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... the SDL version of Fuse (ZX Spectrum emulator) can be installed and run directly in Windows 11.

1. Install Ubuntu on WSL2

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/wsl/en/github-actions-docs/guides/install-ubuntu-wsl2/

2. Inside Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install fuse-emulator-sdl

sudo apt-get install spectrum-roms

fuse

To run it from a batch file, put this in the batch file:

wsl --distribution Ubuntu --exec /usr/bin/fuse

EDIT: Note, the reason I looked into this is because the standalone build of Fuse for Windows lacks an exclusive full screen mode. I should point out that the Fuse core in Retroarch does do exclusive full screen and may be preferable for some people. This SDL Linux build of Fuse does run but has performance issues which the Retroarch core doesn't have.

The song is I want to live from Baldur's gate 3. I want to convert the sheet to a song in 128k mode but I need the other notes converted. Here is the sheet music: can someone help?

Baldur's Gate 3 - I Want to Live Sheet music for Piano (Solo) | Musescore.com

Hi,

Anybody successfully managed to add any games to spectaculator on the mac. There instructions say for the mac you drag and drop the files into the spectculator app, which is actually for iOS (Ipads/iPhones) . It runs perfectly well on the mac if I can figure out which folder I can import my games into. Searching the filesystem for some of the preinstalled games such as cyclone and bounder brings back nothing.

I recently dug out a ZX Spectrum 48k and 128k from my parents attic and was trying to test them to sell on.

I was unable to load games from tape on the 128k, as the sound coming in was hideously corrupted. The same tape recorder and cable worked just fine with the 48k (and on the 128k about 30 years ago 😂)

After looking into the problem on google, I found someone with a similar problem where they'd replaced the sound in port and it only worked when the plug was a *little bit out*. I tried this and suddenly it did indeed work just fine. In the case of the person who had the issue it turned out that the part had been soldered badly, but in the case of this machine I'm fairly certain it has not been opened for repairs since the early 90s (until I opened it up to look at it just now).

Does anyone know if this necessitates a part replacement or is there something I'm missing?

Hi everyone, I'm of a certain age and have recently discovered to much joy the spectrum retro community on here and youtube. I'm not a techie but have been loving rediscovering my childhood with some very well produced yt channels, as well as the good folk on here. One thing I've noticed is that everyone celebrates Crash magazine but I rarely see mentions of Sinclair User magazine.

My mum had a QL, and we had SU magazine on subscription for most of the early/mid 80s. I remember around 85 it went from being a serious computer magazine to being more of a games review magazine, no doubt due to the competition from Crash. But I'm curious why it's not featured much as part of this wonderful Speccy nostalgia. Was there a problem with it which I completely missed?

Love the Crash nostalgia (I also read Your Sinclair too), but I'm curious why there's no Sinclair User nostalgia.

Edit: Thanks to everyone who's replied and commented, I'm hoping to get The Spectrum soon and I look forward to reliving old memories. The thing that I remember most when I think about the 80s and my speccy was the magazines, and how I devoured them, looking at games reviews, the curious ads for mail order games, the barely believable best scores. I'm glad I'm not alone! Thanks everyone!

I have a 13 year old niece that has become obsessed with 80s 8-bit games and computers, especially Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore C64 machines. She's compiling a history of female developers of the 80s and early 90s and I'm trying to be a helpful uncle. :)

I'm currently trying to find any information about Tina Billett who wrote Mrs Mopp for the Speccy and was released around 1984 by Computasolve. If anyone could point me towards more information about the developer I'd be very grateful. Particularly looking for articles, interviews, reviews of other games by her, etc. Thank you.

Hi All,

I have a 48k with comp mod, is there any comp to hdmi converters that will work? I’m based in the UK so would love amazon link if you know it works.

Many thanks

Anyone else remember these lunatics with fondness? Really bloody hard games, some of which wrote themselves (well, the explosion in their Battlezone clone did, anyway). Dark Star and Halls Of The Things were the standouts I remember.

Does anyone remember Rockstar ate my Hamster? Still one of my favourite games ever!

Experimenting with a 0.2mm nozzle and CAD, just reprinting the case and keyboard as I had to make some adjustments. Quite impressed at how much detail I was able to make printable at this size.

Mild Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen it.

It’s a crime show set in Cambridge, and there’s a murder victim called Sinclair.

In the final episode they find all of his files in a storage container. They open it and the main character declares “We’ve found it! Sinclair’s Research!”

Just thought it was a funny little reference.