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iPhone loading. What am I doing wrong?Hi Folks, I've converted a couple of files to MP3 to play back through an MP3>cassette adapter on my +2B. They appear to start loading, but I get …
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+2 Grey external tape modIve had a search through previous posts and besides mclouds mod for the +2a I couldnt find anything pertaining to the grey, only reason im posting is…
... +3? If so, I need to do it, and fast! Also ... of converting .Z80, .tap, and .tzx to a +3 disk image? -
+2 Grey external tape modIve had a search through previous posts and besides mclouds mod for the +2a I couldnt find anything pertaining to the grey, only reason im posting is…
... +3? If so, I need to do it, and fast! Also ... of converting .Z80, .tap, and .tzx to a +3 disk image?[/QUOTE ... :)
ideally you want to use "blue" disks, but you ... and writing a tap file to it or whatever but we ... -
JowspamJust a heads up for those who have had jowspam in the past. Its starting again...
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Multi-load ZX SpinHad good feedback from my last thread so thought I would start another! I'm wanting to be able to negotiate games that have multi-load or games reco…
... 's exactly what it expects to be done. In Gauntlet, for ... , when it displays "rewind tape to start of side 2 then ... bar and then Gauntlet-Side2.tzx to Open, then when Space is ... or else wait for Play to be pressed if not. -
Spectaculator... is it worth the money?Hi Folks, This is a genuine request for feedback. I have used the demo version of Spectaculator and it seems a very good Spectrum emulator. Lots o…
... emulator I have used to fix all the russian ... the timing being off compared to SPIN and others. These ... I eventually found it to be IM1 enabled and IY ... support, and allow me to out COVOX on port 63 ... floppies within spectaculator I copy them to my CF image using ... -
Loading a screen in to memory...Hi Folks, I want to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and save it out to RAM disk without it being displayed on the screen. I am worried about over writi…
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Loading a screen in to memory...Hi Folks, I want to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and save it out to RAM disk without it being displayed on the screen. I am worried about over writi…
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Redubbing cassettes from the WoS ArchiveHello all. I have some games that I recently bought that won't load from tape. It has been suggested that I redub them from the archive. How would I …
One way would be to simply play the TZX (if you want the ... original file) to the speccy ... .
Alternately, convert the TZX to a WAV file (TZX2WAV convertors ... WAV using any sound utility to the speccy.
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Redubbing cassettes from the WoS ArchiveHello all. I have some games that I recently bought that won't load from tape. It has been suggested that I redub them from the archive. How would I …
... ]One way would be to simply play the TZX (if you want ... the original file) to the speccy ... .
Alternately, convert the TZX to a WAV file (TZX2WAV convertors ... the archive) to extract the loading audio from the TZX or TAP ... -
Best way for programming in BASIC?New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's…
... . Disk and file commands (CAT/COPY/MOVE/ERASE/RENAME)
2 ... extending the STREAM and BANK COPY command to use them
4 ... /> 5. Extending the sound handling to include a speccy128 style PLAY ... allow all RATE commands to use strings to specify rates (eg. ... -
How the spectrum generates the video from ramHi everyon, I know that most people here allready know this but i think i found out how the spectrum acctually dispalys stuff and why the LD x, (HL)…
... half. Another is to create a shadow copy of the display file ... writes to iots display area, the display device makes a copy of ... that write to its own ram ... the same time as a copy is to occur but this can ... -
Is converting Microdrive formats possible???Hi. First post. I'm a long-time Speccy owner, was lost, but found my way home! :D I have a Disciple as well... Now to my question, but first the …
... in the past with the microdrive version of HiSoft Devpac.
microdrive off to tape.
... from tape then save back to microdrive in OPENTYPE format...
< ... when it comes to loading and saving to different devices.
Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... Spectrum +3 was the way to get shot of them. Could ... /> I find that very hard to believe. I was selling computers ... PCW and it fitted in to a business environment well. Also ... too expensive - well not compared to Microdrive catridges. :smile:
Many ...Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... /> I find that very hard to believe. I was selling computers ... PCW and it fitted in to a business environment well. Also ... too expensive - well not compared to Microdrive catridges. :smile:
Many ...Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
... very limited number of blocks to make up the scenery and ... all pre-stored pre-shifted to all the different pixel positions ... that amounts to just one big, very fast copy routine to refresh the ... scenery each time. If you wanted to ...Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
... all pre-stored pre-shifted to all the different pixel ... that amounts to just one big, very fast copy routine to refresh the ... scenery each time. If you wanted to ... Interesting stuff indeed. Just goes to show what you can achieve ...Turn OCR-ed listings into Speccy filesHi! I do not know whether I have posted this in the proper subforum... If not, I am sorry. We have a site that we scan/preserve Greek computer maga…
... 518437]However, I seem to recall that everyone who's ... the past has come to the conclusion that it' ... normally use the context to figure out whether a ... some reason I have come to the quite opposite conclusion. ... it. I used BASIN Copy/paste to paste in the txt ...Best games, and fast loading?I'm getting my long-awaited Spectrum 48+ in the mail tomorrow, and I want to know what are some of the best games for it. I know about games like Jet…
... 've converted some files from .tzx to .wav, will this make the ... /> No, wav will be identical to tzx, it'll load the same ... ) on emulators and convert them to highly compressed tap files with ... then you can use k7zx to convert them into turbo loads ...New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... you could use a program to pack it (something like screen ... Spectrum), then alter the loader to load the loading screen, depack ... with a small LDIR program to copy them to the screen such as ... full loading screens went down to around 9KMF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
... you get the .dsk over to the 3" drive?[/QUOTE]
copy "b:*" to "a:" in basic to move them across ... disks from a 3'5 to 3' [I]on the ... the 3' first due to the need to boot from it (which ... 's process of moving it to disk could be followed for ...Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... at 16384 then I could copy the display file with a ... this in the past to pass parameters to machine code, following the ... up my own string definition to point to the display file. I ... as occupying the display file to copy that to a real string variable ...Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... using this BASIC "swift copy" technique to copy strings to/from free RAM or ... copy chunks of RAM around ... br /> 41 REM TO COPY string to RAM or RAM to string or RAM ... in RAM;
l =length to copy
43 REM eg.: ...Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... reinvention or re-write of TZX in a sense ?
I ... just converting sailing v1.20 TZX to PZX and while it's ... due to is structure you can represent a v1.20 TZX which ... a beta revision of the TZX format.
Either way ...Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... just converting sailing v1.20 TZX to PZX and while it' ... to is structure you can represent a v1.20 TZX ... a beta revision of the TZX format.
... tape images as TZX which is supposed to be proven by ... any conversion of an arbitrary TZX to PZX in ZXDS or ...Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... any conversion of an arbitrary TZX to PZX in ZXDS or any ... 'd rather not compare IPF to TZX, as that will open another ... manor ?
Obviously with TZX we had to adapt as we went ... 't liked within TZX, so adding such things to PZX surely would ...Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... the output from PlayTZX filename.tzx /one /p.
... .tzx
ZXTape Utilities - Play TZX , TZX to VOC Converter and TZX ... br /> $ tzxlist Chess.tzx
Listing of `Chess.tzx':
... a two-stage process to convert to WAV first then play ...Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
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13 ... /> REM Set up pointer to line 14.
14 ... $ restores the plain command to line 14 (if necessary ... A$ and B$,
to make room for possible ( ... VAL "nnnnn" TO VAL "nnnnn").
15 ...Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…
Sent the latest copy out to folk, after I played it a few times myself again and found some minor errors. I can't see anything else myself.
I'm tempted to release it right now, if I didn't think there would be anything else reported...Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... edge at all like a TZX or an edge immediately ... Tires requires the pulse to be generated to load, but it looks ... cover all the TZX to PZX block translations) and to get the tape2wav ... tool to respect polarity information ...
