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  • Transferring ZX Spectrum software from tape to digital formatAs the title says, can anyone tell me the simplest way of doing this using a normal, modern desktop PC and maybe some string? Ta.

    ... can copy a tape to disk and then convert these files into a TAP-File ... which I can transfer to a PC using ... However, to transfer a tape you can use a normal cassette recorder ... load from Tape and save to your PC (or use a copy software ...
    Speccyman Speccyman April 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who has Divide Vs who is from old school (cassettes and +3 disks)This time is easy, who uses to play the Divide, or at least owns one and plans to use it for gaming, and who, on the other hand, still load games by …

    ... I load many tzx and tap files using the great 'Speccy ... play around a bit and write some code on my ... allows me to import a tap file and squirt it down ... tap files that use standard loaders and have no copy ... protection tricks and its a bit flaky ...
    jagman5994 jagman5994 April 2013 Games
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... by myself and based on a TAP file provided by Velesoft. Type USR0 ... +3(USR0).TAP"]Fixed version[/URL] made by myself from a snapshot. Type ... . The short TAP file, coming with source code, can be downloaded from [URL="http ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2013 Games
  • ZXDev - powerful environment for development in four languages is ready for testingXDev/ZXDev is open and free set of compilers, additional tools, libraries and design patterns for target platform ZX Spectrum 48K in different progra…

    ... code[/QUOTE]This problem is known for me. Except this, a TRD file ... does not accept '$' in a file name? Try to '\$':
    a new tool MakeZX - a cross-platform command-line converter from a binary file to TAP ... (TZX/TRD) format (with a ...
    Oleg N. Cher Oleg N. Cher June 2013 Development
  • New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…

    ... PC, then just splicing together a .TAP file from the data to port to ... to program Z80 asm, with a smattering of speccy basic. Think ... store all duplicates screens as a single compressed block. Instead of ... to plan & structure my code better, so changes can be ...
    R-Tape R-Tape July 2013 Brand new software
  • C.G.D - Classic Game Designer[b]UPDATE: August 07, 2013 AN UPDATED VERSION OF CGD IS NOW AVAILABLE, DETAILS HERE: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=7155…

    ... ]Excellent. I may have a "classic game" on it ...
    Also - if doing a flip screen game don't ... If you don't insert a player sprite the default ... makes it just show a blank screen after loading ... code in from the SPIN assembler, and when I made it into a TAP file ...
    R-Tape R-Tape July 2013 Brand new software
  • 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…

    ... statements, lol I remember that from the UDG character inputs in ... quotes and type STOP" nonsense from the beginning ;)[/QUOTE]
    < ... never planned any code before I just used to tap tap tap and see ... . Because PASMO can give me a tap file all ready to go...
    wibble wibble September 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... code the rest of it in hex as a source file. ... like:

    [code].byte 0x01, 0xD2, 0x04, ... from the SDCC suite for most things where I hand-code ... PASMO can give me a tap file all ready to go...[/ ... assemble / compile your code into a binary blob, drop it ...
    u6c87 u6c87 September 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... assemble an asm program to a tap file with z88dk:

    zcc ... /> {
    #asm

    ... z80 code here

    #endasm
    }
    [/code]

    The next time ... use "up-arrow and enter" from the shell to make it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... assemble an asm program to a tap file with z88dk:

    The output is test.tap that will auto-run when ... assembler. The asm code is inside main:[/QUOTE ... file on my tnfs sever so I can launch it from ... my speccy boot menu. Never have to type a ...
    guesser guesser September 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…

    ... who wants to make a tape from a 47loader TZX but who ... can download them in a zipfile from my SkyDrive[/url]. There ... [*]lims_475.tap is a TAP file generated from the above TZX as a demo of a standard ... trouble with loading BASIC as code and then returning to ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • Basic sourceAre there any utilities available that will extract Basic source to a text file, or insert it from a text file into any of the common formats lie z80…

    ... BASIC loader from the TAP file in any Spectrum emulator which has a "load ... text file at address 'nnnnn' then ENTER.
    [*]The TXT2Emu CODE will ... then load the BASIC from the text file.
    [/list]

    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Emulators
  • Basic sourceAre there any utilities available that will extract Basic source to a text file, or insert it from a text file into any of the common formats lie z80…

    ... BASIC loader from the TAP file in any Spectrum emulator which has a "load ... text file at address 'nnnnn' then ENTER.
    [*]The TXT2Emu CODE will ... as ZX Spin except the code was tagged onto the txt2Emu ... any way to save the code back out as text again ...
    rune rune September 2013 Emulators
  • Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…

    ... al z80 and tap file for the token-code off PLAY chr ... $ 163 or $ 164, although in a ... sometimes include a 164 PLAY code amongst the five bytes (a possible ... picked a Z80 file and a TAP file (for two different 48k programs) at random from ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …

    ... and run the 2068 tap file in any emulator supporting ... of the demo programs from [URL="http://z88dk.cvs ... "download" and save as a tap file. Run under 2048/2068 ... demos under spectrum display file mode. It looks like ... as it has a lot of common code with the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Beepola 1.07A new version of Beepoa, v1.07, is now available for download from:- [url]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/[/url] (1.63MB zipped exe, no installe…

    ... , you can download an example from my Dropbox account...
    ... conversion tools and the source code from his work for converting ... called Examples, with a .TAP file and the original XM file, as an ... , and because his source code from those tools might be of ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil November 2013 Announcements
  • Beepola 1.07A new version of Beepoa, v1.07, is now available for download from:- [url]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/[/url] (1.63MB zipped exe, no installe…

    ... generated that TAP file writes out the header for the code file (output ... designed to run from). Beepola's TAP file scanner is pretty rudimentary ... Load the TAP file into an emulator and take a Z80 snapshot ... job of ripping music from a Z80 file created in this ...
    ccowley ccowley November 2013 Announcements
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... 'm obviously doing wrong then from how I've described things ... of the first things my code does is take control of ... :(

    If I create a tap file do I load it by ... emulator and starting the tape from the menu? That's what ...
    David Jones David Jones November 2013 Development
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... m assuming "loader.tap" is the basic loader (from the sample prog ... found a few posts above from here as the nirvana engine tap.
    tap" and is the output from zcc when you ... and loading the code parts manually, saving to a new tap file each bit ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2013 Brand new software
  • A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…

    ... in the nightly download (just copy the z88dk/lib/clibs stuff ... try to compile known working code from a Windows command, I now get ... clibs/gen_math.lib' not a library file
    Error: File 'C:\DEV\Z88DK ... make all[/COLOR][/B]. Apart from a bunch of warnings in the ...
    szeliga szeliga December 2013 Development
  • Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…

    ... , LDIR can be recognized from a loop writing to a block of memory ... difficult for a C compiler to figure out from C code. If you ... "; on the spectrum this means a tap file.

    Some of the ... that share code from many authors. Even if you are a one man ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2014 Development
  • Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…

    ... result.

    [code]
    // assemble the following ... the assembler directly)
    [/code]

    The ... all references, add subroutines from libraries as necessary)
    ... "; on the spectrum this means a tap file.

    [/QUOTE]
    Dunny Dunny January 2014 Development
  • Listing protected BASIC programsHi, Is it possible to list protected BASIC programs at all? like the ones that are protected from being merged. Thanks. [I](sorry if this has al…

    ... a few lines of assembler ("Using the ROM's tape routines from ... allow editing of tape file headers. Some emulators ... view the BASIC in a TAP file without loading it, but ... the header, use a copy of the file, not the original ... to list the BASIC from TAP files. I'll ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • hash function permutation tableI'm using a simple Pearson hash function to generate keys for a $(103,6) array using a 256-byte permutation table. How do I arrange the entries in th…

    By tweaking the modifier code in line 3003 I got ... goes horribly wrong. Here's a TAP file with the data anyway.
    TAP file - the other stuff in there ... another table which are derived from analysing the structure of the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Development
  • TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…

    ... I just did a straight line-by-line conversion from BASIC to ... a TAP file with the runner set up to go. Although the m/code file ... is on there as a separate file it doesn't ... to list, assign an output TAP file, then MERGE "TAPlistBAS": GO TO ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…

    ... FNs from the BASIC runner, as they caused a problem ... it (as long as a TAP output file is assigned before starting ... the new runner - MERGE from the TAP file into the program to ... br /> STOP:
    PRINT "no code":
    STOP:
    PRINT " ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Any good cross-assemblers that generate snapshots?Hi all I am looking for a recommendation on a good cross-assembler to generate 48k snapshot images. Looks like there are quite a few assemblers out…

    ... output a .bin file from your
    assembler of choice then create a .tap file that ... -bin.bin $Z80EXECNAME.tap 32768
    # Usage: tapmaker [code file] [tap file]

    fi ...
    dbolli dbolli May 2014 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... the screen before the source code, but I have no idea ... EXACTLY 6206 bytes long. (This from the BMP2SPEC instructions.) Load the ... the message about renaming the file, use the emulator's " ... seconds it asks for a file name. Open a TAP file, type at the prompt ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2014 Sinclair Basic
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