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**** You, Gamers (yet again)I don't have an XBox One, and have no plans to buy one, so I was very happy to discover that the XBox One Exclusive [b]Quantum Break[/b] (a third per…
... third person shooter where you control time, so far the previews look ... people who have these systems are the ones most likely to want ... actions speak plainly enough: they are working to turn today’s open ... -
Biggest ZX collection ever offered for sale on the internet !!!The most COMPLETE ZX SPECTRUM collection ever offered for sale on the internet! It took me years to collect everything, to make sure I have every …
... I have every item, in the top working condition, boxed, well preserved ... - the best museum quality items.
And her they are !!!< ... OWN MUSEUM, SHOW THEM WORKING COMPUTERS FROM THE 80'S
... / UK
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12V ripple with lower ram installedI repaired a speccy this week. Before doing anything I replaced all caps and measured the transistors in the power section. When doing this I found t…
... a working spectrum and it was fine. So turned the speccy ... ram module and the speccy was working great. Then removed the lower ram ... is working ok, but i see some light distortion in the ... or where to look? Why are the ram ic's causing the instability in the ... -
The last generationIt seems that us who grew up in the 1980's are the last generation for a lot of things. Such making up cassettes of songs from the radio, your mum s…
... grew up in the 1980's are the last generation for ... cassettes of songs from the radio, your mum standing ... in, making dams at the local burn (stream), playing ... find out where your favourite song was in the charts, ... some of the things we have lost are a bit ... -
Upper memory issueZX Spectrum 48K, issue 2, boots fine. Lower RAM OK. When tested with the new test ROM in the Diagboard, for all upper RAM tests "FAIL" is shown. I…
... ULA's (5C112E) with another, working, issue 2 PCB.
< ... be more important for the lower RAM, are the voltages:
4116 ... that they have P8401, where the non-socketed 4532's have ... figure are the normal year and week codes (YYWW)
Where ... -
Play it again, Fred!Important! This is NOT my work, not my product! This is an old story from 2004 ... dedicated to uncle Andrew grandpa who died in 2015 (r.i.p.) …
... treasures pyramid to pyramid where ghosts and mummies try ...
* No score bugs (sometimes the score grows automatically to 150000 ... now the double or triple drops are possible (not working by a ... />
Any new idea to the future ?
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+3e and disk geometry questionsI've bought a ZX-UNO and I want to use a mixt disk (IDEDOS+FAT) on it. That ZX-UNO has +2e DivMMC ROMs version 1.43 (the only version that works with…
... blocks that fdisk showed (the other sizes are the result of multiplying C ... seems that it can stop working with a 8Gb card.
So, the questions are:
- That strange ... my own calculations to know where do I need to stop ... -
So where is the random number in the Speccy ?So I am messing around with ZX Spectrum Assembler and I want a random number. I looked up previous posts and one of the links said that random number…
... one of the links said that random numbers are in the ROM at ... 14000 ? So there's a line in the ...
LD HL, 14000 but the number doesn't seem to ... -
Control methods to support in new game (kempston, sinclair, redefinable keys etc)Hi guys, I've been busy lately working on porting a game from the C64 to the Spectrum, and I'm at the point where the main game is working pretty …
... lately working on porting a game from the C64 to the Spectrum ... , and I'm at the point where the ... main game is working pretty well, and ... would you say redefinable keys are? The C64 original had fixed keys ... -
HILOW Interfaces informationHi recently i came across the HiLow tape interfaces, this units where build and sold on Uruguay by the same team that developed games like NarcoPoli…
... what it think its the last working example and where able to document ... to type the commands inside the quotes when you are ask for the program ... />
Here are pictures from the drive and also the modem.
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Where does the the Spectrum store the PLOT position ?So try this and it works just fine. The Spectrum must store the PLOT position somewhere as the line moves along. I'm sure someone knows where this is…
... works just fine. The Spectrum must store the PLOT position somewhere as ... the line moves along. I ... 'm sure someone knows where this is? Where ... -
What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
... 'back then'
2. You are sensible in what you would ... switch in the PSU 'brick' itself
System variables (two ... bytes maybe) to change the tape baud. I ... s the case where is the video out on the IF1 ? I realise the ... -
Dk'tronics and other similar "add on" Speccy keyboards . What can be done with them and when?. The underlying assumption I am making here is that people who have them will want to "hang on" to them and may also want to get them working . But …
... to get them working . But working for what and ... around there is the question of where/and how these ... into this world of the rapidly changing Spectrum variations ... keyboard recently I swapped the internal keyboard PCBs ... which of these are the most useful ? -
Replacing z80Hi all, I've just finished removing my z80 and installing it back in in a socket. Surprisingly I haven't broken anything in the process and the sp…
... anything in the process and the speccy seems to be working fine.
where is the best place to get a working z80 from ... will work but if the new Ines are compatible then wouldn't ... that be the better option?
Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…
... though they were all working perfectly on the +2, +2A and + ... is working completely fine and would be the closest match to the +3 ... which are all Caps Shift plus a non-working key.
Because the ... due to the non-working D key). I found a working monaural tape ...The Complete Machine Code Tutor - bug?Dear all, I'm having a fiddle with The Complete Machine Tutor and have come to the bit where they're adding registers together. The image on the l…
... the bit where they're adding registers together. The image on the left shows the ... start of the routine ... registers showing 0 as are the contents of memory location HL ... (HL) now shows 243 - where did that come from?
SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
... /> Fix UPDATE SCREEN not working
Fix syntax highlighting ... circles - now small circles are the correct size/shape
... br /> END IF not working after ELSE in some ... multiple assignments work with variables created in the same statement
Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…
... or where or by whom?
Why does the manufacturer ... probably wise to ask the question 1) Where is this current ... or so) .
What are the real ongoing production costs , "NOW ... one . So the issue of where to get the best value USB ...The Crystal MazeDear WOS, I thought about conceptualising a Speccy game based on the classic 1990s game show "The Crystal Maze", which has recently returned to TV…
... /> For those who are unfamiliar with the concept of TCM, it ... The climax of the game takes place in the Crystal Dome, where the ... team must collect a minimum of 100 gold tokens which are ... a Captain since YOU, the player, are the Captain)
- Select ...Connecting a 3" CF2 drive to a PC... or anything else, really!This one might well have been done to death - but in an eBay auction I've just won (and the stuff should be winging its way to me already, arriving b…
... never mind the hows, and the whys, and the do-you-mind ... probably not) these games are, the fact remains this is a ... " (got one that's working in a +3) "and ... )".
Even the mighty archive.org fails to ...
This may be where my 18-year-old Compaq ...Reviving a Microdrive (and its notoriously fragile media)eBay has been getting a [i]lot[/i] of business out of me lately, which brings me to this... Context: some years ago I bought a job lot of Spectrum…
... get a +3 disc drive working again - cleaning, fitting a new ... there selling some cartridges that are marked as re-padded, but ... neither does the Elcaset (where the machine pulls the tape out of the cassette shell ...I feel like such a moron having to post this but stillI started out to write a simple cursor move program to demonstrate how easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right. I started by setting…
... /> I started by setting up the variables x and y at 10 ... get rid of the trail.
Heres where it gets weird ... . Pressing L made the asterisk immediately jump to the ... the Integer out of range message and D for down wasnt working ...Dear Santa for my Christmas present I would like any one of the followingThe complete Spectrum NEXT in the new design case, with a full manual and maxed out with all the options - please! A working Timex 2068 with power s…
... with all the options - please!
A working Timex 2068 ... it.
The 128 Spectrum, the last of the Sinclair branded ones ... whatever is needed.
Whatever are the best, easiest to use, ... them.
Whichever is the best, easiest to understand book ...JSW in the headlines todayhttp://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/man-still-knows-where-all-the-rooms-are-in-jet-set-willy-20180418147489
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/man-still-knows-where-all-the-rooms-are-in-jet-set-willy-20180418147489F_Clowder where are you and by the way...I miss F_Clowder anyone know where he might be located maybe by email or perhaps at another site under a different alias? Forgive me for being a s…
I miss F_Clowder anyone know where he might be located maybe ...How are LAST-K and FLAGS set on a Real Spectrum?Hi, I'm writing a Spectrum emulator and I've got Horace and the Spiders working (with the wrong colours and no sound) but when I boot into ROM non…
... ve got Horace and the Spiders working (with the wrong colours and no ... into ROM none of the keyboard presses are recognised.
... anyone tell me how they are set?
Regarding ... , only the last one is recognised and the rest are lost...is ...MIDI TO ZX SPECTRUM BASIC BEEPMIDI TO ZX SPECTRUM BASIC BEEP ------------------------------------------------------ HI :) I found here http://portmedia.sourceforge.ne…
... . This parameters are:
REM SOUND VARIABLES (NEEDS ALL THE VALUES TO ... you can search easily, where
is the "good" song that you ... and listen
to find where is the "good" song that you ...SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
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[b]Loading (and working with) graphics files[/b]
are the most common. Files can be ... specifying the width and height, the background is either the Transparent ... how does one tell the computer where this 'solid' actually is ...Multi-Platform Arcade Game DesignerFirst of all, I should say Hello, having left the Spectrum scene around a year ago. I'm not planning to make a return but figured that I have some n…
... see what the variables and sprite parameters are set to and ... the old JUMP table method but now has an additional method where ... you can supply a parameter for different jump heights. There are ... new variables and sprite parameters ...Keyboard not working on 3 speccysI have 3 zx spectrums 48k (One was the original one I had as a kid with rubber keys) and I just purchased 2 more.. one original spectrum 48k with rub…
... and the second one is the 48k + (plus) with the hard ... .
so here are the problems I have:
are my questions:
I saw on youtube where they were repairing the ... membanes by opening the speccys ...
