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Atari ST Thread.I've just purchased a 4mb upgrade for my Atari STe. I always loved my STe, which I got in 1990, amost as much as my ZX spectrum. Way back in 1991 I h…
... for development - I prepared a boot disk that copied OCP Art Studio ... -
New game: SETO TAISHO VS YOKAIHello Spec-chums! At last, my new game is available for download: [img]http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx/Seto-art.jpg[/img] [b]Features:[/b]…
... to initialize the disk drive through a dedicated boot disk and then load ... the game disk.
< ... br /> Contrarily to the TRD disk image, which I can test ... , I made a PlusD boot disk that I load in the ... -
What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
... by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive?
disk. I know there's already ... a disk version, but somehow it ... page 7 is used by +3DOS (as stated in the ... (page 5). After all disk loads finished, I built the ... -
how to make a (protected) .DSK to disk transfer ?I know how to make file transfers between .DSK files and physical disks (logical copy). However, how can be done a physical sector transfer (disk im…
... done a physical sector transfer (disk image copy) ? I mean for ... data on it, from standard boot sectors (512K), to custom sector ... -
Universal disk drive controller project - information needed! Hello Speccy world! I am a hardware developer from Russia and old Speccy fan. Currently i am starting a project aimed at joining Western and Easter…
... direct ROM calls for disk operations (there is no ... run ANY of existing disk systems for Speccy (at ... and compatible with other disk systems at API level.< ... size in order to boot HDD-based operating systems ... :
1. What disk systems are actually being used ... -
Universal disk drive controller project - information needed! Hello Speccy world! I am a hardware developer from Russia and old Speccy fan. Currently i am starting a project aimed at joining Western and Eastern…
... direct ROM calls for disk operations (there is no ... run ANY of existing disk systems for Speccy (at ... and compatible with other disk systems at API level.< ... size in order to boot HDD-based operating systems ... :
1. What disk systems are actually being used ... -
OT: PC boot solution anyone?A long shot I know, but what the hell! The thing is this: My Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo seems to be suffering from a problem. Specifically with the BIO…
... overclocked it!) and refusing to boot up. The solution apparently is ... floppy drive seek. No hard disk activity. Zilch. Nada. It just ... -
Installing dual boot Windows 98. Need advice.Hi all. I have a Win XP PC with two hard drives. Drive 1 is partitioned to C drive and F drive, with plenty space in each. Drive 2 is D drive, als…
... install my old Windows 98 disk onto the second partition of ... to select the boot drive from the BIOS / boot options on start ... .
However, when I boot from the Win 98 CD ... -
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…
... without physically connecting the +3 disk drive to the PC?
disk drive LED, but didn't ... will only work for standard +3DOS format disks, and 99% of ... -
Suggestions for resurrecting a hard disk?I started up one of my PCs today, which I hadn't used for a couple of weeks, and HD1 won't start up. My impression is that the motor has seized, as i…
... whizzing sound as when the disk spins up. I've tried ... />
I could get another disk and re-install Windows and ... OK and Windows & Unix boot OK, I don't want ... replacement drive. I believe the disk itself to be OK, it ... -
+3 broken with broken disk drive.Ok, so today at a car boot sale I picked up a Spectrum +3 for ?5. It's in good condition, powers up and works well. However, the disk drive does not…
... , so today at a car boot sale I picked up a ... and works well. However, the disk drive does not seem to ... -
Timex Floppy Disk Drive emulation discussionI feel embarrassed for starting this topic because I can't contribute with actual code, but this is a new attempt to simplify and present what the Ti…
... I compare it to other disk drives:
... had to be loaded from disk. If I remember correctly ... that the Timex TOS disk format is very similar ... convert TOS 3" disk images to +3DOS images (thank you). ... Come up with a modified +3DOS version so that it can ... -
Is it possible to access the +3 disk drive via m/c in USR0 mode?Is it possible to access the disk drive of the +3 via m/c +3DOS calls when running in USR0 mode? I ask because I'm having an awful lot of trouble ge…
... the disk drive of the +3 via m/c +3DOS calls ... but then when any +3DOS call is made it always ... called FILENAME.BAS on the disk and the carry flag ... should be enabled before any +3DOS calls are made
... should be enabled before any +3DOS calls are made
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+3 Disk bootHello, could someone point me how to make bootable +3 disk ? The +3 manual indicate roughly how to do it but im missing lot of details. Also, how ex…
... how to make bootable +3 disk ? The +3 manual indicate roughly ... when someone want to format disk on higher capacity ?
I ... up to 250 KB per disk is achievable and reliable. So ... -
Repairing a Disciple disk interface - info for othersJust posted this [URL="www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby"]on my weblog[/URL], but I think it's also interesting to put here. This week I did some work o…
... some work on a Disciple disk interface which I got from ... a ZX Spectrum not to boot, with garbage on screen etc ... -
Spectranet hard disk moduleI figure it's about time for a public announcement now that people are starting to get their hands on spectranets. Some of you will be aware that fo…
... and contains all the hard disk driver code. This part ... on the hard disk partition, for example +3DOS or FAT. There ... bare skeleton driver for +3DOS at the moment which doesn ... that I will implement +3DOS because I can test ... able to share a disk with an IBM system ... -
RAM used / corrupted by +3DOSAs I said previously, [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41775]I'm trying to put some games in hard disk[/url] so they can b…
... put some games in hard disk[/url] so they can be ... is used as "scratch" in +3DOS, but I don't think ... could load everything from disk and, when disk is no longer necessary ... -
Disabling the +3 disk buffer; yes, but how?I would like to disable the +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By reading the computer manual and some posts on…
... like to disable the +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve ... yet understand how to call +3DOS routines from BASIC. I guess ... -
ZX-spectrum+3 vs Amstrad CPC 6128 Disk drive Speed.Hi to all!!! I wonder which of both micros have the fastest disk drive? The two computers have similar/same 3" drives but different OS (+3DOS vs AMD…
... both micros have the fastest disk drive?
The two computers ... 3" drives but different OS (+3DOS vs AMDOS). I think the ... -
Beta Disk v4 resets Spectrum while inserting DisketteHi, has anyone discovered the following himself ? I have some old disks which should be in Beta-Disk format. Most of them I?m able to view the cat…
... which should be in Beta-Disk format.
Most of them ... Betadisk TR-DOS v4.12 Boot-Message.
Seems I ... -
Unexpected issue with +3DOS port of Pro BMX SimulatorI'm continuing to port my tape-based games to 3-inch disk (you may have noticed my previous post about PSSST!). Today I started on Pro BMX Simula…
... -based games to 3-inch disk (you may have noticed my ... therefore wrote a machine-code disk loader to load in the ... looks to me as if +3DOS is using the start of ... -
+3dos error 0Have been using my spectrum +3 for a while now, converting .dsk images to .tap with dsk2tap, then converting the .tap file to wav, then opening the .…
... the file writes itself to disk.
However, a day ... way anymore. The disk still reads every disk I have and still ... copy it back to the disk. But whenever I try to ... .wavs now, I get the +3dos error 0, usually on either ... -
New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…
... lack of older games on disk format with pretty much ... the older games to disk but haven't really ... 3DOS ROM routines and RAM paging to load the snapshot from disk ... multiple games to one disk via tape in an ... moment, although straight to disk is on my to-do ... -
Beta-Loader (boot Loader for Betadisk) updated to v3Hi, I´ve updated original Version from unknown author of "Beta-Loader". This is a program written in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk / TR-DOS Disk…
... in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk / TR-DOS Disk Systems. I ... -
Spectrum +3 - Copy games from external 3.5 to internal 3 inches floppy disk [Help]Hello, I've bought a kit to connect an [b]external 3.5 floppy disk[/b] to +3. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/jdYRQD8T/kit.jpg[/img] I'm using [b]…
... [b]external 3.5 floppy disk[/b] to +3.
disk.
Now that i've ... to a original 3' floppy disk.
Whats the syntax ... sucessful but it didn't boot the disk, what i'm missing ... -
Help Does this work on a +3?Hi have tried searching for infor regarding this :- [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11994&item=8201623821&rd=1"]http:…
It's a Plus D interface. It doesn't use +3DOS - it has its own DOS in shadow ROM. (To be precise, it has a boot loader in shadow ROM which loads the DOS from disk into shadow RAM.)
It does indeed need a fixer board to work on the +3. -
+3 disksok i got a question here. Can i put the +3 disk images that i use on the emulator back on to a proper +3 disk ? If so how would i do it and what wo…
... /> Installed the 3" disk drive into my PC. Boot the PC into ... as 'A:' and mounted the disk image as 'B:'. Then ... done a disk to disk copy.
... copy a tape to a disk. In +3DOS I simply used the ... programs for dealing with disk images though.
