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  • Game BackupOk will try and discribe best I can Hardware ZX Spectrum 48k x2, Interface 2, Kempston progamable interface ZX Spectrum +3 [U]Hunting for a interf…

    ... the other hand, the Timex TC2048 is the best of the ...
    chev chev October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... to fix as the Timex TC2048 doesn't appear to have ...
    chev chev October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... to fix as the Timex TC2048 doesn't appear to have ...
    roko roko October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Some ever noticed that +2A/+3 halts Z80 using WAIT?I mean: Anyone ever noticed that the +2A/+3 halts the Z80 using WAIT? All documentation I've read about contention state that the ULA halts the Z80 …

    ... 30]

    For the contended RAM (which shares time between ... /> allowed only 1 access to contended RAM in every 8 T ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2009 Hardware
  • worth buying a zx spectrumAs i have been watching Micro Men i have been really thinking about buying another Spectrum. Now as i grew up in the 80's and was a massive speccy fa…

    ... minimalist route, get a Timex TC2048. The original Speccy is a ...
    chev chev October 2009 Hardware
  • Snow on screen of 48K Speccyok you wizards I fixed up my 4116 ram issue as Winston and McLeod advised me before by replacing with 4164's.... all I could find here in Singapore (…

    ... ever set I register in contended ram on an emulator, but ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae October 2009 Hardware
  • AY interface - How many possibilities?Currently the newest AY interface available for sale gives 16K and 48K owners a chance to add AY sound to their Speccy, but (correct me if I'm wrong)…

    ... at all - it uses the (contended) clock signal on the edge ...
    gasman gasman October 2009 Hardware
  • AY interface - How many possibilities?Currently the newest AY interface available for sale gives 16K and 48K owners a chance to add AY sound to their Speccy, but (correct me if I'm wrong)…

    ... at all - it uses the (contended) clock signal on the edge ... the player is running within contended RAM because the effective clock ...
    Winston Winston October 2009 Hardware
  • AY interface - How many possibilities?Currently the newest AY interface available for sale gives 16K and 48K owners a chance to add AY sound to their Speccy, but (correct me if I'm wrong)…

    ... the player is running within contended RAM because the effective clock ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz October 2009 Hardware
  • AY interface - How many possibilities?Currently the newest AY interface available for sale gives 16K and 48K owners a chance to add AY sound to their Speccy, but (correct me if I'm wrong)…

    ... after discovering that the external (contended) AY had a different clock ...
    gasman gasman October 2009 Hardware
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... to be used is already contended, it gets rid of this ...
    Winston Winston November 2009 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... />
    The port is also contended anyway, because when the CPU ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... will be vital. Even properly contended, palette changes are instant in ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2009 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... the border colour port is contended, and the ink and paper ... entries are fetched during the contended period, the border colour load ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... . Palette updates however will be contended.
    5. Changes in the ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... so when the CPU is contended anyway (pixel display update) seems ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Emulators
  • which one bit of hardware would people want re-made?I'm just curious in the sense of I see interface 1's go for a fair bit on ebay and also multiface units etc.. so whats the one thing that you don't …

    ... work like a Spectrum 48 (TC2048, to be precise) without a ...
    Mister Beep Mister Beep November 2009 Hardware
  • just thinking about ...compo for zx 16k ? anyone ?

    ... all the lower RAM is contended. Don't see why ULAplus ...
    chev chev November 2009 Development
  • just thinking about ...compo for zx 16k ? anyone ?

    ... all the lower RAM is contended. Don't see why ULAplus ... without it, whole memory is contended, you really have not place ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2009 Development
  • Project OTLA / k7zx (high speed loading)Hello, I am proud fan of zx spectrum (I do not have speccy, but clones (Didaktik Gama, Didaktik M)), I am using portable CD player to load games. Al…

    I haven't looked at the OTLA code, but I suspect it wouldn't run correctly from screen memory, since it's highly timing-critical and 16384-32767 is contended memory.
    gasman gasman November 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Need help with interrupts againI'm fighting to understand how interrupts code handling works I'm trying to set my simple own interrupt routine, as I don't want to be dependent on …

    ... :- setting I to point into contended memory can cause snow in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2009 Development
  • Need help with interrupts againI'm fighting to understand how interrupts code handling works I'm trying to set my simple own interrupt routine, as I don't want to be dependent on …

    ... set the I-reg to contended memory. When I loaded the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2009 Development
  • Need help with interrupts againI'm fighting to understand how interrupts code handling works I'm trying to set my simple own interrupt routine, as I don't want to be dependent on …

    [QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous;403959]It looks ok to me except for one thing :- setting I to point into contended memory can cause snow in the display in some (most? all?) models.[/QUOTE]

    Snow effect doesn't exist in +3/+2A models.
    Metalbrain Metalbrain December 2009 Development
  • Imagine loading by tape nowadays!!!!I was bored so i did some working out how long it would take to load a more modern game at the rate old speccy tapes do which is 1500 bps (bits). 8 …

    ... .5Mbps when copying data to contended memory. Uncontended memory will be ...
    Winston Winston December 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Memory concerns with z88dkI've retaken my old spectrum project and sadly I've reached a dead end very fast. I'll try to explain my worst problem in a few lines. I'm not a vet…

    ... 's just that it's contended memory but it would still ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2009 Development
  • Photos of MODIFIED ZX SpectrumsIf you have ZX Spectrum/clone with any modification(s), please release photos: (or send me your photos to --SPECCY(a)SEZNAM.CZ--, I upload all to my …

    There's a pic of the Spectrum SE prototype (a heavily modified TC2048 ) in an issue of ZX Shed. If you can find it feel free to use the pic.
    chev chev December 2009 Hardware
  • Games not compatible with real grey +2There are many threads about Spectrum+3/2A incompatibility issues but what about grey +2? I've found that games like Marauder and Skate Crazy don't w…

    ... a surprise, the issue of contended memory crashing does not affect ... attempt at executing code in contended memory (the region 16384-32767 ... dangerous.

    The contended pages are 1, 3, 5 ... crash when executing code in contended memory). Thus, you get ...
    Jmk Jmk January 2010 Games
  • Games not compatible with real grey +2There are many threads about Spectrum+3/2A incompatibility issues but what about grey +2? I've found that games like Marauder and Skate Crazy don't w…

    ... attempt at executing code in contended memory (the region 16384-32767 ... the 128K/+2, there are contended memory pages that can be ... be dangerous.

    The contended pages are 1, 3, 5 ... crash when executing code in contended memory). Thus, you get games ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2010 Games
  • Games not compatible with real grey +2There are many threads about Spectrum+3/2A incompatibility issues but what about grey +2? I've found that games like Marauder and Skate Crazy don't w…

    ... . Why does code executed in contended memory cause a crash??[/QUOTE ... flakey values when reading from contended memory which causes rubbish to ...
    Jmk Jmk January 2010 Games
  • Games not compatible with real grey +2There are many threads about Spectrum+3/2A incompatibility issues but what about grey +2? I've found that games like Marauder and Skate Crazy don't w…

    ... flakey values when reading from contended memory which causes rubbish to ... 16k spectrum has nothing but contended ram and its prorgrams run ... I also set to a contended area, you will get ... believe that code executed in contended RAM could increase the likelihood ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2010 Games
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