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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…
... possibilities, will that software run on plain MB02+? I think NMI ... NMI support will work. Yes, on original MB02+ absent classic NMI ... ]The main advantage of the Spectrum over modern PC is in my ... possibilities more or less depending on his competence but it is ... -
it's only an electrical item.. but stillafter MANY years (maybe 18?) , my tv just popped.. when I say many years, I've had this tv since the days of Snes.. just prior I remember playing mad…
... offer to get an modern tv if you traded in ... anyone get much of the modern tv price?.[/QUOTE]
... you got depended on the size of the TV you bought ... probably be spending a fortune on the new one but ... of it so stuck it on Gumtree. Was surprised how ... -
Microsoft really know how to sell their products![url]www.metro.co.uk/tech/842500-kinect-demands-a-tidy-room[/url]
... so many biased views on WOS anytime Commodore does ... yet if you go on modern boards then you find some ... some great sensible discussions on there too), but it ... than the PS3, but on the other hand the ... mid 80s that lots of Spectrum owners eventually bought, i ... -
How can I play emulator on my TV via computer?I have a Sony Bravia HD TV and a reasonable ADVENT laptop (both under a year old). What is the best way for me to see my spectrum emulator on the bi…
... to play an emulator on their TV i would say a ... read), then surely DOSBox on a 360 would run ... 360, although perhaps even on the 360 the performance wouldn ... but too slow now for modern games) that you can ... than 4552) from running on your Xbox 360, thus ... -
N64 EmulatorsIs there any good N64 Emulators? I never really had the chance to play super mario 64...
... or jagged graphics, depending on which console you owned ... compared to smearing vaseline on the screen, and of ... picture they get from it on their TV.
... shock to people used to modern consoles and PCs.
on the 'net, and the ... -
Rooney wants to leave Manchester UnitedRooney says he wants to leave because the club's ambitions don't match his own. Judging by the last few months he'll be looking for a club that plays…
... that have been spent on reporting and broadcasting this ... all that was on the news on the TV for the half ... Wayne Rooney had signed on to Manchester United for ... revealed to have been cheating on his wife? And for ... press that it was "modern slavery!". I don't ... -
Spectrum +3 and DivIDE+I have won a +3 on ebay. When it arrives, I know that I can use my DivIDE+ with it, but I have read about the +3E ROMs. I mostly use Spectrums to pla…
... 3-8912 used in ZX Spectrum 128kB models. It's ... return different data values and on data bus will collision. ... interface can be used on ZX128+3, only sowtware ... both I/O ports on YM2149 can return incorrect ... sound down on the TV?
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XBox 1 hacker to testify in courtThis might be of some interest to some of us: "[COLOR=Blue]Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, the designer of the Chumby ( [COLOR=Red][URL]http://www.chumby.…
... s placing immoral restrictions on what you should be ... centre that works fine on my TV, takes up little ... has never appealed to me on any console, [/QUOTE]
TV Pong games on it.... just makes ... DS just for the Spectrum emulators, others have no ... -
How looks a Spectrum shown in a TFT VGA monitor?Some people has just asked me if a cheap Dealextreme VGA Box is capable of showing a decent picture from a ZX Spectrum. Well, I've just modded one r…
... DIP switches[/URL] on the bottom depending on what display equipment ... it gives crisp picture both on 1600x1200 LCD VGA monitor and ... black & white image on my TV (probably due to NTSC timing ... ).
For the Spectrum composite video is good enough ... -
Why are speccy games so ****ing cool?I grew up with a spectrum and fell in love with it from a young age, so I may be slightly biased, but it seems to me that the look and feel of games …
... the games youre stuck on, brilliant ! Flick over ... love seeing the Spectrum out on display on that plastic ... stand with Horace and the Spiders on the TV ... off the tv but leave the Speccy on, my ... bed, put the tv back on, 0 volume and ... -
Proof of time travel?A woman is seen at a premier of a Charlie Chaplin movie, in 1920, talking into a MOBILE PHONE!!! [url]http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/57334/…
... four (44!) Dizzy games on the Spectrum alone, and are still ... , I can't live on that little. What's ... going on?
Hang on, I'll just turn on the TV. ... used to own a Spectrum is exempt from paying ... his policy of shooting on sight Terry Christian was a ... -
Why are speccy games so ****ing cool?I grew up with a spectrum and fell in love with it from a young age, so I may be slightly biased, but it seems to me that the look and feel of games …
... the games youre stuck on, brilliant ! Flick over ... love seeing the Spectrum out on display on that plastic ... stand with Horace and the Spiders on the TV ... off the tv but leave the Speccy on, my ... bed, put the tv back on, 0 volume and ... -
Manic Miner/chuckie egg style gameI've been playing around with AGD recently and it truly is excellent. Before I start on a game proper, I was wondering does the world need another Ma…
... excellent. Before I start on a game proper, I ... if you can spare the Spectrum memory, why not have ... a 48K Spectrum on a desk plugged into a TV, with a ... you could base a screen on each Doctor Who story ( ... hundred, just counting the TV stories). Just a thought.[/ ... -
Manic Miner/chuckie egg style gameI've been playing around with AGD recently and it truly is excellent. Before I start on a game proper, I was wondering does the world need another Ma…
... if you can spare the Spectrum memory, why not have his ... with a 48K Spectrum on a desk plugged into a TV, with a ... ), you could base a screen on each Doctor Who story (maybe ... two hundred, just counting the TV stories). Just a thought.[/COLOR ... -
The Ultimate Spectrum, made from old spectrumsGiven that all types of the Spectrum are less than ideal in one respect or another, I wondered what the ulimate refinement would be, but just using o…
... fix for an ultimate spectrum is:
Spectrum +3 with 3 ... media of choice for a spectrum, but via a reliable external ... virtual tapes and virtual disks on modern flash storage. Get an original ... the least work to do on the hardware:
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The Ultimate Spectrum, made from old spectrumsGiven that all types of the Spectrum are less than ideal in one respect or another, I wondered what the ulimate refinement would be, but just using o…
... virtual tapes and virtual disks on modern flash storage. Get an original ... the least work to do on the hardware:
[url ... key 48K, a 48K Spectrum +, and a Spectrum +3.
I ... DivIDE+ only works with the Spectrum +, but then there is a ... -
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…
... limit is on RAM? How much could a Spectrum 'see'?[/ ... [quote]CPU upgrades for the Spectrum[/quote]
Mostly pointless. ... interest in tweaking the Spectrum from various members then ... modern' Spectrum for the community?[/quote]
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48k rubber key screen corruption[IMG][URL=http://img195.imageshack.us/i/img7398g.jpg/][IMG]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5563/img7398g.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=htt…
... , turned the brightness up full on the tv.
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Currah Speech + comp. video modI just bought a Currah Speech unit I planned to use it with my 48K, but I have performed the composite video mod on it. [url]http://womblesretrorepai…
... to work as intended. 'TV' signals can contain both video ... two. Uspeech modulates the sound on a HF 'sound carrier signal ... the compound TV signal coming from Spectrum. Resulting in TV-signal with ... (is it on a wire?) where in normal situations Spectrum's sound ... -
Powering up a Speccy after long-term storage.Staying at my folks for Christmas. Feels good to be back in God's country again, even if it is -12C outside at the moment. :-o Anyway, I was plannin…
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Tried it on the VCR channel of my ... worryingly appeared to be blocks on the screen. :-o
on the TV - but it didn ... Starfox I connected up the Spectrum, nervously applied power, ... the old 10 PRINT "zx spectrum rules OK" / 20 ... -
Ridiculous question but how do you program a gameStupid question, just wondering how I would learn how to do it, it seems impossible how words can transform into a picture that you can then move
... can i make that move on the tv !!
If its ... on a speccy , just get a ... line , or just get the spectrum manual and have a read ... -
Spectrum +3' AY sound issuesHi everyone - first time poster. I just got a Spectrum +3 for Xmas, and I am over the moon at this - I used to write games which I have here on 3" d…
I have owned two Spectrum +3s in my life. ... The first one I got on Christmas day 1987, the ... the RF modulator (no scart on our TV then). My "new" + ... One of the Spectrum mags at the time reported on this issue ... ever heard on a ZX Spectrum? That would be on a 48K ... -
zx81 rf outputHi All I'm not sure if this is an appropriate forum for the zx81, however I'll ask anyway;) I've connected my zx81 up to a mid 90's color tv. I can…
... board to get composite signal on a QL, since the QL ... modulator kit as the ZX Spectrum and the ZX81.
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Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
... your input on this, especially your views on why coding Spectrum games ... no longer has the hold on modern players that it used to ... . Yet the majority of Spectrum games being released nowadays tend ... good indicator if people coding Spectrum games today could post ... -
Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
... your input on this, especially your views on why coding Spectrum games ... no longer has the hold on modern players that it used ... . Yet the majority of Spectrum games being released nowadays tend ... br />
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Retro Gamer Issue 86 - The cover's a bit special![IMG]http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/scaled.php?tn=0&server=615&filename=dekmj.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640[/IMG]
... time. What artwork (stuff drawn on paper, maps for games, ... machine it was on), or the reviews of modern games on modern systems - to ... stopped covering new games for modern machines then they'd probably ... want a Chess game with Spectrum characters in it for the ... -
From a spectator's point of viewApols if this has been done before... Many games on the speccy were single-player affairs and so if you were playing with your mate/sibling you may …
... Daren!). If there was a tv channel which just played speed ... happily put it on and have it going on the TV all day ... favourite comes mind from the Spectrum era - I would happily watch ... -
New game Sea Dragon (beta)Hi. Over at zx.pk.ru there is a lot of talk of a new game for spectrum called Sea Dragon. It is a VERY nice underwater side scroller... technically V…
... tested Sea Dragon on my real Spectrum and CRT TV and sadly there ... are some framerate issues on ... tends to vanish a bit on that "fast-rendering" level. It ... -
New game Sea Dragon (beta)Hi. Over at zx.pk.ru there is a lot of talk of a new game for spectrum called Sea Dragon. It is a VERY nice underwater side scroller... technically V…
... tested Sea Dragon on my real Spectrum and CRT TV and sadly there ... are some framerate issues on ... tends to vanish a bit on that "fast-rendering" level. It ... />
Which version of ZX Spectrum (48k, 128k, +2 grey, +2A ... -
New game Sea Dragon (beta)Hi. Over at zx.pk.ru there is a lot of talk of a new game for spectrum called Sea Dragon. It is a VERY nice underwater side scroller... technically V…
... tested Sea Dragon on my real Spectrum and CRT TV and sadly there ... are some framerate issues on ... tends to vanish a bit on that "fast-rendering" level. It ... or indented landscape and only on Admiral or Captain level.
