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rebuilding a speccy - original hardware, emulation or cloneI have some spare speccy parts and cases etc and I've been thinking of bastardising a spectrum. I'm undecided as to using original hardware, clone or…
... to in Huddersfield? The grey +2 with the divide was hooked up to ... /> When I get some time to tinker with hardware, I'm thinking about ... I want to try to address, since most converters tend to be very ... -
WAV to TAPI'm having huge troubles trying to convert a program from a real tape to TAP virtual tape. I have tried several utilities and nothing works. I have p…
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He's wanting to save that 'captured' program back ... and couldn't save to TAP with ZXAM, only to the MIC OUT ... />
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Cyclone Vs TLLWhich did/do you prefer? My vote goes for Cyclone as I enjoyed the precision element to it.
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2. A cyclone radar (shows cyclone on map)
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fragged spectrum +I know I only bought it a few days ago. short version : I damaged it via a wonky RAM joystick box, suffering from ram pack wobble .. no sinclair mes…
... 's plenty of information on where to start. The short answer: you'll ... need some electronics experience to diagnose what's happened, plus ... -
Zon xDid anyone ever use a ZON X sound generator? I've been rummaging around in the loft and found it (along with Machine Language for the absolute beginn…
... did and managed to re-write it all to get the hi ... might not have been able to handle the code (bits left ... but I wouldn't know where to start at doing that sort of ... />
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Spectrum 48k Fault - anybody seen this before?Hello, I have two 48k spectrums that exhibit the same fault. Black border, paper area is full of columns of wavey lines. I have posted a screen sho…
... post I made "fragged spectrum +" where winston gives a bit of ... advice of what to search for.
[url ... 's plenty of information on where to start. The short answer: you'll ... need some electronics experience to diagnose what's happened, plus ... -
AmigaOS 4 on Mac MiniAfter some googling, I find some PPC based Mac's users are running AmigaOS 4 on their machines. Has anybody here tried this, and what are the benefit…
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Hi Everyone from NewbieHi Guys! Downloaded an emulator and, once I realized what to do given that I have no cassette recorder, I spent last night playing Manic Miner, Cheq…
... `t need a real Spectrum to get a lot out of ... years ago. When it came to pay for the program, I ... years I wouldn`t know where to start............. -
AmigaOS 4 on Mac MiniAfter some googling, I find some PPC based Mac's users are running AmigaOS 4 on their machines. Has anybody here tried this, and what are the benefit…
... ;406445]I wouldn't know where to begin with the 6502.[/QUOTE]
to learn c64.. :)
[url]http ... learning z80 a bit.. but to me it's alien.. so ... apple went intel partly due to their developers dev costs perhaps ... -
Sinclair ZXC3 FLASH ROM CartridgeI recently received mail about the new ZXC3 PCB which provides the unique ability to program it directly from the Spectrum without the need for an EP…
... yes: if you're a hardware developer, there are 0 obligations ... ]goal[/I] for any hardware project to put ready-made gear in ... will be. I never bothered with the diags board because I ... nice diversion from Spectranet software to fiddle with hardware for a couple of ... -
This Is Your (Gaming) LifeHi there spec-chums. I'm in an inquisitive mood, and feel like doing a bit of writing, so I was wondering if you folks would like to share the story …
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Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…
My favourite disaster - Super Soccer! Yes, it really was Super. I wouldn't know where to start, so I'll just say it wasn't the rival to Match Day I had expected. -
How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…
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so its possibly best to start with the udg and learn how ... ?
and then learn how to fit other bits around it ... ?
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4116 ram chipsI need some ram chips to fix my 48k + issue3b, I have done the composite video mod and it works, now i just wanna play games on it but its stuck on r…
... wasn't a good idea to use them after reading that ... later on, maybe just 1 to start with, hopefully i just got 1 ... -
Anybody got a hack for PAW'd games?Has anybody got a hack to browse the text in PAW'd games?
... knock up a Basic prog to do it neatly I guess ... now that I know roughly where to start. You know I barely know ... assembly language :D Somehow managed to get that Bubble Bobble editor ... -
Apple IpadI gotta get me one of those bad boys. How good will that thing be for: (1) reading ebooks (2) surfing the net Can't wait till it goes on sale. :)
... so I was fairly hostile to start with but jeeze, it's [I ... 're basically smaller computers designed to be more compact and portable ... . Apple attempted to dismiss competition from the (cheaper ... it was all I had to use to operate the thing I ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... 420842]Are you familiar with Lua at all? It' ... but Mappy allows you to write custom exporters in ... . really don't want to start with another language. but thanks ... before writing it out to a binary file.[/QUOTE ... transform gfx to big chunk of zeroes with some sparse ... -
new chris morris film: Four Lions[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/25/four-lions-chris-morris[/url] can't wait to see this. still watch the Brass Eye episodes. anyone els…
I wouldn`t know where to start, it`s more of what ... it is worth to you, and then starting off ... -
new chris morris film: Four Lions[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/25/four-lions-chris-morris[/url] can't wait to see this. still watch the Brass Eye episodes. anyone els…
... ;421130]I wouldn`t know where to start, it`s more of what ... it is worth to you, and then starting off ... -
reimport of exported asm in 7upI know it may seem a cryptic title but is there a way of importing an asm file ( created using the export data option within 7up) back into 7up or an…
... your going to have to write a program to reconstruct the graphics ... first line some arbitary address to start with, something like "ORG 30000 ... to save its output...
Iv played a little with ... the ZX Spin emulator, which also seems to allow ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
I want to be able to unpack the sprites needed ... is a load of painting to do, so unpack must ... />
I was going to start with a really simple "factor out ... common byte sequences and index to them" but then I ... when you move from one to the other. Saves doing ... -
Alien? for the Sinclair SpectrumAny Spectrum developers out there thought about producing a port of Alien? for the 128K Spectrum? Its one of the few 8-Bit systems not to have a conv…
... ] version. At least that tries to follow the events of the ... have been a nice mix with some side scrolling action from ... and those versions look good to start with anyway. -
Machine Code for BeginnersHi folks. [sort of] newbie alert. Not new to Spectrum - been there since getting first rubber key 48k in 84 and a regular visitor to WoS for many y…
Hi folks - just want to say thanks for the leads. Going to start with some of the book reccomended and see how I get on!
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address 23760 etc.Hi all, Where could I find Spectrum 48 addresses, what's in 23760 for instance ? Thanks for advance ! -jp
... FX program and it seems to be a starting address for ... probably more what is needed to get this work. Anyway I ... 'm trying to make sound effects but not sure where to start.
Be honest now...When you got your (first) Spectrum, was it the computer you wanted? And don't worry, this poll is anonymous, so your secret is safe, even if you're …
... first computer I've managed to get my hands on (because ... regrets - the ZX was OK to start with, but I could not afford ...Audio Output Filtering in EmulatorsI am messing around with various beeper-related code at the moment and have a question related to the audio output from emulators... I've written s…
... Simon says this corresponds to samples separated by 79T, ... So the suggestion is to interpolate an intermediate output ... linear interpolation corresponds to lowpass filtering with a bandwidth dependent on ... 44.1kHz samples would be to start with hard 0/1s, pass ...The prisoner remake.you gonna watch? I probably will to see if they have Americanised the **** out of it, in a bad way. The original one, you did wonder if they were of…
... is telling (and as with the real location used ... Some nods and references to the original are there ... giving a great reason to watch the whole thing ... actually enjoying it. To those willing to accept that sometimes ... much on the story to start with (let it just carry ...The RZX wishlist threadOther (of course) than WOS, I must say my favorite site in connection with the speccy is Daren's excellent RZX Archive site. To be honest I probably …
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These strategy games seem to reqiure a lot of time ... completed, so I'm afraid to start with them.
But I ... 'll try to do Freddy Hardest in South ...Electronics Help!I've brought a little universal amplifier from Maplins which is to go into the arcade machine I have, so power its speaker from the computers line ou…
... potentiometer wiper making good contact with the track?
Have ... of the device to the input with an ohm meter to ensure it ... the signal is high impedance to start with), and mains noise etc. ... how complex the waveform is with all sorts of other rubbish ...
