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What a plonker!!I won a Speccy off Ebay a few days ago. Contacted the seller and asked if I could pay by cheque. He replied and said "yes as long as you pay within 3…
... on fuel, and they have some pissy sign up in biro ... their card reading machines are not working.
I think that ... old fashioned way by law, not sure 100% though. -
I wonder how many still goingThere is always a healthy stock of 48k rubber keyed speccys on eBay. However whats the guess on the amount world wide that are still working/used? +…
It does depend on what you mean by working as well. My 48K needed a new membrane, so has been fixed, does that count? My +3 has a dud Floppy drive (probably just the belt), does that count? -
Yeuch....OMG [url]http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx[/url]
... for a new membrane and molex connectors. This does NOT include any postage ... doable for ~?165 cost price not including any time and labour ... -
Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... written in asm but some are not, eg, the printf ... table, the stack and some large area which I ... pixels) you could reclaim some of that memory. There ... RAM. Whether or not this actually saves memory ... sp1_Initialize() will map the new array to a rectangular ... -
broken 48K, strange screenwell I finally socketed all lower 16K ram chips, (8 of them in a row near corner, not those 4 in two rows) and replaced them with new ones but it did…
... the picture - it's obviously not a factory job & may ... the cause of this Spectrum not working.[/QUOTE]Indeed! All I can ... already. I expect that quite some wiring is underneath the add ... -
Spectrum Serial Numbers Wanted!![b]This post updated Sept. 26, 2013[/b] As far as I know, the serial numbering system for the Spectrum has never been fully worked out. For the p…
... not inthe mood to take my speccy apart again (got a new membrane ... which I have owned since new way back in ninteen eighty ... -
help...my divIDE+ doesnt work anymore...I have a Spectrum +2 and divIDE it was working I loaded Monty on the run i switched it off it recognised the card but pushing on the button doesnt br…
... acts that way (the button not working).
I think I ... fresh coating of solder on some of them a few years ... -
Rubber Key ZX Spectrum - White ScreenA customer has just telephoned me about a rubber key 48K ZX Spectrum which he has purchased second hand. It produces just a white screen on the tele…
... get the user to press some keys and see if they hear ... i have been using a working speccy to test the bits ... -
sim city 4i downloaded this last night from steam. My PC more than meets the specs but it runs dog slow. put all the settings down to bare minimum and still n…
... so slow, i play (not brand new) but fps that require 2gb ... have a tinker and do some googling. -
Sound card mysteriously vanishesSince a power outage my on board sound card hasn't been showing up in lspci or anything. It's as if it's not there. And I had a look in my BIOS since…
... I need to buy a new mobo? How do I ... />
Why buy a new motherboard. I guess your PC ... sound which is what's not working, but if everything else ... -e?) soundcard. Getting a new motherboard can be a real ... be obsolete and all the new ones need different RAM ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... wishlist too, but again probably not a top priority for a ... rubber USB keyboard for the membrane-to-USB controller board like ... the firmware to remap the keys. Not something to be undertaken lightly ... -
Tzer version 1 (I think)Hi all, I chucked together this Windows application (although it will work under Linux using Wine with the .Net Framework 2 installed) so that I cou…
Just a note.. It seems there may be a problem with the way C# talks to the WoS ftp server, so you may get some errors and pictures not working..
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Some TAP files not working on DivIDEOne of the people who ordered a DivIDE from me told me het can't load certain TAP files, which load perfectly on emulators. I have encountered that …
... 1366 only, really? That's not compliant with the original TAP ... (some custom loaders actually call #56C :) ).
About tap's not working ... on one but working on another divide (same ... -
Similar to Scotties thread......I too am suffering with severe bouts of depression (not diagnosed, I just feel really down sometimes). I haven't finished a big project or anythi…
... was just the same if not worse , 10 credit cards ... was a student and the new term was starting in ... attend a night class of some sort; not like a gym, or ... more people there will be new. For example in Cardiff ... a climbing club, and some girl made it plainly clear ... -
Similar to Scotties thread......I too am suffering with severe bouts of depression (not diagnosed, I just feel really down sometimes). I haven't finished a big project or anythi…
... was a student and the new term was starting in a ... attend a night class of some sort; not like a gym, or ... more people there will be new. For example in Cardiff we ... of a climbing club, and some girl made it plainly clear ... snap out of it at some point, I just wish it ... -
ZX kempston joystick (through edge) interfaceHello, I am desperatelly loking for purchase of either: 1) ZX Spectrum Kempston joystick (through edge) interface (if there are two joystick ports o…
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So, a new Spectrum fan from PL? That ... ,
Not really 'new' as I am just coming back after some time ... having found my Spectrum plus some other stuff form the past ... -
A thousand core CPU?Maybe this is old news to most people on here, but according to: [url]http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2010/12/25/intel-why-a-1000-core-chi…
... fact today I've been working on a small 200K gate ... already RAM based it's not a great stretch for ... it's an FPGA or some future not-yet-designed thing, requires ... that one day we'd not have CPUs any more, ... unlikely. While it's not inconceivable that a PC could ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... .sinclair-spectrum.de[/url] . Nice new games, but all in Basic ... /> Thomas[/QUOTE]
It's not so new. ;) Let's say it ... this respect compiled programs are not compatible! ;-) (some people has complained sometimes ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
[QUOTE=boriel;514379]It's not so new. ;) Let's say it's ... lacks some keywords, like INPUT etc.
[quote]40kb+? Not in ... -
QChan - new four channel beeper music engineI've made a new beeper music engine, QChan. It provides four channels of tone plus interrupting drum channel, so total amount of channels is the same…
... just need to get some of these fancy new engines (eg: stocker ... adding an engine that is not pattern-based (I changed the ... the ground-up. With a new file format that doesn't ... -
Newbie question about my unwell Spectrum...Hi - I have had a couple of dud 48K Issue 3 Spectrums in the loft for 20 years or more. One would initialise sometimes but could not be guaranteed t…
You're not going to bin it, are you? Some people have working innards but terrible "cases" Could always offer it cheap on here. -
48k keyboard dead problemHi This is my first post and probably a problem thats been on here loads. Just been given a 48k, get the copyright screen but can't advance. I di…
... stopped responding, its got a new membrane in it so it wasn ... stopping the Spectrum dead for some reason - maybe touching 2 pins ... -
Spectranet updateOK, so I've not written an update here for a while...so here's a quick summary, the gory details are on the Spectranet news page on my wiki. * Hardw…
... the Z80 and put a working one in.
With ... page their ROMs. It's not a new problem, it affects things ... -
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 …
... the first location i could not remember the phrase / text to ... and as the obvious was not working so i actually tried climbing ... 5TH out of 8 normal keys in sequence before loosing my ... change the skeleton key location? (not that i am suggesting that ... -
Empire Strikes Back ( Parker Bros, not Domark )I may be going doolally but I'm sure I've seen a conversion of the Atari 2600 Empire Strikes Back on the Speccy, but it was called something else. A…
... see it's just not working with the online Java ... game to correct this. Some other clever sausage may ...
So here is some of the software I have ... .
TAPEREAD.TZX.... Some kind of header information gatherer ... others have been lost, some really cool ones. I ... -
Developing ZX Spectrum using 8 chipsHello. Sorry, my english is not perfect. I am developing new realising of ZX Spectrum. There are 8 chips in my sch. Central processor and video proce…
... /> p.s. second link is not working.
[QUOTE=Vasil;520826]Hello ... good news: i have corrected some errors and have good results ... -
Japan Tsunami AppealAs some of you will be aware, I've been tinkering with an open source version of SE Basic that could be distributed with hardware without infringing …
... do' button. I'm not soliciting new donations from people who have ... you might know, I'm working on a mod of a ... -
Facebook FriendsMy account on Facebook got hacked last week and my friends list got wiped.. I'm tryign to rebuild the list but can't remember the real names of WOS …
... working on (?7 at the boot fair a week ago), for some ... reason not only has a connector for ... boot up my Speccy for some fun while I consider what ... -
Elisabeth Sladen dies[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674[/URL] Now we just have to hope the BBC will cancel Doctor Who as a mark of respect.
... ;528077]Try not antagonising us then. Yep complain about some bad posts ... quote]
It was not my intention to antagonize. I ... and actions of mods should not be taken too seriously.
not soliciting new donations from people who have ...
