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... you wouldn't find on a regular floppy drive. :)[/QUOTE]
3?5? disk drive works in a Spectrum +3 like a 3? driver ... can?t turn round the 3?5? disk. :-)
About ... that turn db25 connector to spectrum +3 disk B connector (Only with ... -
+3 and amstrad 6128 disk b port compatibility questionAfter having read many web pages, secarica's long text and guesser's ascii-art diagrams for connecting a pc floppy to +3 drive B slot, I found myself…
... I tried one of them on Spectrum +3, switched as DS1. It worked ... -style floppy cable (that one with five connectors, two 5.25", two 3.5 ... supply (unlike you connect on PCs) and the 5.25" connector nearest ... to it, plug into the +3 port ... -
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…
... a floppy with my PC, then play them natively on my Spectrum +3? What ... format did the spectrum disks need ... interfaces that take a standard 3.5" drive, but you probably don ... -
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…
... playing actually were on my real floppy disks and can ... floppy drive" to a Spectrum (I think you can with a +2a/+3 ... interfaces that take a standard 3.5" drive, but you probably ... (Perhaps someone else can elaborate on +D/+3 interoperability?)[/QUOTE]
hi all in new to the spectrum need helphi all this is the fist spectrum iv owned and i need a bit of help iv got a zx +3e with an 512 cf card hdd and a 3.5 disk drive as b: iv formated…
... be readable on the PC and on the Spectrum as well. ... data off dos floppy disks onto the 3" disk or ... whether omniflop can do spectrum format disks, but presumably ... your PC... any +3 formatted 3.5" disk will be completely ... them to a *720kB* floppy disk (the blue ones ...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…
... (underlying!) format.
Most/many Floppy Disk Controller chips can be ... is HD, as a Z80 on 3.5 Mhz is not fast enough ... this by using DMA.
On Opus I actually recognized/analized ... -Dos, Betadisk, TR-DOS, SAMCoupe, Spectrum+3(3.5"), MB02, Didaktik, CP/M(2 ...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…
... disk images to PC from spectrum ?
Have a look ... , it has a few guide on how to hook up a ... 3" drive to a PC.
[ ... /4" drive bay with a 3.5"->5 1/4" drive adaptor ... it fit and then a floppy adaptor and the power (5v ...Writing .dsk files in a +3How can I write .dsk files in a +3? I'm about to connect an external 3.5 inch drive, and I was thinking about "fixing" the drive so it always detect…
... write .dsk files in a +3?
I've got ... .dsk files can be written on a PC by using CPCDiskXP ... disks are useable on your Spectrum only if the 3.5" drive is set ... -12 pins (sixth row on the floppy connector) always "on".
There ...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? …
... TZX on a Spectrum +3, it would format a blank floppy and ... write the data onto it that was on ... DSKs to +3s with no 3.5" drives.
... of whatever software was on the DSK, that isn ... followed by the contents of Spectrum memory. Now, this ...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…
... old five-connector floppy cable (where both 3.5" and 5.25" drives can ... ) has only one direction on the +3, since it's generally ... keyed. Anyway, if you see the Spectrum ... from your typing position, you must put the red wire on ...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? …
... the TZX on a Spectrum +3, it would format a blank floppy and write ... the data onto it that was on the ... DSKs to +3s with no 3.5" drives.[/QUOTE]
I ... first test trying to use +3 DOS failed. I was planning ...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? …
... TZX on a Spectrum +3, it would format a blank floppy and ... write the data onto it that was on ... DSKs to +3s with no 3.5" drives.[/QUOTE]
on unprotected discs with a ... not, all 512 bytes go on the tape.
Using real 3.5" floppies to load a +3 game (emulated)Is it possible to load a Spectrum +3 or Amstrad CPC 664/6128 game with the use of 3.5" floppy disks (providing the emulator can support real disk mod…
... it goes straight to my Spectrum +3 (the 3.5" disk drive is external ... emulator that works with real floppy disks?[/QUOTE]
... procedure for writing dsk image on 3.5 PC floppy?
I tried with ...
Rotation speed of my floppy is 300.
Also i ...The Ultimate Spectrum, made from old spectrumsGiven that all types of the Spectrum are less than ideal in one respect or another, I wondered what the ulimate refinement would be, but just using o…
... find the details again (on foro.speccy.org).[/quote]
on the whole. It just seems ... be a change to 3.5 inch floppy drive and an NMI ... just have the 3.5 inch as an add on may be ... one one of my 3 spectrums, a Spectrum +. My 48K rubber ...The Ultimate Spectrum, made from old spectrumsGiven that all types of the Spectrum are less than ideal in one respect or another, I wondered what the ulimate refinement would be, but just using o…
... for an ultimate spectrum is:
Spectrum +3 with 3.5 inch Floppy drive replaced ... media of choice for a spectrum, but via a reliable ... virtual tapes and virtual disks on modern flash storage. Get an ... the least work to do on the hardware:
[ ...Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... financially viable would be a "Spectrum on a Chip" type of idea ... that technology must have moved on sufficiently by now that ... . If somebody produced a spectrum which was compatible with all ... RGB output, built in 3.5 inch floppy drive and DivIDE interface (or ...Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... had a warehouse full of 3" drives due to bad ... machine and decided the Spectrum +3 was the way to ... [/QUOTE]
well the 3" drive was what Amstrad had ... just starting to use the 3.5" drive in '86. There ... the 5.25" floppy disc and Sugar just bet on the ...Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... the time the +3 came out, of course, 3.5" was clearly the ... line on very cheap 3" drives.
Regarding improving the spectrum line ... with an ASIC, eg the floppy disk lines and the centronics ...Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... just starting to use the 3.5" drive in '86. ... the 5.25" floppy disc and Sugar just bet on the ... and they already knew(?) 3.5" drives were the way ... on them was almost impossible to recover. I also have 3.5 ... looked more like a Spectrum on the ouside and didn' ...Multiface 1 (Romantic Robot) RepairHello there my fellow ZX'ers! recently I got an Interface 1 + MicroDrive from a friend and since then I have been having awesome geeky moments in fr…
... working and was introducing interfernece on the audio line.
3.5" and +3e ROMs)
on what to do first in terms of hardware for the Spectrum ... a slim-line Floppy Drive for a spectrum - I was ... to find the words on how much awesome ...Sinclair QL ProblemHi there. I purchased recently four Sinclair QL for a not small amount of money. Two german and two english, they are mixed: British or European conn…
... isn't extensive information on the internet about it ... manuals and information which appears on the Sinclair QL Homepage - ... came without the floppy drive.... I suppose any 3.5'' pc compatible drive ... DS0.
The Spectrum PlusD has the same issue ...Gauging interest: ZX EvolutionHi everyone. First of all I would like to introduce myself, since this is my first post. My name is Conrad, I'm from Vancouver, BC, Canada, and I hav…
... , power ATX or +5,+12V;
* Based on fpga (Altera EP1K50);
* Floppy (WDC1793) Beta-disk compatible interface ... regular +3 disk images unfortunately, but you can use spectrum tap/sna ...writing +3 problemI can write any game to a 3.5 disk and run it on my external drive but can i write the second side onto the disc as well. I am using samdisk and cpc…
On both CPCdiskXP and SAMdisk, you ... /writing on the other side of the disk in the ZX Spectrum +3 ... the connections of a internal 3.5 inch drive to have one ... old programs could enable the +3 to make use of bigger ... to use a double sided floppy drive as well.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…
... my laptop straight into the spectrum,
although the nostalgia of ... about a 50% success rate on the Spectrum - perhaps some formats don ... you can use a USB floppy drive on the pc to write ... 3.5 drive directly to the Spectrum with the same cable I use on ...Spectrum +3 External 3.5 driveHi All, I made a 3.5 external hard drive for my Amstrad CPC & it works a treat. I would like to use the same drive on my +3 but I dont know what co…
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on the plus 3 earlier and it read from the 3.5" I ... 'm gonna write a plus 3 disk inage ...Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…
... line-of-sight calculations going on for pretty much everything moving ... 14 floppy disks...and I havent seen any mention of Spectrum homebrew on ... run from less higher capacity 3.5" floppies either from a Commodore ...Wolfenstein / Doom for 48k SpectrumHi, is there any game / demo of this kind that runs on 48k machines? Thanks.
... this awesome effort in the Spectrum.[/QUOTE]
The . ... only can be used on a 3,5" normal density floppy disc (it means ... only an external disc drive compatible with 3,5 ... " discs plugged to the +2A/+3 unit). In ...Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... a TNFS server for the Spectrum, and any computer that can ... be, all I ever programmed on the Spectrum was BASIC. I fiddled ... HC2000 has a 3.5" 720KB built-in floppy drive which you could ... idea what the filesystem was on those floppies. CP/M didn ...Adding IDE to your Spectrum +2 A/B (or +3)Hello my fellow [B]WoS'ers[/B] [B]This is a shared thread with [url]www.amibay.com[/url] which you can [URL="http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=…
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After dismantling the Spectrum +3 and removing the motherboard - the ... populated for use with the 3" Floppy Disk Drive.
Spectrum +2A/B the +3 has a solid power supply on the ... ) so one can use common 3.5" IDE hard disks if they ...Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... the C64 had an official floppy drive available from the ... opportunity to release the +3 with a 3.5" drive, extra RAM and ... an amazingly cheap alternative to floppy disk systems for end users ... for use on the Spectrum? Each one could be worked on and optimised ...
