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  • Making an external 3" USB floppy drive ?I came across an old 3" floppy drive, and I got the idea of making it into an external USB drive to write +3 images onto from my PC. Can I use the …

    ... need two controllers, a USB controller and a Programmable CPLD that ... .uk/USB-external-portable-floppy-disk-drive-1-44MB-3-5 ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 July 2009 Hardware
  • PS3... should I buy one?PS3 is now what? 3 years old? I've never been really convinced about it... but if you guys remember an older post I made, I'm really having trouble…

    ... />
    Absolutely right! The hard disk and wi-fi adapter are ... still be playing with a controller but if it does turn ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2009 Chit chat
  • PS3 whaddyareckon?I am considering a PS3 at the new price - partly because of the blu-ray. As a 40 year old who only dabbles, I wonder if I should buy. The only quir…

    ... shuttle taking off when the disk was whirring (and yes, I ... for batteries when charging the controller. Just connect it via a ...
    Vampyre Vampyre September 2009 Chit chat
  • Edge of Disgrace on the other side :)Got my mind blown today... saw the Edge of Disgrace demo on the commie ;-) Regardless if you are a c64 fan or not, you should see it. Effects and Des…

    ... (except streaming more data from disk)? I always thought that it ... 's just a regular disk drive.[/QUOTE]

    This ... electronics, 6502 processor as disc controller and 2Kb of Ram as ...
    Pegaz Pegaz October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…

    ... ] still sell a cloned Gamecube controller. Shame you can't use ... the 'Classic' controller instead. You'll probably need ... Twiglet Princess, and the bonus disk version of Majora's Mask ...
    joefish joefish February 2010 Chit chat
  • At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…

    ... ] still sell a cloned Gamecube controller. Shame you can't use ... the 'Classic' controller instead. You'll probably need ... Twiglet Princess, and the bonus disk version of Majora's Mask ...
    1980-20.. 1980-20.. February 2010 Chit chat
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... got an interface containing the controller chip which added to the ... the machine with the cheapest disk drives at the time. We ... talking ?200 for a Beta disk or Opus Discovery on the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2010 Games
  • updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…

    [QUOTE=Tom-Cat;473504]btw. just tried Wild Player with Divide support and it won't show any files when I select 5.Divide in the menu... even though I have several directories and even some P_P and P_S files in the root directory.[/QUOTE]

    WILD ...
    velesoft velesoft September 2010 Development
  • MB02+IDE aliveLast weekend I finished soldering and testing my MB02+IDE. All items work perfectly on +2 grey, on +2A, on 128k heatsink and on 48k Issue2 and 3b tes…

    ... =ingo;473518]* 3,5" floppy disk port[/quote]
    Yes. But ... buy MB02+ also without FDC controller and without DMA.
    Some ...
    velesoft velesoft September 2010 Hardware
  • Using real 3.5" floppies to load a +3 game (emulated)Is it possible to load a Spectrum +3 or Amstrad CPC 664/6128 game with the use of 3.5" floppy disks (providing the emulator can support real disk mod…

    ... data rate, so the reading controller can't sync consistently. If ... an accurate dump of the disk (such as IPF) and can ... to write pretty much any disk.

    SAMdisk uses patches ...
    obo obo September 2010 Hardware
  • Using real 3.5" floppies to load a +3 game (emulated)Is it possible to load a Spectrum +3 or Amstrad CPC 664/6128 game with the use of 3.5" floppy disks (providing the emulator can support real disk mod…

    ... has its own built-in controller and there's no way ... driver that was created for disk preservation purposes and read/write ... USB floppy drive, because the controller is between the two and ...
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2010 Hardware
  • Dead external HD....help?Hi Folks Gutted. You may have noticed I've been uploading some nice inlay scans over the past months. Have over 10,000 scans on my external HD, wh…

    ... nowhere, hence they say the disk needs to be transferred..
    disk with a real ATA controller I'd think ... could well be that the disk *is* dead, but it's ...
    guesser guesser September 2010 Chit chat
  • Dead external HD....help?Hi Folks Gutted. You may have noticed I've been uploading some nice inlay scans over the past months. Have over 10,000 scans on my external HD, wh…

    ... /> and try switching the unopened! disk?[/QUOTE]

    that would ... is more likely the actual disk drive is failing changing the ... it to a real ATA controller so you can run lower ... recovery tools on the actual disk itself.
    guesser guesser September 2010 Chit chat
  • Dead external HD....help?Hi Folks Gutted. You may have noticed I've been uploading some nice inlay scans over the past months. Have over 10,000 scans on my external HD, wh…

    ... , it's more often the controller than the drive. Or more ... accurately the connections around the controller that have failed due to ... . Usually if the actual spinning disk fails, you'll know about ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2010 Chit chat
  • Dead external HD....help?Hi Folks Gutted. You may have noticed I've been uploading some nice inlay scans over the past months. Have over 10,000 scans on my external HD, wh…

    ... purposes, accessing a variety of disk formats/partitions, and (in case ... arrays could be nuked by controller failures, and multiple harddisk setups ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie September 2010 Chit chat
  • The Ultimate Spectrum, made from old spectrumsGiven that all types of the Spectrum are less than ideal in one respect or another, I wondered what the ulimate refinement would be, but just using o…

    ... =Glenn;495586]Including the fdd controller etc?[/QUOTE]

    This ... /B board has the floppy disk section chopped out.

    spodula spodula December 2010 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... !

    Not every game disk can be written on the ... being almost the same floppy controller as the PC. Some tricks ... PC by disabling the floppy controller. On the +3 I believe ...
    obo obo December 2010 Hardware
  • Fully integrated ZX+Hi, I just want to show some inspiration for integration HW to ZX+ case ;-) - ZX48 issue 3 board, without all parts regarding video generating (pa…

    ... and write all major Speccy disk drive formats)
    -9-pin ... kempston port, and one gamepad/controller adapted to be used instead ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2011 Hardware
  • Multiface 1 (Romantic Robot) RepairHello there my fellow ZX'ers! recently I got an Interface 1 + MicroDrive from a friend and since then I have been having awesome geeky moments in fr…

    ... reams of schematics for Floppy Disk controllers / 8bit/16bit HDD controllers ... - (still looking for an MP3 controller LOL)

    I am ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 March 2011 Hardware
  • Need help with a DOS commandI've searched for hours in a row and I've been searching for a couple days now, but I can't find a way to log on to a local machine using DOS. This i…

    ... app!) for the maxicom irrigation controller system and it successfully made ... needed files from the hard disk to a second machine and ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2011 Chit chat
  • ZX Spectrum +3 Query...Hi all, As common, I brought down my Spectrum from the attic the other day to have another stab at getting it running. I knew from the past it was a…

    ... that the bios and floppy controller support old drives.
    ... that will copy a disk image from a 720k ... 3.5" disk in drive b: and ... it out to the 3" disk. This involves:
    a) ... /> c) an understanding of disk copy protection techniques, and the ...
    guesser guesser March 2011 Hardware
  • What happened to ZX Spin?I've been absent from the forums until recently. What happened to ZX Spin?

    ... controller issue.[/QUOTE]

    I'm booting from a disk image ... rather than a real disk.

    disk directly and boot from it ... /> When I use the real disk in my real PlusD and ...
    dekh dekh March 2011 Emulators
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... drive that the PC floppy controller can talk to. Be sure ... enough).

    Writing game disk images to 3.5" disks ... .5" disks. When writing affected disk images it'll apply a ...
    obo obo April 2011 Hardware
  • Sinclair QL ProblemHi there. I purchased recently four Sinclair QL for a not small amount of money. Two german and two english, they are mixed: British or European conn…

    ... /> I have a Cumana floppy controller and a the 3.5 ... transfer games on a floppy disk using the PC.
    gtsamour gtsamour May 2011 Hardware
  • Sinclair QL ProblemHi there. I purchased recently four Sinclair QL for a not small amount of money. Two german and two english, they are mixed: British or European conn…

    ... /> I have a Cumana floppy controller and a the 3.5 ... transfer games on a floppy disk using the PC.[/QUOTE]
    disk - use q-emulator - you can ... put a QL floppy disk into a PC disk drive and use ... zip file, or even a disk image file.
    rwap rwap May 2011 Hardware
  • ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …

    ... a 3 1/2 inch disk drive and a 5 1 ... /4 disk drive. :D[/quote]
    You ... single drive now, with the controller simplified to cut costs.
    controller chip, which can't be ...
    obo obo May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …

    ... that had a programmable floppy controller chip, or a chip that ... machine. It already supports many disk image formats, including EDSK and ...
    obo obo May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …

    ... anything messy like disk image processing. The 720K disk would contain the ... to follow to recreate the disk.

    The only complication ... precision, by disabling the floppy controller after the required transfer length ...
    obo obo June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Modern mainboards with no floppy controllerA PC's mainboard floppy controller is very import for reading and writing Spectrum disks but these days mainboards no longer have one built in. On ot…

    ... a modern motherboard with floppy controller, but I invite you to ... a 3 1/2 inch disk drive and a 5 1 ... /4 disk drive.[/QUOTE]

    [url ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2011 Support files
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