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  • virtual compo Antique Toy 3 (2005) virtual ZX Spectrum music and graphics contest --- 1. ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------------------…

    ... /> - 5. Disk operations -------------------------------------------

    ATTENTION: disk operation errors are not processed ... . Please be
    careful and check that disk ...
    Also the disk must contain 10 sectors of ...
    kyv_triumph kyv_triumph July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The best games from 2000 to 2005Hi everybody, I am writing because I need your help, I would like to know which are the best 10 games of these last 5 years, since 2000. All kind of …

    ... disable write-protection on the disk!

    Incidentally, I seem ... model, but gives some graphical errors in ChaseHQ.
    Then you ...
    Pegaz Pegaz August 2005 Games
  • 3" floppy in pcI'm in need of some assistance. I have attached a 3" floppy to my pc using a cable as described at [url="http://newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/F…

    ... use is the lack of disk change line on the drive ... driver relies to detect a disk in the drive. Attempting to ... drive will give "no disk in drive" errors. The only option is ...
    obo obo September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • NVidia Display drivers - fuk!n up my system - need help!Hello. Im having problems with video card drivers. My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB. I downloaded the latest (or tried the older) dri…

    ... crash with memory dump to disk (which is pointless coz it ... a proper bootable memory tester disk that checks each section with ... downloaded a temperature and hard disk health prog yesterday that says ... be what's causing the errors?
    Also, I recently updated ...
    Vertigo Vertigo October 2005 Chit chat
  • OT: PC boot solution anyone?A long shot I know, but what the hell! The thing is this: My Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo seems to be suffering from a problem. Specifically with the BIO…

    ... support CD when a bootable disk is not available, and go ... get loads beeps for POST errors.

    If you don ... hasn't found any major errors.

    This also means ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2005 Chit chat
  • Bug in EMUZWINIt's quite minor actually and is in the Assembler. Ocassionally when assembling the ASM gives the wrong address to a label. For instance I used the l…

    ... /> [*] While saving Hobeta files from Disk Browser, undesired characters in file ... PRN.*).
    [*] Faster a bit Disk Browser indication.
    [-] "Jump to ... /> [-] Assembler fixed for some rare errors (leading to infinite loop of ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov November 2005 Emulators
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... abysmal bugs in the ROM - errors in PLAY or RAMDisk commands ... one configuration) and a complete disk operating system. 3" disks can ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2005 Hardware
  • Buying a +3I've been told you can download Spectrum games in .TZX format and transfer them to a specci through the headphone jack. Can you only then save the ga…

    ... number of officially released specci disk based games is low, but ... be saved on just one disk?

    Final question, are ... years old and prone to errors and need to be tested ... , maybe 50p per disk.)

    Loading from disk is very much ...
    DEATH DEATH December 2005 Hardware
  • "Unknown disk format"-error on Spectrum +3Hi, I have just gotten around to changing the drivebelt in my newly acquired +3. I tried to format one of the 3" disks I bought on eBay the other we…

    ... . "Unknown disk format" is one of the errors that often ... pop up when a disk has ... attempts to read the disk format it throws up ... PCW machine or something. Disk after disk came back with " ... Unknown disk format". Luckily I' ...
    Woody Woody December 2005 Hardware
  • 3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …

    ... layer, and it needs the disk check feature disabling in that ... protection features: 8K sectors, CRC errors and weak sectors. There are ...
    obo obo February 2006 Hardware
  • 3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …

    ... PC in order to make disk images, yes?

    If ... 're getting all kinds of errors because the OS is looking ... the wrong place on the disk for the Directory info...
    DEATH DEATH February 2006 Hardware
  • 3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …

    ... 're getting all kinds of errors because the OS is looking ... the wrong place on the disk for the Directory info...[/quote ... reading, but all the decent disk utils drive the floppy controller ...
    obo obo February 2006 Hardware
  • M3 UnlockDoes anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "M3 Unlock"? Apparently it will allow the loading of Multiface 3 snapshots without having a multiface…

    ... was intending to image the disk, copy M3 unlock over to ... there are some sector errors on this old disk. I managed to ...
    alchresearch alchresearch February 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MGT Plus DHi to all and thanks for reading this. After years I've taken my Spectrum and wanted to use the MGT Plus D interface (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    ... thinking it has a 800k disk, which then can be formatted ... thinking it's a DD disk will mean it doesn't ... later they're already showing errors. If you value the data ...
    obo obo March 2006 Hardware
  • MGT Plus DHi to all and thanks for reading this. After years I've taken my Spectrum and wanted to use the MGT Plus D interface (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    ... thinking it's a DD disk will mean it doesn't ... later they're already showing errors. If you value the data ...
    alchresearch alchresearch March 2006 Hardware
  • MGT Plus DHi to all and thanks for reading this. After years I've taken my Spectrum and wanted to use the MGT Plus D interface (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    ... thinking it's a DD disk will mean it doesn't ... later they're already showing errors. If you value the data ... were then placed in a disk safe. Those were 3M DSDD ...
    DEATH DEATH March 2006 Hardware
  • +3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…

    ... completely unable to read the disk - hence no Amiga emulator ... deleted data address marks, CRC errors, mixed sector sizes, repeated sector ... 'normal' 8K sectors. Reading the disk is no problem, but the ... hardware, if a true unformatted disk was used, and the ...
    obo obo April 2006 Development
  • Disk file transfer utilities ?Are there some PC programs for transferring Speccy software between common emulator formats like TAP to disks or disk images? I mean here about +3 f…

    ... numbers, emulation of CRC errors and perhaps weak bits.[/QUOTE ... able to image almost any disk that the PC controller can ... of occasions. Formatting a full disk of them would be very ... will help separate controller errors from other API errors like bad parameters ...
    obo obo July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Disk file transfer utilities ?Are there some PC programs for transferring Speccy software between common emulator formats like TAP to disks or disk images? I mean here about +3 f…

    ... platforms).

    Disk scanning on the PC is ... but not when the disk is being used by ... data address marks, CRC errors and faked sector headers. ... back to a real disk with the weak bits ... version, so reported controller errors do not cause DeviceIoControl ...
    obo obo July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... from C/asm (to do disk i/o for example) and ... ON ERR CONTINUE command (ignore errors).
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • did 128k machines dominate ZX market?I have a question about 128k Spectrums. Did they dominate the ZX market in late 80's / early 90's? I mean where there more 128k users than 48k users …

    ... disk?
    [/QUOTE]
    I've come across a few errors in ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…

    ... dweebs that had BBCs* and disk drives, it was easy to ... crash, it also gives stupid errors [/QUOTE]

    Windows is ...
    Count Count August 2006 Games
  • +3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…

    ... disk rather than a bit of dust or dirt randomly causing errors ... releasing other's that Spin Disk Manager say are okay with ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2006 Development
  • Opus Discovery 720K DriveOK, so I bought an Opus Discovery recently. Went through a whole process of fitting a second drive, which I know to be 720K. Eventually got the thin…

    ... drive started giving I/O errors.

    So, I guess ... only produced a 190K (ish) disk.

    I'll have ...
    hldswrth hldswrth November 2006 Hardware
  • Dirty Disks on XboxI`ve had an Xbox now for about 3 years with hardly any problems, however just recently i`ve been getting the dreaded `Dirty Disk` bollocks! Granted, …

    ... been getting the dreaded `Dirty Disk` bollocks! Granted, this is on ... , it's giving me more errors than ever. There are two ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2006 Chit chat
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... much Sam-specific support like disk, etc. Although looking at its ... crashes, no out of memory errors, more features, etc. Of special ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Development
  • Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…

    ... quickly mention is to trap errors and parse commands yourself when ... this topic, especially doing a disk catalogue or changing the user ... usual C stdio interface to disk i/o. The C interface ... file by name in the disk directory so that should be ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2007 Development
  • Tranferring a game back to +3 disk?Hi, Haven't been on here for ages, but got my Spectrum down from the loft recently, due to a house move in the next few months. I'd forgotten, but so…

    ... to a real disk. Here's what the disk structure looks like ... with [d] and data crc errors with [dc]:

    [code ... pretty much any other +3 disk you can find. :-)

    obo obo January 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Tranferring a game back to +3 disk?Hi, Haven't been on here for ages, but got my Spectrum down from the loft recently, due to a house move in the next few months. I'd forgotten, but so…

    ... to read a disk and got missing address mark errors - well it ...
    tb2000 tb2000 February 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…

    ... -brown-is-fraud-list-of-errors-in.html[/url] which points ... is the bit of a disk-drive that moves the heads ...
    robert@fm robert@fm May 2007 Chit chat
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