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+3 Audio hates me with a passionHihi Since nobody seemed to have a spare +3B board, I've been trying to replace the audio entirely, aiming for a speaker inside the machine Since p…
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Margaret Thatcher diesRIP Maggie, finest PM of the post-war era. She was one of the reasons why the 80's were so great, and she gave Clive a knighthood.
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Composite video for 48k Capacitor orientationHello, My multisystem TV is acting up and I'm unable to navigate the menu to tune in the RF signal for my speccys. However the A/V input still works.…
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Composite video for 48k Capacitor orientationHello, My multisystem TV is acting up and I'm unable to navigate the menu to tune in the RF signal for my speccys. However the A/V input still works.…
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48k + Spectrum Issue 4S Display IssueHi all! Brand new user here. Growing up I had a zx spectrum for a little bit, and recently I have bought a working 48k + Spectrum (Issue 4). I was…
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Rocky Gush Floppy Drive InterfaceI have a Rocky Gush Floppy Drive Interface which I would like to post the details under the Hardware section of the website. What is correct procedur…
Issue 3 board... How to resurrect?Dear Everyone, Now I have a working 48k Issue 3, a sort of working Speccy+ (still having problems with the keyboard, more of that in another post) a…
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Connect the common terminal of your meter to the ... that and the left hand terminal (as viewed from above with ... heatsink) to the right hand terminal. This is the 5V output ...The new xbox...I hope the launch of the new xbox (6pm BST today!!) blows the dismal PS4 launch into orbit!! I'm not sure if I'm getting excited or not. I still rem…
... shrinking and its decline is terminal because the move to digital ...SpecBAS and Linux (Debian)with my utter contempt for Microsoft I have removed Windows from my laptop and installed linux (wow this is not going to be as easy as I thought). s…
Have you made the SpecBAS file executable (open a terminal, change to the installation directory and type 'chmod +x SpecBAS')?FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... -point, old-style, futuristic, classical, terminal, typewriter, system and OpenDyslexic.
Issue 4A repair attemptI think I need some help. I have a nice Issue 4A main board here, which does not give out any video signal. I checked some voltages (the ones that se…
... by cross connecting almost any terminal in one keyboard connector with ...Games/Programs making use of DivIDE featuresHello :) I have a question: I may be wrong, but it looks like the DivIDE and similar interfaces for the ZX Spectrum are almost exclusively used for …
... hard to create a virtual terminal that receives gui draw primitives ...Serious SpectrumHas anyone here used their Spectrum for anything other than gaming and programming back in the eighties? I see all these business and productivity ap…
That reminds me. I need to finish writing the simple VT display code for SE Basic IV / Spectranet so that you can use your virtual Spectrum as a proper terminal.SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…
... to work like a 1960s terminal which makes it even faster ...UK proposals to block porn sitesEdited I just listened to a guy online talk about the ramifications of this...I mean breaking down some of the concerns there are several things of …
... works best at the end terminal level is my view, but ...spectrum issue 6a oddityMorning everyone Bought a speccy (rubber key) from ebay in near mint condition - couldn't tune in on analogue particularly well so did the comp mod …
Which terminal of the transistors did you measure? The base?
You are aware that a video signal is a complex waveform and that the reading given by a meter depends as much on the meter as the measured signal?
[I][B]Mark[/B][/I]spectrum issue 6a oddityMorning everyone Bought a speccy (rubber key) from ebay in near mint condition - couldn't tune in on analogue particularly well so did the comp mod …
... connected to the video out terminal at the Spectrum board, and ...FUSE on OSXHello peeps, Long time no speak! I am trying to set up some emulators on my MacMini (launched via XBMC), and of course, Speccy emulation is a mus…
FUSE on OSXHello peeps, Long time no speak! I am trying to set up some emulators on my MacMini (launched via XBMC), and of course, Speccy emulation is a mus…
[QUOTE=dbolli;729969]Just as a note, here are the command line options for Fuse OS X 1.1.0 (launched from Terminal in OS X)[/quote]
Don't trust that. The --help info is remarkably out of date. It should probably just say "see the manual"...New game: Tea and SympathyHere's something I knocked up in a few days with AGD, a horizontally-scrolling shooter featuring some very nice sprites Binman drew a while ago which…
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cat loader ...Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…
... thing -- drawing to a rectangular terminal. I happen to be working ... able to define a rectangular terminal and attach it to the ... /o gets clipped against that terminal. Doing things this way will ...Tape loader for Android at lastHi all. Just downloaded a little util from the google play store called tapdancer. Works like the apple spectrum tape loader. Lets you load speccy an…
... to 4.0V via a terminal block)
[url]http://www ...Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…
... different users on a multi-terminal machine sharing the same drive ...Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... the case it's somewhat terminal as you can only get ...Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... the case it's somewhat terminal as you can only get ...Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... across the load (+5V terminal to 0V terminal) will be less than ... of IC1 and the GND terminal. Also if you have your ... meter lead on the 0V terminal and you red/positive meter ... lead on the GND terminal you will get a negative ...Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
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And ...Spectrum +2A PSUI picked up a black +2A without a power supply. Looking on eBay the PSUs seem quite rare. The schematics for the PSU show +/-12 and 5v, would it be …
... other side of the common terminal to a handle/rocker whatever ...Christmas music in foreign parts?Here's a question for our Spanish, Polish, Russian and Yankee-Doodle-Gun-Juggling-Burger-Monkey Spec-chums - does the rest of the world have a list o…
... were packing in to the terminal and getting seriously wound up ...A stupid question...This will sound very stupid, but I just realized that I don't know where to search on a Mac to see how much space i still have in the drive... I kno…
Following on from Arjun:
4) It's shown in a Finder window's status bar. Turn on with Cmd-/ or View->Show Status Bar.
5) Open Terminal.app and type: df -h
