Spectrum Computing

Some coin-op conversions appeared on the C64 but were only announced on the Spectrum and never surfaced. Off the top of my head: Iron Horse, Congo Bongo, Up 'n' Down. Also worth mentioning are Thunder Jaws, which only came out as a promising-looking demo, and Trojan, of which just a half-finished Sp...

I didn't know the early Spectrum manufacturing line at Dundee was staffed by women building the Speccies - in fact I naively thought it was a highly automated blue-lit factory like in the TV advert! There's a photo in the Spectrumpedia, Vol. 1 page 36, depicting that. Those hard-working women's han...

I bought my EnJoy some 6 years ago from Byte Delight and so far did not experience any issues, except for it being a bit loose on the +2A, so that I have to put a small booklet under it to avoid wobbling - on the 48K, 128 etc. this does not happen. Other than that, no compatibility problems whatsoev...

Last March Julian Albo made available the sources for the 0.5.5 version of his Pasmo assembler. https://pasmo.speccy.org He announced it on another forum, where I asked him whether a Windows executable file would habe been made available. He answered that he had to do some tests and then executables...

I, Ball: Did you try the TAP file I made a while ago? It works fine with Kempston on the +2A. http://disegnareconlaluce.altervista.org

Locomotion: Did you try the fixed file from here? Again, it works fine on the +2A. https://www.alessandrogrussu.it/plus2A-en.html

Times New Roman is my first choice for Word documents at work because it's compact and readable enough on both screen and paper, and since it comes with every Windows system, colleagues and pupils won't have any problem into visualizing/printing them correctly, since everybody uses Windows and nobod...

Several new additions: Batman (Erbe version, +2A/+3 compatible) Pole Position (Atarisoft and Datasoft editions, both fixed for +2A/+3) Fourth Protocol (from the +2A/+3 fix by jpnz) Head Over Heels (Erbe/IBSA version, with corrected IM2 vector for full +2A/+3 compatibility; according to Philip Kendal...

Another update for the English edition: Volume 1: - Some corrections and integrations in the text. Volume 2: - Some information about the Spectrum Next video modes have been revised. - Some entries in the Emulators section of Chapter 2 have been updated. - An entry about the AT Computer Systems IT/U...

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/c/scr/Cyberun.scr&border=0 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/c/scr/CrystalCastles.scr&border=0 look at the crystal Cyberun was the second game released by US Gold after ac...

Luzie wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 9:24 am @azesmbog is there a Download-Link or is this an inofficial version for Emulator-Authors?

I would also like to know about this new version, the usual link still shows the 01.10.22 one.

[Edit: typo corrected]

Hi @Alessandro quick question. Has Jackson Soft (Italy) re-released a title outside the covertape of "Magazine Jackson Soft Oro Spectrum"? Because if that is the case, there is no need of having it as "re-release" on titles like Pyjamarama, since it is already mentioned as a cov...

uglifruit wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 10:48 am This is great, thanks for doing this - just what I needed now I'm setting up a new PC.
Just as a heads up, the link to the FZX editor doesn't seem to be working though.

Fixed.

I put a simple web page on my website with all the download links for Claus's programs from the ZX-Modules suite, plus other three utilities also by him. Honestly I don't know how to contact him to ask him for permission, I just hope he does not mind - should he disagrees with me hosting his program...

Only the original 48K release of Elite is protected; neither the Joystick Club re-release, nor the 128 later version are

Thanks @Stu

Thank you Ivan. However clicking on the first link always returns a "403 Forbidden" error to me, could something be done about it?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:40 pm There are perverts out there for every kink you can think of, we can't go catering for all of them.

uglifruit wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 5:59 pmQZIPN

Weren't these the keys for several Melbourne House games, like the Horace series and the arcade shootout scene in Mugsy?

No you aren't. Back in the day I used the Cursor joystick combination mostly, later I grew more accustomed to the Sinclair one. I always felt QAOPM to be awkward and uncomfortable to use. When redefining keys, I set them as SDKML with A as an additional key when needed, H for pause and Q to quit. By...

It is a Spectrum standard ROM loading sound in fact, and to me it sounds pretty much like part of a screen memory dump while loading, the pixel data that usually goes between addresses 16384 and 22528. The problem is, being just a small part, without header and the rest, you won't be able to load it...

Amazing song by the way, still trying to listen to more of that Righeira stuff, italo disco is wonderful. To be honest I never could stand Italo Disco, except for Righeira :lol: This song in particular reminds me of the first time I put my hands on a Spectrum, because it was released at the same ti...

Grongy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 11:07 am

But that's Righeira from the No Tengo Dinero music video! [watch at 01:18, 02:52 and 03:32]

I noticed that all entries pertaining to Italian re-releases within the Jackson Soft Oro collection are marked as "unauthorized versions". Quite the opposite in fact: Jackson Soft were the official distributors of such games in Italy. They even successfully sued one of those tape magazines...

Hi @PeterJ, try this: http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx/Drago ... K).tap.zip

Time for another update :dance Some corrections and additions have been made to the text. In particular: - Volume 1: the entry for the Timex Sinclair TS 2068 has been expanded. - Volume 2: information about the Stellarmode video mode has been added (also check the bibliography/web resources in Chapt...

patters wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:12 am Interesting - can ESXDOS run these packages?

Probably yes, but I haven't tried it