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Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
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Armagetron Advanced -- where is the moviepack?I've downloaded Armagetron Advanced (a brilliant open-source Light Cycles game for several platforms -- Windows in my case). Trouble is, the distro …
... Armagetron Advanced (a brilliant open-source Light Cycles game for several ... -
Toshiba MSX for sale.From my usual source, the guy who runs the junk shop down the road. Unfortunatley, his old man, who can't grasp the whole "retro" idea. Threw out t…
From my usual source, the guy who runs the ... -
Liverpool rain flashbackThe rain was hard, thick, and vertical this morning. Whilst walking the 10 minute walk from the station to the office (and getting soaked even with a…
... rain was hard, thick, and vertical this morning. Whilst walking the ... -
External access to magazine scansMartijn, I've taken the first steps to adding a Source/Reference index to my ZX81 site (I've indexed SU issue 1 as a starting point). For the ref…
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Possible great ideaHello there everybody, I have been toying with the idea of doing a project here with the help of the gurus on the forum. The idea is to start the de…
... complexity. It must be open source from the start and everybody ... able to assemble / compile the source that all of us work ... -
First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
... is the basin-compatible assembler source I wrote from scratch. (Please ... -
Huckleberry Finn and His FriendsI don`t know how many other`s loved this series back in the mid 80`s, but I`ve been trying to source it for years, even an episode or two and it`s pr…
... I`ve been trying to source it for years, even an ... -
GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…
... be converted back to the source WAV file with some, but ... -
Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…
... border, black paper, and changing vertical patterns of red pixels. Pressing ... -
Edge Connector's...Can someone please point me to an online source of the spectrum edge connector (the female one I need to connect my board to a speccy), preferably in…
Can someone please point me to an online source of the spectrum edge connector (the female one I need to connect my board to a speccy), preferably in the UK.
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Ingmar Bergman diessorry if the news source is a bit random, i couldn't find it anywhere else. [url]http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=1204057[/url]
sorry if the news source is a bit random, i couldn't find it anywhere else.
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Has the airport scanner killed my laptop??I am now in the USA and am writing this from my Best Western Hotel room. I am basically in the sh1t a little bit. Rather than fork out for a new la…
... now comes out as green vertical stripy, like every other pixel ... have gone red and green vertical stripy. Mid blues are also ... have gone blue and cyan vertical stripy. With the stiped being ... -
Removal of junk filesIm after a program that is able to remove junk files. For example when you install a program the setup program and temp files usually end up in Docum…
... anything new unless a relable source says it's ok to ... -
Tape LeadsWhere's the best and/or cheapest place to get tape leads? I got hold of a Spectrum with no leads at all, and in my eagerness to get it up and runnin…
... there another reliable but cheaper source of tape leads or should ... -
Sinclair Game Compilation (Sinclair Research Ltd)I remember having this or something similar (Comes on about half a dozen tapes) compiled with a ZX Spectrum. The only problem is i can't remember whi…
... me with this and possibly source one?
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PC Power supply for SpeccyHi all, after 13 years with out playing spectrum games I am eager to play the old games. Thus I got up to the garret checking my old stuff. Two of m…
... speccy with an additional power source which delivers the -5 and ... -
Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
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The Computer ProgrammeI just downloaded this 1982 series (the precursor to Micro Live). Good lord what a giggle watching them 'operate' a Vic20. Anyone have a source for M…
I just downloaded this 1982 series (the precursor to Micro Live). Good lord what a giggle watching them 'operate' a Vic20. Anyone have a source for Micro Live (downloadable..not Youtube).? -
Mb02+ideAs I wrote in the hardware forum there will be a small number of a redesigned MB02+IDE (nearly the original MB02+ including IDE interface also for CF…
... +2) or a 12V power source
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ZX Spectrum +2 RGB to CGA (RGBI) MonitorI just picked up a spanking brand new Goldstar 1410-CGA with RGBI. It has a 9 pin "D" type connector. 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 Red 4 Green 5 Blue 6 Inte…
... /> 8 Horizontal Sync
9 Vertical Sync
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Blok*Load on Multiface 128Spinning this off into a new thread to avoid cluttering up the original: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17999&page=7[/u…
... anyone that's interested, the source code for the hack is ... -
ANN: SpecEmu 2.5Oh well, can't say I'm particularly proud of this, but I am bored with it :p So.... New features: * Currah µSpeech emulation (with various pla…
... various playback frequencies)
* Currah µSource emulation
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About F-16 Fighting Falcon (Codemasters)I found the game when reading the light gun thread. WTF? A simulator controlled with a light gun? When I saw the info about the game... the screen s…
... with TWO engines and TWO vertical tailplanes, and the loading screen ... -
Code execution logging (Spin and EightyOne)I'm currently trying to analyse a piece of code by looking at the path taken through it while executing it. The easiest way for me to do this is to u…
... line-for-line with the source. Does anyone know of an ... -
Faulty +2 Grey :(Hello everyone... i was trying to fix a +2 grey board the other day, i had it for some time now. It gave a black screen (paper and border) with two …
... (paper and border) with two vertical rows of flashing sqares (at ... -
Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... .edu/~korpela/ahl/basic.html"]Source[/URL] -
Problem with Scanner - HelpI've just used my scanner, Its an Artec (around 7 years old) - I don't use it much, but comes in handy. I was scanning some old pics for my mum, and…
Compiling FUSE from source for a complete and total beginner...?[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b] A message above tells me it's been nearly 14 months since I last visited here. Ye gods. Wel…
[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b]
A message above tells me it's been nearly 14 months since I last visited here. Ye gods. Well, now I'm back... because I'm going to need a barrel-load of help here.
In my ...