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by Szk
Wed Apr 19, 2023 1:18 am
Forum: Sales/Commercial
Topic: Wanted! +3 ‘128k FDD Floppy Disk Drive’ vinyl/plate art
Replies: 11
Views: 377

Re: Wanted! +3 ‘128k FDD Floppy Disk Drive’ vinyl/plate art

If you want to print yourself, here it is :D
https://temp.zxnet.co.uk/128kplate.svg
Made by Alistair Cree
by Szk
Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:30 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

Re: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

[Update 15/Feb/2023] After almost 2 years of research, I can finally publish my first project draft: https://gitlab.com/Szk_BR/Explorer-FM . If you're familiar with NedoPC's TS and TSFM hardware, I/O decoding and chip select mechanisms, please check out my schematic Rev 0.3, and let me know your imp...
by Szk
Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:23 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Quick question about new Spectrum+ and HDMI connection
Replies: 5
Views: 363

Re: Quick question about new Spectrum+ and HDMI connection

A third option (besides the ZX-HD and Spectra) is the ZX-VGA-Joy.
If your TV/monitor doesn't have a VGA input, a cheap VGA-HDMI adaptor shall give a much better image than composite video to HDMI. ;)
by Szk
Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:15 am
Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
Topic: Divmmc Future and Next?
Replies: 15
Views: 1248

Re: Divmmc Future and Next?

A DivMMC circuit is already reproduced in the Next's FPGA, so there's no reason at all to plug an external device. If you really want to, you can setup the Next to disable the internal circuit so your external device should be recognized, but then it will be limited to 3.5MHz as noted. Maybe [mentio...
by Szk
Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:55 am
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

Re: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

After years, the TSFM is certainly not rare, it has been produced several times in Poland and in other Central European countries, available in the past on the Sellmyretro, the last batch is from here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://oldcomp.cz/viewtopic.php?f%...
by Szk
Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:35 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

Re: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

Hmm, what do you wanna do? Produce in-game music? For a Spectrum with an exotic card, that nobody has? If it's for producing music in general, I'd suggest getting a (4 octave mini keys) midi controller keyboard and using a DAW with freeware plugins. Sure sounds better than OPL3-chips. You can even ...
by Szk
Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:17 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

Re: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

Here's the other (shorter) TSFM description document, unofficially translated from the Russian original to English. ;)
by Szk
Tue Jun 29, 2021 6:08 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Contended memory on 128K toastrack
Replies: 5
Views: 233

Re: Contended memory on 128K toastrack

zx64 wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 7:51 am Original documentation say pages 4-7 are contended, but all resources on the internet say 1,3,5,7
For the complete answer, see [mention]Alcoholics Anonymous[/mention]'s comments in this thread ;)
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2516&start=250
by Szk
Sun Jun 27, 2021 3:45 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: +3 badge or sticker or logo or what?
Replies: 1
Views: 169

Re: +3 badge or sticker or logo or what?

I think this is what you want... can you see this FB post? ;)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spectru ... 2414660902
by Szk
Sun Jun 27, 2021 3:33 am
Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
Topic: im not being funny but why did they not develop homebrew games for the sam coupe instead of creating the spectrum next?
Replies: 36
Views: 2033

Re: im not being funny but why did they not develop homebrew games for the sam coupe instead of creating the spectrum ne

"Why did they"? Well, for a start, "they" wanted to develop a new hardware, not a new software. Then "they" called a crowdfunding campaign that attracted 3K+ backers who invested a total £725K. Despite some criticism, overall it was so successful that a second campaign ...
by Szk
Sun Jun 27, 2021 2:25 am
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

Re: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

[mention]NEO SPECTRUMAN[/mention] thank you for the download links! I'll try your program in an emulator (is there other options than Unreal that support the Pentagon and TSFM?) and on my Spectrums (a variety of models from the 128K up to the Next) when I have assembled a prototype of my project (th...
by Szk
Sun Jun 27, 2021 12:59 am
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

Re: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

Thanks for the translation! Of course, you can spread the documentation for the sake of compatibility! Thank you [mention]Alone Coder[/mention]! Starting with your original Russian document , please compare with my Google-automated, translated English version and make any corrections as you see fit...
by Szk
Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:33 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: (Re)discovering the Turbosound FM
Replies: 26
Views: 3035

(Re)discovering the Turbosound FM

Hello Spectrum Computing's music loving community. Please forgive my long first post. In the last 12 months or so, I've been studying Yamaha's FM synthesizer chips from the 90's, how they've been used back then in PC AdLib/SoundBlasters, in Japanese NEC and Fujitsu PC's, in the Sega Megadrive etc, a...
by Szk
Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:02 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: NSID_Emu - SID Player for Spectrum
Replies: 47
Views: 17731

Re: NSID_Emu - SID Player for Spectrum

Hi [mention]NEO SPECTRUMAN[/mention] I've recently heard about your programs NSID and S98 players for the TSFM and would like to try them, but looks like all previous download links you provided here and on ZX-PK.ru are removed? Is there a place where we can get your latest versions? Thank you! :D