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  • Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …

    ... /M],Reads floppies from PC drive, Atom Hard disk support, CF ... />
    For Jupiter Ace, ZX81, emulation I use EightyOne [V42T2 Beta ... ] as its the best Ace emulation,Tap and Wav file loader ... disks from your PCs Floppy drive.
    [ does not work with ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) March 2006 Emulators
  • loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…

    ... to do with copy-protection emulation rather than the TZX file ... could fix my +3 tape drive could restore even more of ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace March 2006 Emulators
  • +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…

    ... between the external disk drive and the external drive port. This dongle ... /> I assume the uPD765A floppy controller is limited to a certain ... unless you use an external drive on the serial/printer port ...
    DEATH DEATH April 2006 Development
  • +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…

    ... doesn't have a traditional controller, with very little between ... the raw bitstream from the drive - that's why SPS ... you use an external drive on the serial/printer ... written by slowing the drive motor down a little, ... write signal to the drive was disabled at the ...
    obo obo April 2006 Development
  • How did you spend your Good Friday?So how did everybody spend their Good Fridays then? For me: Got up around 9am, had a nice cup of tea and watched Spongebob Squarepants and Chantell…

    ... , modified slightly for the Gamecube controller. You will also get another ... on the Jap-only 64DD drive.
    Vampyre Vampyre April 2006 Chit chat
  • Sony's E3 ConferenceHere's the basic info... [quote]We will make PS3 available via a two-configuration plan. One with a 20GB HD. And the other with a 60GB hard drive. …

    ... , they were saying that the drive couldn't read the disks ... reason why an HD DVD drive will not have support for ... 'm glad they changed the controller, although it doesn't win ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan May 2006 Chit chat
  • "classic" PDA recommendationsHi, I was thinking of a cheap PDA for general/development work and initially thought that a Z88 might be a good start. I've been looking at Psion 3 …

    ... to use for a second drive, but you need to use ... machine, you can do good emulation of a *ahem* C64 and ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 May 2006 Chit chat
  • EightyOne and CF cardsInspired by obo & piters discussion regarding imaging of flash card, I've added reading/writing to real disks to EightyOne. Hopefully it should allo…

    ... Master/Slave drives, does a DRIVE ID command then reads sector ... . I can't see the emulation failing anywhere, so I'm ...
    MikeW MikeW June 2006 Emulators
  • EightyOne and CF cardsInspired by obo & piters discussion regarding imaging of flash card, I've added reading/writing to real disks to EightyOne. Hopefully it should allo…

    ... Master/Slave drives, does a DRIVE ID command then reads sector ... . I can't see the emulation failing anywhere, so I'm ...
    glancaster glancaster June 2006 Emulators
  • hdf format extensionAs I see, there is no field in hdf header for LBA total sector count. Size is calculated in emulators (at least in Fuse) by CHS. Interesting is that…

    ... . Other parameters are irelevant for emulation - modes, manufacters string, serial # etc ... has not much sense in emulation.

    I checked ... I made with hdfutil is drive's total sector count in ... drivers in Speccy ROMs, raw drive image would be enough.
    piters piters June 2006 Emulators
  • hdf format extensionAs I see, there is no field in hdf header for LBA total sector count. Size is calculated in emulators (at least in Fuse) by CHS. Interesting is that…

    ... I made with hdfutil is drive's total sector count in ... quirk of early RealSpec IDE emulation. Certainly, the +3e would ... still does not read the drive identity information (it would be ... have different endianness: the Fuse emulation, the +3e/ResiDOS code, the ...
    glancaster glancaster June 2006 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... to support, but the WD1772 controller is much more advanced than ... ]

    765 controller? Is common PC floppy controller based on it ... function some weird sector numbers, emulation of CRC errors and perhaps ...
    piters piters 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…

    ... QUOTE=piters]765 controller? Is common PC floppy controller based on it ... some weird sector numbers, emulation of CRC errors and perhaps ... return and fetch the controller result bytes to determine ... This will help separate controller errors from other API ...
    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…

    ... limitations of the 765 floppy controller. There's no diagnostic ... standard PC controller is with a modified drive that spins ... disks that the PC controller can access, including deleted ... next version, so reported controller errors do not cause DeviceIoControl ...
    obo obo July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DivIDE EmulationHi guys, I should have my DivIDE soon so I've been trying to emulate it to become familiar with the devices functions. I've fired up the EightyOne …

    ... originally built an 8bit simple controller and got into using the ... you had made the hard drive usage almost transparent (to the ...
    KeepGood KeepGood July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Datel +D clone[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Plus-D-D-interface-NEW-FDD-for-ZX-Spectrum_W0QQitemZ140007699563QQihZ004QQcategoryZ50223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] I have…

    ... nice, cased double 3.5" drive for my BBC, which I ... Beeb also contains a 1770 controller, and it *insists* on DD ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Hardware
  • Well I've gone and done it - a PS2 it is!Yep, another successful ebay item in my kitty - a new PS2 with 2 controllers, 8 MB RAM, and 5 free games of my choice(modded PS2 - need I say more?).…

    [QUOTE=Daren]The GC controller is the most comfortable and easiest to use I've had. It can't be bettered IMO.[/QUOTE]

    Totally agree. The only other pad that felt that good to me in its
    time was the Mega Drive one.
    xfa84 xfa84 July 2006 Chit chat
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... now ;-)

    With +3e emulation, the IDE_IDENTIFY command seems to ... first 256 bytes of the drive identity information, rather than the ... words.

    In the drive identity information, words 1, 3 ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... from TAP files - better in emulation than in real. At least ... ROMs, as these use the drive identify command.
    glancaster glancaster July 2006 Emulators
  • SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…

    ... address. As you suggested, in emulation terms only 543 of the ... ;a

    where d: drive, s: sector, a:address
    drive 1 into address 16384

    3. Drive to copy from? ( 1 to ...
    jp jp August 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Additional 3.5" Drive for the +3Hi. I've been thinking of various ways of getting data off of my 3" discs onto a PC and have a couple ideas, one of which is to get some +3e proms bl…

    ... generated by the floppy controller chip when 'a' drive is connected, so ... as you have your internal drive plugged in, the ready signal ... the XT and AT floppy drive pin differences will give you ... from your external drive (external being the A drive).

    ...
    KeepGood KeepGood August 2006 Hardware
  • PS3 Launch Delayed Till March 2007 in Europe and AusAnyone whos been waiting for november will have to wait even longer now unless they live in the U.S of Japan

    ... don't want to shoot, drive, or or play sports to ... like Nintendogs and the "wand" controller works well enough they could ...
    ADJB ADJB September 2006 Chit chat
  • PS3 Launch Delayed Till March 2007 in Europe and AusAnyone whos been waiting for november will have to wait even longer now unless they live in the U.S of Japan

    ... information... I knew about the emulation side, but hadn't really ... been a case of "drive round track. Drive round track again. And ...
    hackersanon hackersanon September 2006 Chit chat
  • How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?

    ... the 80's, and through emulation now...

    When developing ... & sprite-editors on one drive, and all the code and ...
    bobs bobs September 2006 Development
  • Could this be made to work for a sinclairI have asked the seller if he supplied the cables and software that could do the same job but for a +3, does anyone know if could be done, or maybe t…

    ... , and they share the same controller chip.

    ... let it take control of drive A:, thus allowing the ... PC to control the drive whilst it's still ... The control lines on the drive B: port also connect ... to the A: drive AND the uPD765A controller chip, so yeah ...
    DEATH DEATH October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which Emulator?I?m interested to know which emulator people use! Which one has the look and ?feel? of a real Spectrum and which one has the most accurate loading e…

    ... if Spectaculator had full +D emulation built in, I would have ... Disk in your PC's drive. You can also use the ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) November 2006 Emulators
  • Pinnabll MAMEHas anybody managed to get this working? I've downloaded the eumlator from this site [url]http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/[/url] but I can't get the…

    There`s two other emulation progs for the old pinball ... ain`t gottem on hard drive... I`ll post links up ...
    CKay CKay November 2006 Chit chat
  • Vista RC2 and SPINHey y'all! I foolishy installed Vista RC2 on my laptop (saying that, Vista is pretty neat) and now SPIN ain't workin'. Any thoughts (Dunny!) on whe…

    ... a problem recognizing my raid-controller....:-x[/QUOTE]
    Yeah, I ... ended up formatting my lappy drive and installing RC2 fresh. Works ...
    mroshaw mroshaw November 2006 Emulators
  • JamJust wondering what progs everyone always keeps on their computay`s and why? I`ll start the ball rolling :- BSPlayer Pro... My fave Video player, or…

    ... ]
    [B]Daemon Dools[/B] - drive emulation
    [B]dBpowerAmp Music Converter ... )

    *
    [B][U]Emulation:[/U][/B]
    [B]RealSpectrum ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 December 2006 Chit chat
  • Anyone have any pics of their collection?I'm an Atari 800XL owner and the main media that games were on for that were tape. Trouble is I've seen loads of pics on the net of peoples collectio…

    ... a screengrab of my Speccy emulation and TZX collection is acceptable ... and the wife can't drive anymore)... (only kidding)

    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 December 2006 Games
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