Spectrum Computing

https://i.imgur.com/3EncW60.png :mrgreen: An yeah for the ZX Printer it can only take aluminium based paper which is specific to the printer. I think the USA Timex version of the printer takes a normal thermal paper as they (sensibly) revised it Yeah, over here (in Europe), the Timex printer versio...

Haha loo rolls, that made me laugh :mrgreen: I managed to secure 5 from a seller on ebay out of sheer luck! Think I will be good for all my printing needs for a while. An yeah for the ZX Printer it can only take aluminium based paper which is specific to the printer. I think the USA Timex version of...

Hey folks, does anyone have any unwanted ZX Printer paper rolls they want to sell? Or know where I can reliably purchase?

Seems that the aluminium paper is near impossible to find with no modern replacements

@bytesguy Remy Sharp has a web based tool for converting between plain text and “+3DOS” (i.e. the format created by SAVE* under esxDOS) that I’ve found really useful. I supports Next BASIC, but I haven’t had any problems using it with Sinclair BASIC. The webpage will work offline, but if you are fa...

Thanks all! Looks like I'll be checking out BASINC this evening Looks perfect for what I need - surprised I didn't stumble across this before!

Using a Spectranet for stuff like this is way easier and more useful than faffing around with olschool local removable media like DivIDE / MMC. Interesting, not seen that before! Might have to check it out The ZX Spectrum does not save files as ‘text’ files. All the keywords are stored as tokens an...

Is it possible to save from divmmc as a pure .bas file (text file), rather than saving as .tap? I'm mostly working on a PC myself but sometimes I make on the fly modifications directly on the device. Starting to wonder if it would be any easier to use my Spectrum Next instead?