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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…
... and generating a new one from time to time. When it ... , it stops and reports (for up to a few locations) the ... most of the common Spectrum RAM faults.[/QUOTE]From this site [URL ... />
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divMMC ENJOY wont work with 48+it works with my 48+ ver 6b with my 128+,my 128+2 128+2a 128+2b but not the ver 4 48+:confused:,the green light stays on the blue light never comes o…
... the edge connector of your Spectrum is about right, but ... CK signal a little bit "up". If the low part of ... gates, so they are not suffering from such problems as you have ... EnJOY! to continue testing. Spectrum+ recovered successfully from the consequences of that ... -
Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…
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It's different from the two other versions, but ... . :)[/QUOTE]
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Surprise freebieBought Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 second hand on amazon for about ?5 delivered. Opened it up, started installing the discs and below the bottom …
... for a rubber keyed ZX Spectrum with lots of games. It ... was pick up only, and the address was not far from where I ... -
New Spectrum User - Inveterate UpgraderI've been asking a few questions about my Speccy, which is the first I've owned despite my advancingh years. I was a C64 kid, but please don't hold …
... Sinclair designed/produced Spectrums suffer from some "slight" "interference" due ... crystal and the ULA clocks not being locked to one ... +2B and +3 use a different design and do not suffer from this ... A composite output on a Spectrum is never going to be ... -
Issues with 48k spectrum and divIDEI heard you can have all kinds of issues with 48k spectrum and certain DivIDE models. Is this true and if so what should I look out for ? Only aski…
... DivIDE working with a Spectrum ISSUE 4B. It ... the startup, but the Spectrum stopped at the white ... DivIDE adapter with a Spectrum +2B after CPU replacement. If ... with an NEC Z80 from another Spectrum, it worked well. ...
The DivIDE is not only an old, but also ... -
Yumiko in the haunted MansionSo, here is the promised Halloween preview... Go to the zx section of my homepage to download it. [img]http://members.inode.at/838331/zx/YomikoInTheH…
... the game was going to start, it crashed (the game part ... the game was not supposed to work from tape loader menu on this ... machine, only on 128/+2. Please run it from ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... ) but the QL should not have been the Spectrum replacement.
Spectrum. In the end you ended up with a ... dogs dinner, a machine that was not considered ... . Got the internal design right from the off - no cheap components ... -
SCART lead for +2BCan anyone clarify if the SCART leads are ok to use from retrocomputershack? I am a newbie on here and have just read up some old posts on the subje…
... Spectrum model :D Not the 2B.
Yes, the RGB - SCART cables available from ... RGB modes. As the Spectrum was not designed to provide all the ... ]all the cables[/B] (not just the ones from Retrocomputershack) are "a ... -
Spectrum prices on eBay etc...!After a browse on eBay for some Spectrum hardware/software it seems to me some people are in this for all the wrong reasons. As an example... ?70 bu…
... think that any computer from the 80s must be ... .
Take the Spectrum ULAs - there are a handful ... 10% that ebay take from me on both the item ... /> It's just not worth getting worked up over prices - if ... more fool you. If not, then wait until until the ... -
New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…
... you 4MB of storage from a Spectrum via IF2! Can ... operate the Microdrives would not be guaranteed. The ... time if only changing bits from '1' to '0'. ... from '0' to '1'.
[QUOTE=aowen;781988]No. Not ... be made inside the Spectrum +2B/+3, inside the ZX ... -
ZX Spectrum 48K AV IssueOK so I dugout my old 48K Speccy today and decided to AV mod it. I did the mod (pretty easy) but the picture I am getting is this. [url=http://posti…
... strugglings with an ISSUE 6A Spectrum. At the end I've ... .
I've learned from that the board should be ... clean off everything not belonging there...
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The ULA6C001E-5...Hi everybody, I have been continuing my Quest for the Holy ULA, and have today taken delivery of a ULA6C001E-5. Now, the -6 was used in Issue 3 boar…
... for pictures I have put up myself. The example I have ... Issue 6A board, from a 48K Spectrum and not a Spectrum + as far as ... 8432 which makes it far from the end of 6C001E-7 ... -
What was the FIRST game ever released for the spectrumive tried searching but cant find much info. :confused:
... among Quicksilva's ZX Spectrum games... not the 1st game on speccy ... .[/QUOTE]
Yes, but from reading the article you can ... on an engineering mock-up of the Spectrum before the machine was ... -
Spectrum 48k ProblemsHi all Got my 48k today but it's playing up abit... First time i turn it on it was like this: [IMG]http://s26.postimg.org/hlg9d3f3d/IMG_20140830_…
From the pictures, the most likely ... mode power supply inside the Spectrum is not working correctly and is ... />
So only power it up in this condition for very ... -
ZX-Assembler file handling concept[QUOTE=clausjahn;777075]Dear readers, At this time, it's a good time to ask you, the future users, how to implement the file usage. Let's suggest so…
... you can eliminate individual items from TableRoutines and the linker will ... circumstances because the linker may not place the subroutines into the ... summarizes much of Spectrum development. But once you start to see people ... -
New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.I just finished an s-video modification on an Issue two 48K Spectrum so I made a video about it. Most of the technical details are in the video; if y…
... of a signal source (the Spectrum) is equal to the input ... or monitor). Now we are not pumping lots of power around ... to prevent interference from the outside world from messing up the video signal ... ][/U][/SIZE]
It is not just about absolute signal level ... -
New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.I just finished an s-video modification on an Issue two 48K Spectrum so I made a video about it. Most of the technical details are in the video; if y…
... of a signal source (the Spectrum) is equal to the input ... or monitor). Now we are not pumping lots of power around ... to prevent interference from the outside world from messing up the video signal ... ][/U][/SIZE]
It is not just about absolute signal level ... -
Possibly daft Harlequin composite question... :SHi; My Harlequin Rev. F works fine apart from one aspect: there's no composite out... :( I have checked continuity and the discrete components. I.…
... some chips of AD724 to start-up oscillation. I found that touching ... oscillation but it did not start itself after powering up. As a first ... of C25 resulting in better start-up behaviour but the frequency was ... -factor at 4.433619 MHz from 600 to 411.
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Drunk With Blood (Bible not boring after all)Flip! Not another religious thread from BB. How many's that now?! (... errrm ... two). I haven't forgotten about the Koran commentary (now that I've …
... unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Not a good start God gets caught in ... in the earth, and from walking up and down in it ... />
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about ... put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from ... -
Looking for good RPGsSpeaking as a huge RPG fan ('huge' as in fat, sadly - and I only discovered RPGs via [B]Skyrim[/B] (PC, XBox 360, PS3), a fortnight or so ago) I was …
... can survive anything, and start again small and learn ... never settled, it comes up on every possible forum at ... agree that it's not (since from what I've ... them. I'll look them up, thanks.
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πBacteria, Bare Metal emulador for Raspberry PiSorry, Google traslated text below ---- What is an emulator Bare Metal? It is an emulator that runs directly on the machine, no operating system beh…
... inspiration form the Bare Spectrum came from two Rasp Pi projects:
I'm not going to give up on using something other ... -
+2a Advice required on how this machine should behave.Hi. As a kid I had a light grey +2, now as an adult I have picked up a +2a.:smile: I've cleaned up the board on the tape drive, and games now load …
... was sorted.
Perhaps not, a thorough wipe again, and ... inspection I unscrewed the motherboard from the bottom case, and could ... and I could select up down from the main menu. I then proceeded ... Faster Than Light"...it loaded up, I could select keys and ... -
What do you get in the box ?Is there anywhere that lists or has pictures of what you should get in the box ? eg. Silicon Dreams - nice big box, novella & playguide, Rainbird hin…
... , at best, "Probably not").
Apart from fan sites dedicated to ... publisher or genre; eg. Infocom (not Spectrum, but which I mention because ... of my games are made up from the contents of two or ... it's better to pick up an incomplete copy when possible ... -
Banked memory running slower?I've just compiled a TAP which includes bank6, it loads ok, but the routines that are paged in run slightly slower. The Z80 snapshot has no such pro…
... Sinclair Spectrums (and one Amstrad Spectrum - the +2).
Something ... far as I know - Spectrum +2A, Spectrum +2B, Spectrum +3 and Pentagon have ... say it's atavism from ZX Spectrum 16K, where the first ... ]
but they are NOT: their main code is simply ... -
Banked memory running slower?I've just compiled a TAP which includes bank6, it loads ok, but the routines that are paged in run slightly slower. The Z80 snapshot has no such pro…
... Sinclair Spectrums (and one Amstrad Spectrum - the +2).
Something ... far as I know - Spectrum +2A, Spectrum +2B, Spectrum +3 and Pentagon have fast ... +2A/+2B/+3 [I]can[/I] have uncontended RAM from $4000-$ ... the z80, so it's not the most practical. Most of ... -
Please explain Spectrum FPGA-clones to meI've been using the great ZXDS-emulator on the DS XL so far, which is great. But I kinda missed toying around with hardware. I've tried bidding on a …
... is not doing things in the same way as the Spectrum. ... identically to the original from both a sw and ... 't mean that when up and running the FPGA ... if an FPGA were not booted from an external ROM, you ... into the FPGA at power up *before* the system starts. ... -
Alien Isolation is basically 3D Monster Maze 2014....According to [url=http://frictionalgames.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/thoughts-on-alien-isolation-and-horror.html]this guy[/url]. For those of you that ha…
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As a not-too-spoiler-ish example from the middle game ... advantage - I pop my head up, counting on the fact that ... hide and it's not going to give up easily. It stalks ... face.
Time to start again. After a cup of ... -
Alien Isolation is basically 3D Monster Maze 2014....According to [url=http://frictionalgames.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/thoughts-on-alien-isolation-and-horror.html]this guy[/url]. For those of you that ha…
... and it's not going to give up easily. It ... the cupboard - literally inches from mine. I'm lucky ... It gets closer still, fog from its breath enveloping me - ...
Time to start again. After a cup of ... act a little temperamental from time to time. You ... -
One game which made you change computersWas there any game (or games) that made you think 'thats it, the times up with the Speccy, time to move on' and get an Amiga or ST back in the late 8…
... those, while still having my Spectrum. Looking back, it was a ... 't program beyond BASIC and not much came out for it ... was a slow progression away from computers and onto consoles. First ... properly played a console game from start to finish in years.
