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Ocean's Cobra - +3 incompatability. Is their a fix?Hello all, Anyone know of a fix for Ocean software 'Cobra' (the one with stallone in it) ? This was the first game I bought for my 128k toastrack, a…
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Faulty 128 toastrackHello, I hope someone of the hardware gurus can point me in the right direction for fault finding. My speccy crashes often (sometimes after a short,…
Hello,
I hope someone of the hardware gurus can point me in the right direction for fault finding.
My speccy crashes often (sometimes after a short, sometimes after a longer time of use) with a weird screen like this:
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Opus DiscoveryI've got an opus dicovery 1 with 2 x 3 1/2" drives. I used it many times on my 48k but it doesn't work with my 128k toastrack. It also had some sort …
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Utility to read/write to memory cards formatted for +3EThis post comes from [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25658]this thread[/url]. I've released a small command-line utility…
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Help identifying hardware peripheralA few months ago someone gave me all their Speccy stuff. The Spectrum itself was broken, but I got with it quite a few useful peripherals. Among thes…
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Norway Spirals - Missiles or Black holes or Aliens or Giant Rave LasersSomehow I managed to miss all the internet kerfuffle over this weird spiral "thing" that appeared in the sky over Norway a week or so ago...and in my…
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Odd keyboard behaviour due to a single bit failure in +3 ROMI've just fixed a spanish +3, which, among normal issues (drive belt missing), presented a very strange one: the keyboard autorrepeated without a del…
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48k spectrum restarts by itselfFirst of all hello from a newb and thank you for your help. This site has already offered me a lot of insight. I have a 48k spectrum that will boot …
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Faked MP3/memory sticks etcI recently bought an MP3 player on Ebay from jolly old China. I suspected it would be fake as it was advertised as a 16gb MP3/MP4 player and cost me …
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tricks to simplify codingWhen i started with programming in assembler i had very simple approach to do things. Just shifting bytes around, doing simple tests and so... Later …
... shifting bytes around, doing simple tests and so...
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Crappy video in +2B/+3Maybe it's not a failure in my ZX Spectrum, but I need some advice... I've got some spectrums (a ZX Spectrum +, two spanish ZX Spectrum +2B and a mo…
My emulator has a CPU bug, any ideas?.Hi all, I am writing a Speccy emulator in PureBASIC but have an odd bug. The spectrum interprets the odd numbers incorrectly whenever they are typed…
... program and that passes all tests upto, and including, aluop a ...Correct flag response to BIT n,(HL) etc.When running the test program suggested by Arjun (thanks again), all intructions are passing the flag tests except the BIT n,(HL), BIT n,(IX+dis) and…
... intructions are passing the flag tests except the BIT n,(HL ... it passes all BIT instruction tests (but fails RLD,RRD because ...VCF report and photosNot sure where to put this, exactly...but here it is, what went on at the Vintage Computing Festival at Bletchley Park last weekend. Finally I've fo…
... one of my dead 128K toastrack machines, fortunately Chris Smith had ...Broken my Camera - Insurance QuestionOk so I've been foolish on holiday. I brought on Ebay a waterproof case for my digital camera. Its an SLR style Panasonic FZ28. Now the waterproof c…
... . No problems again. After these tests I used in in the ...New Mojon Twins Release: Cheril Perils.[I]Cheril, thanks to her strenght and intelligence, was able to say goodbye to her homeland, the jungle of Badajoz, travel accross the dusty paths fu…
... they decided to make their tests on the poor city inhabitants ...Sinclair Starter PacksI am in the process of putting together some "starter packs" for the shop. Each pack will consist of :- Tested working Spectrum(1) 200 different in…
... model except 16K or 128k toastrack, If you require a Plus ...Reading EAR input under emulation...Can either Spin or SpecEmu emulate being able to read audio from the EAR socket of the Spectrum? I'd like to be able to hook some audio to the micro…
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My quick tests to achieve this don't ...128+ and Divide+ not working togetheri think theres something wrong with my 128 (toastrack), divide+ just wont work on it, corrupted screen on bootup and with big thick black bars rollin…
... something wrong with my 128 (toastrack), divide+ just wont work on ...FRINGE in the ZX SpectrumJust picked it from the "other side"... ;) [list] [*][url=http://www.atc.us.es/~rodriguj/fringe128.tap]For 128K toastrack/+2 grey[/url] [*][url=http:…
... /~rodriguj/fringe128.tap]For 128K toastrack/+2 grey[/url]
[*][url ...JC's GLOOP and flickerI wasn't sure whether to post this question in the Development section, as I suspect there is a technical reason which will be the answer to my quest…
... always flickers on my physical (toastrack) machine only in what looks ...48k rubber key screen corruption[IMG][URL=http://img195.imageshack.us/i/img7398g.jpg/][IMG]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5563/img7398g.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=htt…
... have seems to perform certain tests when plugged in, after plugging ...Question about 7805 regulatorOne of my common practices when I service a ZX machine, is to replace the electrolytic caps as well as the 7805 regulator and some times the ztx650 t…
... 'm not sure about the toastrack because I only found one ...contended memory...so memory contention on the toastrack and the grey +2 is in the wrong place compared to the documentation, yet the +2a/b and +3 it is in the correct …
so memory contention on the toastrack and the grey +2 is in the wrong place compared to the documentation, yet the +2a/b and +3 it is in the correct place
can it be altered on the toastrack and grey +2 to match the the +2a/b and +3?I repaired a Sam Coup? floppydrive!I'm so happy! The Sam Coup? I bought last year had a problem with it's floppydrive. Sometimes floppies would read, but mostly not. The drive in my …
... 1138 didn't pass my tests so I sent a similar ...Spectrum 48K,Sinclair Interface One, Microdrive + more[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180630903639&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:GB:1123#ht_602wt_1139[/url] Since ive got myself a toast…
... /> Since ive got myself a toastrack im selling my old spare ...Hi everybody! Need help trying to rescue a ZX 48K...Hi, since this is my first post, a bit of info about me: I'm an Italian guy, now living in Poland (Warsaw), informatics and electronic geek since…
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I can make some tests only with a digital multimeter ...Brief report about RetroEncounterAnother April... another retro event! (Firstly sorry for the quality of the photos, owing to not being able to find my camera battery before leaving …
... only I only brought my toastrack 128K machine (I should really ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... . They perform a series of tests to check if all instructions ...
