Spectrum Computing

Just found this thread. I'm the original poster of that book. It is a good one. It's funny how the book is in perfect condition, just happens to be yellow!! Maybe I should retrobrite it.... I wish there had been more books showing development of assembly language games. I know there is the Practical...

OK - good result. I relooked at the cable - and on the Spectrum you don't need to use the far end of the universal bus cable - i.e. the bit with the reversed side. When I plugged in the shorter section it worked all fine! So it was just that reversed part that was giving a strange data transfer. Now...

Thanks PeterJ, Pretty niche I guess. I've been through this with the Gotek for the AtariST, and the Amstrad and of course the Amiga. So I'm used to it by now. This Spectrum seems very tricky though with the Gotek for some reason. It should just be the same as the Amstrad really - it's all the same e...

Ok - so simple question. Does anyone have the HxC files for the Spectrum? That are known to be working. That way I can just plug away and try and get it working on mine. Right now it 'sees' some disks but not readable.

Hello, I am trying to get the latest HxC firmware on a Gotek to work with my Spectrum +3, as an external drive. At the moment I can only get the Spectrum to recognize and read the disk when I have an Autoboot.hfe file for the Amstrad CPC?! It then just shows 'hxc' as a file. Would there be any know ...