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Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... is tricky and the +3 may be a little different ... which requires me to manually page in ROM 3 and RAM 0 ... I don't know about +3 specifics, but Sinclair basic ... z88dk (preferably with the +3, although info on the 128k ... the usual C stdio interface to disk i/o. The C ... -
Tranferring a game back to +3 disk?Hi, Haven't been on here for ages, but got my Spectrum down from the loft recently, due to a house move in the next few months. I'd forgotten, but so…
... how to go about connecting an amstrad 3" drive to a ... should be easy to transfer them to the PC. It ... to the +3, the files can then be copied off your disk ... onto a 3 ... .5" disk, then copied ... -
Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…
... than Sinclair were ever going to. I suspect Sinclair was ... joystick ports seem minor niggles to me. The Amstrad machines were ... 128K model) and sold enough to keep game production continuing apace ... standard joystick port and 3 1/2 " disk drive would not have ... -
Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…
... standard joystick port and 3 1/2 " disk drive would not have ... enough money for a +4 to have been considered. That ... and it's had to see the Spectrum lasting ... thing Amstrad did was to kill off the QL ... machine that was never going to be taken seriously encased ... -
NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... at $5D6D if loaded from disk but at $5CFD if loaded ... LDIR instructions right without having to look them up and experiment ... /> However my personal preference is to use a BASIC loader if ... it makes it easier to adapt to +3/+D/etc. disk formats, although obviously ... -
+2 / +2a : What's the difference ?+2 / +2a : What's the difference ? I still haven't managed to find out this yet. Yes, I know I'm an idiot.
... I still haven't managed to find out this yet.
to have as it has ... a black case. Due to some changes in the ROMs ... it's basically a +3 without the disk drive) it's less ... compatible and produces poor sound compared to ... -
+2 / +2a : What's the difference ?+2 / +2a : What's the difference ? I still haven't managed to find out this yet. Yes, I know I'm an idiot.
... =Pilsener;168950]What about the +3 ?
Waste of ... want to use it. To transfer tape games to disk, you really need to get ... a Multiface +3 too and ... they're rare enough for people to charge ... -
New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…
... in raw dump format, to be written back to disk, but unsuitable for ... a +D/+3 floppy disk for the purpose of archiving to CD ROM ... idea how to make an MGT disk image without having to install RealSpec ... -
New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…
... sent to Martijn:
The DSK files are +3 format 720K disk ... images, and as my master disks, were never intended to ... be released to the public "as is". On each disk image ... standard +D disk images and can be written back to a proper ... -
Most ridiculously over-sized game box?Which Speccy game had the most ludicrously over-compensatingly sized box?
... wierd sized box which had 3 tapes crammed into it. It was ... the only title randomly sent to me that I kept. The ... -
Opus Discovery and +2A?Can anyone tell me if the Opus Discovery is compatible with the +2A. I've just bought a +2A off Ebay and couldn't find any info on compatability. If…
... info off WoS called "Back to the +3", but that's all ... and getting either a +3 with a disk drive built in, or ... -
Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
... getting a new computer to replace my trusty Speccy ... I didn't want to just follow the sheep ... could continue to play all the spectrum tapes I had.< ... tape recorder connected to the Sam to dump the Sam ... games from the YS covertapes to disk! Never loaded a tape ... -
Memories of ThanatosI was playing this again last night and was amazed at just how great the graphics are. The size of the dragon, the way it swooshes around the screen,…
... an order off and got to keep the games for a ... at 9am or so as to get in early and have ... the place to myself, and borrow a couple ... tape. I then had 3 days to play and return the tape ... a pirate so copied the tapes at home. :) -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... haven`t been able to pinpoint it to reproduce it everytime yet ... .
Multiface doesn`t work on +3 ... /> Edit:
+3 disks are always write protected. Not possible to save to disk. -
Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... 3 Basic (don't RUN it yet) and save it to disk ... with,
SAVE "DISK" LINE 10
to disk
Eject Disk Reset again!< ... in +3 Basic insert disk then RUN this to load and ... the main block of code to disk,
10 ... -
Computers in movies - good readOld, but should be enough to make you chuckle, laugh, or remember those moments when you wanted to jump through the screen and punch someone in the f…
... bit was said brat trying to hack into some computer: Starting ... , wouldn't it be hilarious to have it the other way ... , asking for the big screen to be turned on and then ... something. Meaning like a 3,5 inch disk? In the year 2030 ... -
Computers in movies - good readOld, but should be enough to make you chuckle, laugh, or remember those moments when you wanted to jump through the screen and punch someone in the f…
... something. Meaning like a 3,5 inch disk? In the year 2030 ... people storing things on "computer tapes" even if they're set ... -
E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …
... condem him, I like to remember him for the ... HiFormat utility for the +3 springs to mind - gave an extra ... - extra 60K storage per disk. When these disks first came ... out, they were 3 quid each - I think ... of 10. Anyway, thanks to Chris (and many other ... -
.dsk and +3after successfully connecting 3,5" PC FDD as drive B: , i'd like to backup all my 3" disks from A: to B: as .dsk images on ZX+3 (not PC) All of them …
... far, I've managed to copy DU50 to +3 and format some diskettes ... net somewhere and extract the disk image to a blue DSDD floppy ... contains a whole 3" disk worth of software - to get to use the stuff ... B of the disk, look in user area 1. To copy it ... -
Announce: Fuse 0.8.0Version 0.8.0 of [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/]Fuse[/url], the Free Unix (and OS X) Spectrum Emulator has been released. The major chang…
... of the non-working +3 disks to be supported. The ... support of a rotating disk, even if just an ... emulation time based setup to give 300rpm. I remember ... something using READ ID to check sector numbers/ordering, ... that need masking down to 3 bits (like track 0 ... -
Multifacewho had a romantic robot multiface cartridge for their speccy, i had one on my +2 for games cheats, inf ammo and lives etc. :-) :-)
I have one plugged into the back of my +3 :)
Very useful tool. mainly use it for pokes and saving games to disk (though I now mostly use tools such as Lerm's "Transfer" utilities for doing that). -
Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…
... spectrum standards -- to use them you have to hack the ... AY chip is mapped to different i/o ports ... about umm 150 speccy tapes and can probably run ... 't work. From memory, to save some trouble: movie, ... those 400 were transferred to disk as snapshots so I may ... -
Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…
... didn't work. From memory, to save some trouble: movie, arkanoid ... it, those 400 were transferred to disk as snapshots so I may ... vast majority of my 'TS2068' tapes are just imported orginal speccy ... I guess I'm going to try it this weekend now ... -
How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
... and fixes corruption on +3/TR-DOS disk images and Microdrive images ... Windows users are used to. I will switch to the native Win32 ... -
How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
... and fixes corruption on +3/TR-DOS disk images and Microdrive images ... Windows users are used to. I will switch to the native Win32 ... -click, younameit). Is it supposed to do *anything*, or just sits ... of sorts? (did not bothered to read any readme or manual ... -
How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
... and fixes corruption on +3/TR-DOS disk images and Microdrive images ... Windows users are used to. I will switch to the native Win32 ... -
Reconditioned Sam Coup?, two drives + more...I've popped up a reconditioned Sam Coupé on eBay as a Buy-It-Now listing. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=11012902618…
... instead of saving the snapshot to disk. Has this been fixed too ... guess that next to nobody bothers loading in tapes these days.
to recommend them to anyone who is curious ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
Can you not use Realspec, and convert the normal TZX version to cassette tape, then load that into your +3 or a tape to disk utility? -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... your +3 or a tape to disk utility?[/QUOTE]
Tape to disk utilities ... tape, but I want to save it to +3 disk that I don't ... need to do that everytime I want to ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... then dump the following data to disk (address followed by length):< ... /> $C000,$4000 pages 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7
50 DATA 1,3,4,6,7
... would probably be "neater" to set the breakpoint at $6126 ... can then be converted to the disk format of your choice.
