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Hacking a +2 into a shorter caseIf anyone's got a copy of the notes or text they posted about re-wiring the +2 joystick ports or hooking up a tape recorder to the motherboard casset…
... to disrupt the track going across the Ear connector and connect it to the ... of Cherry MX switches and replaced the datacorder, so it ... buttons to select games - should be wonderful, but the MP3 ... one could trace the lines from the ULA. Though that might ... -
Jiiira's Sparrow LITEHi All, Just for info .. :) big eprom, cheap 32KB ram and etc. i don't know specification .. :) https://youtu.be/NbI7E1aebrM modern speccy .. …
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* Original Sinclair ULA. :( Design already includes a small ... die (and in the case of Spectrum ULA's, probably sooner ... /> * If you're going through the trouble of designing a new ... 's easy to convert to that).
* Those 2x 74LS157's (near ... -
I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
... 's not going to work if the compile is done all the way from ... directory apparently makes a difference to the generated Z80 code.
[quote="tstih ... . However, consider the address 0x00ff. Adding 0x102 to it produces 0x0201. The high byte has ... -
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... implemented on the pi and before the move to the fpga. The fpga should ... timex 32x192 colour mode with ula+ on can do very ... the hardware sprites on top and you have some very high ... looking to going further with the pi. If the pi can feed an image to the ... -
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... hope those hardware sprites are going to be useful.[/quote]
... . Oh well, at least ULA+ compatibility will be useful because ... it does exactly that. But ULA+ is very modest improvement.< ... t know if the Next has the gates to do a high performance blitter ... -
Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …
... look at the headers. The examples are going to show some ... just have to keep a high level view and ... you will get the 32 column drivers instantiated by ... /arch/zx/display/z80"]implementation[/url]) that ... audio is generated.
In the [url="https ... -
ULAplus palette levels of blue in emulatorsTell me somebody, why ULAplus palette levels of blue are $00,$6F,$90,$FF in ZXSpin, SpecEmu, Zero and ZEsarUX, instead of $00,$55,$AA,$FF as they sho…
... you generated the full 256 color palette for ULA+ according to 1. ... 0 specs, the colors needed ... to actually be able to render both ULA and ULA+ modes at the ... and all the multicolor effects including ULA+ mode switches can be ... -
Need help with keyboard scanning ?After getting frustrated with learning ASM for a while I'm back into it. The little listing below is using the ROM's PRINT AT routine to draw me a sp…
... pin of the Z80. When it is received (or generated, as ... Without going into too much detail, I’ll cover the basics ... When in IM1, the Z80 will jump to address $38 and that’s ... to solve the mystery of the source of the interruptions. On the Spectrum, it’s the ULA ... -
Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…
... , I know what's going on). "Curse! The door can't be ... [/b] said "1984" on the loading screen. Going digging for it, I ... 'd worked out how the symbols were generated and worked out a ... it?" I suppose the challenge now is to get a high score, making ... -
Dual joystick interface schematic?Hi! Would anyone have a schematic for a dual joystick interface? Cursor or sinclair would either work. If not, I might try my hand at designing one.…
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The ULA decodes and responds to any I/O address that has ... -up resistors on the PCB pull the data lines high during the time that ... interface which is going to use the same addressing as the ULA / keyboard should only ... -
Why is it so hard to produce ZX Spectrum add-on Hardware in the UK.Arguably the UK Spectrum add-on market is stagnating? Why ? Well obviously the ZX Spectrum is a very old retro micro so it's fan base would normall…
... replace their ula with something that supports ula+. Or they ... those few devices are going to narrow down to the essentials: mass storage, ... As far as selling to the West, the pentagon is not a ... are quite high when the numbers are small. The sticker shock ... -
Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…
... do some mathematics in the address translation and add an ... you can fix the counter outputs to the address lines on VRAM ... ULA at very low cost. Also, ULAs got unreliable at high ... much what I'm going to do since it works ... way. Also, I'm going to use an EGA style ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... The Lord of the Rings in length and it switches from being boring to ... the ending of the first season was supposed to map to the ... going on with Rand and the big baddie, then Moiraine appeared to ... bears almost no resemblance to the books which, of ... aren't high. -
IT Here !!, The STP Project (MIS 2)Hi Folks, No one seemed to be excited about my previous announcment of a MIS 2 project. Anyway, the name has been changed to protect the innocent an…
... /> Anyway, the name has been changed to protect the innocent and it ... 's been renamed to Spectrum ... Working with the TZX Vault, it's the best way to get more ... generated me some lists based upon infoseek search results to ... -
SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
... going to be rewriting a large portion
of the UI in order to ... Added and option to use a high-resolution timer to synchronise the
... bug which didn't properly select the correct hardware for
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The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
... do not claim to give the solution to the question; I ... the keepers of the copyright to the original products, so they have the right not to ... the end of the discussion upon these three points. But, before going ... on with it, I would like to give ... -
[ANN]: Spectaculator 5.0 available for downloadHere we go again... *deep breath* ;) Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Specta…
... to 2 disk drives (the maximum the +3 can take)
- Automatically switches the ... - Added a toolbar to the Microdrives palette window to allow quick
... accuracy of loading noise generation. High frequencies
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name the football mangement game......pleasei've been trying to find the name of this football management game - anyone help me, the only real thing about it that i can remember that my help so…
i've been trying to find the name of this football ... game - anyone help me, the only real thing about it ... had to go through the qualifying stages first before going and playing the actual ... world cup. You could also type in the ... -
Emigration SaleWell, considering that I'll be disappearing to Canada in a couple of months I've decided to list a load of my retrogaming stuff for sale on my websit…
... stuff to look at. If you think the prices are too high then ... I'm open to sensible ... with the prices I'm charging, but I'm generally going by ... what I've seen on ebay over the last ... -
Norwich Speccy & SAM show - Are any of you lot going?I don't know if you caught a sight of the advert in the 'ADVERTS' section, about the Speccy/Sam show in Norwich on 1st November? I'll be going mysel…
... a sight of the advert in the 'ADVERTS' section, about the Speccy/Sam ... /> I'll be going myself.., as Cronosoft has something to reveal... (and ... I'm not talking about the contents ... -
What's going on with the ftp world of spectrum ? hi i 'm a regular user of the ftp world of spectrum For 2 weeks, the ftp is unreachable, connection failed, the ftp seems down. Here too, dead li…
... 'm a regular user of the ftp world of spectrum
For 2 weeks, the ftp is unreachable, connection failed ... , the ftp seems down.
Here ... can say me the problem & when the ftp will be up ... -
Custom Speccys and the like.hiya all I've been tinkering with building a Super spectrum for some time now. The whole process had changed and grown and ended up nothing like wha…
... planned.
Originally the plan was to just put a hard ... , there's not much going on in the way of customisation.
to the mainboard, or, ideally, use the empty +3 shell ... Is there an easy way to extend the membrane leads?
if ... -
The Biz - drugs do this?!So there I was playing 'The Biz' with a song at no 42 and a record company to back me. All was going well until the Taxman struck (where did he come …
... record company to back me. All was going well until the Taxman struck ... 't go up. The drive/ambition had dropped to an acute 8 ... %, and the next thing I ... is an expert at The Biz here? Care to give me a ... -
Pentagon interface news from VELESOFTIt's from Xagon's board. It is about new interface for Speccy - it make Your comp compatible with Pentagon (and not only) and also it gives You up t…
... pages (ULA doesn't slow down
them).
The new version ... like ZX128)
Higher RAM switches pages via bits 5,6 ... possible here, but it can select up to 1MB RAM.
ALLRAM ... on ZX128.
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Finding my way home!Ohboy! Just signed up to this forum and boy am I going to hang around here from now on! I just need to tell you about my own background as a Speccy …
... forum and boy am I going to hang around here from now ... post to the forum, except that I am so happy to see the Speccy ... isometric game from scratch in Z80, with graphics and everything - see ... I started high school and went into coding on the Sam Coup ... -
Dave Perry InterviewI conducted this interview with Dave Perry, famous for games like Turtles, Trantor, Extreme and Dan Dare 3 to name but a few... Enjoy! Dave Perry wa…
... made the last boss impossible to kill. (There is no ending to the game ... this game to make was the experimentation with randomly generated levels. (How the heck ... this other game going to be more based on the huge C64/Amiga ... -
A few questions regarding EmuZwinA few questions regarding EmuzWin 1. I have been trying to write a program to generate multicolour effects on the Spectrum,ie more than 2 attributes…
... quirk of the emulator, or is there something else going on. I ... sets of Lables generated, one with the correct addresses and the other with ... />
3. Occasionally the assembler seems to generate the wrong address for a label ... -
A few questions regarding EmuZwinI had posted this in the development forum and then remembered there was an emulators forum, so apologies for the repetition. 1. I have been trying …
... quirk of the emulator, or is there something else going on. I ... sets of Lables generated, one with the correct addresses and the other with ... />
3. Occasionally the assembler seems to generate the wrong address for a label ... -
Steph the inflatable rubber shark.I was just going through my magazine tapes ready to put leftovers on ebay. The YS beaut box from March 93 (issue 87) credits Steph on the cassette. …
... was just going through my magazine tapes ready to put leftovers on ... ebay.
The YS beaut ... />
I believe this to be the rubber inflatable shark that should ... have been sent to me as a prize. The basts. -
CSSCGC: Flight of the Condor Simulator - Chris ThomsonFlight of the Condor Simulator - Chris Thomson This unofficial tie in to the BBC's hit series of the same name (recently screened in 1982), puts you…
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This unofficial tie in to the BBC's hit series of ... puts you in the driving seat. Flying high over the Andes you can ... path over the Andes every time.
* High resolution raster ... Only available for the Sinclair Spectrum. Be the envy of your ...
