Spectrum Computing

MonkZy

Spitfire 40 put you in the shoes of a ww2 pilot during the battle of Britain. The game came with a printed manual (remember those!) that was very detailed and explained many of the technical issues presented to the pilots of the Spitfire (carbs with float chambers/valves being the big one). I loved...

MonkZy

Category: Hardware Link Text: SpectraNet Link: http://spectrum.alioth.net/ The SpectraNet wiki is currently out of action and just displays a database error. The Github is still present @ https://github.com/spectrumero/spectranet and the wiki can be read via the wayback machine @ https://web.archive...

MonkZy

I think games are best played on original hardware, unfortunately space can be an issue so I am limited to a single 48k+ (with spectranet) for day to day use. I have used emulators for games in the past and prefer the 'bare metal' type emulators like Patrik Raks Nintendo DS emulator and ZX Baremulat...

MonkZy

Thanks to [mention]flatduckrecords[/mention] for your help hacking on zmakebas to improve support for Spectranet tokens so I could make use of %fopen! Is it possible to post here how you did this. I am writing some code which uses BASIC and adding in the % tokens is a real pain. A spectranet modded...

MonkZy

p13z wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 9:53 pm I also thought it could be time to revive my own TNFS, which was zxnet.zapto.org - and now zx.zapto.org

This is very good. I will come back, the minigames are not so mini.

Thanks for putting it back up.

MonkZy

The SpectraNet has really good documentation, however there was never any documentation for the machine code calls for the TNFS filesystem. Luckily the GitHub contains all of the ROM assembly code which has very comprehensive comments. Also the entry points for all of the TNFS operations are in the ...

MonkZy

Gopher is an early rival of the world-wide-web, it has a small following today but is very interesting. The original project got hamstrung by licensing arrangements (and probably other factors) and never took off in the same way as HTML. It is a text/file server that can be viewed on a client. uGoph...

MonkZy

Just reviving this thread for an update. I have managed to obtain a 48kb Spectrum+. With this machine the card tests 100% working perfectly. It is an excellent card. DHCP now works perfectly. No freezes ever. I really like the form factor of the card. The main pcb attaches at 90 degrees (by header p...

MonkZy

9. Thundercats

edit: too slow

MonkZy

And yes, I was playing on easy

MonkZy

[mention]Ast A. Moore[/mention] , I have been running test 2 for quite a few minutes and there is just a colour cycling attribute square above the filename. The original version of Kendo Warrior crashes to 48K BASIC immediately after loading is complete. Your fixed version of KW works perfectly, I p...

MonkZy

[mention]Ast A. Moore[/mention], I have run the four tests. Results are as follows : Test 1: Spectacular crash. Snow filled the top 2/3rds of the screen and quickly crashed back to the start menu. The snow was still on the screen post crash rendering the start menu very corrupted. I pressed reset to...

MonkZy

My +2 is a 'Made in the UK' version (Z70700 iss 1). As far as I can tell, they were made in the UK to use up component stocks from the 128k toastrack production. The board has a revised layout and uses axial capacitors. It is fitted with an NEC D780C-1 processor, which is soldered to the PCB so I do...

MonkZy

I have been running some diagnostic software on my old +2 grey. I ran [mention]Patrik Rak[/mention] 's Z80 full test out of curiosity. My spectrum failed the first two tests, SCF and CCF , and then failed spectacularly on test 146 LD I,A . All the tests in between passed OK. The software crashes at ...

MonkZy

I followed

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:08 pm Just buzz out either pin (2 or 4) of the connector to pin 35 on the ULA and you’ll get your MIC, which is pin 2.

I did this. The pin out is as follows :

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GND		o
		o	2. MIC
+5V		o
		o	4. EAR
GND		o

Thanks

MonkZy

I have a grey +2 with a the board revision Z70700 ISS 1. This is the UK made board which was slightly redesigned to use axial capacitors. Is the schematic for this board identical to the Z70500 ISS 3 board? Also, I am trying to confirm the pinout of the cassette drive connector. I have worked out pi...

MonkZy

[mention]Guesser[/mention]

The MAC address is set to 00:1C:C6:83:8D:D5. The hostname is set to ZX128, but the router shows hostname as 'unknown'.

MonkZy

[mention]PeterJ[/mention]

No delays or customs charges. The baggie was labelled 'Network card for ZX Spectrum'. All good.

MonkZy

I went ahead and ordered one of these boards. The process of getting it shipped to the UK was quick and painless. I had much fun tracking the package out of Moscow using Google maps :) I ordered the board on the 27th Jan and received it on the 11th of Feb, way ahead of the expected delivery date! My...

MonkZy

The common/ground pin of the joystick connects to one of the KB2 lines (1 or 4) and the directions/fire-button connect to each of the five KB1 lines. When i soldered my circuit i left two extra rows of holes before the ribbon connectors on the stripboard so i could solder the wires going to the d-su...

MonkZy

Hi Bernie, I have made an 'interface 2/Sinclair' joystick port using the GPIO keyboard interface. It worked well with the keyboard ribbons plugged in at the same time, I had no black screens. I also made a 'cursor joystick' (5,6,7,8 and 0) port using opto-couplers which also worked fine in older gam...

MonkZy

Further digging with the Wayback Machine reveals a link :

http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Software

From here you can access the tutorials and other programming resources.

MonkZy

equinox wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:21 am While browsing alioth's site I noticed that the wiki has recently been trashed by spambots

I have started a thread to see if we can build a set of links to the now buried content. Terribly sad to see this incredibly well written wiki get destroyed.

MonkZy

It would seem the excellent wiki for the SpectraNet peripheral has been nuked by bots. The original content is still there if you know the URL's, however the main page has been hijacked so there is no longer a navigation menu. Sadly I only have a bookmark for this main page. I have found some of the...

MonkZy

I have recently revived my Spectrum +2 Grey. I really want to obtain a SpectraNet add-on to continue with development of a multi user game I am working on (after five months of hibernation). As far as I can tell the only recent manufacturer of SpectraNet was Byte Delight. It seems Ben has wound down...

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