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SpecBAS - Your Help needed with keyboard localisation!Hi folks - As our friend kgmcneil pointed out in an earlier thread, SpecBAS only uses a british keyboard layout. That's now changing with the optio…
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Replacing coil with other component?The purpose of the coil transformer, from what I gather in the schematics of the issue 2 spectrum, is to create 5V from about 9-10V. Would it not be …
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Most accurate timingWhich emulator is closest in timing to an actual (48k) spectrum? A count to 10,000 loop, printing the loop number each time on screen - same snapsho…
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4116 replaced with 4164 - ProblemsThanks to Velesoft I have some 4164s, and I have cut the -5V line below R9 where it pass from one side of the PCB to the other. I have cut the +12V a…
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4116 replaced with 4164 - ProblemsThanks to Velesoft I have some 4164s, and I have cut the -5V line below R9 where it pass from one side of the PCB to the other. I have cut the +12V a…
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Connecting HDF to Emulator with divIDE supportHi Guys, I'm using ESXDOS 0.8.0 on a divIDE 57c but I want to set it up on an emulator. I've created an HDF of my CF card but I'm struggling with i…
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Full project AVR ZX Spectrum with all sourcesHello to all. Heare i put all my project AVR ZX Spectrum with cources, written under AVRStudio4.1 [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12408899/Aspect128%20f…
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usr0 issue on grey +2 with DivIDEUp until today i've only used the DivIDE with my toastrack 128 and with no issues. Today I had a grey +2 on the go and if DivIDE is connected and I t…
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A little help with 3.5 floppy please so close...Thanks to everyone with all the help about getting stuff onto 3" disks works a treat thanks :-), so new problem is....I feel like a right idiot Have…
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Video issue with my 1st 48K SpeccyHi all I'm a long time retro fan and I just picked up my first Speccy. It's a rubber key 48K with a rev 4a mainboard. It's a nice clean unit and i…
128K - demos from Di Halt 2012Demos: [url]http://zx.pk.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=36377&d=1341756942[/url] [url]http://zx.pk.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=36378&d=134175696…
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[url]http ...All going well with the 3.5" driveFolks, all going well thanks to you lot on here... I now have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy and can write .dsk images using samdisk - all very e…
... /> I now have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy ...ZX81 with black screen and some white dots.Was gearing up to do a composite video mod on my ZX81, and today was going to be it. Unfortunate when started my ZX81 seems faulty. I get a back scre…
... . I get a back screen with a couple dots where I ...Odd / interesting things to do with Spectrums, IF1 and Microdrives.Firstly, I did not know where to put this, whether to shoe horn it into one of the more recent microdrive-ish threads, or drag up one of my old ones.…
... we then connect microdrives together with the Sinclair Ribbon cable.
with long ribbon cable going from ...Developing apps for ZX Spectrum with SDCCDue to troubles with makebin utility which always starts coversion at memory address 0x0000 and can only produce binaries < 32KB, it can't be used to…
Due to troubles with makebin utility which always starts ... to create ZX Spectrum programs with SDCC. I present [B]makezxbin ... ]
4) makezxbin (compile with gcc -o makezxbin makezxbin.c ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. Even so, sometimes experienced developers may decide to access BIFROST* internal routines directly, for ...Spaghetti Western Simulator help with keysIm having also problems with this game, anyone familiar or who played it back in the day? I just manage to use up and down and fire, but fire appears…
Im having also problems with this game, anyone familiar or who played it back in the day?
I just manage to use up and down and fire, but fire appears to be "1" button, which is really weird...
Thanks mates!Authored with MCoder III suggest adding an "authored with this tool" register in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011101"]MCoder II[/URL] referencing…
I suggest adding an "authored with this tool" register in [URL=" ..."The Amazing Rocketeer", compatible with real hardware?I've managed to create a physical copy for myself of [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017643"]this game by John Fotou[/URL] bu…
... simple: is this game compatible with real +2 hardware?Interview with Steve Wetherill (Odin)Hi you all!!! Here is the interview done to STEVE WETHERILL (Nodes of Yesod, Robin of The Wood, Arc of Yesod, Heartland... ?Odin!) and published at […
... Odin, they were using Spectrums with Microdrives for development, which was ... BBC Model B computers, with Z80 second processors running ... Nodes, it definitely shows. With Robin and Heartland, development ... because the working procedure with 16 bits computer or ...Your favourite Spectrum [whatever] beginning with a numberI thought I'd resurrect the fairly popular 'Best Spectrum game beginning with [whatever letter], so here goes. You know the drill, each of your answe…
... popular 'Best Spectrum game beginning with [whatever letter], so here goes ... game/advert/whatever that begins with the letter in the thread ... to choose from, beginning only with a number, is there? I ... demo I've seen beginning with a number).
Best ...Your favourite Spectrum [whatever] beginning with the letter 'A'[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/games/a.html[/url] [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/textadv/a.html[/url] Personally, I'm going to say: B…
... 've played any adventure beginning with "A", so I can't ... recall seeing any demos beginning with the letter "A". I'll ... allow that as it begins with 'P', and not 'A', then ...game with a fullscreen loader?any game with a loader that has loading stripes all over the screen, not just in the border? guess there were some, even with atypically coloured st…
any game with a loader that has loading stripes all over the screen, not just in the border?
guess there were some, even with atypically coloured stripes (magenta/green, b/w, blue/black... and so on)Spectrum 128 toaster and divide incompatibility problems with some demos and games.Okay so I got this thing now. It?s my first Spectrum ever. [img]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/2016/speccyl.jpg[/img] [url]http://img824.image…
... was hoping to play this with speccy :(
[url]http://www ...Hep needed with a bit of code...I've written a bit of code to make a character move across the screen, but the counter stops at 29 when the 3 lines to delete the characters trail ar…
... the counter which pokes 63298 with the horizontal co-ord when ...Custom Spectrum ROMS with modified system fonts?Some of the more memory efficient adventures used the default Spectrum font in order to save bytes for the adventure itself. Level 9 in particular ju…
... are any Sinclair ROM files with modified fonts that I can ... try out with emulators in order to give ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 5In my [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40437"]previous post[/URL] I demonstrated how to move multicolor images smoothly i…
... images smoothly in all directions, with pixel precision, using pre-shifted ... much more useful when combined with animations, for several reasons:
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// erase ...strange solution with bad spectrum +2 t.v. sound2 weeks ago I bought a British 128 K ZX-Spectrum +2. At first it didn't have sound on the t.v. RF output. Adjusting L5 (IC 11: MC1376 audio modulato…
... tried a few things with capacitors and resistors with varying results, but ...ZX Spectrum +3 with 3.5" internal drive for saleI have a modified Spectrum +3 128k with a 3.5" disk drive built in if anyone is interested. The distorted sound problem inherint in the +3 has also b…
... a modified Spectrum +3 128k with a 3.5" disk drive ...
