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  • Stopping autostart/autorun and entering POKEsHi, I want to enter some POKEs into a game on my ZX Spectrum, but whenever i do a LOAD "", my games always autorun. Is there any way I can get the pr…

    ... loads the game in a compressed or encrypted form and when ... save this snapshot back to tape using a program like Hypraloader ...
    thingley thingley April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... that have the loading screen compressed, and some .TRD games that ... have intros and game levels compressed too. Does anyone know which ... often? Aowen mentioned RLE for tape loading (sounds incredible!), I've ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... for the copied tape blocks AND those were REALTIME compressed while they ... much space it takes in compressed form, you could also always ... the errors or to load tape blocks with extremely small pilot ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... lot of game use a tape block which is 48k (49152 ... full 48k but just its compressed size. When the copier saves ... it so on the destination tape it again takes up full ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... benefit is really limited to tape, where RLE makes it possible ... with minimal CPU overhead (because tape and RLE are both serial ... ). It cuts down tape loading times, and I' ... people preferred to load highly compressed data and decompress them afterwards ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2007 Games
  • Interface 1 with 3.5" floppyHas this been done or can it be done? Using an interface 1 and a powered 3.5" floppy disk drive (with a modified cable) instead of a microdrive?

    ... . Try reading through the excellent tape/disc magazine Alchnews, as there ... M128 saves them compressed (you can also save compressed files using a ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... buffer (that may overlap the compressed data) to decompress the SCREEN ... of Spectrum programs loading from tape and disk. So this is ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s October 2007 Development
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... hacked games on a single tape was the usual here, Eastern ... compression (a loading message said "Compressed form in RAM by GRIG ... '90s).

    The best tape copier that anyone used here ... space and loading times (from tape or disk).

    [url ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s November 2007 Games
  • Evening Star > Rail SimulatorOver on [URL="http://www.eurogamer.net/"]EuroGamer[/URL] Oliver Clare has done a "new games journalism" concept review of a new game, Kuju's Rail Sim…

    ... often compressed (and the compressed result was what you stored on tape - it ... you loaded it back from tape, to make for faster loading ...
    Winston Winston November 2007 Games
  • Duel Floppy +DI have a single floppy but want to add a second one do i need to twist the cable(like pc) or can i gust change it to ds1 from ds0?

    ... it saves snapshots in a compressed format, so you get lots ... +2 (with external tape deck, via a modded tape connector), Multiface 128 ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2008 Hardware
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... ].

    Here's the tape version of it at this ... the code. It's pretty compressed now, but as always, further ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • Running TZX off an IDE drive? Or streaming from a NAS?Hello. I know about the DivIDE project, and about the ZX Ethernet project, but not how far they've come or what they can do. So: 1. If I have a squ…

    ... because tzx accurately stores the tape as it was originally on ... the original loader in standard tape speed (4.75 cm/second ... be loaded as if from tape. And the tzx stores the ... for playback, perhaps something like Compressed Square Wave format would be ...
    FrankT FrankT September 2008 Hardware
  • Games disk collection[url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/gamesdisk.zip[/url] There you go. No good to anyone :p I was just testing out a new util of mine and…

    ... to disk after loading from tape program.[/quote]

    compressed, turboloading tape files. It might ... a master tape which saves out the compressed turboloading image. ... bytes saved separately. My tape equivalent uses 256 bytes ...
    Woody Woody September 2008 Development
  • Custom SAVE Routine work on emulators?Hi, I'm developing a SAVE routine derived from the one present in ROM 48K, and I'm trying to get it work on several emulators (X128, Spectaculator, …

    ... , if you insert a save tape as normal, but ensure that ... menu:

    Recording -> Tape Recording -> Start Recording.
    tape of type TZX inserted, you ... CSW file, as they are compressed when saved and can be ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2008 Emulators
  • ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p

    ... . It can play recordings with tape multiload, it can play recordings ... files?
    And maybe .zip compressed archives support? :)
    Ralf Ralf October 2008 Emulators
  • 16K Rom with RS232 supportHi all, I am looking for a 16K Rom-code (to fit into the speccy) which supports RS232 and Network of IF1. Background: I am using 48K Issue 3 with W…

    ... and I used the standard tape header when saving files to ... /> The standard ROM routines were compressed - often at the expense of ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2008 Hardware
  • Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…

    ... |- as at the original ZX tape
    1 byte - checksum ---
    compressed [b].SNX[/b] format just ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2008 Emulators
  • Defender of the crownI have checked recently the Spectrum version of this well known, great game and the Spectrum version is strange. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org…

    ... ; 2-4k/picture is a compressed version. He coded the top ... copied with a software, only tape-to-tape. Unfortunately the winning screen ...
    G.o.D. G.o.D. January 2009 Games
  • Mushroom ManNice to see that Mushroom Man has been such a popular new release coming in at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html"]the top of the ch…

    ... tape.

    I think all levels should take around 20k compressed ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain March 2009 Games
  • Mushroom ManNice to see that Mushroom Man has been such a popular new release coming in at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html"]the top of the ch…

    ... tape.

    I think all levels should take around 20k compressed ... fit 20K. I calculated a compressed code of 60 levels in ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2009 Games
  • Mushroom ManNice to see that Mushroom Man has been such a popular new release coming in at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html"]the top of the ch…

    ... tape.

    I think all levels should take around 20k compressed ... to make you rewind the tape and load it in again ...
    hajo hajo March 2009 Games
  • Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …

    ... be loaded into memory from tape etc...

    The file ... of bits] Each message is compressed and stored in a large ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Development
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... screen compressor.

    It compressed to 2808 including the depacker ... the new compressed screen to 60190. Then saved it to tape.
    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... the new compressed screen to 60190. Then saved it to tape.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... I think the new tape versions have compressed data blocks?

    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... I think the new tape versions have compressed data blocks?

    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • Back to Skool disassemblyAs mentioned in [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22841"]this thread[/url], I've been working on a disassembly of Back to …

    ... been said already, "tar" means Tape Archive, and it's not ... 1970s for backing up to tape. Since then, the typical Unix ... an archive is in a compressed tar archive. In the late ... used originally for backup to tape, so it saves things like ...
    Winston Winston July 2009 Development
  • Tape loadersi understand how ROM tape loader works but i dont understand why it so 'complicated'. it measure time until two edges in signal appears. why it does…

    ... />
    The signal saved to tape is generated with known frequency ... none. As phil mentions, a compressed signal is more random and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2009 Development
  • PC200 bootdisk and monitor connectionI picked up a PC200 today and it seems to work when connected to a TV set. There is one 3,5" disk drive, but what does it need to boot? CP/M? DOS vX,…

    ... slider) with a piece of tape (but not all, some drives ... the new volume will be compressed
    by default.
    /X ...
    georgedb georgedb November 2009 Hardware
  • Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …

    ... some space on a disk/tape or whatever.

    But ... on) I have compressed and uncompressed graphics. The compressed graphics decompress AFTER ... to see WHAT you want compressed and think a special compressingroutine ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2010 Development
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