Spectrum Computing

I’ve been playing the beta version for a couple of weeks now and it’s good to see it released properly. I think it’s probably one of if not the best 8-bit version of Asteroids I’ve played. I think it would have been a Crash smash back in the day

Hedge1970 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:56 am Not at home right now but if no one else answers I’ll get back to you tomorrow.

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Does anyone know what size the captive screws are for the two that clamp the IF1 to the underside of the Speccy? I know the rest are covered in the service manual but not these ones ( I think )

I still cannot get my head around having machine code in the REM statement

Shame you had a duff one, I fitted one to my IF1 as there was heat damage to the case when I bought it. The only problem I had with it was my own fault. I damaged a track removing the old ULA so I had to bodge it with some Kynar wire. Aside from that I’ve had no problems. The vDrive Microdrive and v...

1 Backpackers guide to the universe
2 Doomsday Castle
3 The Pyramid

I built one of the two open source Plus D Clones after I had some PCB's made, and I use a Gotek instead of a real 3.5" drive. Makes life easier transferring between Speculator on my laptop and my real +2. Just create some .MGT disks on the laptop, convert them over to .HFE format, stick them on...

“Microdrive” gets my vote as a Sinclair themed name but as the previous post said sometimes straightforward works just as well.

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I am after a copy of Firebirds Sentinel and a complete copy of Gyron if you have one you don’t need then please contact me.
Thanks.

Slipper Sid was a neat little game and I played it a lot back when I got my first Speccy

Worse things happens at sea was my favourite game though.

Found the select bits buried in the source file and none of them match to what was programmed by default so that probably explains why it didn't work.

Hi All, Does anyone have any experience with these devices? In particular the programming of the PIC chip and the bits that need to be set when you program it. I have the .Hex file and when I open it in my programmer with the correct chip selected the bit flags are already populated but I’m not sure...

I really liked Fred and Bugaboo was pretty good and Glass was a decent shoot em up as well. I liked Ant Attack but I just feel there were other good games released by Quicksilva aside from Sandy White’s game.

CDS Pool was my favourite out of that lineup.

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:27 pm

Morpheus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:56 pm Did anyone ever fit the 220nf capacitors on the lower RAM to help with the “jailbars” ?

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Thinking more in terms of the 48KB models rather than the 128K/+2 but interesting nonetheless.

Did anyone ever fit the 220nf capacitors on the lower RAM to help with the “jailbars” ?

This diode snapped in half at some point when desoldering the lower ram chips. Can somebody tell the specs? https://i.postimg.cc/YvbchZF3/15775285872486390683017505730799.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/21JsQvHb/1577528670474844228197197467091.jpg Looks like a 47nf capacitor used on the Speccy and not a d...

Mine arrived yesterday, very nice package

Got an email today to say this should be shipping early next week so looking forward to getting that cassette fired up on my +2

Placed my order today for the Clamshell version so looking forward to this arriving.

I always liked Hacker so I went with that

Yes, sorry I think you posted it a while back and I thought you had made it. My bad

If you add the extra circuitry, you could replace the 3.5 mm jack with a single TRS one and wire it the same way it’s wired on the +3. If you don’t want to bother with all that, you can just buy a generic cassette adaptor. They’re cheap and work well. If I remember you made a video of this using so...

I have just repaired my interface 1 with one of Charles’ vLA1 parts and was wondering if anyone had connected these two before, that being the +2 Grey and a 48K with IF1 using the RS232 ports. I have seen an adapter on the inter web with a BT jack to a DSub so wondered if it was possible to network ...

Thanks, I’ll leave the PAL as is based on your advice. I wasn’t keen on clipping it out as it was a one-way choice. I was looking at the mod that connects the ear input of a new mono socket to pin 5 to the LA6324. Then I can use my TZXDuino I was also going to try extra grounding on the cassette uni...