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  • SpeedLockI'm aware that there are seven (7) - yes, SEVEN!! - different iterations of the SpeedLock loader. I've loaded games from all 7 types, one by one, and…

    ... - The loading stripes on the border are multicolour rainbow stripes (both ... block
    - This loader can have separate smaller blocks ... block
    - This loader can have separate smaller blocks ... of christening it the "Arcus Loader" ("Arcus" being Latin for ...
    Swevicus Swevicus February 2013 Games
  • about Dan DareHi all, I not think this is for MIA forum but want to ask and I will be grateful if anyone help me with answer. I get from ebay dandare tape, origi…

    ... FLASH LOAD an actual fast loader (similar to Strangeloop, which is ... think of which prints "FLASH LOADER" in place of the "Program ... think it had a black border too. Then the attributes loaded ... stripes or possibly a black border. Can't remember multi-coloured ...
    leespoons leespoons February 2013 MIA/STP/SDP
  • New presentation for ZX Spectrum: "New Wave"DOWNLOAD: [url]http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=61133[/url] [img]http://pouet.net/screenshots/61133.png[/img] Enjoy.

    ... some changes in the BASIC loader of TRD version, so it ... >RANDOMIZE USR VAL a$: BORDER z: PAPER z: INK t ...
    TK90XFan TK90XFan March 2013 Brand new software
  • Faulty Tapes/ Problems with loading from newWhile going through some of my old Speccy tapes in the cellar, I came across a copy of "Dynamite Dan" which made me remember the story of its purchas…

    ... had this horrible slow encrypted loader which used to crash 50 ... the Your Sinclair cover tape loader used to give me grief ... goes "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" with the coloured border)
    leespoons leespoons April 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tau Ceti / Ian's BabyThis has bugged me for years. Why does the BASIC loader say Ian's Baby? And are there other games which have totally different (and unrelated) load…

    ... strange loader where instead of the rolling lines in the border, a ...
    Danforth Danforth April 2013 Games
  • Tau Ceti / Ian's BabyThis has bugged me for years. Why does the BASIC loader say Ian's Baby? And are there other games which have totally different (and unrelated) load…

    ... strange loader where instead of the rolling lines in the border, a ...
    leespoons leespoons April 2013 Games
  • DIVide interface.So I picked up one of these fancy DIVide jobbies from ebay. This one was from a chap in Germany. Alas it came without any instructions, and after s…

    ... Elite from the speccy .tap loader on my iphone occasionally crashed ... did and bam! lots of border flashing and it ended with ... of the screen (not the border area). This wasn't what ...
    opless opless April 2013 Hardware
  • BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…

    ... input file, so the same loader can be used for all ...
    11 BEEP 1,2: BORDER 3: BRIGHT 1
    12 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • another faulty zx spectrum +2 to fix!!!Hello to all, I'm new here... I have got a faulty +2 (gray) and start to try fix it... I have read the treads of xaris_sm and Pluto63 as background…

    ... ]

    clean blue border with white stripe lines, i have use ... you must count the white stripe lines from ram ic number ...
    xaris_sm xaris_sm May 2013 Hardware
  • I love the 48k tune from...full throttle 2. Those arpegiated chords with vibrato

    ... , FX in the border, and the first scrolly message in a loader.
    leespoons leespoons June 2013 Games
  • "Jumping Jack" on Kempston Joystick.Hello. I'm new here, so at start I want to welcome everybody :) I'm totally newbie in ZX Spectrum. But I'm still own Timex without cassete player (I …

    ... ] - included tap file is without loader like author wrote in Polish ... control available. Pressing "2" key (border swith to blue for a ... and Space and "1" key (border switch to the black for ...
    olesio olesio July 2013 Games
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... Schemes/docs/sentient.html"]Sentient loader[/URL] because it looked fairly ... minor hack of the ROM loader, so I can quite easily ... had fun messing with the border colours; loading data backwards and ... never even seen the Sentient loader, all the games mentioned as ...
    leespoons leespoons July 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... />
    Unadulterated, the Sentient loader is about as generic as ... we have a monochrome pilot border and amazing technicolour dreamstripes ... , one gets a backwards loader. This is interesting when ... the CALL back into the loader. Changing the direction and ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 July 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... sizeable chunk of the Alkatraz loader![/QUOTE]

    ... at implementing a custom loader from scratch without referring ... to successfully implement a loader but nevertheless improve my ... out (0xfe),a ; switch border and make sound
    . ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ...
    ld (.border_colour),a ;blue border for pilot
    ;; adjust .read_edge ...
    out (0xfe),a ; switch border and make sound
    .exit_edge_loop ... bootstrap code that calls the loader looks like this:

    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... /> ;; border, set_pilot_border, set_data_border
    ;;
    ;; border does the ... loader

    macro set_pilot_border
    ;; base colour for pilot border ... main loader, the code that initializes the border ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... time
    border ; put border colour in accumulator< ... br />
    macro border
    dec a ; clear ... loader

    macro set_pilot_border
    ;; base colour for pilot border ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... right up for the turbo loader to work - about 90%, where ... way - the BASIC loader went fine but the loader never latches on ... an aside - I like the border stripes. I would have been ... [/URL] a video of your loader working on real hardware (albeit ...
    balford balford August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... screencasts of Fuse running your loader to show to interested friends ... way - the BASIC loader went fine but the loader never latches on ... an aside - I like the border stripes. I would have been ... br />
    So, in conclusion: loader is flakier than Stonkers, but ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... quality worked with the ROM loader, and also with a fair ... as a zero pulse, the loader falls at the first hurdle ... the wrong thing. The ROM loader takes both edges into account ... -states required for changing the border, gathering the bits, storing the ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... what the rest of the loader does?[/QUOTE]

    Without ... 's what was confusing the loader. It wasn't even getting ... a version of the loader that changes the border colour after detecting ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... detection at fault.

    Border only turns green under ideal ... is also where the ROM loader starts failing with my setup ...
    balford balford August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... Tape Loading Error. The ROM loader goes back to looking for ... 'm working through some ROM loader blocks and it exits with ... ; and your observation that the loader gets worse as the noise ... loader's behaviour while searching: it doesn't rapidly cycle the border ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... wondering about a four-symbol loader. I did try hacking ... that the sound of the loader is important. The [I ... from PC->Spectrum. Your loader handles both perfectly, and ... />
    Aside: the Hewson loader (no border, rolling analogue counter; see Zynaps ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... the noise reduction, the BASIC loader doesn't even work).
    border, green/black after locking onto ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... ;; border, set_pilot_border, set_data_border
    ;;
    ;; border does ... ;; same as searching border
    endm
    ... loader

    macro set_searching_border
    ;; base colour for pilot border ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Were there any truly scary Speccy games?Having played numerous Survival Horror games on the PS1, PS2 and PS3 I started to wonder if there were any creepy games on the speccy. Due to graphic…

    Anything with that loader that went "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" with the flashing border when it failed to load. Players/Incentive/Mirrorsoft used it as well as a load of magazine cover tapes. Scared the living crap out of me the first time I heard it.
    leespoons leespoons August 2013 Games
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... /> 5 CLEAR 61439: INK 4: BORDER 0: PAPER 0: CLS
    loader. nice...

    Cheers for ...
    wibble wibble August 2013 Development
  • Possible dodgy +2 - resets when loadingSo I have a grey model +2 with a recently refurbed tape deck (new belts and cleaned heads). It might be a product of bad loading, but from what I ca…

    ... reset when using the Tape Loader option.[/QUOTE]

    That ... 's how you change the border colour for example) in such ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay August 2013 Hardware
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... /> out (0xfe),a ; switch border and make sound (11T)
    border and make sound (11T)
    loader behaves perfectly well even ... see about slowing the loader down a bit. The ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
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