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WiP Raspberry Pico Microdrive Hardware EmulatorDecided to take the plunge and learn how to program a Raspberry Pico Micro Controller and, after messing around a lot with Oqtadrive, decided to crea…
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tape vs diskWhy people use *.tap & *.zxs when (?)??????????(?) *.trd ?
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... have CD-ROMs and hard-drives and graphics cards and PC ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... LAN or analogue joysticks, disk drives are hardly standard media for ...Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…
... PC (one with twin disk drives that was an old business ...Ultimate GamesJust got a computer and found this site. I know this must be asked all the time, but what's the deal with Ultimate games on the net, why are they un…
... of emulation files (on hard drives etc.) without the physical original ...Plus 3 Disk ConversionIf anybody wants any commercial +3 disks converted to .dsk format, I've rigged a +3 up to my PC and can make .dsk images of nearly all commercially p…
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through about five 3" drives before I got one that ...5.25 to PC ??I have a speccy and a Plus D - I saved all my stuff on 5.24 in disks, but now the plus D is kapoot. Does anyonyone know how I can get my stuuf to loa…
You do realise that PC's have had 5.25 inch disk drives before the 48k Spectrum even existed?Discovery Opus, can it use 720kb floppys?If I mount a new drive in it ?
As I seem to recall, its the main disk it DOES support. 1.4Mb disk drives wont work. from memory!
Incidently, I have circuit diagrams of the OPUS, and I actually BUILT one from these diagrams!Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
... the speccy,int1 and m/drives are the next step!Problems with MySQLHi all, The creation of the new 'Sales' forum this morning somehow corrupted the MySQL database that the forum engine uses. A repair was needed, but…
... was a hassle, besides hard drives hardly ever corrupt, do they ...what spec pc are you running your speccy emulator onAll them giga hertz and bytes and what do i do with it mainly...play speccy games and old arcade games.. What spec pc do you have at the moment? I up…
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* 2 IDE hard drives (26Gb total)
* Memorex 12x ...What other 'retrotech' are you into, what hardware do you own?I suppose talking about machines, hardware & software other than Sinclair is off-topic, but my retro collection was kick-started at WoS! I had heard…
... 's with monitor twin disk drives roms etc,electrons with org ... 520 and 1040 with extra drives 'a hanimex pong machine ,b ...curious: how did 'they' make games?Now that ive found this forum i can ask all the questions I always thought about :) Im just curious, how did they (the software companies) make the …
... Speccy (and later Speccy + diskette drives, but that's half sissiness ...Sir Fred programmer died.Hi there, just want to inform that Paco Menendez, spanish programmer author of "Fred", "Sir Fred" and "La Abadia del Crimen" died. These games are i…
I still play Sir Fred sometimes. The slippy-slideyness drives me nuts ;)
RIP, Paco.My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... , or you'd include disk drives or something, DMA is to ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... i'm thinking about the drives as well. If i'm ...MakeTZX DMA Buffer Overrun ?Okay folks, Does anyone know why I get DMA Buffer Overruns when using MakeTZX. Could it be anything to do with my SB Enironment string or anything …
... shackled quite a lot. Some drives have a sustained transfer rate ...+3 Disk Dumping, Your Problems ?Hi folks, I believe many people who read these forums are in possetion of +3 Disks as listed on the SDP projects' pages. I'd like to know the main …
... there are more of these drives around - the best bet for ... 3 inch drives are probably old PCW machines ...+3 Disk Dumping, Your Problems ?Hi folks, I believe many people who read these forums are in possetion of +3 Disks as listed on the SDP projects' pages. I'd like to know the main …
... the SDP project using 3" drives and CDPRead.
I ... don't think 3.5" drives will give any advantage, in ...Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …
... most seem to have disk drives, unlike myself, i only have ...MicroMart battle semi-final has started - go and vote for the Spectrum!We've been following this lately, and the first semi-final has begun between the Speccy and the Amstrad to find the greatest home computer of all tim…
... spare cash to spend. What drives these buyers is not just ...+d dsdd disks in hd drive Hi, Does anyone know how to format a 3,5inch DSDD disk in a -HD- diskdrive connected to a Plus D?? I'm trying to convert some old 5,1/4 inch disk …
In almost all cheap 3.5" drives this hole is detected machanicaly, just open the drive doors and look what?s here, a switch, or photo-sensitive-diode. But don?t ask me how the 5.25" discs are detected by drive.What is SAM?Whilst looking at my spectum tape collection i foun a number of SAM only games. What is a SAM game and which emulators support it?
... . nice one with all accessories, drives, tape pleayer and leads, with ...Opus Discovery DiscsHi I have recently found my copy of Kemsoft's PCB Designer but it is on Opus discs and I have tried using ReadOpus and OpusImg but they don't seem t…
... is very common with PC drives because their quality drops with ...Distribution of the Spectrum in Europe.Ok, so we've noticed the lack of French posters (there might be readers we don't know about) here at WoS. We have people from UK of course, from Irel…
... 512Kb RAM, two floppy disk drives and a Kempston mouse ), Robik ...What is SAM?Whilst looking at my spectum tape collection i foun a number of SAM only games. What is a SAM game and which emulators support it?
... . nice one with all accessories, drives, tape pleayer and leads, with ...