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Spectaculator 8 vs REAL diskDoes Spectaculator 8 support real floppy drives? I want to use an external USB floppy drive to read/write +D and +3 floppy disks. I have Windows 7…
... disks or write them back to disk.
As you ... real floppy disk controller on your motherboard to be able to read ...
The only workaround is to disable signature checking when you ... />
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Games/Programs making use of DivIDE featuresHello :) I have a question: I may be wrong, but it looks like the DivIDE and similar interfaces for the ZX Spectrum are almost exclusively used for …
... work?[/QUOTE]
From tape yes. The code runs in ... . You might be able to snapshot to disk with a Multiface-3 though ... one of the lucky few to have the rare-as-hens ... -
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…
Welcome to the forums,
[QUOTE= ... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020808"]disk[/URL] formats
[QUOTE ... so, but they did seem to be popular with Ocean.
to a link] for some Speedlock Associates source code - tape and disk based ... -
what ifJust wondered If there was a new ZX Spectrum to come out what would you like to see in it and what spec would you want with in reason.
... software from 16K right up to 128k
- built in Divide ...
- suitable ports to connect external tape or disk drive
BTW ... -
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…
... ], when you use Tapir to convert TZX to WAV, what do you ... use 44100Hz, try making a tape using 48000Hz; if you ... distortion into the output to throw the fast loaders ... inc hl ; advance source pointer to run length
ld b ... -
Football ManagerHello! I don't know if anyone will remember 12 months ago when I released 'Football Manager Revisited', an update of the 1982 Football Manager with …
... the next segment of code to load in.
In ... too messy to reorganize for loading and saving games to real tape or disk. -
The Pros and Cons of "alternative" assembler syntaxContinuing from [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=720754&postcount=72[/URL] [QUOTE=u6c87;720754]But that wouldn't change if…
... to their divide. Wanting to copy programs between +3 disk/divide/microdrive. Ability to convert ... z80s to snas to tap files to tzx and ... run them. Access to ... -
The Pros and Cons of "alternative" assembler syntaxContinuing from [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=720754&postcount=72[/URL] [QUOTE=u6c87;720754]But that wouldn't change if…
... to their divide. Wanting to copy programs between +3 disk/divide/microdrive. Ability to convert ... z80s to snas to tap files to tzx and ... run them. Access to network ... -
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…
... by any emulator that emulates tape input. You just need a ... +3DOS header to the file, then create a disk image using cpmtools ... .dsk" and my disk would be ready to load up.
to disk by hand. When there were ... -
.z80 files load faster than .tap or .tzxHello again, I was wondering why the majority of games can be downloaded as .tap or .tzx but not as snapshots (.z80 or .sna). It takes about 5 minut…
... preserve the data on the tape or disk they came from.
to ultimately get all of the ... much as was needed to get tapes to load - like a real ... , it takes many minutes to load a tape. Newer and better emulators ... -
Tape handling on a +3I'm seeing some strange behaviour when loading a basic program from the Loader option of a +3. I'm currently using the fuse emulator (I don't have an…
... expecting disk input. If Fuse is jumping into the tape loader ... s still defaulting to disk input when it returns to the command line ... it won't recognise the tape input until LOAD "t:" ... 's set to auto-load media and a tape file is ... attempting the load from tape. -
Quick fix for four joysticksHere's a quick modification to add four joysticks to any Speccy. This assumes you already have two Sinclair ports. [URL="http://joefish.co.uk/specc…
... Kempston itself, and also to be independent of Kempston. ... it should be able to convert it to detect IN 55 by ... the toes of the +D disk interface.
... should still be possible to make an Interface II ... that one you need to correct the inverted up/ ... -
Significant machines by yearI'd roughly divide Spectrum's hardware history into four periods: Sinclair (1980 to 1985), Amstrad (1986 to 1988 ), Russian (1989 to 1996) and Homebr…
... TAPs, TRDs etc without real tape or disk).[/QUOTE]
Thanks ... . It's not easy to find accurate ... -
TZX Vault updatedtzxvault.org 10th October update! woohoo. Enormous thanks to Steve Brown for all his hard work!
... you know how to record music from cassette to computer file ... have ;)
-a tape player
-a cable to connect player and ... then they'll be able to convert it to format used by emulators ... be very tricky depending on tape quality. There are special programs ... -
+3 with dead expansion portI bought a +3 from a WoS user. So far, the computer works as expected, but when an interface (e.g. DivIDE (configured correctly) or Multiface3) is co…
... tried to load 128k programs using a tape recorder or floppy disk? Some ... your RAM is working correctly. To do so:
- ... /> Just be sure to remove any diskette from the disk drive, as ... these tests will try to write some data to disk. -
Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... red wires soldered in to feed power to disk drive etc). No smoke ... out the connections? I seem to recall strange "zaaaap" followed by ... an input signal on the tape output line. This "feature" is ... chips are suspect to be honest. Send it to Spirantho, Ian is ... -
Convert WAV to TAPIs there any way to convert a WAV sound file to insert in a TAP file?
... then you'll be able to convert it to .tap later.
to do and people will give ... />
Yeah, I've managed to compile a proper TAP instead ... with WAV's and old tape recordings... -
Navy Seals - Space Invaders[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=745356"]Thanks to gorski[/URL], I've just been playing the +3 disk version of Navy Seals…
... ;745402]Is it in +3 disk version only?
... . What do I exactly need to press?[/QUOTE]
... are there in both the tape and disk releases.
... be side B of the disk or cassette.
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Clearout of tapes & stuffIve been a bit of a lurker on this site for ages but love the place and the community and i thought i would at least post it on here before ebay and …
... /> I have a tape deck set up next to my PC for ... stuff off the tapes and convert them to TZX if needed using ... -
Clearout of tapes & stuffIve been a bit of a lurker on this site for ages but love the place and the community and i thought i would at least post it on here before ebay and …
... /> I have a tape deck set up next to my PC for ... stuff off the tapes and convert them to TZX if needed using ... -
Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…
... the sectors were mapped so disk access speeds were optimised, something ... that would do was write to tape, a sector by sector, track ... . It would allow you to restore back to disk, a perfect working copy ... up a +3DOS legal floppy to tape and back again for use ... -
Z80 onto floppy diskGoing to install a 720k disk drive onto my +3 and I was wondering is there any program out there that I could use to read snapshots from floppy disks…
... that can transfer dsk files to real disk, Samdisk and CPCdiskXP. Both ... could use the +3 internal disk floppy to transfer images. I guess ... using RS232 and dump it to disk, but no one has developed ... 1.45 (you'll need to convert them using other utility). -
RAM7 in 128K modelsWe are developing a game with lots of contents and we have already filled up RAM1, RAM3, RAM4 and RAM6. I was wondering if there's any problem in us…
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RAM7 contains data related to disk and files, but is not ... the disk is not in use (your program loads from tape), you ... may use RAM7. After loading from disk (and ... [/U] finished with disk. Also, you only need to make room for ... -
[Newbie] From tape to PC?Hi! I've spent all the morning trying to recover some old basic programs I did on a 48K Spectrum before it crashed. I've tried with a modern compute…
Use MakeTzx and forget the other tools.
[url]http://www.tzxvault.org/help.htm[/url]
It can convert wav to emulator image but also record the wav from tape. -
Software to transfer tapes to PlusD discThe CPC had dedicated software to transfer Speedlock games to disc... Are there any programs to do this for the faithful Speccy? Thanks.
... one of the lerm packs to do it but as far ... you need to save it all to tape then transfer it to disk after and ... /> what games were you wanting to transfer to the plusd? -
Yet to be emulated!There are a number of Games I once loved that I wish were emulated on here, that I haven't played since for what feels like the dawn of time; Obviou…
... original creators etc and legal to download so sourcing stuff from ... something the Oliver Twins want to bring back (failed Kickstarter in ... do which is pretty easy to do is buy the original ... tape recorder into your PC line in or mic and convert them to ... -
+2A socketsI have seen an internet site which mentions 48k loading programs/games from a pc sound card (can't fiond it now!!!). Is this possible to with a spec…
... headphone output socket, straight to my +3 tape input socket. On your ... web browser. It can also convert these to WAV files, and theres ... volume of the device connected to your Spectrum low, and adjust ... -
dumping protected BASIC loadersI wrote this a few weeks ago but forgot to post it. It will load & list from tape/TAP/TZX any BASIC program which has been saved with SAVE, including…
... para +3" is an upgrade to the former program. It lists ... from tape or disk (options 1 and 2).
- Save to tape or disk (options ... available at a site devoted to spanish magazines listings, but they ... -
Plea for new hardwareI'm posting this as a poll as I want to judge if I'm a solo loon going on about this, or if people really are interested in either of the following S…
... BASIC can be made to work in a ZX80 ... Z80 doesn't have to do quite so much ... work to drive the display.
tape, so could be considered to be related, ... TS1000 program and actually convert it to Spectrum BASIC. It also ... -
Game codeHi Quick questions. Would a game such as manic miner of the hobbit have been written just in basic or will it have been assembly? Also these slow …
... of bytes which looks to us like some real ... It can be loaded from tape to memory by LOAD "" SCREEN$ ... own loader working with tape may be faster, even ... still take minutes to load. The tape works this way ... errors.
Disk drives and other modern devices ...
