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  • Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …

    ... 'll see vertical flashing stripes on the screen. Pressing reset button will ...
    Sonic Sonic November 2006 Hardware
  • Spectrum Issue two problemI managed to bring back to life a issue two spectrum (at least the power supply cirquit). The screen is now crystal clear (after replacing all the el…

    ... ROM memory test (black screen with red stripes) terminate faster, so will ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2006 Hardware
  • Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…

    ... , then colored (blue-pink) stripes on white screen and black borders, going ... down the screen during 2 seconds, and then ... white screen with black border stays indefinitely ...
    bugpat bugpat March 2007 Hardware
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    ... (Mastertronic), which assembles the loading screen from sliding blocks.[/QUOTE]
    stripes and sound are done by ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2007 Games
  • Unbelievable tape loadersHi, I search the most unbelievable tape loader. For the present I think the loader from game Joe Blade 2 is the winner in this competition. (During l…

    Academy faked the stripes from the border in the "exhaust" of the spaceship in the loading screen.
    mjwilson mjwilson April 2007 Games
  • non standard loader bar coloursAs with my speedloader thread, when did non standard colours start to appear and who came up with the idea and what was the reaction?

    It was always great seeing new loading colours etc!

    Although one that I really liked was the Lyra II demo when it was on the Sinclair User covertape - with full screen width loading stripes instead of just in the border area.
    Quazar Quazar April 2007 Games
  • non standard loader bar coloursAs with my speedloader thread, when did non standard colours start to appear and who came up with the idea and what was the reaction?

    I wrote a loader with full screen width stripes just a week ago now. Cheated though. 128K only. Switching screens :)
    Woody Woody April 2007 Games
  • Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…

    ... get 4 black and white stripes like you describe - you should ... least get a completely black screen because enough ROM code should ... the ULA from accessing the screen memory.
    Winston Winston May 2007 Hardware
  • Mercury Meltdown RevolutionI read that this Wii game had a ZX Spectrum inspired loading screen [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJRGCcxyVU[/url] Green border stripes anyw…

    ... a ZX Spectrum inspired loading screen

    [URL]http://www ... [/URL]

    Green border stripes anyway.

    Game looks ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings June 2007 Chit chat
  • Spectrum ULAHi new to forum ,and have been a speccy owner/fan since the begining{like most 30 somthins on this forum !) Anyway what i want to know is the ULA th…

    ... 't come up, yet the screen picture has something on it ... if you just see vertical stripes in the paper area) - but ...
    Winston Winston July 2007 Hardware
  • Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…

    ... obtained from the messed up screen of a borked spectrum? I ... />
    Alternating black and white stripes (4 big wide ones, the ... />
    Vertical black and white stripes (narrowish ones) is a good ... RST #38 instructions, and the stripes you see is from the ...
    Winston Winston July 2007 Hardware
  • Question on Z80 R/W cycles.Snipped from the complete spectrum ROM disassembly: [CODE] Now the memory is checked. 11DA RAM-CHECK LD H,D Transfer the value…

    ... why you get vertical stripes on the screen if the ROM is ... vertical stripes are just where the call stack ends up overwriting screen ...
    Winston Winston August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Question on Z80 R/W cycles.Snipped from the complete spectrum ROM disassembly: [CODE] Now the memory is checked. 11DA RAM-CHECK LD H,D Transfer the value…

    ... why you get vertical stripes on the screen if the ROM is ... vertical stripes are just where the call stack ends up overwriting screen ...
    zub zub August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…

    ... the multicoloured stripes kicked in.
    [*]Locomotion - the loading screen is a ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton October 2007 Games
  • Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…

    ... them The one with full-screen loading stripes (BSCOPY128) and the one ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat October 2007 Games
  • Rom dumping a Mirage MicrodriverI need to dump the rom of my Mirage Microdriver for Zub and don't know what to do...any help?

    ... is why you get vertical stripes if you remove the ROM ... , and the stack overwrites the screen memory).
    Winston Winston November 2007 Hardware
  • Rom dumping a Mirage MicrodriverI need to dump the rom of my Mirage Microdriver for Zub and don't know what to do...any help?

    ... is why you get vertical stripes if you remove the ROM ... , and the stack overwrites the screen memory).[/QUOTE]

    Yeah ...
    zub zub November 2007 Hardware
  • Spectrum Diagnostics Board - 25th Anniversary projectWell, I said I'd try and get something online about this by today, and I have indeed done so. This web page still needs finishing off (in particular,…

    ... you should get vertical stripes on the screen if you have the ...
    Winston Winston November 2007 Hardware
  • Screen$ screensaverDoes anyone have the Screen$ screen saver by Dunny, the links to the saver and screen packs on the website are down. I did have them, but seem to hav…

    ... screen$ like a real speccy does. You even get the loading stripes ...
    polomint polomint December 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DivIDE HelpHi all, After a rather long wait my DivIDE from Papaya labs arrived. I connected it to my spectrum, turned it on and...nothing. The green power LED…

    ... alternate white and black stripes down the screen. Without it, the speccy ... boots to the divIDE boot screen.

    I've not ...
    csmith csmith February 2008 Hardware
  • Blown standard divideI recently bought a SIY divide kit from Papaya labs and after i soldered everything, it worked perfectly. I've used it 5-6 times without problems (Fa…

    ... will give you a screen full of vertical stripes (because it will ... fills the whole memory, including screen memory).
    gasman gasman April 2008 Hardware
  • '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…

    ... br />
    Yes, the 2nd screen (Screen 1) is in Bank 7 ... course be overwritting the first screen and sysvars etc.
    < ... different colours througout your loading screen without the overhead of doing ... a "MANIC MINER" type loading screen - but with stripes!
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • '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…

    [quote=BloodBaz;294061][B]Loaders[/B] Does anyone know whether screen flipping has ever been used as part of a hyper load?[/quote]

    Yep, I wrote one which flipped the screens to produce full screen loading stripes quite a while ago now.
    Woody Woody August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Black ScreenHi, Anyone know what would cause a 48k Spectrum to boot to a black screen? you can hear the internals buzzing at power up, but you just get a black…

    ... 'd expect a black screen as the RAM defaults ... ', or black and white stripes. If the ROM is ... end up writing to the screen memory).

    If ... running at all) the screen memory can be in a ... random state. Sometimes you get stripes, sometimes you get random ...
    Winston Winston September 2008 Hardware
  • Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…

    ... ?

    5) A flip-screen affair?

    6) Do ... ) Did the loader have colourful stripes when loading the game?
    34) Did it have a SCREEN$?

    35) It was ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2008 Games
  • Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…

    ... br /> [B]5) A flip-screen affair?[/B]
    - (ooo, ... the loader have colourful stripes when loading the game?[/ ... that didn't have those stripes though

    ... 34) Did it have a SCREEN$?[/B]
    - You ... mean a loading screen image thing? Again, I ...
    Paddy Paddy September 2008 Games
  • Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…

    ... I got a black screen with red stripes, next I got a ... low buzzzzzzz and white screen, then ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…

    ... I got a black screen with red stripes, next I got a ... low buzzzzzzz and white screen, then ... on lower-left of main screen)... I have no such problems ...
    kickaha kickaha October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • JSSpeccy: A Speccy emulator in JavascriptTo think we've always mocked clueless journalists for saying that WOS lets you play games online with a "Javascript Spectrum emulator". Well - aha! T…

    ... anything :) just a blank screen, no border stripes.

    edit: wait ...
    Arda Arda October 2008 Emulators
  • JSSpeccy: A Speccy emulator in JavascriptTo think we've always mocked clueless journalists for saying that WOS lets you play games online with a "Javascript Spectrum emulator". Well - aha! T…

    ... anything :) just a blank screen, no border stripes.

    edit: wait ... is written, so no loading stripes unfortunately...
    gasman gasman October 2008 Emulators
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