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Below is a series of photos where I had... a) K Cursor b) typed PRINT ""dave" + L cursor (presumably) c) pressed newline and the "dave" was printed at the top of the screen and I had the K cursor again http://www.scotek.net/WebPics/zx4.JPG http://www.scotek.net/WebPics/zx5.jpg http://www.scotek.net/...

Does the cursor move 6 chars to the right as expected, is the cursor still 5 black chars long, are the first 6 chars printed, are they maybe inverse or what ?
That information would help a little bit.

I'll double check and grab some pics tonight.

Interesting reading David. I never imagined Prism was as big a company as they appear to be in the article.

You will not regret. Ah, You will have to use a ZXpand commander. A very good tool. And if some program doesn't work or work strangely, then You should run it with SHIFT+X, if I recall, from the commander. A very useful feature. (But after using such a prog, You have to reset the ZXpand properly, k...

Hi Karl That black smudge if the K cursor. I couldn't get a decent photo but you can see the "<" part of the K. Pressing keys gives all the correct responses. It's just BLACK and about 5 times wider. I've already tuned the ZX8 modules on two Issue 3 ZX81s. But I get that on both my Issue 1s. One is ...

It always is, my friend, it always is.

ZXPAND - Ordered one this morning

I have a 16K Prism RAM pack which has a damaged edge connector. Opening the case to see what was needed to repair it, I found that the circuit board was marked Sinclair.

Did Prism and some of the other 3rd party sellers simply buy spare Sinclair boards and market them as their own?

Update on the SAVE. The old cassette player records nothing, so I guess thats not going to work.

Answer must be a ZXPand then...

Thanks for the explanation Mark.

I've got the place to myself this afternoon and am going to set up the ZX81 and try to test with the old Murphy cassette recorder. Will report back how I got on.

Dave

Thanks Mark/Moggy The ROMs are the same as those in the Issue 3s so I guess these have been upgraded at some point. Yes, I did retune the ZX8 using the pots, that black bar is the best I can get to the cursor. Its possible to see part of the letter K in it but the photo doesn't show this. (I did the...