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The Forest Of DoomHello, I've been playing the Forest of Doom multi-load adventure and it always crashes for me when I'm playing about half way through, just after I b…
[QUOTE=slenkar;761145]Did you get to the spider in the original?[/QUOTE]
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5C series NTSC ULA 5C114E 8248Not sure if this has been mentioned before; I haven't seen anything about it online. Chris Smith's book discusses 6C011E as the NTSC ULA sold in Spec…
... .php5?title=NTSC_Spectrum"]Documented on the Sinclair FAQ Wiki[/URL]. :-)
I guess this includes the 'dead cockroach' fix? I can ... the dead cockroach or any other board modification except the 'spider', mounted atop the ... -
Mint Issue 1 Speccy![URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111323666336"]Here[/URL], 99p start
... br /> Unfortunately the board is larger than the limitation of the Eagle free ... ... or I will reproduce the "spider web"... anyway if I ... his drawings with the dimensions. While the parcel was travelling ... and printed the first prototype. As the real interface ... -
games club - easter special 2014egg puns jesus puns random games with little or no connection to easter you know what to do
Argh... Just got killed by the spider in exactly the same place..! After dying the first time, I was dumped me right back on top of the spider again and thus lost 2 lives in quick succession.
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THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…
I'm not buying any dithering.
Said it before, this should be (has to be) a dither-free game!
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THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…
... you mean the one with bright red trunks ? That spider web ... nicely shows the moonlit landscape.
Maybe just spider web, should ... sky. It makes the black shadow behind the spider web even darker.[/ ... .. I like the dithering on the tree in the distance of this ... -
48K: Half of copyright message in the middle of the screen?!Issue two. Has 74LS08 over the Z80, but the ULA is 5C112E-3 (I think this should be a 5C102E??? - I have one, but I'm not sure if it is working, at l…
... try if the original ULA, the one that needs the 74LS00 over the Z80 ... , or should it work without the spider, but not optimal (is there ... but you can see that the modulator transmits a signal. Surprisingly ... have been able to solve the problem. It works, another ... -
E3 2014Will be watching this on my Xbox tonight from 4pm-ish, and it will of course be live streaming at the usual places like IGN, Gamespot, etc. The last…
... had was of the 2011 E3, the one with the spider boss.
I'm liking the idea ... pretty open anyway, except for the item blocks, but that just ... via Facebook and it looks the business!
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E3 2014Will be watching this on my Xbox tonight from 4pm-ish, and it will of course be live streaming at the usual places like IGN, Gamespot, etc. The last…
... had was of the 2011 E3, the one with the spider boss.
I'm liking the idea ... pretty open anyway, except for the item blocks, but that just ... added to the sense of exploration IMO.[/QUOTE ... -
Spectrum Issue 2 - TR6 ReplacementI've just got my hands on an Issue 2 ZX Spectrum, that needed some repairs. The picture quality after doing a composite modification was pretty shodd…
... the ULA is incomplete. TR6 improves the decoding so that the ... peripherals are connected to the expansion port edge-connector. ... If not fitted, the ULA will interrupt accesses ... The addition of the transistor on top of the Z80 is known as "the spider ... -
Acts of kindness....Today I rescued a bumblebee from a spider's web, as the spider was on route to snack on it. Bumblebee flew away to pollinate another day, and I was …
What if that was the spider's first meal for a week?
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Acts of kindness....Today I rescued a bumblebee from a spider's web, as the spider was on route to snack on it. Bumblebee flew away to pollinate another day, and I was …
Cripes - a bumblebee stuck in a web?
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Acts of kindness....Today I rescued a bumblebee from a spider's web, as the spider was on route to snack on it. Bumblebee flew away to pollinate another day, and I was …
... the top of a gritting bin. The spider was about two thirds of the ... size of the bee, but the latter ... think that was what made the spider hesitant about rushing it.
Mutant Giant Spider DogIt's surprising no one injures themselves trying to get away. [youtube]YoB8t0B4jx4[/youtube]
Reminds me or the spider baby from Father Ted.Video fault on issue two ZX boardI've trawled the Internet and drawn a few blanks as to where to look to resolve the fault with my issue two board. I'm hoping a few of you knowledgea…
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All any of the spider/cockroach modifications do is to ... alter the addressing/contention of the ULA. Now depending on how the ... cockroach IC connects to the ULA (normally the ULA pins ... and make sure that the wires to the old ULA do not ...What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
[QUOTE=sirclive1;791736]Wriggler - i never get very far in , but still have a few goes now and again ![/QUOTE]
I still find the spider in that game really creepy!What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
[QUOTE=zx1;791764]I still find the spider in that game really creepy![/QUOTE]
Me too , its fantastic animation though , instant death as well !Noob repairs of an S2 and S6AI received two Spectrums a Series 2 and a Series 6A both of which are not working. I don't know anything about electronics so thought my lad and I wo…
... transistor is referred to as the 'spider mod', and it's there ... . Without it, peripherals such as the printer, microdrives etc. may not ... leg to pin 11 of the Z80. The bug was not fixed ... in future revisions of the ULA and the transistor was incorporated onto ...Diamond DiggerA collaboration between Dave Pierce 'davepierce07' & Jim Grimwood 'Battle Bunny'. [center][url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/dd-…
... on level 1, got all the diamonds but managed to block ... while being cocky and underestimated the spider AI.
Good work ... go with it! (Where's the loading screen?!)
EDIT ... 2 - finished level 1, by the skin of my teeth. Good ...1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... had clearly not foreseen the creation of the internet and within ... a couple of turns in the spider forest before moving, you n00b ... the BladeRunner game for the PC in the mid-90s. The story world from the ... you back to the mindset of the day and the whole package ...ULAAre ULA's (for Spectrum 48k's) interchangeable through the different issues? To give some background, to work out what was wrong with an old speccy I…
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- 5C112E: Incorporates the dead cockroach mod internally, however ... , this necessitated the transistor fix (known as the 'spider mod' seen ... over the CPU in machines ... boards, spider mod was not fixed within the ULA and ...Spectrum 48K: Z80 strange bypassedHi. When I try to turn on my Spectrum, I get only this image: [img]http://i7.aijaa.com/t/00160/14005443.t.jpg [/img] I opened Spectrum and c…
... s most likely the poor version of the "spider mod". The mod deals with ... board? Check the white printing at the front of the board.
the health of the Z80 CPU.
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Does the centre section of the screen start black and ...Spectrum 48K: Z80 strange bypassedHi. When I try to turn on my Spectrum, I get only this image: [img]http://i7.aijaa.com/t/00160/14005443.t.jpg [/img] I opened Spectrum and c…
... a very early version of the spider mod (resistor mod) and is ... early issue 2 machines with the 5C112E ULA.
If ... do sell, mention this fact - the machine's unusual due to ...Vintage Computer Caption Composo, if you anything like me and love vintage computers you won't have failed to miss the many images of vintage computers and their users from an era…
"Sing-A-Long a Sid the new Karaoke Sensation of the 80s"Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
... though, not that I'm Sid the Sexist or anything.Stupid words only newspapers useI was recently reading a newspaper at work one lunchtime and it seems like journalists are one another planet. They seem to use words people don't u…
Give them five minutes with me and they'd both have smiles on their facesWho's got a tool box?I got one a few weeks ago in B & Q. It only cost about £10 (reduced from £15) and only had about 12 items in it, but the number of times I…
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how did the screwdrivers get greasy if you ... handy for bondage, and the spider if you get hungry yum ...
the rest for emergency sewing? OoWho's got a tool box?I got one a few weeks ago in B & Q. It only cost about £10 (reduced from £15) and only had about 12 items in it, but the number of times I…
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how did the screwdrivers get greasy if you ... handy for bondage, and the spider if you get hungry ... br /> Umm, I used the screwdrivers as levers changing a ... I'd rather feed the spider to someone else. Who ... that in there for the look of the thing.
< ...ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …
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the spider mod was done next to ... later.
The contents of the ROM did not change ... ROM chip manufacturers. Under the heatsink are the H-N ROM selection ...
