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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... gold plated female connector (like Opus) on the tinned Spectrums edge ... )
What happened with Opus Supplies? Well, before Discovery and ... :-)
Removing disk cable: At the 'Opus' end of the cable ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... of ways to classify the Opus variants .
1) First ... somewhere to a Type 3 Opus Discovery ( I will look again ... ) which had a less good disk drive
3) And of ... ! And of course , although the Opus Discovery is rare I have ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... Spain.
realspectrum brings total disk support writes and reads to ... no problems. (simply replace te opus.rom in folder with the ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... (I always say just Opus) is buffering the data ... 'next' sector on the turning disk. Therefore, for gaining time, ... needs the sectors on disk in a normal consequetive ... , very slow on a normal Opus.
-the ... is used for Spectrum + Opus, so 2 Amp is needed ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
The Flying Opus revisited
Of course ... . As mentioned above "the flying Opus" variant has a big disadvantage ... be lifted of and the disk drives cleaned . Cleaning the drives ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... /> With fix-it of datel, opus should work too with ...amstrad ... , the last version with real disk support.
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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... #0088
Opus ROM 'takes over' every KEY_INT ... a private (home-made) 'disk information table', compare Disassembly ... br />
Opus holds a default disk information table in its ... congruent with the last accessed disk.
Problem ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... classifying and cleaning up my Opus Discovery files.
Regarding the ... few changes in the Disk Information table, maybe Opus used a different ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
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There are three official Opus Supplies' EPROMS and one modified ... needs to compact a fragmented disk. I consider this ROM as ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... "]The question of the best Opus Discovery Rom
Well it ... tracks, problem was getting a disk with a correct bootsector as ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... now looking "a bit" ridiculous . Opus soon dropped this small size ... removing the already "sawn off" disk drive plate on which the ... "modified" I mean with the Opus Discovery support base going under ... "what to do with the Opus Discovery outer case "backflap" " . ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... Opus continued:-
The next bit is easy to envisage . The disk ... plate, where it says "Opus Discovery 1 " can ... this disk plate from swiveling around on top of the Opus , so ... it retains the disk drives in a ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... sure . My other issue PCB Opus Discovery (I call this one ... . But the disk drive was the most expensive part of Opus Discovery ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... story was, back then, that Opus had to get rid of ... of 40 Tr Single Sided disk drives. And had the Discovery ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... it up" and "Backflapping" the Opus go together as concepts for ... the cramped space inside the Opus case. "Backflapping" mitigates this by ... to "prove the concept" the disk drives have to be swapped ... to this reworking of the Opus Discovery "Freebird" right at the ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... Harrius, I only have one Opus which is 'my own'. The ... interesting story....
On Opus the drive selection is NOT ... that of spinning up the disk somewhat earlier. So another kind ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... previous owner of the 'lower' Opus in my collection had cut ... use for my own (hard disk) experiments.
So we all ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... an interesting reference to the Opus :- in "The Crash Online Edition ... this below :-
"The Opus Discovery 1 comes as a ... fast file handling" .... "The RAM disk may also be reconfigured to ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
[quote="harriusherbartio;842416"]"The Opus Discovery 1 comes as a ... fast file handling" .... "The RAM disk may also be reconfigured to ... the main table and the disk table are copied in RAM ... -
Any floppy disk system with well known multi-load games for 48k Spectrum?I know the +3 has got loads of disk versions of famous games. I know that 48k can use modern SD readers that emulate TAP and TZX files. But how about…
... disk interfaces realeased BITD, the most popular being the DISCiPLE, +D, Opus ... games, rather than running commercial disk games. For multi-load games ... />
Releasing commercial games on disk didn't really catch on ... saw it as the official disk standard. -
Opus Discovery - a Christmas taleBack in the day, when the ZX ruled the home computer market here in the UK, it suffered from 1 obvious problem: it lacked a fast mass media save/load…
... christmas story. However, Opus was once also my ... . I still got my Opus, but since that time ... - 1,86 MB on HD Disk
- No need to change ... have seen disc software for Opus Discovery in the stores. ... seen or heard of official Opus versions of any game, ... -
Any floppy disk system with well known multi-load games for 48k Spectrum?I know the +3 has got loads of disk versions of famous games. I know that 48k can use modern SD readers that emulate TAP and TZX files. But how about…
... copied easily to disk and then played from disk as before from ... , I used to play with Opus Discovery. Very rarely disc conversions ... loaded the main game from disk and had an extra tape ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... power/drive pod for the Opus Discovery.So I thought I ... was written on a floppy disk drive and it said:
Serious SpectrumHas anyone here used their Spectrum for anything other than gaming and programming back in the eighties? I see all these business and productivity ap…
... Opus Discovery to expand memory to the size of a whole disk ...Hacker needed (Opus Discovery)Hello, I once was in contact with a guy who converted some games to Opus format. The contact was via the PM function here on WOS, but after the WOS-u…
... manual conversion given that the Opus Discovery commands are the same ... " autorun file on the .opd disk file
Note that ... ] for your info.
Opus Discovery Manual .PDF can be ...Opus DiscoveryWould anyone have any materials about programming the Opus Discovery disk? I know it overrides ROM and uses microdrive commands, but I am more into b…
... the byte to write to disk (i.e. there is no ... DMA mechanism for the disk to just to dump the ... /> A major issue when programming Opus on the absolute lowest level ...Opus DiscoveryWould anyone have any materials about programming the Opus Discovery disk? I know it overrides ROM and uses microdrive commands, but I am more into b…
... the boot sector on the disk. Possible sector sizes are the ... such (IBM 3120(?) things, but Opus has the params all in ... />
2. Yes. Access of Opus-ROM in the 10240-14336 ... the through-(edge)connector of Opus.).
4. The minimum ...Elite - Galaxy Creator Pokes.So 8 meagre galaxies are not enough for you? Tired of visiting the same old 2048 planets over and over? Say no more, these "Galaxy Creator" pokes wil…
NES Elite is my favourite version of ... sequence like in the BBC Disk/C64 versions but you can ...Hacker needed (Opus Discovery)Hello, I once was in contact with a guy who converted some games to Opus format. The contact was via the PM function here on WOS, but after the WOS-u…
... programs using MC routines for Opus LOAD/SAVE.
See these ... am unable to make a disk image. My PC cannot read ... the disk format and REAL SPECTRUM does ...Hacker needed (Opus Discovery)Hello, I once was in contact with a guy who converted some games to Opus format. The contact was via the PM function here on WOS, but after the WOS-u…
Helge Keller used 82 tracks on his 'Lilywhite' disks for Opus, when I remember well.
I believe that SAMdisk for PC (Simon Owen) can be told to make a disk image from such disks,
and copy these to new disks .
