Lost ListingsWay back in the day when I still had those three issues of Sinclair Programs (which got lost in the Great House Move of three years ago DAMNDAMNDAMN)…
... much-needed utility for the Spectrum in it which redefines the ... which is a seemless patch on Spectrum streams (remember the TC2048 has ... a Spectrum ROM) that allows printing in ... (6 pixel wide chars) and 128 columns (4 pixel wide chars ...+2B & Connecting An Alphacom HELP!!!Hi there I recently bought an Alphacom32 and when i came to plug it in. I found that my +2B doesn't have a port for it. Can anyone help me out..I've…
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On 2003-11-07 13 ... actually smaller than the Spectrum edge connector. It's ... br /> The 'ZX Printer' port on the back of the Interface ... an extension of the normal Spectrum edge connector, but the ... won't work with any Spectrum 128 in 128K mode).
...et tu SAM Coupe...Today I put my SAM Coupe on the desk, searched 5 hours for a file conversion utility PC->SAM, and tried to unlock the secrets of SAM mode 4 screen :)…
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On 2003-11-10 12:46 ... order to better emulate the Spectrum.
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... , that's true, but on the other side, SAM has ... in, it is like a Spectrum 128 with more colours and more ...Did you choose to have a Speccy or did it just happen that way?A strange question I know, but, the reason I ask is that when we (my family) were looking to buy a computer non of my mates had computers and non of …
... was born the same year spectrum was released(1982) but all ... gun (i was breast fed on spectrum lol) my rubber key speccy ... remember what happend to the 128 but i wish istill had ...So how many coders do we have here?Just out of interest, how many coders do we have here who are capable of knocking out a game? [ This Message was edited by: Swainy on 2004-02-02 15:…
... game will be about) for Spectrum 128, the other is "Legacy of ... the Zer" for Spectrum 128 with Disc drive.
on 2004-02-03 13:20 ]some new games ?is anybody working on a game for speccy?
After the Map editor of BMP2SCR EXP will be finished, I will start to code "Kaiju" for Spectrum 128. My other projects are on hold currently. There are also some concepts for games that I didn't even started to write.Question about loading gamesHi! This may be a silly question: I use Spectaculator 52, and tried to load 48k games in 128k mode (they were games released before the 128k Speccy …
... with the emulator! When the Spectrum 128 was released with its new ... a few old games useless on the new machine.
Spectrum even under emulation. The emulator ... incompatible with older games. The Spectrum +3 (last in the line ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... owned are:
1) Spectrum 128 (Acquired in 1999)
2 ... ) Spectrum 48k - Rubber Keys (Xmas 1984)< ... br /> 3) Spectrum +2 - Grey (Xmas 1988) - RIP ... was edited by: monty.mole on 2004-02-19 15:15 ]whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
My fave was the Spectrum 128 (the one with the heatsink on the side) with the +3 a close second.
NickAny Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
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On 2004-03-05 22:44, ... 7 Mhz (at least for Spectrum 128), like it was done in ... ZX Chrome-italian ZX Spectrum clone project.
B) ... of games still use ZX Spectrum-like graphics. I think, ... the Spectrum has not a bad graphic ...Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... that the original Spectrum was pretty much spot on for its ... the price considerably. But the Spectrum 128, on the other hand, there ... is becoming less like a Spectrum! :)
It would ... severely under-used. Even Spectrum 128k support was nowhere near ...Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
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On 2004-03-06 15:41 ... Mhz (at least for Spectrum 128), like it was done ... they could ahve made improvements on this, and other things ...ANN: Spectaculator 6.1Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…
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On 2004-03-30 13:12, ... Art Studio is for the Spectrum 128/+2, I don't think ...Elite 3Ok..being a total comp dumbo - with what emulators can i use Elite 3 from the WOS archive?
... Russian clones of the Spectrum which use that disk ... "File", select "New -> Spectrum-128";
b) either select " ... File" menu, or click on the "Open" icon in ... located, select it and click on the "OK" button;
on-screen menu by moving with ...Elite 3Ok..being a total comp dumbo - with what emulators can i use Elite 3 from the WOS archive?
... 1) Files>New>Spectrum 128 image (will reset to ... Microdrive > Interface-I On should be disabled (no check ... TR-Dos should be on (check marked). Also enable ... You'll find it on Vladimirs website (no idea ... bird of the family anatidae on our hands"
- ...s-video SuccessHaving tried the various composite video fixes for the +3 etc, I was left feeling a little cold at the results, and was about to give up my quest for…
... compare the image to those on the Spectrum 128 site you should get ... Message was edited by: dasteph on 2004-04-14 15:18 ]Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
... actually a multi-megabyte Spectrum 48 game? with enhanced ... won't run on a real Spectrum, just like the ... , it must run on a Spectrum, otherwise it is ... real Spectrum 128 with DivIDE HDD interface. So it was on ... the games should run on a real Spectrum too.
...Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
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You wasn't on Forever where one of my ... was played from real Spectrum 128 with DivIDE HDD interface.[/ ... able to play back on a real Spectrum, because we simply ... to lay your hands on. And I've seen ... player and get Movie Animations on my TV, and at ...Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
... animations was played from real Spectrum 128 with DivIDE HDD interface.[/quote ... able to play back on a real Spectrum, because we simply ... can play the animations on a original Spectrum, even if you ... to display this even on a Spectrum in expansions heaven, do ...
