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ZX Spectrum 48k issue 3b power problem?Hi :) I was lucky enough to find a couple of ZX Spectrums at a car boot sale yesterday. I spent the evening fiddling about with one (issue 2) and t…
... to find a couple of ZX Spectrums at a car boot ... and have a bunch of tools handy to do ... absolutely zero experience or understanding of the job. I have ... really understand some (most) of it, so I wondered if ... this time, but none of the chips heat up at ... -
Adventures in parallelismSo, you want a new multicore system. How about the AppleCrate ][e - composed of no less than 17 Apple IIe boards all working in parallel! [url]http…
... about the AppleCrate ][e - composed of no less than 17 Apple ... Spectrums, I ought to get working on that Beowulf cluster of ZX Spectrums ... -
Musical credits?I recently picked up a collection of Atari ST music tunes with the thought of using them for my YouTube channel and the one thing that struck me more…
... music tunes with the thought of using them for my YouTube channel ... than anything was that some of the tunes from certain Atari ... -
Spectrum +2A Clicking!Just bought a lot of 3 Spectrums on ebay: 2 +2's, which need some soldering work, and a +2A, which works fine, and loads everything up. All the mach…
Just bought a lot of 3 Spectrums on ebay: 2 +2's, ... sometimes needs a hell of a lot of presses to reset the ... in the top left portion of the screen (it's just ... -
Assembler question about collisions and arranging dataSay you have a game with a playercharacter and some items on the screen - pretty normal for most games, and now you need to check if the player has r…
... , so I can think of several ways of doing this on the Spectrum ... most [I]efficient [/I]way of doing it and how are ... just running through a table of all items and doing a ... -
Spectrum soundHi, first post on the forum with what is probably a REALLY stupid question, especially since I had a few spectrums back in the 80s. I have been purc…
... since I had a few spectrums back in the 80s.
of work.
I've managed ... an old Portable CRT out of the loft as I couldn ... LCD TV.
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checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…
... string, and also a method using DEF FN (see [post=561279 ... originally to calculate the number of digits in the value ... . This opens the possibility of displaying numbers up to 32 ... tracked from the original plan of using binary digit character strings in ... -
What music format do you use to store music on your mobile phone?What music format do you use to store music on your mobile phone? I ask this, because some people are purists, and like their music at the highest p…
... in quality at the expense of using more storage space on their ... 30ish something, so my hearing of higher frequencies is not what ... it's half the size of an mp3, and if you ... -
just a thortwas thinking can i get hold of the games in mp4 format and stick them on an laptop insted of using a tape drive :-?
was thinking can i get hold of the games in mp4 format and stick them on an laptop insted of using a tape drive :-? -
tape adaptor & mp3 player good for my +2Greetings all :) Long time lurker first time poster Got a Spectrum +2A for christmas, which after a decade or so of using various emulators was pret…
... after a decade or so of using various emulators was pretty damned ... set upon using wintzx to get an mp3 file of my favourite ... -
speccy sound input sensivityis there a way to increase sound input sensivity of 48K spectrums? As most of us trying to transfer tape files to spectrum via our onboard soundcard…
... to increase sound input sensivity of 48K spectrums?
As ... most of us trying to transfer tape ... recognise line-out signal, instead of an amplified sound signal? < ... are effectively shorting L channel of soundcard. in my mp3 ... -
Update to the "3e" command line utilityFrom "readme.txt"... [quote]'3e': Utility for handing files in a memory card formatted for a +3E enhanced Spectrum. Version 0.5alpha. (C)2009-2012 …
... file names for Windows. Instead of using the \\.\letter: scheme, which ... returns the device file name of the physical disk, which ... used for detecting the presence of an IDEPLUSDOS disk inside ... . Previous releases can be downloaded using this scheme:
[url ... -
Jumping Jack in the arcades...I was looking some information up recently on Imagine's Jumping Jack game and glanced at the Wikipedia page, only to be mildly surprised by the fact …
... that the article made mention of a 1984 arcade game from ... interesting reminder about the hazards of using Wikipedia as an authorative source ... -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... keyboard detection. Some parts of it is written in inline ... />
The advantage of using z88dk and sp1 is that ... br />
// The maximum number of sprites is 10.
uchar ... br />
// Define Starting Positions of the Sprites
struct sprentry ... -
ESXDOS benefits on divIDEHi there, I?ve just received my divIDE (standard edition) and have been playing with FATware for a while. After some game loading I began to wonde…
... ESXDOS.
Since I am using my +2A spectrum only to ... ), what are exactly the benefits of using ESXDOS? What are the drawbacks ... -
fire storm alternativre[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001781[/url] trivia I guess instead of using fresh tapes, the budget version just stuck a la…
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001781[/url]
trivia I guess
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Spectranet and RaspberryPiSome of you have probably heard that the Raspberry Pi foundation are just about ready to start selling devices . . . (they've actually managed to com…
Some of you have probably heard that ... 's going to be one of the distributors)
There ... file server for a network of Spectrums. It should be a pretty ... , the RPi can be one of the Spectrums, too :-) -
Multiface 3 trouble saving to diskHey all, I have just got a Multiface 3 with the intention of using it to transfer some of my tapes onto +3 disk. I am totally new to this so pleas…
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I've just passed throught Duke Nukem Forever...and I really love that game, I love the homour style, all interaction and ways of killing bosses I've never seen in any shooters before. As the en…
... homour style, all interaction and ways of killing bosses I've never ... near, I was already annoyed of mazes and dark places so ... to not wasting time finding ways I didn't feel like ... -
MobileZX???I realise I'm (verrrrrrry) late to the party but does anybody have any experience of using this? I'm not a "phone guy" but just got a Nokia C3 and do…
... does anybody have any experience of using this?
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BIFROST* ENGINE with Spectrum 128K support is out!The BIFROST* ENGINE release 1.1 is finally available, now providing also support for all Spectrum 128 models. You can download it from here: [url]ht…
... would be just a matter of using different delays to compensate ... would be no flickering regardless of Spectrum model particularities (different ... If someone was already using the previous version 1.0 ... However if you were using the interface libraries for either ... -
Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…
... both channels in memory instead of using DATA statements and figure out ... for may be complicated because of the timing. How to return ... -
Encyclopaedia GalacticaThis is the development thread for Encyclopaedia Galactica, the game upon which I'm currently working, along with a few others. The idea is that the…
... rob and alien civilisations with ways of spending money. Who knows, ... spent designing dozens of planets and hundreds of screens. Just call ... where the greater the variety of different styles, the better. ... , if any other member of the Spectrum community wants to ... -
Game BoosterAnyone here use it? I've recently been experimenting with Gamecube emulation and most games are only giving me about 30fps instead of 60, so, I was l…
... giving me about 30fps instead of 60, so, I was looking ... and I found a video of someone promoting this...
of his pc running Soul Calibur ... />
Does anyone have experience of using it and if so, is ... -
MLVMass Loaded Vinyl. Anyone got any experience of using this to soundproof with? Any success stories with it?
Mass Loaded Vinyl.
Anyone got any experience of using this to soundproof with?
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Spectranet Module InstallerAnother thing which might be useful to people is my "module installer" creator. This packages up a spectranet rom module with a small installer prog…
... ".
The requirement of using ethup means you can't ... install a module without using a PC. It also ... into an emulated spectranet using the current implementation in ... send data to fuse using ethup on windows at ... program displays the name of the module being ... -
PCL / PS driver questionsDon't know if this ever happened to any of you. I've been searching but I've yet to find a practical, permanent solution. Let's say I have a 1.4M P…
... a Lexmark C540DW with 128MB of RAM.
... happens when using the PCL XL version of the driver. ... to the printer instead of using spool". That didn't ... printers had a buffer of sorts and could grab ... there's another version of the driver, like for ... -
Impressive Service - Retro Computer ShackI've just ordered some Zetex transistors to repair one of my Spectrums from the Retro Computer Shack. The service was very impressive, and so I thou…
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Brief report on Retroma?Well, that's the last retro event of 2012 for me at least - five days of Retroma??a have just come to a close. This event is held as part of the Wee…
... held as part of the Week of Engineering and Architecture ... from surrounding schools, and of course the university students ... This included a network of 4 Spectrums (for Spectank contests), Commodore ... music, and a selection of some of his compositions. This was ... -
Speccy on WiiHi, Given than Nintendo have now decided to do the Wii-U, I expect that they wont do any more system updates for the Wii, so I've decdied to go the r…
... decdied to go the route of getting the Homebrew Channel installed ... be various updates with different ways of doing it.
Can ...
