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Wanted: 3" disk drivesSee subject. Looking for cheap working 3" disk drives for Zx Spectrum +3, CPC 6128 or PCW. -- dg67
... noting that although the PCW disk drives are not electrically compatable ... as springs, screws, the disk tray and the spindle motor ... when the springs weaken, the disk tray isnt always pulled down ... liked a proper 3" disk drive second disk drive to go with the 3.5" -
Sinclair Computer Club???We've nearly finished setting up the Commodore Computer Club (UK) - [url]www.CommodoreComputerClub.co.uk[/url], and I have the domain name for [url]w…
... resell their Commodore games on disk (3.5" and 5.25") as Cronosoft aren ... can buy their games on disk, and Psytronik software don't ... -
Bandersnatch Development Disks FoundFound these 5.25" disks in my loft at the weekend and thought you guys would be interested. I'm in the process of extracting the stuff that is on the…
... model II had an 8" disk drive and the original poster ... mentioned it was a 5.25" disk, right away it didn ... , so some people fitted 5.25"/3.5" to their model-II ... haven't myself used a 5.25" disk for about twelve years ... the wrong position for a 5.25" disk. -
Bandersnatch Development Disks FoundFound these 5.25" disks in my loft at the weekend and thought you guys would be interested. I'm in the process of extracting the stuff that is on the…
... II had an 8" disk drive and the original poster ... mentioned it was a 5.25" disk, right away it didn ... , so some people fitted 5.25"/3.5" to their model-II ... t myself used a 5.25" disk for about twelve years ... the wrong position for a 5.25" disk.[/QUOTE]
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Bandersnatch Development Disks FoundFound these 5.25" disks in my loft at the weekend and thought you guys would be interested. I'm in the process of extracting the stuff that is on the…
... /> Left to right - 8", 5.25", 3.5". Note the position of the ... centre hole - compare with disk in original post (also below ... :-
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Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…
Spectaculator supports real disk mode for the Plus ... bother with it for the +3, though - can't imagine ... an adapter to connect a 3" drive to a PC. ... ve replaced their internal 3" drive with a 3.5" one ;-)
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What computing platforms do you have in the house?Just took delivery of my first Mac so now in our house we have: Study: HP Compaq desktop running XP Living room: Dell laptop running Vista (spit)…
... and for the Tape and Disk Preservation stuff here on WOS ... + speccys
-Spectrum +3 with an external 3.5" floppy
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John Elliot does it again! Re: TOS disks.[url]http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.amstrad.8bit/browse_thread/thread/aa809b6f6b9c6f7f#[/url] It is now possible (and easier) to extract …
... popular (and actually the only) disk-system in Poland. There was ... were changing their FDD3000 into 3,5" etc...
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IBM Floppy Disk Drive for Spectrum +3If I connect one up, will I be able to download roms and write them to a floppy with my PC, then play them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format di…
... *are* on disk, they tend to be 3" Spectrum format disks ... 3.5" drive, but you probably don't want this for +3 disk ... images. (Perhaps someone else can elaborate on +D/+3 interoperability ... floppies. Windows XP/PC disk controllers are notoriously picky about ... -
IBM Floppy Disk Drive for Spectrum +3If I connect one up, will I be able to download roms and write them to a floppy with my PC, then play them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format di…
... dsk files. Alas my spectrum +3 disk drive has died.
< ... 3.5" drive, but you probably don't want this for +3 disk ... images. (Perhaps someone else can elaborate on +D/+3 interoperability ... floppies. Windows XP/PC disk controllers are notoriously picky ... -
IBM Floppy Disk Drive for Spectrum +3If I connect one up, will I be able to download roms and write them to a floppy with my PC, then play them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format di…
... them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format did the spectrum ... connection. (+3 and CPC shares the very same shugart disk interface) : [ ... /Floppy/Floppy.htm[/url] (select 3.5" floppy link from the left ... like .tap, .tzx from floppy disk until you grab a divide ... -
Remapping the keyboard on WinUAE Amiga emulatorYes, I know I should be asking this a Lemon or English Amiga Forum but as I've read so far from other's posts they are either nice but too techy to u…
... winUAE properly installed(got workbench 3.1 disk images) and this guide ... newest version of winuae - 1.5.2 I think - was also ... -
The Joy of Upgrades.Well, this weekend I am working on upgrading my computer and its gunna be a beauty. 3Ghz Quad Core, 4GB Ram, 16000 DDR2 Ram, 1 TB HD. ATI Radeon GT4…
... AV)
IE7,
FireFox 3,
Flash,
Java JDK ... XP hard disk and it boots in fine, but takes 3.5 mins ... old XP on the same disk as the new on, but ... -
Big fat external hard drivesI'm looking to get a 1TB external hard drive to back up all my po... erm, I mean important data. Anyone got any advice? Looking at Western Digital …
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Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....
... shell out ?3 a disk on that PD library. One disk for the ... emulator and the others with about 5-6 ... -
Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…
... 13 and 5)
The actual format of a disk should be ... !) format.
Most/many Floppy Disk Controller chips can be programmed ... particular disk. A barrier though is HD, as a Z80 on 3.5 ... , Betadisk, TR-DOS, SAMCoupe, Spectrum+3(3.5"), MB02, Didaktik, CP/M(2 ... -
upgrades what you looking for?i start working for upgrades for ZX, but i'm Atari specialist and i don't know exactly what you need for ZX. On the moment i have DIVIDE in stock, an…
... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_128]Beta Disk Interface[/url] with [url=http ... nice connection to standard PC 3,5" diskrive.
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Transferring +3 Disk Image from PC to real +3Is there a way to do this without physically connecting the +3 disk drive to the PC? Something like a Speccy version of the "Xfer in C" utility for…
... util appears to be called "Disk Dump" by someone called Eurico ... the olden days to transfer disk images to PC from spectrum ... how to hook up a 3" drive to a PC.
3.5"->5 1/4" drive adaptor ... -
Transferring +3 Disk Image from PC to real +3Is there a way to do this without physically connecting the +3 disk drive to the PC? Something like a Speccy version of the "Xfer in C" utility for…
... the olden days to transfer disk images to PC from spectrum ... the Spectrum's got a 3.5" floppy drive, but it doesn ... transfers and UUencoding, and the +3 version to support drive T ... -
upgrades what you looking for?i start working for upgrades for ZX, but i'm Atari specialist and i don't know exactly what you need for ZX. On the moment i have DIVIDE in stock, an…
... -based floppy adaptor with 3" SSSD A: and 3.5" DSDD B: (can ... from a couple of dead +3's i have)
[*]ZXATASP ... !!) but modded for 1024k flash - 3.5" IDE Master (maybe about 10GiB ... beeper).
The hard disk would be full of games ... -
Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …
... ]I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got ... external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC ... interface from a modern external 3,5" drive for this ?[/QUOTE]
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Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …
... interface from a modern external 3,5" drive for this ?[/QUOTE ... -external-portable-floppy-disk-drive-1-44MB-3-5-inch_W0QQitemZ350219927554QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_FloppyDiskDrives_SM?hash=item518abc0002 ... the 3" FDD ....hmmmmm might be worth a ?5 for ... -
Plus D and 5.25" drive QuestionHi, I've configured my Plus D clone interface for a two drive system. Drive 1 is a standard 1.44Mb drive connected as DF0 by jumpers. As Drive 2, I'v…
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Basically, 1.44MB 5.25 disks rotate faster, (I ... rotate at 300RPM, same as 3.5" disks. (Yes, this is ... HD hole on the floppy disk. (Alas, I havent used ... or short the floppy disk HD detection switch in the ... it always thinks a DD disk is inserted.
Plus D and 5.25" drive QuestionHi, I've configured my Plus D clone interface for a two drive system. Drive 1 is a standard 1.44Mb drive connected as DF0 by jumpers. As Drive 2, I'v…
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Basically, 1.44MB 5.25 disks rotate faster, (I ... rotate at 300RPM, same as 3.5" disks. (Yes, this is ... HD hole on the floppy disk. (Alas, I havent used ... or short the floppy disk HD detection switch in the ... it always thinks a DD disk is inserted.
newbie : pc +3Hi, I am waiting on a +3 at the moment to arrive (who can tell.. the posties are having a laugh at the moment) . I have things in DSK format in the …
... easy to add a 3.5" drive to the +3 without much trouble ... can ferry files across on 3.5" disks formatted to 720k dos ... onto a 3" disk)
alternatively you can format the 3.5" disks ... to spectrum format and copy the files from your disk ...Pc to speccy?Not been on here for a while, but after watching some of BBC4's electric dreams programmes it has given me the urge to get my old speccy out. So ye…
... of the machine using some 3.5" mm jacks soldered onto the ... /> +2 doesn't have a disk b connector on the back ... of built in disk drive). +2A becomes a +3 when you connect ... a disk drive on the ...DSK to TZX?Is it possible to convert a DSK disk image file to a TZX tape file? If so, then how? And is there a utility out there that does something like that? …
... possible to convert a DSK disk image file to a ... TZX on a Spectrum +3, it would format a ... DSKs to +3s with no 3.5" drives.
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Two inverters ( pins 5-8 and 11-10) are ... /> One inverter (pins 5-6) take the 3.5 MHz clock from ULA ... -2 and 3-4) are used for signal floppy disk N-DRIVER ...3.5 drive (external)Hi, I read that I have to put a 'diode' on the ribbon cable (for the RDY signal). But so far I could not find where can I put it on the cable... Any…
... mention it was for the +3...
thanx .. I ... If you use a double 3.5" - 5.25" floppy drive cable, ... the drive to the +3 by using the connectors needed ... putting something on the other 5.25" connectioin able to ... when you ask for drive disk read or write access. ...3.5 drive (external)Hi, I read that I have to put a 'diode' on the ribbon cable (for the RDY signal). But so far I could not find where can I put it on the cable... Any…
... ' on the 3.5 the +3 tried to read the disk (the stepper motor ... put it as internal, the +3 reported that there are 2 ... is 'wired' internally (on the 3.5) and the speccy thinks there ...
