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Spectrum 128 loading volumeToday I recieved my 128k haetsink spectrum, what i noticed is that it needs even higher sound volume for loading through tape than the 48k+. To be mo…
... up halfway, output going to Spectrum via an 11W audio amp ... I suspect that you have to "swing" the input voltage ... The signal into the Spectrum is rectified by a ... pulse). Mr Winston, care to comment on this theory?< ... why the signal needs to be a little bit ... -
Retroeuskal '07RetroEuskal is an annual event for enthusiasts and interested people about Retrocomputing that is held within [url=http://www.euskalencounter.org/en/…
... many macho attributes often linked to modernity, like playing football games ... including, but not restricted to:
- Listening to progressive rock (especially Pink ... have humerous, yet obscure references to Spectrum games/machine code/microprocessors etc ... -
External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
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Did anyone manage to get anywhere with any of ... on here got experience of Spectrum to Spectrum comms using a pair of ... modem's number) ? I managed to pick up a Prism VTX ... Interface-1 can't talk to a modern external modem, but ... -
External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
... here got experience of Spectrum to Spectrum comms using a pair ... RX switch when you wanted to transmit or receive.
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Someone managed to set up a BBS with ... the sysop had to be there to hit the line ... A Speccy would be able to do the same with ... -
GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... be the best for Spectrum emulation if it wasn' ...
The GP2x emulates the Spectrum perfectly and allows saves and ... map all the GP2x controls to Spectrum keys and it's ... a bit unfriendly when compared to the NDS one.
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GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... , and slows the emulation down to a crawl (rather than stopping ... knows ARM assembly good enough to write decent code.
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Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... doing video conversions from pc to spectrum with bmp2scr, I have a ... /> -option to save converted avi file not just with spectrum image quality ... to 1-bit, 4-bit (ay) or 7-bit (ay) spectrum ... WIP copy to Sintech and WoMo Team from German Spectrum Clubs, so ... -
GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... that allowed you to map all GBA buttons to Spectrum key presses or ... difference over Foon, the other Spectrum emu on GBA.
to the Spectrum to try games.
to get back to the menu and have ... -
GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... that allowed you to map all GBA buttons to Spectrum key presses or ... difference over Foon, the other Spectrum emu on GBA.
to the Spectrum to try games.
to get back to the menu and have ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... " ideas that unfortunately never came to Spectrum.
As an example ... ,3,7,11,17,0 TO 3
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Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …
... find apLib to give the best compression usable on Spectrum, and ... aplib.html[/url]) aiming to decompress SCREEN$s directly ... data back from column based to Spectrum video memory.
I ... to minimize the storage requirements and increase loading speed of Spectrum ...another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... b]unavoidable[/b] limitations to either machine imposed by hardware ... major drawback when compared to Spectrum gamewise lies in its ... are "good to excellent" on Spectrum and "poor to abysmal" on ... incarnation, Fairlight was doomed to be painfully slow, because ...MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]
... /> Thanx.
And about Spectrum SE. As for me very ... time: is there any possibility to change attribute interpretation by ULA ... thing: is it possible to add to Spectrum SE graphic mode with, lets ...A different post/thread by me.....I usually post little comments here and there, or create a thread just about some mad/funny shit...this thread is er....different...:) My Spectrum …
Great post. It's good to see that I'm not ... old books and magazines, listening to Spectrum tunes, using loading noise as ... movies from the 80s, listening to music from the 80s, using ... 'Sinclair' on it, I try to use airlines that show 'ZX ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... , thanks Andrew. It's going to be pushing it I think ... and haven't got back to spectrum things for a while. But ... I'm hoping to resume this week.RealSpectrum doesn't work in 48k mode.It doesn't. All that happens is a black screen with a few vertical red lines, which disappears after about 1/10 of a second. Then, it goes blank, w…
Check out Colin Woodcock's book, [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSpectrumOnYourPCThe.pdf]The ZX Spectrum on Your PC[/url] which is a very useful reference to Spectrum emulation for beginners.If you were to change back to the Speccy?What game/program would do it for you?
... the third) could be ported to Spectrum. Puzzle Quest needs more CPU ...Interesting setup at Retromadrid'08[url]http://www.bytemaniacos.com/galeria/main.php/v/reuniones/rm2008/Octocom+-+demo+Insert+Coins+2.JPG.html[/url] [url]http://www.bytemaniacos.com/ga…
... /> One switch allow external drive to be "A:" or ? B:? (external ... drive get use to be "B :?)
The ... ? disk drive works in a Spectrum +3 like a 3? driver ... interface that turn db25 connector to spectrum +3 disk B connector (Only ...MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
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indeed I find ResiDos to be very interesting (hope that ... But would it be possible to implement floppy support (via WD2797 ... BS-DOS and its adds to Spectrum basic from MB02+ and would ... prefer to get this system improoved. Otherwise ...MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... filesystems - somebody just needs to write a suitable package supporting ... the floppy to plug in to the system. I ... BS-DOS and its adds to Spectrum basic from MB02+ and would ... would be fairly straightforward to convert to run with ResiDOS if ...MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... thinking about connecting Hard-Disk to Spectrum. The 2MB of Memory ... there is a trick to use a virtual disk table ... However, it is ok to work with 2MB partitions as ... is really enough for the Spectrum, but it is not ... it was a further reason to buy it.
MB02+IDE aliveLast weekend I finished soldering and testing my MB02+IDE. All items work perfectly on +2 grey, on +2A, on 128k heatsink and on 48k Issue2 and 3b tes…
... should not be compared directly to newer interfaces as divIDe, divIDE ... (ok tape is dierectly connected to Spectrum but it works while MB02 ... storage device scene for ZX Spectrum sometimes I think the aim ... as fast and simple to use as a spectrum emulator on PC ...MB02+IDE aliveLast weekend I finished soldering and testing my MB02+IDE. All items work perfectly on +2 grey, on +2A, on 128k heatsink and on 48k Issue2 and 3b tes…
... should not be compared directly to newer interfaces as divIDe, divIDE ... (ok tape is dierectly connected to Spectrum but it works while MB02 ... storage device scene for ZX Spectrum sometimes I think the aim ... as fast and simple to use as a spectrum emulator on PC ...TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... least I'm writing stuff to help others, which is more ... find some time to finish off my Nokia ringtone to Spectrum Beep tool ... . Maybe I'll change it to .net just to get them going :)don't want to play it type of gamesive never got on well with flight sims strategy games (rts etc) space games such as elite games such as the sentinel they normally have way too man…
... which can be very frustrating to get over.
The ... underwhelms me when it comes to Spectrum games is arcade conversions. There ... just didn't suit the Spectrum hardware at all and look ... pitiful in comparison to the originals.
Oh ...How to load tzx files into REAL spectrumI have 2 zx spectrum computers, and have been trying to load tzx files into them. I have used several programs to convert them to wav files and them …
... are the best for loading to Spectrum.
I use an old ... with OtlaPlayer it's possible to select the sound card. You ...+3 and .tzxIs there software for ZX +3 that would allow loading .tzx files from floppy diskdrive and saving it to cassette tape (not running them)? (I have hear…
[QUOTE=orange;269504]I have heard somewhere that ZX output is sampling at more than 44KHz[/QUOTE]
And this is relevant to Spectrum games why? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem]Hint[/url].Speccy AY-3-8910 vs. C64 SID ChipI thought I'd open this up for debate. Having owned both a C64 and a Speccy +2, my vote goes to the SID Chip; it is by far the superior sound synthe…
... works are nothing in comparison to Spectrum 48K the most famous songs ... .e-demo.pl/[/url] devoted to Z80 chip's various sound ...MP3 or WaveWhich sound format is better quality/bitrate for loading Spectrum games from an audio CD? MP3 or Wave?
[quote=karingal;294818]No they don't.[/quote]
he's referring to spectrum loading tones, not music... I hope! :)MP3 or WaveWhich sound format is better quality/bitrate for loading Spectrum games from an audio CD? MP3 or Wave?
[quote=guesser;294821]he's referring to spectrum loading tones, not music... I hope! :)[/quote]
I would hope so as well but thats not what it implies.
