Questions tagged [sinclair]

Sinclair Research was a British electronics company which produced the popular ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum microcomputers before being acquired by Amstrad in 1986.

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What are your favourite ZX Spectrum development tools?

What are your favourite assemblers, compilers, environments, interpreters for the good old ZX Spectrum?
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ZX Spectrum AY-3-8912 playback in XNA Game Studio

Are there any libraries, pieces of code or suchlike that'll let me play ZX Spectrum .ay files in my XNA Game Studio games?
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SDCC Z80: Avoid addresses

Can I exclude certain addresses inside the code segment in SDCC? For example if my code segment spans from addr. 0x0000 to 0x4000, can I somehow tell the linker/compiler to avoid addr. from 0x2000 to 0x2100 and not place any code there? The two…
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Looking for programs on audio tape/cassette containing programs for Sinclair ZX80 PC?

OK, so back before ice age, I recall having a Sinclair ZX80 PC (with TV as a display, and a cassette tape player as storage device). Obviously, the programs on cassette tapes made a very distinct sound (er... noise) when playing the tape... I was…
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ZX Spin emulator, built-in assembly errors

I'm having problems understanding how to get an assembly file to run inside the ZX Spin emulator using the built-in assembler. I'm able to assemble my program but it seems to crash each time I attempt to run the assembled object code. I cannot find…
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ZX Spectrum - Issue with RS232 (Serial Port)

I recently got hold of a ZX Spectrum +3 and am trying to get RS232 working with the spectrum. I’ve built a cable (‘BT’ style connector <-> DB9 serial) following the pin out of the cable (Spectrum 128 RS232 data cable) here. The other end of the…
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Keyboard map Sinclair Spectrum ZX +2 on Teensy 3.2

I'm converting a Sinclair Spectrum 128 ZX +2 into a Raspberry Pi-powered computer and I'm using a Teensy 3.2 USB Development Board for mapping the original keyboard with the original membrane and get a normal USB keyboard. I'm not planning to…
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