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  • Sold a +2, lady is having trouble with it..Hi guys.. Just a few questions.. and maybe some things to try.. other than what I`ve told her already. I sold a plus 2, I tested all three games be…

    ... doesn`t get any flashing border or noise.
    Any ideas ... step there. Did she press play on tape?
    Metalbrain Metalbrain December 2010 Hardware
  • ZXSpin question...Hi Folks, ZXSpin has the ability to set the Z80 CPU Speed and the Emulation Speed. Not sure I understand the difference and my installation of ZXSp…

    ... fps of 2 Mhz to play with.

    If you ... the border. The ULA draws a "white border", then the first border executes ... "white border"... and so on.

    If you change the emulation ... CPU will execute the two border statements faster. The strip will ...
    Zup Zup January 2011 Emulators
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... to do it at the change of levels for example?[/QUOTE ... of my pals couldn't play them 'cause they had a ... took ages to load from tape.
    na_th_an na_th_an January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • KempAY and Spectrum +3 queryIve been looking at the KempAY interface. It's the AY38912 chip on a board, which also doubles up as a kempston joystick interface all done in GAL ch…

    ... anything. You just have to change plugs. Minor disadvantage for ... />
    Change plugs? Which ones? If I use the tape/sound socket ...
    But people who can play with hardware changed their Spectrums ... possibility for the interface to play MONO on +3, unless ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 January 2011 Hardware
  • k7x set up helpive waited over 3 weeks to finally win a bid on a specrum plus 1. now ive got it and sorry for sounding a noob im just wanting help setting up K7zx v…

    ... .hex to a .wav file. Play that wav file on a ... "r: tape loading error". ? Then:
    Do you see border thinner stripes ... Ma non tropo worked , lets play with convertion type=HiSpeed and ...
    decicoder decicoder February 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Elite Press ReleasePRESS RELEASE Noon, 16th March 2011 ? Lichfield, Staffs, United Kingdom Elite? Announce ZX Spectrum Game Software Market Worth In Excess of US$150…

    ... to remove their games or change them to not resemble the ... wrong) will be able to play any tape (tzx, tap & pzx ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler March 2011 Chit chat
  • Spectaculator - recommended recording levels when loading from cassette tape?Hi, I have connected a physical cassette recorder to Spectaculator in order to load my saved programs/games from yesteryear-mainly to see if it would…

    ... order to load cassettes from tape in spectaculator, Im not able ... turn it up in windows play back.. errm setting up is ... you shouldn't need to change it

    you should ...
    fog fog March 2011 Emulators
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    ... /> Nowadays it's Ahhhh The tape loading era (which I hacked ... 'd border colour data with IN 255 value, so the stripes change ... the TAP of Ahh The tape loading Era and the TZX ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae April 2011 Games
  • Rendering techniques in emulatorsI've been giving thought to the possibility of speeding up the rendering in Zero considering I've been putting it off long enough. My approach is c…

    ... majority of frames don't change much of the screen, so ... update audio buffer;
    update tape state;
    etc...
    }
    {
    play sound buffer; //20 ms buffer ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2011 Emulators
  • Which Spectrum Game Pushed The Machine To It's Limits? 128kWhere Time Stood Still? Chase HQ? Robocop? Suggestions?

    ... the most recent binary from tape. This will take several ... annotations of the most likely tape, which side, and
    The old music tape left is Dare by Human ... Who knows?
    7) Change some source. Which bit? Who ... the game.
    9) Play it for a bit.
    gadgetmind gadgetmind April 2011 Games
  • multiple songs with savage enginesorry friends, another thread with my stupid questions. maybe wos should introduce a noob section for people like me? :oops: anyway, how does using …

    ... if i play "can't stop" immediately after loading the tape, but ... hl,(playlist)
    jp tritone.play
    jp begin


    To change the song from basic, just ...
    FrankT FrankT May 2011 Development
  • ELITE - HelpI've recently bought a Zx Spectrum 48k rubber key and had to pay for it fixing even though it was advertised on ebay as being in good working order a…

    ... 't see the EQ to change the levels. :grin:

    play the audio loud enough for the Speccy though (old tape ...
    GreenCard GreenCard June 2011 Games
  • Loading games with cassette adapter - no PLAY requiredAfter several encouragingly successful experiments with the use of cassette adapters commonly used to connect a multimedia player to a cassette-only …

    ... stuck on. Usually on tape decks when play is off, a leaf ... signal is sent from the tape head. Leaf switches are used ... />
    Unless the +2's tape deck doesn't have this ... think there would be any change in my case. Anyway, I ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2011 Hardware
  • Help identifiying a very old gameHello, first post here although I've lurked for a while :) Great site! This is a long shot, but I wonder if anyone can help me find a game I played…

    ... it seems quite easy to play. Inlay states user-definable ... levels (different speeds of play) with the cursor keys ... . One side of this tape is for the keyboard ( ... N Mardon
    With a change of one letter, the game ... for money, addictive to play and a must for ? ...
    Rawhead Rex Rawhead Rex June 2011 Games
  • I am a simple man....a layman if you will!...but I had a Spectrum when I was 12 years old that I loved more than was healthy! It gave me a love of computers which remains to this day and I …

    ... screen to actual zx spectrum, change step 3.

    3 ... press enter then press play on zx spin tape browser.

    Arda Arda June 2011 Emulators
  • New game: WUNDERCHAR$Hi All, Finally finished my latest game: Wunderchar$. [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/loadingscr.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://…

    ... game much more intuitive to play.

    Other levels ... strongly recommend: right now you change the background image (using brightness ... Instead of this, you should change the background image whenever the ... feel', so I may use border colour or a 'number of ...
    R-Tape R-Tape August 2011 Brand new software
  • Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…

    ... on[/b]. Make sure you change it to "off" when ... br /> * save to disk or tape? D
    * insert destination ... data file from disk or tape? D
    * file ... * do you want a border? (I answered N here)
    border.
    * insert destination disk ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2011 Emulators
  • El Mundo Perdido del Profesor SeldonRunning [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020956"]El Mundo Perdido del Profesor Seldon[/URL] in 48K mode using the online emula…

    ... on each side of the tape.

    The policy in ... .

    If we should change this policy, the result would ... slightly improve the on-line play experience. In my humble opinion ...
    mheide mheide August 2011 Infoseek database
  • machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…

    ...
    [code]
    10 BORDER 0: INK 0: PAPER 0 ... following calls tape loader
    ; you need to change this to ... of course they will change. You can assemble new ... above and replace the tape code with your disk ... last load), makes the border, ink and paper black, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…

    ... onto the screen.
    The tape stops.
    ???wtf????
    ... it continues.
    Anyway, the tape continues and after what seems ... .
    Then I started the tape.
    Nothing.
    Black ... thing, you can't just change the border colour for example, by ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…

    [QUOTE=R-Tape;558692]Aye just kidding there, ... the tape.

    However, as you can see from the border ... each bit read from the tape, so you could probably fit ... way of people trying to play games.
    joefish joefish August 2011 Development
  • Speccy 48k Earphone jack problemThis is odd, today I set up my rubber key as normal, headphone out of the tape player into the "ear" of the spectrum, started everything off but noth…

    ... same trouble with mine now. Tape recorder maxed and not even ... registers a signal from the tape. (You know sometimes, when you ... get the regular red/cyan border but you just get it ... -tensioned the socket and no change. It looks and feels secure ...
    Dirtymojo Dirtymojo August 2011 Hardware
  • TZX format rev. 1.21Once 1.20 draft seems to be official now I would like to suggest some additiones to do on 1.21. I hope it will be easier to upgrade once block 19 has…

    ... [*]You have a real tape you have preserved yourself and ... in 1984 from Ultimate Play The game, it is ... info is the one can change if WOS dissapears, decides ... to change numbering schema or some ... ? Will you store the tape and strip the rest? ...
    Juanma Juanma September 2011 Emulators
  • azimuth adjustingum, sorry for these newb questions.. I never adjusted the azimuth for ZX, and it seems to be quite important. Do recording and playing heads have …

    ... being a combined rec/play head. And even in ... various publishers would use different tape duplicating services, so that ... essentially mechanical devices, would change ever so slightly over time ... very important, because the tape signals are essentially square ...
    The_Bert The_Bert September 2011 Hardware
  • New game: BozxleHere is a new game called BOZXLE which has been written within a week. The screenshots are of the game running on a 48K. This runs also on the 128 …

    ... ?!?!?!? Liars !!!!

    [QUOTE=R-Tape;566860]Like this, only made ... me using mutlicolor doesn't change that much in graphics quality ... left in the frame to play a tune. Personally I think ... multicolour on for the game play :D[/QUOTE]

    Mid ...
    polomint polomint September 2011 Announcements
  • Dud 48K rubber key versionMy Rubber key speccy has been dud for quite some time, but I've just not bothered with it as I also have a Spectrum + and a +3. The problem is this…

    ... a CYAN border. When I pressed PLAY I got CYAN border flashing to ... RED and back. This was before the tape ... had got past the leader tape even. When ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 November 2011 Hardware
  • Arkanoid Hack - Your Sinclair Smash TipsRemember that Arkanoid hack in YS Smash Tips that didn't work? It does now... [CODE] 10 REM ARKANOID HACK 20 CLEAR 65535: LET C=1: LET D=23295 …

    ... : GO TO 40
    80 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 0 ... 1;AT 0,1;"Play Arkanoid Speedlock 3 Tape": RANDOMIZE USR 32768 ...
    jp jp December 2011 Development
  • A little bit of help.Good Evening, I am new to the ZX Spectrum so please do not grill me! I recently picked one up (being interested in Vintage/Retro Video Gaming) I ha…

    ... way, and deciphered the play button icon that my ... see blue/yellow crazy border action for about 1 ... hole near the play button when the tape is running, ... />
    3) The tape you are trying has deteriorated ... to use an external tape deck (requires basic soldering ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay December 2011 Hardware
  • MB02+IDE aliveLast weekend I finished soldering and testing my MB02+IDE. All items work perfectly on +2 grey, on +2A, on 128k heatsink and on 48k Issue2 and 3b tes…

    ... Spectrum users. Who want just play some games can get a ... example many original software uses tape for saving. Might be a ... to tape you can save with MB02 to disk without change the ... work with them as on tape, just faster, better.

    Speccyman Speccyman December 2011 Hardware
  • tape adaptor & mp3 player good for my +2Greetings all :) Long time lurker first time poster Got a Spectrum +2A for christmas, which after a decade or so of using various emulators was pret…

    ... controls on the reader to change track, instead of doing it ... to the computer with a tape adapter.
    [QUOTE=toskdc;592326 ... impressive. Especially given I could play the tzx files directly from ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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