Spectrum Computing

I’m just going to weigh in with this: it’s very amusing to read the spoilers when you have no idea what the game is about.

I'm guessing it's this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393315688828 In which case, yes, just remove the upper RAM and drop this in place of the Z80. Is it using a CPLD to emulate a Z80 or is that a genuine Z80 in a different form factor? Oh, interesting. I assume, since it’s designed with the Speccy ...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 9:18 am Is it this @Ast A. Moore?

https://rc2014.co.uk/modules/retired/32k-ram/

This is just the RAM module itself with no CPU on the board.

Indeed. I just loaded it into zxsp and then re-saved it as a .z80 file. This produced a file that which also wouldn’t load in other emulators. Same thing if I create a .z80 from a different machine state in zxsp; so, yes, it seems plausible that the original was created with zxsp.

I’m sorry, but what’s a Z80 with “32K of built-in RAM”?

Thank you.

We’ll start small:

Spud wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 10:42 am

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 10:38 am Combat School

Damnit, finally I knew one but didn't post the answer in time.

Yeah, well, welcome to the club.

if it’s push to make then what are you ‘making’ when you push the Speccy reset switch? I assumed that you would be ‘breaking’ something by pushing the switch ie. cutting the power, like when you pull out the power plug. Well, no. While you can reset the Speccy by literally pulling the plug on it, t...

Yep. Go ahead and clip them. No, there is no difference between the regular and “plus” boards, as far as the enclosure “downgrade” is concerned.

Although this certainly doesn’t look like the original Speedlock, I’m afraid I have nothing to do with this particular version of Road Runner . The full list of games that I’ve provided bug fixes for can be found here , and Road Runner just isn’t one of them. As a rule, whenever possible, I only pro...

If the border is consistently white across reboots, then the CPU can execute some ROM code. So, the fault is likely with the RAM.

Yes, the “Sinclair” and “ZX Spectrum” moldings are much more pronounced (raised) on the Recreated Spectrum than on the real thing.

stupidget wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:08 pmmicronaut one

Bam! (That was quick.)

Your turn.

Yay!

Now, how about this one?

Jail Break.

Nice! Kudos for the Maxell tape in the Datacorder.

Alessandro beat me to it.

I made a fix earlier and only just now got home and uploaded Kidnap to my website.

Morkin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:13 am Looks like it might be Dynamite Dan II

Bingo! (Too easy, eh?)

Let’s do something easy for a change:

Wacky Races?

Sounds unbelievable, but it’s been forty years. Forty years, gentlemen! And yet, whenever I fire her up, I feel like a teenager again. Not quite the Fountain of Youth, but there’s definitely something magical about the Speccy. No matter what I do or where I am, the Spectrum will always be an importa...

Well, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Spectrum , I’m releasing a small update: Version 1.3.3, 4/23/2022 Improvements and optimizations: The standard loader size has been reduced by 8 bytes The turbo loader has been slimmed down by another 6 bytes Visuals: The length of the top-right horizon...

I remember playing Savage II and literally swaying right and left and bobbing my head to dodge the projectiles flying into my face. Couldn’t get any more immersive than that.

Well, it’s a wild goose chase. The snippets so tiny and clearly in a random order. I don’t see how one can even begin to arrange them on the screen (assuming they come from a loading screen), even if one manages to reconstruct all the data. On top of that, the extracted bits are not necessarily goin...