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BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …
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In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…
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Problem upgrading 16K SpectrumHello Spec-chums, I've been a long time Commodore user, but also a long-time Speccy admirer (and emulator user). I've recently got hold of a Issue 2…
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ANN: Tipshop updated Thursday, 30 October 2008Thursday 30 October 2008 Loads of POKEs this month - keep up the good work, folks! * New face "La Sole" sent in POKEs for 19 Part 1: Boot Camp, 3 D…
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Another badly behaved RAM upgradeI have a 48K issue 4A board (yellow it is) that was a 48K machine from new, but only reports 16K working with the Sinclair ZX Test ROM in an Int2. H…
... comes back with a certain chip, that chip has been replaced with ... it - it still says that chip is duff. Unperturbed I de ... put them through the TTL chip tester that's part of ... in a known good ULA chip just coz its an easy ... -
Which Speccy sounds 'best'? ie, differences in AY outputDoes anyone know if there's any noticeable difference in the quality of the sound output on the Speccy models with an AY chip?i'm wondering if there'…
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Suggestions for Mr. Rich MellorRich, is there a chance any of these things could be available from you in a near future? -AY interface for 16K/48K Spectrums -PS/2 keyboard interfa…
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what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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Attn: Dunny Re: Basin[QUOTE=Dunny;282407]Just out of interest, is there any demand on these boards for a standalone version of BASin's graphics tools? It'd be just the U…
... 'd be just the UDG/Sprite editor/animator, SCREEN$ paintbox and ... happened to that selection-to-sprite or selection-to-udg feature ... -
Rapscallion, Eugene, and ZaksSpinning off from Mickmogs Horace and Willy thread, which seems to pretty much feature characters you controlled (In other words heroes). I thought …
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Some questions to pass the time1. What is the best 8 bit machine? I don't mean software range wise, as we all know that the Spectrum has the best games software (well, the people …
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Games with good sound of engineSpectrum beeper and AY chip aren't too good with generating the sound of (car, motorbike etc.) engine. But sometimes engine sound in Speccy game is q…
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Phantomas 2The snapshot shown on this entry is from the CodeMasters re-release who altered the game slightly, including the protagonist sprite. The original re…
The snapshot shown on this entry is from the CodeMasters re-release who altered the game slightly, including the protagonist sprite.
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Divide+ - Residos and NMI button problemGood day All! I have Timex 2048 (48K) with Divide Plus iface and AY music chip. I'm trying to run taskman which I already download and install from W…
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400+ games for saleHiya! I'm likely to be moving house in the New Year so rather than try and sell my Spec tapes bit by bit on eBay as I have been doing, I'm having to…
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Make-A-Chip - Sinclair / Incognito
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Graphic enhancements in games!(this message was also posted at [url]http://www.retroremakes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12431[/url]) Hello to everyone! A couple of years ago I …
... of its author SMT on sprite search/replace.
Have ... everythere (clearly, we need a sprite-based game, not ELITE or ... -
Dud +2?Hi guys, Hope you're all having a great Xmas!! I recently picked up a +2 (Grey) on eBay along with a 48k system. The 48k system works a treat. Howe…
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ZX Spectrum+ 48K For SaleHi Everybody First Thread so.............. I have a ZX Spectrum+ 48K, Power Supply, Cassette Player, a ZX Interface 2, and a RAM Turbo for sale. Pl…
ZX81 ULA 2C210E wantedHello, I'm in need of a working 2C210E (not the earlier 2C184E) ULA chip used on zx81s and Timex1000s. These were sold on ebay for 9 quid each some …
... (not the earlier 2C184E) ULA chip used on zx81s and Timex1000s ...Poetry in honour of Charles BukowskiI'm reading New Poems Book 4 by Charles Bukowski at the moment and I thought I'd try my hand at writing a Bukowski-style poem in honour of the depart…
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Walking home from the chip shop
the advert on ...QL 25th Anniversary TODAYJust saw this on CSS: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:53 +0100 From: Urs Koenig Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday On…
... with a highly integrated two chip North-/Southbridge, IBM
and ...Buy British! Save jobs!That's a bit jingoistic in an international forum, but look who is urging the fish and chip munchers to spend their money at home [url]http://www.te…
... is urging the fish and chip munchers to spend their money ...Xbox questionThe original that is, not the 360. Last night I re-inherited my old Xbox from my nephew. It's a chipped console with something like the Xecutor chi…
... with something like the Xecutor chip IIRC (originally I installed the ... chip and screwed the motherboard, i ... the BIOS of the mod chip. I can change settings, reboot ...23-128Hi, while repairing my issue 3 48, i have realised that the 23128 rom is borked. As i see it doesn't quite have the same pinout as the 27128, (Acc…
... schematic, it has an extra chip enable where the the PGM ...z88dk Help neededI'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification t…
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struct sp1_ss *sprite;
char dx;
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sp1_TileEntry(' ',fondo);
p.sprite = sp1_CreateSpr(SP1_DRAW_MASK2LB, SP1_TYPE_2BYTE, 2, 16 ...
sp1_MoveSprRel(enemigos[i].sprite, &cr, enemigos[i ...Help with faulty +2ahi everyone I'm Nuno from Portugal I think I made poopoo with a 128k +2a motherboard I had spare for testing purposes This motherboard has always …
... amstrads is that square ic chip on a hole isn't ...SRAM replacement for lower 16KSome time ago I wondered if it were possible to replace the lower 16K RAM of a 16K/48K Spectrum with a single SRAM chip. You know, those pesky 4116 D…
... Spectrum with a single SRAM chip. You know, those pesky 4116 ...New Spectrum Computer DevelopmentHey does anyone know of any decent new Spectrum clones being developed? I find it amazing how Zilog still produce a Z80 backwards compatible chip (an…
... produce a Z80 backwards compatible chip (and the product line still ... to 24 bits.
The chip has a similar memory interface ... pins, and adds 4 integrated chip selects. Versions are available with ... on-chip flash memory and on-chip zero wait-state ...