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Rant number 888It's finally happened. Maybe I've just been lucky, but 4 minutes ago I just got my first pop-up advert on my iPhone. I searched for 'spectrum gam…
if it happens again you do the only sane thing...
format the hard drive and restore it from the latest back up image! :p
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ANN: EsxDos 0.73 released (third party - not mine)Papaya Dezign have finally released their firmware/OS for the DivIDE interface. Go get it from [url]http://www.esxdos.org/files/esxdos073.zip[/url]…
... interested to use the Zip Drive compatibility since I have a ... seems to need an ISO image (no FAT support) stored on ... -
The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…
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Some help needed, pretty please! :-)Hi there WOSsers! Long time no see! :-) I'm going through a process to get all my tape games (some real, some downloaded from here) onto +3 disk. I'…
... an Amstrad FD-1 external drive (unplug the white power ... connector within the drive though) and then hook ... up the drive to your floppy connector ... mains. Turn on the drive first via the power ... hooked up to my Spectrum +3e...
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how do I get .trd games to workI know this is asked all the time but I need some really obvious help because I am a bit dumb. I have never managed to get a game ending in .trd to …
... such file in the disc image...
RUN works only if ... a BOOT file inside the image.[/QUOTE]
ok, I don ... file into the virtual disk drive?
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Data recoveryHi all I've decided to get some practical skills in the area of data recovery from failed hard disks and am wondering if anyone on here has any expe…
... entire block device to an image
e.g. sudo dd ... the drive and work on the image.
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Data recoveryHi all I've decided to get some practical skills in the area of data recovery from failed hard disks and am wondering if anyone on here has any expe…
... but it's true the drive heats up pretty fast. Usually ... are bad sectors the final image isn't very good ... it. Maybe on my own drive one day, if necessary. ... data recovery centers. If the drive still spins, $800 to $ ... % of data, if the drive is a dead brick it ... -
*.dsk, SamDisk, win2000 problemsI am trying to copy 3" diskette to *.dsk with samdisk. But *every* time I start it, samdisk says "driver installed, please restart windows". Also g…
... detect a disk in the drive, which isn't supported by ... your 3" drive. Change the BIOS drive type to anything except ... closest format to what the drive supports.
[quote] ... samdisk command when reading 3" image from drive b: ?[/QUOTE]
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Saucer - The Most Awaited Speccy Game Ever?Joff, I wonder if you could answer a few questions I'm sure many of us would love to know the answers too. 1. What year did you start writing Saucer…
... laptop stolen, and a flash drive, both containing Saucer code. And ... girl whom 'whippied' my pen-drive didn't see the camera ... face - I'll post her image if you like. -
Spectrum +3 with internal 3.5" Floppy!!I've decided to flog my beloved Speccy +3 and fall back to emulation again. Not the same I know, but I'm absolutely skint! It also has the sound dist…
... disks using your standard PC drive mate. I have made a ... 3.5" DSDD 720k disk image. Then transfer to a standard ... the image to a preformatted 3.5" in the +3 drive. The ... transfer of a 3" disc image to 3.5" but you ... -
"Disk has been changed, 1:5"I've bought a +3 disk, it's called "live ammo", a collection of Ocean games. But when I try to load up, I get a black screen and written at the botto…
... rewriting the disk from an image from Wos and works perfectly ... /> I used an internal 3'' drive in my PC and CPCdiscXP ... -
+3 Disk image...What exactly is it? And how do they work? Thanks! Yes, I'm that much of a caveman!
... a gamesave.
Tape image is a PC file which ... proud part was the disk drive.
Some games were ... -
FMV on +3eOK, so about 6 months ago i posted here that i got full motion video on +3e, with a bunch of scr files called passion. I added the glider rider music…
... detect and set the correct drive - dont think theres any special ... /> On hardware I have selected +3e with just DivIDE, diven3eE rom ... here are not ticked. The +3e rom is V1.38. On ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... a +3e and trying to use the IDE hard drive instead ... of the memory drive. I'd ... it working on the memory drive, so saved an . ... szx, the +3e no longer has the hard drive attached, so ... work, on the memory drive or the hard drive.
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The late running issue 23 of SAM Revival magazine is out now!The very late running issue 23 of SAM Revival magazine is out now! [img]http://www.quazar.clara.net/a40/sr23.jpg[/img] SAM Revival is the only new…
Yes, on a PC with a disk drive the disk can be popped in the drive and used directly with SimCoupe - no problems there. Also, for SimCoupe users I am also happy to email a disk image of the disk too for your own use.
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Who will you vote for in the UK General Election?The miscellaneous section used to be mainly about miscellaneous Spectrum things, but since its now changed, I'll break with tradition: Just out of i…
... I have the right to drive sheep across London, or something ... to get any sheep or drive them anywhere. But I have ... .
I wish Spiting Image was back on the air ... -
LCD VS Spectrum +2A/B+/+ RGBWhat is the problem with LCDs and spectruns? I've had no problem connecting RGB leads getting an excellent picture on crt's but, why the heck LCDs w…
... lines appearing randomly across the image, or gohsting, or rolling on ... were, for example, a mega drive behaves flawlessly.
drive... even a modified sms2).
828k format in a dsk file ?Hi the maximun format that can offers the Garry Lancaster formater is 828k in a 3 1/2 floppy. I tried to extract this format to the pc and to a dsk …
... [/url] is a blank disc image in this format, and [url ... .10.0.2, which reports 'drive not ready'.828k format in a dsk file ?Hi the maximun format that can offers the Garry Lancaster formater is 828k in a 3 1/2 floppy. I tried to extract this format to the pc and to a dsk …
appears to work in spectaculator - this will be dead useful for a few projects... many thanks
also appears to work correctly in eightyone (which i use to copy disk images to +3e CF card image) and spin.+3 ProblemsI have been having a few problems with my +3 and I am wondering if anyone can help or give me some advice: 1. I have 2 blank disks which I have save…
... composite video signal with 'background image', and RGB signals containing an ... a suitable pin/signal to drive it? Perhaps the +3 RGB ... output wasn't meant to drive a SCART-equipped TV, only ... [I]just[/I] enough to drive SCART pin 16 (and leave ...Challenging the orthodoxy - Composite modWell, what's brought this on is two things: firstly I composite-modded an Issue 4S board this weekend in preparation for the Vintage Computing Festiv…
... : the ULA pin can't drive a 75 Ohm load properly ... optimal choice but it works. Image isn't very crisp, screens ...Original XBox ProblemI've got a chipped original XBox which I loaned to my cousin (big mistake) and finally managed to get it back yesterday. To my horror, I found out …
... re talking about the dvd-drive and not the nand). If ... right one for you dvd-drive on the net. Ofcourse, ... the key from your drive into the image first for it to ... to find an used dvd-drive for it dirtcheap! Then keep ... open and swap the dvd-drive at will or if you ...DIVIDE+ and +3 Disk DriveProbably been asked before (and I'll search the forums again) but is there any possibility of using the +3 disk drive with the DIVIDE+ without a +3E …
... to hook up ya +3 drive to a pc, as it ... />
The RI original tap image doesn't work on the ... +3 connector for the internal drive (and it's too much ...DIVIDE+ and +3 Disk DriveProbably been asked before (and I'll search the forums again) but is there any possibility of using the +3 disk drive with the DIVIDE+ without a +3E …
... /> As for using the disk drive and divide plus at the ... same time, +3e ROMs and ResiDOS may be ... />
I have had some +3e ROMs made up - see [url ...DIVIDE+ and +3 Disk DriveProbably been asked before (and I'll search the forums again) but is there any possibility of using the +3 disk drive with the DIVIDE+ without a +3E …
... /> As for using the disk drive and divide plus at the ... same time, +3e ROMs and ResiDOS may be ... />
I have had some +3e ROMs made up - see [url ...Do you still have the same speccie as when you were young!If so - how old is it now - and is it still working? And does it have rubber keys!?
... than being on its third drive belt, its still going strong ... even experimented with a hard drive, although didnt get very far ... i use Garry Lancaster's +3E roms and interface, cos there ...ZX + Spectranet + Twitter makes BBC newsArticle about the Vintage Computer Fair just gone: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10364135.stm[/url]
... any shugart compatible floppy disk drive - you put floppy disk images ... can choose which image to use as drive A and which to ... use as drive B
It works ...Spectranet on the BBC!Yay! I'm famous. Or at least my +3 is famous... [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10364135.stm[/url]
... - i've been creating an image for +3e for a while. so ... 32x4k games, have built 2 +3e cf adapters, the 2nd is ...Sprinter 2000 does not boot...Hi there. I connected the Sprinter 2000 HDD to my PC to backup all files, but now it does not boot anymore. I wanted to repair the boot record using …
... does not boot from Disc drive anymore too (I cannot find ... with multiple disc drives. The drive spins up and the light ... SD cards. I can create image of my disc (later).
Tape-Disk Copy +3I seek convertor tape to disk +3. I have DTCONV by Pentacle, but this program has bugs.
... wicked menu system for my +3e[/QUOTE]
This sounds ... 've tried saving an interface image to convert back using pasadisc ...
