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Amstrad or Spectrum?

PstrinicPstrinic
edited September 2012 in Hardware
Another silly question...

I just got some CF-2 disks and tried them in a Spectrum +3. I can CAT the disk, but none of the programs appear to load correctly, so I'm wondering if they are Amstrad files, or perhaps some other odd format requiring a special loader or such. (

Thanks!
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  • mcleod_ideafixmcleod_ideafix
    edited September 2012
    Try doing LOAD "disk" from the +3 BASIC prompt. Some disk games don't show any recognizable file when performing a CAT command, but they load fine.
    On the other way, they could contain just data, not BASIC or CODE files. An Amstrad disk is a merely a data disk for the +3.
  • PstrinicPstrinic
    edited September 2012
    I just did CAT on a few of the lot and saw things like "AMSDOS.COM". That's 6128 stuff right? On some others I'm seeing .BAS files, loading these results in "End of file found, 0:1". Seeing some .BIN and .DOC files as well. CP/M?
  • JeffBJeffB
    edited September 2012
    Pstrinic wrote: »
    I just did CAT on a few of the lot and saw things like "AMSDOS.COM". That's 6128 stuff right? On some others I'm seeing .BAS files, loading these results in "End of file found, 0:1". Seeing some .BIN and .DOC files as well. CP/M?

    Sounds about right (though of course +3 and CPC could have files with .bin and .doc extensions too if they wanted). The end of file error is pretty much what you get if you try to load a CPC file on a Spectrum.
  • spiderspider
    edited September 2012
    IIRC the CPC range of machines could format a 3" disk in a variety of formats, I seem to recall a 'data only' format amongst others I think ?
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  • AndyCAndyC
    edited September 2012
    spider wrote: »
    IIRC the CPC range of machines could format a 3" disk in a variety of formats, I seem to recall a 'data only' format amongst others I think ?

    There were three 'original' formats, the two of which you were most likely to encounter were System and Data format (Vortex being the third and rather obscure).

    +3DOS supports all of those and some PCW only formats as well IIRC, which is why you can see the files, even if you can't actually use them.
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