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Problems with my +2A DatacorderHey folks, Bought a speccy from ebay, but i think its fucked. What do you think? Basically it turns on fine, but when i try load a game nothing wor…
... block plugs into your Spectrum's motherboard. As it ... With the volume up on the TV a little, you should ... to hear the familiar Spectrum chuntey noise. If this ... isn't reaching the Spectrum, so it could be ... wrong with the electronics on the tape deck circuit ... -
Modulator trouble???Hi again, I posted about a week ago some questions about a spectrum 48. Now I have the aforementioned beast in my hands and I was given the order to…
... be routed straight into a TV composite input. It is worth ... issues with the modulated signal on modern TVs. So it may be ... try to drive both the TV composite AND the modulator, the ... -
Spectrum emulator for iPodI just made a post about this on my site [url="http://www.ipodhacks.com"]iPod Hacks[/url]. I wanted to pass the heads up: [url="http://www.ipodhack…
... ... but if anyone interested in spectrum emulator on audio player ....
i ... /> and anyone interested in running it on any of these players:
A reason to be cheerful todayIt's been announced in one of the papers today that Robbie Williams is giving up singing. How cool is that. I've been waiting for this moment for yea…
Turned on the TV today and came across this ... fantasy adventure film that was running. Turned out to be Krull ... now here it was playing on one of the channels. Howz ...MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... are some psychoacoustic things going on too.[/QUOTE]
Of ... , much like the lines on a TV affect the detail of a ... 64kbps mp3's would work on the spectrum. I haven't tried ... the rapid pulses of a spectrum Speedlock loader, for example. But ...128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…
... for connection to the TV. At the Spectrum end, you need ... if it isn't a Spectrum menu screen.
[/QUOTE ... working speccy 48k; and on my TV is completly bright 48k ... again the same cable on 128k but still no ... to see crystal picture on my TV from 48k that I ...Will we see a return of the microcomputer?The glory days of the 80's are definitely in the distant, revered past, but I notice that computer makers are marketing more and more ultraportable l…
Smartphones are always on, they have limited resources ... be programmed more efficiently than on desktops.
What' ... television and keyboard (through a TV Out socket and the magic ... so you can even play Spectrum games on your TV using a smartphone.At Last!!!!!Beware, there is not too much sense in following text, this is nothing more, than I would like to let whole world know, that I got my childhood dream…
... producing licensed versions of the Spectrum + in India. My dad bought ... my life (like they say on miracle TV). It was in fact ... lazy sods.
Congrats on your new 48k!The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... the spirit of the Spectrum, not just in terms ... root of much of the Spectrum's appeal. With Sugar ... less[/I] than the 128K Spectrum it replaced. So, throwing ...
I doubt that a Spectrum with a monitor was ever ... mode that was unreadable on a TV set that made the ...TV Headaches!!!Here's a little puzzle for you all to solve. Back in the early 80s (or possibly the late 70s) I remember watching an American shitcom featuring a mid…
... /> Now for the next TV headache. There was a short ... able to stop running. I think that later on in the ... that one about the magic running shoes that made the ... 't able to stop running. Later on in the show he ... the plot just like the TV industry did. The magic ...Question for the tzx dev guru'sI'm almost finished with a batch of adventure tapes which I've got on loan.. The final tape, is a development version of Birthday Surprise, which ha…
... the tape using CoolEdit and running maketzx on the sample.
on a real Spectrum, dumping the memory to ... research, I came across a Spectrum util called Code Slicer 2 ... Birthday Surprise BEFORE the blip on the tape...
...PSP or GPX2 (or Pocket PC or whatever)?I'm going to get either a PSP or a GPX2 (or a Nintendo DS, or a PocketPC or something), so what are the differences between the PSP, the GPX2 and wha…
... a ton of great games on there, Commando, Bombjack etc.< ... />
Never use commercical games on the GP2X, strictly emulation for ... machines open source and runs on Linux, dont like the way ... /> But running the Speccy games through the gadget on the TV's cool ...When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... nicam/progic sound
Digital TV = Far superior picture quality, ... high res movie on a monitor.
Holographic TV = I wish ... feck! An HD feed running into that puppy is ... of SD. Even on old films on DVD are far ... long time to come on our TV's. Remember VCR' ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... talk of building a new spectrum. I decided that the way ... as complete, before me, installed on my laptop. it will be ... , let's say a ZX Spectrum NewGen.
I'm ... their base system rather than running it on a virtual pc or ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... despite it works as ntsc on my TV set, colors look a ... we would compose on TS2068 would work on Spectrum 128 AND vice versa ... of TS2068 and still work on the Spectrum?
I ... EXPORTS->SAVE WITH ZX SPECTRUM PLAYER). This contains the machine ...When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... image doesnt show the pixelation on a TV screen. Thats what you ... the blur that always happens on SD TV's. The only thing ... ever seen digi boxes running on high end TV's like large LCD ... nasty. Watching a digi TV channel on a plasma TV .... same affect.
Why does Spectrum display has a border?Ok, this is problbly simple and very basic question but I don'r remember seeing an answer anywhere. Don't you think, that at first glance it is irr…
... manage 768x256 or 384x256 on a PAL TV with a bit of ... more like 336x256 with squarer Spectrum-like pixels.
One ... gave systems much bigger borders on PAL TV sets though.PCI TV TunerAny recommendations on PCI TV tuner cards? I'm after a dual digital/analog tuner with PVR capabilities. Digital for freeview, analog for Speccy. S…
... pc monitor to play your spectrum on ?[/QUOTE]
That would ... info on the connectors. I know it will do the TV arial ...Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... sent the binary to a Spectrum on a serial link. I started ... simulated screen memory. I was running out of room! Fortunately I ... RAM that could replace the Spectrum's ROM. The transition ... the infant Coup? interpreter depended on Spectrum subroutines, and I was ...Speccy videoclipI made a videoclip about Spectrum's games :) You can find it at [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1XRW4X2hik[/url] Do you like it? :)
... weeks ago our journalists were on strike, so i made it ... used a real Spectrum on at least one of his tv programs in ...Speccy videoclipI made a videoclip about Spectrum's games :) You can find it at [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1XRW4X2hik[/url] Do you like it? :)
[QUOTE=WhenIWasCruel]By the way, Rai used a real Spectrum on at least one of his tv programs in the eighties - to display graphics, names and such during the Giro d'Italia bicycle race broadcast.[/QUOTE]
I remember it :)Shivery picture.I have two spectrums that show a shivery picture (vertical axis). The picture is crystal clear, it's just a slight vertical jitter but it is annoying…
... a slightly shimmery picture on my TV (Tv is a modern one - 3 years ...Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... so sure you're correct on this.
... instead of 32-bit CPUs running linux or windows:
on others to supply things ... iteration will always complete on time. You rarely can ... . As pointed out, on modern architectures not knowing how ...Which Speccy Game Do You STILL Play The MostPersonally I am seriously clocking up the hours in Gunfright running on the PSP under PSPec. Have obviously clocked the game many many times over, bu…
... into it while playing it on the GBA (ZX Advance) , ... and then carried on playing it on the GP32 (fZX) and ... still regularly play it today on the GP2x (GP2xpectrum). I ... hooked up a real Spectrum to his TV and I was able ... by a considerable margin on that game.If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
... somewhere - might have been on here - was that ... write decent fast running games on the Speccy than ... from actually getting anywhere on the speccy. What was ... demos the 3d work on the spectrum is impressive. I ... see something 3d impressive on youtube credited to ...problem on the video output (spectrum 2+)Hello, I'am french. (Sorry my english is very bad). I have a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv) have 2 area where 2 t…
... problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv) have ... remained (even after extinguished the tv).
Now, the picture is ... are some square and line on the screen.
thank's ...25 years commemorative t-shirtIn 2007, it's 25 years since the Speccy hit the market. The speccy.org crew wants to celebrate this fact with a commemorative t-shirt. First, we onl…
Nice pic. The Speccy in the background, running a game on the tv, really topped it.
I hope you can bring the issue 4 back to life.AV CableI have purchased an AV Cable for my Sega Mega Drive. Since it has a 5 Pin DIN connector, which fits into the 8 Pin DIN socket, I presume it will wor…
... and signals are fairly standardised on the TV side.
Even ... DIN (circular) sockets (like the Spectrum, but bear in mind that ... output the signals to the TV.Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…
... old memory)
The spectrum memory map is
0 ... starting over 23296 to avoid running code on the screen.
'Celeb' spottingSeen any 'famous' Celebs ? Last night in the local Brewers Fayre in came 'Candice' from Coronation Street, i dont watch that show much but obviously…
... ;178616]Since I hardly watch TV (certainly no soaps, awful ... watching (I think) EastEnders on the tv there, and NO ONE smiled ... feel like the happiest bloke on the planet and realise your ... the other end of the spectrum where every character is stunning ...
