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  • MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …

    ... runs from the A: drive which is a problem since ... that the 3.5 drive (configured as drive B) is not ... +3 will allow you to boot off drive B, so maybe that ... the PC on the floppy drive connector of your PC ... connector inside the FD-1 drive to avoid frying your ...
    Hercules Hercules March 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …

    ... +3 will allow you to boot off drive B, so maybe that ... the 3.5 drive can be treated as drive A also, thus ... are hard-coded to access drive A, so you'll need ... a properly wired (or switched) drive for it to work. The ... to modify to work from drive B.
    obo obo March 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Building a puter.Im putting some bits together into a new case and was just wondering if there was any need to add a floppy disk drive. Now that may seem like an odd…

    ... 't even have a floppy drive header any more.

    drive was for SCSI drivers or recovery boot disk, but everything can boot ...
    guesser guesser March 2011 Chit chat
  • Hacking a Joystick InterfaceI have a DK'Tronics twin-port joystick interface that does Kempston and Sinclair 0-6 keys. I know it has only 14 lines connecting it to the edge con…

    ... cause it to fail to boot, others cause it to crash ... +3 with a busted disk drive. Oh well, it loads by ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 April 2011 Hardware
  • Working spectrum toaster or +3 wantedJust getting back into speccies after 22 years(!) and the +2 I bought isn't cutting it! Doesn't necessarily need to be boxed, just nice working orde…

    Reminds me of having to send my own drive off for repair,done the belt change and clean up,replaced a pin that was missing,but alas it still doesn't boot any games.
    JACK98 JACK98 April 2011 Wanted
  • MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …

    ... .dsk over to the 3" drive?[/QUOTE]

    FrankT's ... due to the need to boot from it (which is the ... my "new" external 3'5 drive + 400W PSU in a Maplin ...
    brownb2 brownb2 April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Building a puter.Im putting some bits together into a new case and was just wondering if there was any need to add a floppy disk drive. Now that may seem like an odd…

    ... to add a floppy disk drive.

    Now that ... they always included a floppy drive in there systems but i ... don't need a floppy drive unless you have files ... that there is a floppy drive with the disc in ... motherboard I use now will boot from both CD/DVD and ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Retro Gamer Issue 88Good issue this month, fair bit of Missile Command. I 'presume' Rainbird Rich is the guy who wrote the article on Firebird this month, looks really …

    ... of devices without an optical drive (iPad, iPhone, Android, netbooks, etc ... to produce and distribute, to boot). It'd actually be quite ...
    j00ce j00ce April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Commodore 64xI was reading my Daily Mail this morning when I espied an announcement that the Commodore 64 was back with Blu-ray drive and other accoutrements. [u…

    ... plan on getting an ever-drive cart for the Megadrive (also ... /> Only problem with the ever-drive is it wont play SP1 ... ... after all my PSP will boot up and load any C64 ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Do you collect games?Do you collect games for the system(s) you own? I don't mean pirate games, I mean original game cassette, disc or cartridge. Or direct download games…

    ... that I have a hard drive fitted to (HDLoader). I' ... play it off the hard drive and let the laser last ... is more compatible. Also, I boot up from memory card, using ... and tear on your DVD drive and makes booting up even ... in a larger IDE hard drive (I have a 500GB in ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Do you collect games?Do you collect games for the system(s) you own? I don't mean pirate games, I mean original game cassette, disc or cartridge. Or direct download games…

    ... is more compatible. Also, I boot up from memory card, using ... and tear on your DVD drive and makes booting up even ... down and my PC hard drive thrashing itself to bits to ...
    thingley thingley April 2011 Chit chat
  • Xbox (original) problemI've borrowed a mate's Xbox to play Stranger's Wrath and ToeJam & Earl 3. It's annoying they're not 360 compatible :( First problem, everytime I sw…

    ... game disc (or the DVD drive) is damaged then either the ... (it's stored on hard drive, and unless the XBox is ... /> What exactly happens when you boot up with no disc in ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Xbox (original) problemI've borrowed a mate's Xbox to play Stranger's Wrath and ToeJam & Earl 3. It's annoying they're not 360 compatible :( First problem, everytime I sw…

    ... 're-do' the hard drive....been a while since I ... larger hard drive. The one I use is Slayers Boot disc, ... the XBox bypasses the hard drive based OS, and just ... XBox is refusing to boot from DVD, which sounds ... br /> And of course Slayers boot disc (or any other such ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Xbox (original) problemI've borrowed a mate's Xbox to play Stranger's Wrath and ToeJam & Earl 3. It's annoying they're not 360 compatible :( First problem, everytime I sw…

    ... larger hard drive. The one I use is Slayers Boot disc, ... XBox bypasses the hard drive based OS, and just ... XBox is refusing to boot from DVD, which sounds ... /> And of course Slayers boot disc (or any other such ... install software onto the drive.. Can I just change ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 April 2011 Chit chat
  • Xbox (original) problemI've borrowed a mate's Xbox to play Stranger's Wrath and ToeJam & Earl 3. It's annoying they're not 360 compatible :( First problem, everytime I sw…

    ... the DVD drive, but since you cannot boot from the ... DVD drive then that' ... size - if the drive was previously formatted and ... running everything from hard drive, such as XBox games ... getting a large hard drive installed, but it only ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Xbox (original) problemI've borrowed a mate's Xbox to play Stranger's Wrath and ToeJam & Earl 3. It's annoying they're not 360 compatible :( First problem, everytime I sw…

    ... when booting from his hard drive, but he fixed it all ... via the DVD drive, but since you cannot boot from the DVD ... drive then that's not ... known-to-be-working DVD drive?[/QUOTE]
    It is modded ...
    VincentAC VincentAC April 2011 Chit chat
  • Fuse : tape loading errorJust installed fuse on Puppy Linux. What joy. Trying to load a .tzx file - Manic Miner - what else :) Getting: Fuse Error: libspectrum: libspect…

    ... type 'RUN' from BASIC to boot it. [URL="http://homepage.ntlworld ... -> Disk -> +D -> Drive 1 -> Insert'.
    zub zub April 2011 Emulators
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    I dunno if was already said... but I'm trying to make the external floppy drive the main primary drive... Is that possible?

    I'm basically trying to boot my backed-up games off the 3.5" floppy instead of the internal drive.
    Crimbo Crimbo April 2011 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... make the external floppy drive the main primary drive... Is that possible ... ?

    I'm basically trying to boot ... to make the 3.5" drive be drive 0. To do that ... the external drive connector to be drive 0 instead of drive 1, but ...
    guesser guesser April 2011 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    Yea, well I had bought the external one from the same chap... not realising I couldn't make the drive boot games due to it not being primary. So I recently bought the internal cable.

    Glad to have helped.
    Crimbo Crimbo April 2011 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... ]...I'm basically trying to boot my backed-up games off ... " floppy instead of the internal drive.[/QUOTE]

    [QUOTE=Crimbo ...
    Crimbo Crimbo April 2011 Hardware
  • This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…

    ... as a guest drive is to build a boot track and CP ...
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2011 Emulators
  • Emulators for the pspanyone know anything about it? I've seen some videos on youtube where people put emulators, etc (some cracking the psp with just a simple program).…

    ... boot a PS2 through our software mods and use a hard drive ...
    thingley thingley May 2011 Chit chat
  • ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …

    ... need an external 3.5" drive, with no special modifications ... the PC side any floppy drive will do, even an ... "B:samdisk" to boot (+3 can't boot B: directly)
    - eject B:, reset, then boot game from A: as normal ... +3 external 3.5" drive, a few loaders may not ...
    obo obo June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Backups, Make ThemI just lost 10k+ lines of z80 source to a dead ssd. Not nice :-(

    ... "work". (unless you had the drive encrypted or something of course ... 'll try to boot the machine off a flash drive and see ... ssd appear as a usb drive).

    The thought has ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2011 Development
  • Got a PC to mend, need some opinionGot this PC in yesterday to mend, what happened was after a load of updates and after a complete shutdown, the next day he goes to turn it on and rig…

    ... set your CD-ROM drive as first bootable device
    drive fitness test) onto into ... your CD drive. Close CD tray.
    ... 5) Computer will reset and boot off the CD.
    < ... will then analyse the drive which will take a few ...
    Hercules Hercules June 2011 Chit chat
  • Got a PC to mend, need some opinionGot this PC in yesterday to mend, what happened was after a load of updates and after a complete shutdown, the next day he goes to turn it on and rig…

    ... software for all my hard drive diagnostic needs. It has always ... brand PCs now have hard drive diagnostics accessible from the BIOS ... if you bring up the boot menu.
    zxbruno zxbruno July 2011 Chit chat
  • Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …

    ... to overcome ALL different disc-drive systems?
    Special commands ... TOS so any disk can boot the system, even the ... computer was used: First boot the computer and the FDD ... and FDD3000 is reset to boot CP/M
    -Timex ... the CP/M disk to boot.

    Now ...
    Encarnado Encarnado July 2011 Emulators
  • I might try building a barebones PC.Our Packard Bell iMedia 5077 is literally on its last legs. Every time it is switched on something doesn't work, usually it is the sound, sometimes i…

    ... the case then remove the drive bays (dead easy) ... the lower section of the drive cage. This section holds ... your optical drive and card reader should you ... You then fit the top drive cages which have the ... windows. Put in DVD, boot up to the DVD (or ...
    ADJB ADJB July 2011 Chit chat
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