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Taking the Spectrum for a bath - Lots of SEXY photos!Decided to take a Spectrum +2 for a bath this weekend. It was non-working, so it needed fixing. It booted to a fuzzy dark picture and I thought "Ah, …
... do the membrane either :) , I did not do the keyboard 'base' either ... it out as they keys were having a soak on their ... -
Taking the Spectrum for a bath - Lots of SEXY photos!Decided to take a Spectrum +2 for a bath this weekend. It was non-working, so it needed fixing. It booted to a fuzzy dark picture and I thought "Ah, …
... do the membrane either :) , I did not do the keyboard 'base' either ... it out as they keys were having a soak on their ... -
Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... br /> So I decided to buy it, as I've never ... the screen anywhere.
The keyboard is nice though (considering its ... somehow.
the 48K Rubber keyboard version even looks like an ... verdict: Both Commodore and Sinclair were great. Sinclair offered the budget ... -
ZX 128 keyboard woesJust scored a 128K speccy at a fair, but it has some wierd problem with the keyboard. It seems that some keys are 'stuck' or not registering properly…
... are actually slightly cheaper to buy through sellmyretro.com (still from ... />
The keyboard clamps which fit over the two membrane tails - these ... are essential for the keyboard to work ... -
Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…
... not as steady as they were 10 years ago!).
membrane totally and utterly bit the ... I get either another keyboard or my new membrane arrives as the ... -
What happened to the Elite Systems Spectrum?Back in February of this year I read an article that Elite Systems were going to re-release the ZX Spectrum for the 30th Anniversary in 2012. Is thi…
... buy it immediately!:grin:[/QUOTE]
Those of you who were ... not got a rubber key keyboard, but - even if it doesn ... SD Card and PS/2 keyboard support. Full 48/128K PAL ... -
What happened to the Elite Systems Spectrum?Back in February of this year I read an article that Elite Systems were going to re-release the ZX Spectrum for the 30th Anniversary in 2012. Is thi…
... ;580064]Those of you who were at Replay in Blackpool the ... not got a rubber key keyboard, but - even if it doesn ... SD Card and PS/2 keyboard support. Full 48/128K PAL ... 't there! Anyway, I would buy one for sure.
Let ... -
What was the best Designed Speccy???So what does the World Of Spectrum think the best Designed Spectrum was? [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/thespectrums.jpg/][IMG]http:…
... ]Spectrum +[/U]
Improved keyboard, price increased back up to ... Spectrum cost far less to buy in by this stage, yet ... January of 1986 you could buy [B]128k[/B] of ... incredibly ugly), but essentially they were still selling the ancient Spectrum ... -
The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…
... and technological purposes, there were countless spotty kids playing games ... in North America, computers were in the thousand dollar ... to type on the membrane keyboard of the zx81. Stuff ... br />
Sinclair's machines were squarely aimed at computer literacy ... -
The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…
... in North America, computers were in the thousand dollar range ... early adopters of home computers were not the mass market ... impossible to type on the membrane keyboard of the zx81. Stuff ...
Sinclair's machines were squarely aimed at computer literacy ... -
Gauging interest: ZX EvolutionHi everyone. First of all I would like to introduce myself, since this is my first post. My name is Conrad, I'm from Vancouver, BC, Canada, and I hav…
... , if I recall).
They were using some weird engine, always ... you can't play on keyboard in those games - the Spectrum ... ; I'd really like to buy a ZX Spectrum 128k (toast ... compatible I would love to buy one of them instead, since ... -
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…
... experience
You can buy the 78S05 from eBay on ... the very ends off the keyboard cables as I had seen ... the heat rather than the keyboard as it was getting really ... we need to replace the membrane.
The issue 3b ... -
Toastrack problemMy toasty started behaving oddly last night. Basically typing random characters itself, I first noticed it when I had my divide+ plugged in and a con…
... , row 3 is pulled up buy R67. Turn on the machine ... you disconnected and reconnected the membrane you moved and bended the ... are pulled UP. Amstrad redesign keyboard part apparently. Actually, amstrad's ... -
Toastrack problemMy toasty started behaving oddly last night. Basically typing random characters itself, I first noticed it when I had my divide+ plugged in and a con…
... , row 3 is pulled up buy R67. Turn on the machine ... you disconnected and reconnected the membrane you moved and bended the ... are pulled UP. Amstrad redesign keyboard part apparently. Actually, amstrad's ... -
Spectrum30 Show in Cambridge, 08th-09th September 2012Hello Spectrum-fans, after many months of preparation we now proudly present what will be the biggest Spectrum venue of the last 20 years. We manage…
... opportunity to buy retro ZX hardware and software including keyboard overlays to ... working order.
There were several talks from individuals from ... -
Linux Format magazine: Raspberry Pi running FUSE inside a speccy caseIn this month's Linux Format magazine, they put a Raspberry Pi running FUSE inside a speccy case: [url]http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-1…
... pc modding mags, the speccy keyboard does work like a pc ... from a pc keyboard hooked up to the membrane and remapped the ... ]
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We were discussing this the other day ... keyboards and connecting a speccy membrane instead of the PC sized ... -
Fuse and Raspberry PiHaving trouble getting fuse to start on the Raspberry Pi from the command line, it runs fine in Debian Wheezy but when I try running from command lin…
... into the controller from the keyboard I ripped apart and I ... pads.
The results were pretty much instant and I ... where you are, connected the membrane to the usb board using ... -
Brazilian TK90X and TK95SpecEmu provides explicit support for Brazilian TK90X. Other emulators provide indirect support (perhaps the "Spectrum 48K NTSC" option in Fuse?). Al…
... in 1986, with a "professional" keyboard and case similar to Commodore ... time would probably choose to buy the new "TK95" instead.< ... Each one of these models were available in 2 variants, with ... community for this research! There were too many people involved, so ... -
Hoping to build a zx spectrum laptop in futureHi, I'm new here, going to school learning to be a computer tech. I like computers, computer stuff and I'm sort of a laptop fan - have several laptop…
... zx spectrum laptop and you were a worker that travels to ... for your speccy. About the keyboard on your speccy laptop, beanz ... /> Why is your keyboard better than the rubber membrane ones?
were selling for around $50 and ... -
Hoping to build a zx spectrum laptop in futureHi, I'm new here, going to school learning to be a computer tech. I like computers, computer stuff and I'm sort of a laptop fan - have several laptop…
... your speccy. About the keyboard on your speccy laptop, ... 's what I though you were planning.
... for $22, and attach the keyboard to it? [/b]
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The keyboard/wallet is buy it now...He has ... by this title/author were selling for around $50 ... -
Ay Real Time Synthetizer SoftwareSpectlemen and Spectladies!It's been a long time that I'd like to ask this.... I ask thee to create a new musical software for our ZX Spectrum machi…
... a solution :D Don't buy it, recycle it!! :P
were saying MIDI input was not ... even do it with the keyboard with your finger, provided that ... -
Adding IDE to your Spectrum +2 A/B (or +3)Hello my fellow [B]WoS'ers[/B] [B]This is a shared thread with [url]www.amibay.com[/url] which you can [URL="http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=…
... /> One question though, if you were planning to use a compact ... to CF adapter - ?1.59 Buy It Now (in postage)
keyboard and - with a little effort ... -
The new Superfo cloneHi In the spanish forum speccy.org some guys and me have optimized the superfo clon to have less ICs. The actual design has 39 ICs versus the 45 ICs…
... as Sinclair, I assumed we were talking about amstrad.
2. SJS1, mapped on keyboard keys 1,2,3,4 ... .
3. SJS2, mapped on keyboard keys 6,7,8,9 ... Atari/SJS2.
-If you buy a Kemston interface, you have ... -
Time for all games to become (legally) available?It just came to me that none of us are getting any younger. Not much of an earth-shattering statement I know, but more came of this original thought.…
... smell of that overheating rubber keyboard. One of my best ... />
If you were an artist - some sort of ... exceptions - like if you were a musician plus registered ... time to prepare to buy a new, legal one ... jobs, and money to buy games, and distribition channel ... -
eBay woes. Advice needed please.This is not really how I wanted my birthday to turn out but here goes. On Sunday just gone I won [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281085302148"]this[…
... WITH the original costs=free keyboard)
... why buy a keyboard with trashed keys ;) . I assume you were ... for the synths that were with it.. they sent ... the length is the keyboard is the thing that ... />
my best keyboard build quality wise is the ... -
My FrankenspectrumHey all, I originally posted this on the Raspberry Pi forums, but thought people here might be interested also. Inspired by the guy on Flickr who m…
... there were somebody building these for sale I would definitely buy one ... . To get the original C64 keyboard to work I just used ... -
Upgrading from 48k to 128kApart from natural progression. What game(s) sold it to you that you HAD to upgrade and nag at your parents countless times after that point to get …
... in soon-to-be-exUSSR were almost exclusively 48k clones like ... almost all tape games still were "cracked by Bill Gilbert" for ... (And friend's "full-scale" keyboard was jamming sometimes which was ... -blasphemy! - plunge in unknown and buy C64 i never touched... -
Any Games Require a Joystick?Noob question time: Are there any Speccy games that require a joystick? I looked through the archive but couldn't find any filters alluding to a re…
... /> oh hang on, you were talking about the joystick interface ... my home town. As you were...
... just used the keyboard. There were a few games ... /> When my Speccy+'s membrane started dying in 1989 and ... probably the reason my membrane died in the first ... -
A few Windows 8 questions...I'm thinking of picking up a new desktop pc for use on my big telly but pretty much every new machine I've seen is now pre-installed with Windows 8. …
... ;715141]Would you buy a car if the peddles were in the ... the same order (as the keyboard does on a PC), but ... -
The Spectrum Resuscitation ThreadKicking off this thread as a place where people who are fixing/restoring Spectrums (or indeed any other piece of related hardware) can show off their…
... multiplexing issue), once these were evicted and replaced the lower ... RAM chips as dead, these were again replaced. Total body ... 4S with (supposedly) the better membrane, I took a multimeter and ... this section out fixed the keyboard up (luckily!)
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