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2-player games common on the Speccy, rare on the PC, keyboard as the cause?Hello everyone Does the Spectrum have an edge over semi-modern (from the 90's) computers, when it comes down to keyboard input speed? I've always …
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Does the Spectrum have an edge over semi- ... transition from the world of the spectrum to the one of the PC, ... supposedly superior platform. The spectrum seemed, most of the time, to have ... more slowly with the CPU, than the corresponding speccy one? ... -
Spectrum (and other) Programming BooksHi All I have the following books for sale. I can post to anywhere in the world and take PayPal. All in excellent condition unless stated: Microcom…
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The Working Spectrum by David Lawrence
Games ... Games Series
The Spectrum Handbook - Tim Langdell
The Computer and Video ... Personal Computer World Software for the Spectrum (book and tape)
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One Life Left - Games RadioWhile not specifically speccy related..I'd like to advertise a radio show I'm involved in. It's called One Life Left and can be found at: [url]http:…
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My bit of the show is where I talk about ... a tune done on the Spectrum.
The show is light hearted in ... change octave! Thankfully I found the old issue of YS with ... -
Bah, Spectrum+ has diedBah. My Spectrum+ appears to have died. On power up, the 'paper' part of the screen goes black (and you see the faint red lines that you normally se…
... My Spectrum+ appears to have died.
On power up, the ... 'paper' part of the screen goes black (and ... you see the faint red lines that you ... ) 1982 Sinclair Research message. IIRC, the Spectrum overwrites all of RAM on ... -
Spectrum audio signallingI've had a poke around in some of the docs (and my Z80 assembler-fu is so rusty it'll be a while before I grok the Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly)…
... while before I grok the Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly), but ... />
What can the Spectrum detect on the EAR port? Lots of ... than just the transitions? The TZX documentation said the C64 only ... transitions (which was implying the Spectrum can at least see ... -
Curiosity: La Abadia del Crimen (The Abbey of crime) slightly offtopicIt is a visor of the different rooms of the game, in java. The problem is that the spectrum version doesn't appear, that's the reason why this post i…
... rooms of the game, in java. The problem is that the spectrum version doesn ... 't appear, that's the reason why ... a little offtopic. But as the game is a conversion between ... html[/url]
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the book.......Does anyone know whats hapenning with the speccy book, 'the history of the spectrum'? I wanna read it.....
Does anyone know whats hapenning with the speccy book, 'the history of the spectrum'? I wanna read it..... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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Nowadays if the kids were thinking about what ... But it is only because the Spectrum was launched on an unaware ... technical people draw between the machines was the price (understandably).
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Crazy Spectrum Experiments. Now there?s a thought!!As a Kid I wanted to be a budding inventor and tried all sorts of things with my speckie. I remember buying a second hand reel to reel tape recorde…
... had the spectrum tape output wired to the microphone of the CB and the tape ... input wired to the spectrum.
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Various Games to TradeHi Another list (this time with slightly rarer games =D), I am looking to trade for adventure games e.g. text adventures on 8-bit platforms (infocom…
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125 Sweevo's ... br /> 132 The Rocky Horror Show CRL Spectrum 48K Clamshell Yes ... With instruction slip
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Greetings and the Color PurpleI didn't see an INTRO forum so i thought I'd drop by and say hello. My name is Ray, a member of the AtariAge forums and a fan of the Spectrum. I was…
... forums and a fan of the Spectrum.
I was living ... and most notably the history of the early Micros in the UK. So ... /> Having grown up in the states with the Commodore 64, I learned ... /> I mean I know about the Spectrum and color clash issues. But ... -
CLEAR does not RESTORE the DATA pointer??According to the Spectrum manual, one of the things that a CLEAR command does RESTORE the DATA pointer. Either it doesn't actually do this, or some…
... the Spectrum manual, one of the things that a CLEAR command does RESTORE the ... .
Now, on line 10, the first command it sees is ... ) - you can clearly see that the data pointer simply isn't ... -
The Most Played Budget Game You Ever BoughtI loved the fact you could pick games up for ?2.99 when I was a kid. We had a local Newsagent that stocked a small selection of games. Twisting my mu…
... not difficult, she loved the Spectrum as much as me.< ... block and highlight all the squares without falling and ... soooo addictive.
The other was a 1.99 ... was much more fun than the game its self.
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Spectrum won't load data when warmI've got an interesting observation. I put iPodLinux onto my iPod and got TZX files playing back as the proper audio waveform. I also removed the vol…
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My issue 2 16K Spectrum still works ok and will ... used a Spectrum +2 (long gone). I noticed in the official service ... repeating each time I turn the Spectrum on.
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PCW Spectrum PROM ProgrammerHi everyone, I?m looking for a (E)prom programmer circuit diagram that was published for the Spectrum in an old Popular Computing Weekly magazine fro…
... diagram that was published for the Spectrum in an old Popular Computing ... around 1985-87. I lost the diagram after several house moves ... over the years but I do remember ... produced by someone who headed the diagram with "Tall Trees"?
How to increase the motivation to preserve?I've been thinking about this for some time now, and I think I may have an idea. Without hard-to-obtain knowledge, the only way to see if something …
... something is rare for the Spectrum is if it's ... want to submit to the preservation effort, because ... with their investments, the goal of full preservation ... ever seen). AtariAge uses the "?"-moniker for those, ... to cover the important parts of the database, but ...The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me ... on. If you read the section about the tape player, which ... hands. Then there are the non-standard joystick ports...
The original Spectrum and Spectrum + had style, but the Plus 2 ...Sage - 'Spectrum Adventure Game Enthusiasts' Fanzine Coming SoonGreetings. :grin: Just a quick post to let you all know that the first issue of 'SAGE' will be available for purchase ( or due to serious advice it…
... a new fanzine dedicated to the Spectrum Adventure Game Scene ONLY. It ... 32 page monthly mag with the usual splattering of news, ... features, reviews... you know the sort of thing.
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Speccy, a new Spectrum emulator for Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphonesThose of you with Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones may have been suffering from the lack of a Spectrum emulator. All the existing emus were writte…
... been suffering from the lack of a Spectrum emulator. All the existing emus ... it kept stretching the picture to suit the E61's higher ... can put it back to the Spectrum's natural resolution by pressing ... then switching "zoom" off from the menu that appears.
< ...Hawk the slayerdid you know that Hawk (John Terry) plays Jack's father, in the TV show lost? i just found out, and it seemed interesting enough to post here.
did you know that Hawk (John Terry) plays Jack's father, in the TV show lost?
i just found out, and it seemed interesting enough to post here.Another New Game Book That Features The Spectrum A LotI found this while in a bookshop earlier. [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Games-Guide-Matt-Fox/dp/0752226258/sr=8-2/qid=1161449469/ref=sr_1_2/026…
... of games from the early days up to the present, which includes ... most of the big Speccy hits. The introduction ... . I wonder if it's the same person. :)
Necros ...That imprint on the back of rubber key speccysAfter reading and posting in the composite monitor topic in the hardware section it got me finking, that imprint on the back of the spectrum beside t…
... and posting in the composite monitor topic in the hardware section ... , that imprint on the back of the spectrum beside the tv out socket, ... do you think that at the ... i realise that back when the 48k was released, there ...The Vikings (Status Software)I've obtained the C64 version of the game, and after checking the Infoseek record, I'd say there's a very good chance the game was never released for…
... very good chance the game was never released for the Spectrum.
All we have at the moment is ... advert which states that the Amstrad and Spectrum verisons were "Coming Soon ...Spectrum RAM Paks...This jogged my memory (excuse the pun!!) : [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CURRAH-32K-RAM-PACK-BOXED-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM_W0QQitemZ150057889352QQihZ005QQ…
This jogged my memory (excuse the pun!!) :
... /> It never worked properly!! The 32K was faulty. Take it ... off and the Speccy worked fine and ... games would load but the machine would crash ... these for the Spectrum? I only ever saw the one that ...Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in ... a Spectrum.
Here is a ... other Basics.
In the command line, enter plain text ... run in any unmodified Spectrum.
An the interesant part is ...Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... ICs (except for the ULA in the issue 2 Spectrum), so it's ... the awful job of ... built on veroboard - however, the soldering on the Spectrum is quite fine, and ... most of the ICs are soldered ...List of Xmas Spectrum games?Can we try and put together a list of all the Xmas-themed games available for the Spectrum so we can play them over the festive period? I'm not incl…
... available for the Spectrum so we can play them over the festive period ... to Xmas.
The list so far:
The Official Father Christmas
Santa ... /> Santa's Christmas Caper
The Snowman
Summer Santa
Spectrum ResetHi All I have asked this before but in another thread as part of something else. I really cannot recall all this stuff from way back :[ When I ha…
... game what is the process to reset the
Spectrum other than pull ... the plug each time ?
Average loading times for Spectrum games?When you hear people talking about the Spectrum or other cassette-based computers nowadays, a lot of them claim the games took 15, 30 or even 45 minu…
... hear people talking about the Spectrum or other cassette-based computers ... a lot of them claim the games took 15, 30 ... 't had a real spectrum for many years now ... I seem to remember the average game took 5 ... with a real spectrum confirm how long the average game took ...What's up with the preservation team Shop??When I wanted to buy some of the Spectrum classics in the preservation shop. I find out that the web page doesnt work, anybody knows whats happening?
When I wanted to buy some of the Spectrum classics in the preservation shop. I find out that the web page doesnt work, anybody knows whats happening?
