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Tape handling on a +3I'm seeing some strange behaviour when loading a basic program from the Loader option of a +3. I'm currently using the fuse emulator (I don't have an…
... there, as the +3 starts up expecting disk input. If Fuse is ... point as the +3 will still be in disk input mode unless ... 's still defaulting to disk input when it returns to the command line ... file is selected while in +3 mode.
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+3 with dead expansion portI bought a +3 from a WoS user. So far, the computer works as expected, but when an interface (e.g. DivIDE (configured correctly) or Multiface3) is co…
... your card.
Also, +3 have a (simple) internal test ... /> You will be executing the +3 internal tests. Not all test ... /> Just be sure to remove any diskette from the disk drive, as ... these tests will try to write some data to disk. -
SamDisk and +3 disksFew days ago I tried to write some +3 dsk files on 3.5 inch floppy with SamDisk on old Toshiba laptop (P3 800 mhz) and his integrated fdd, but he cou…
... the first cylinder to disk, then scanning it back to make sure ... the BIOS drive type to 1.44M 3.5", which matches ... BIOS setting at 1.44M 3.5" and connected the ... 180K 3" drive taken from a +3:[code]C:\& ... I'd normally suspect the 3" drive adapter, though the ... -
Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... 740291]I'm struggling to think what you could ... have damaged to be honest. Just so ... br /> Lets recap ;)
+3 case open. Shorted some pins ... connect the PSU connector to the top side of ... wires soldered in to feed power to disk drive etc). No ... -
Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... 740356]Lets recap ;)
+3 case open. Shorted some pins ... red wires soldered in to feed power to disk drive etc). No smoke ... out the connections? I seem to recall strange "zaaaap" followed by ... chips are suspect to be honest. Send it to Spirantho, Ian ... -
Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... ]Lets recap ;)
+3 case open. Shorted some pins ... connect the PSU connector to the top side of ... red wires soldered in to feed power to disk drive etc). No ... - they're wired directly to the +5V line and serve ... the LEDs. Lots of +3's on eBay are sold ... -
Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…
... for 1p.
3)It's obvious it's ... misleading :) because everyone wants to spend ?10k on a game ... because it's a ?2-3 (before ebay cut/postage etc ... sold a bundle of 160 tapes to someone , that are "acceptable" ... I do.. at least 2-3 from here can vouch for ... -
Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…
... for 1p.
3)It's obvious it's ... misleading :) because everyone wants to spend ?10k on a game ... because it's a ?2-3 (before ebay cut/postage etc ... sold a bundle of 160 tapes to someone , that are "acceptable" ... I do.. at least 2-3 from here can vouch for ... -
Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
... 'd like to put together on a +3 disk with a ... would need to make to run this on +3 Basic rather ... should be possible to get a +3 version to work as well ... br /> It's not possible to create a single CODE loader ... routine uses the RAMdisk to preserve the screen, that ... -
Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... the +3 leaves 143 bytes for BASIC according to " ...
On the +3, at the prompt with no ... the code from ram to disk and then tried my ... RAMTOP) = old RAMTOP
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ld de,(24045) ;( ... )
ld e,(ix-3) ;DE=new RAMTOP
Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
I ran this on the +3 with GO TO 1 and it worked ... 24046 and saved CODE files to disk with those names from those ... range but not big enough to give an "Integer out of ... /> Note that it's OK to put PUTRAM at 48000 as ...Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... ran this on the +3 with GO TO 1 and it worked ... 24046 and saved CODE files to disk with those names from those ... range but not big enough to give an "Integer out of ... /> Note that it's OK to put PUTRAM at 48000 as ...Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…
... pretty well documented in the +3 manual.
There ... specifically at 720K 3.5" floppies formatted to the "CPM Standard ... It would allow you to restore back to disk, a perfect working copy ... for Alchemist Software's +3 utility disk images, you'll find ...Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... somewhere to connect an FD1 to a PC to write disk images back to +3 ... disks - follow those instructions to ... FD-1 to an old pc to read/write disk images. I ... considered the more standardized 3. ...Z80 onto floppy diskGoing to install a 720k disk drive onto my +3 and I was wondering is there any program out there that I could use to read snapshots from floppy disks…
... can transfer dsk files to real disk, Samdisk and CPCdiskXP. ... could use the +3 internal disk floppy to transfer images. I ... RS232 and dump it to disk, but no one has ... that may work in +3. The downside is that ... 45 (you'll need to convert them using other utility ...Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... "Frank Bruno's Big Box" (disk 2 side A) with 1942 ... 'ghosts is my own tape to disk conversion.
P.S ... tape versions or if this disk version is also affected.
3, but only in the spanish ...Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... Frank Bruno's Big Box" (disk 2 side A) with 1942 ... 'ghosts is my own tape to disk conversion.
P. ... tape versions or if this disk version is also affected.< ... unprotected in 6-Pak Vol 3, but only in the ... d like to see the Zafiro 6-Pak Vol 3 version ...A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…
... Zup;751695]Oh, I forgot to comment that.
... mode that will try first to open with header, and ... if it fails it try to open without header.
... copy /b and import it to disk images, so they are ... is there a +3 DOS command to copy the files without ...ZXDS 1.1.0Hello, once again a [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]new ZXDS version[/URL] is out. The major changes are the custom ROM support and Beta 48 emulation, …
... could this be changed to a button on the touchscreen ... could still be mapped to a game control.[/QUOTE]< ... Pause can be used to enable the text viewer ... ;743101]Just like to say thanks to Patrik for adding ... . It was the +3 FDC and disk emulation which took most ...some help pleaseive just got a 48k and brings me back to 1982 lol having problems loading games-used to be wizz at it but the grey matter aint what it used to be, iv…
... that you don't try to record over the the ... in that space, only to find after 3 minutes of SAVEing that ... rewinding and fast forwarding of tapes to ensure even looping of long ... tapes. A bit of a ... why C30 was usually better to use than C60 or ...A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…
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- Initialises cache and RAM disk... it will corrupt RAM1 contents ... file and stop the floppy disk motor.
About DOS_SET_POSITION ... ... +3 FDC only supports up to 720K floppies). It needs 3 bytes to select ...PC to +3 communicationsHi I'm going to explore the abilities of my +3 to communicate with a PC. The "natural" ways to do that would be via serial or parallel link. I've b…
... a PC and a +3 is to just get a spectranet ... hardware already present on my +3.
I was ... in three parts, involving a +3:
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... from PC and trasnferring it to disk (either +3e HDD or ... main goal is use the +3 to write it's own files ...OPUS Discocery DriveHi, since I am new here pls. excuse my bad English. I have a problem with 2 OPUS DISK Drive. One of them is working fine the other not. So I decided…
... 758495]Guess a dual Opus disk drive setup is not ... the PCB, so 2 an 3 are in between....
... and can simply be saved to disk with SAVE*1;"xx"CODE ... table' that gives access to the system for MC programmers ... writes 40 tracks, but the disk gives an I/O error ...writing incrementally to tape without leadersI want to be able to write intermittently & incrementally to some sequential medium which is supported on any Spectrum (emulator, ie. tape); eg. [cod…
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The simplest thing to do is to convert the program into ... [/I] thing to do is probably to write it out to disk on +3, which ... . From there it's trivial to take the file out of ...Several software titles, maybe interesting for preservation purposes?I don't know if this is an appropriate post in the appropriate forum, but this is my question. I have about 40 ZX Spectrum games and other software …
... your comments inspired me to go through the list ... 3). It's a large box containing a book and two tapes ... there is no reference to this Dutch version.
to the inlay text, was ... to get these titles preserved? Can I send the tapes to ...Thurnall Disk SystemHi guys, Has anyone else every come across a Thurnall disk system for the speccy? I got mine back in 1984/85 ish [url]https://www.flickr.com/photo…
... working one.
This disk interface hasn't been emulated ... may I be the first to say... could you dump the ... and you know how to attach a 3" drive to it...
to page the ROM or if ...ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…
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to disk. I saved the file as ...DSK version of Terramex?I'm trying to make a DSK version of Terramex, but game refuses to load. The problem is probably in a protected loader (302 bytes), but I wasnt able …
... bytes) at 24576.
- Calls to 29184, where it relocates data ... page and the second block to disk, and used a loader "inspired ... 32768 to 49152. The second one disables the disk cache on +2a/+3 ... , does a pause to allow the disk motor to stop and then executes ...DSK version of Terramex?I'm trying to make a DSK version of Terramex, but game refuses to load. The problem is probably in a protected loader (302 bytes), but I wasnt able …
... bytes) at 24576.
- Calls to 29184, where it relocates data ... page and the second block to disk, and used a loader "inspired ... 32768 to 49152. The second one disables the disk cache on +2a/+3 ... , does a pause to allow the disk motor to stop and then executes ...What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... very happy with a 3.5" floppy disk drive.
I ... been the standard for the +3, the Spectrum would have had ... /> Of course, with your move to 16bit, the Speccy gets better ...
