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Loading schemes and Tapir sites downOther Spectrum-related, long-established websites seem to be down besides Dave Foreman's Sinclair User web repository (thread [URL="http://www.worldo…
For more exotic turbo loading schemes, reverse-engineered by myself and coming with sources, there is also [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/47463/unusual-custom-turbo-loaders-with-sources"]this thread[/url]. -
Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
... detailed analysis together with source codes of several turbo loaders I reverse engineered ... /forums/discussion/47463/unusual-custom-turbo-loaders-with-sources
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Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
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It makes a difference with the real hardware, but if ... right. In fact some turbo loaders are hard to speed ... faster.
IMHO turbo loaders only make sense if you ... your points, I agree with you. I love the ... 're fun to play with, but if I can ...Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... t had any problems with my ZX Spectrum + with cheap cassette (other ... /> On the other hand, some "turbo" loaders did not load faster than ... -turbo) that really worth it (i.e. Joe Blade II, with ... IMHO, you should forget about turbo loaders. If you need to load ...Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... no real reason to bother with a three-decades old computer ... what you want to begin with. That and cassettes typically tended ... I suggest you to stick with the ROM loader-like scheme ... off worse than most other turbo loadersAre turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... on your definition of a turbo loader.
If ... minutes to load with the default loader, while the turbo loader takes ... .
Even without custom turbo loaders, Oric had a standard and ... speed was comparable to Speccy, with 3-4 minutes for a ...Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... minutes to load with the default loader, while the turbo loader takes ... />
Turbo loaders appear to have run at 120%-150% speed (with new ... stops you from using a turbo loader on top of the ...Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... /forums/discussion/47463/unusual-custom-turbo-loaders-with-sources/"]here[/url], hosted Andrew ... have a soft spot for turbo loaders would definitely be understatement ;) Therefore ... far as I am concerned, turbo loaders rule!!! :-bd
And ...Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... , but looks like my turbo loader that works perfectly in ... some commercial games that use turbo loaders and they load, so it ... this made me think: are turbo loaders worth it?
...[/ ... levels required by ZX Spectrum with the output from a modern ...Ultimate games with short machine code files loaded lastThis is a bit geeky, you've been warned! I remember early Ultimate games loaded from tape had the ascending beeping noise, a "Please wait" message, …
... Alkatraz or latest Speedlocks.
- Turbo loaders that can fail when using ... IY=23610. Why? Because those loaders are used against "clean" ... that's using a PC with an emulator. Clearly those ... t stop anyone with enough resources or anyone with a decent tape ...Creating a POK from RAM or binary.Don't know if this is the right category or not but here goes. I'm working on a bug fix for a game, it's a few hundred bytes worth of custom code …
... -Gate didn't have any turbo loaders, although it did have a ... as far as you have with your custom code, you can ... out what I'm doing with my hack but maybe it ...Making your own tapesTowards the end of last year [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53607/recommend-modern-1994-2017-games]I dropped in here to ask a…
... for a four-track recorder with only three working tracks ... /> So I tried this setup with all the various different speed ... and Digital Integration's weird turbo-loaders, and Speedlock 3-7 are ... all the attributes completely wrong with lots of flashing squares - ...Multi-load games on a +2/+2a/+2bHello guys. How do you guys manage to play multi-load games on a +2/+2a/+2b? There's no tape counter. Sorry if this is a crazy question. I know of…
... by "playing" the TZX files with Tapir on a PC and ... him are all available as turbo loaders, which shorten loading times considerably ... order to speed it up with SetoLOAD.Multi-load games on a +2/+2a/+2bHello guys. How do you guys manage to play multi-load games on a +2/+2a/+2b? There's no tape counter. Sorry if this is a crazy question. I know of…
... by "playing" the TZX files with Tapir on a PC and ... him are all available as turbo loaders, which shorten loading times considerably ... order to speed it up with SetoLOAD.
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with SL?Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
... There are some that are turbo loaders but in some cases I ... TAP version (despite loading the turbo blocks at normal speed) ... alternate faster-loading blocks (with a higher-pitched pilot tone ... ) with standard speed blocks (also with the higher pilot ...Spectaculator 8.0 and 47loaderHi all I'm messing with [url="https://github.com/stephenw32768/47loader"]47loader[/url] (which is GREAT and very fun btw) and I find that Spectacu…
... every turbo loader ever conceived for the Spectrum; with it, ... forums/discussion/47463/unusual-custom-turbo-loaders-with-sources#latest"]here[/url] ... ]) and ran successful test with [url="http://www.alessandrogrussu ... I have tried it with except Fuse (I don ...Prefered format for tape preservationHi everyone, I'm new to the forum, so I appologise in advance if I post this in the wrong group. I work at Danish Computing History Association an…
... now can decode programs saved with standard ROM timing, and my ... to extend it to handle turbo loaders as well. But if there ...Converting Issue 2 keyboard games to Issue 3Dipping back into the World of Spectrum (and no, not just this site) I was wondering if I could do a machine code job myself without having any under…
... it to tape (especially if turbo loaders were involved). However, this also ... issues.[/quote]
Hmmm. With [i]Corridors of Genon[/i ... release I had the problem with: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ ... /> Odd; it's working with Spectaculator and an Issue 3 ...Loading Schemes > 1-bit per 2 edgesHi Guys, I'm just having another look at loading schemes again (a subject that interests me). Does anyone know if there any loading schemes t…
... anyone ever written a loader with forward error correction? [/quote]< ... error-prone. However, even with a 3x turbo loader, I find it ... /> If you think about commercial turbo loaders, for the most part, the ... of the game used a turbo loader (usually, less than ...Loading Schemes > 1-bit per 2 edgesHi Guys, I'm just having another look at loading schemes again (a subject that interests me). Does anyone know if there any loading schemes t…
I think the various turbo loaders along with encryption, break protection (MERGE "" etc.), ... (Alkatraz/Bobby Bearing) along with playing with border colour options were all ...Loading Schemes > 1-bit per 2 edgesHi Guys, I'm just having another look at loading schemes again (a subject that interests me). Does anyone know if there any loading schemes t…
... "]If you think about commercial turbo loaders, for the most part, the ... it has anything to do with either. For instance, there exist ...Lunar Jetman = The Confusion 2k3I had a 128k Spectrum in my youth, now experimenting with a ZX emu on my Amiga I played some Jetpack and found out what an amazing game it was and th…
... Spectrum in my youth, now experimenting with a ZX emu on my ... I tried some Lunar Jetman with my ZX emu on my ... it the same way as with Jetpack (but Jetpack was easy ...D80 disk interfaceI was just experimenting with this interface and I must admit that I kinda like it: simple syntax, relatively high capacity, high speed. Too bad it's…
I was just experimenting with this interface and I must ...Guarentees ...........LMAOJust been looking at the manual for newly aquired valhalla game from 1983 on page 4 it states.... "your valhala program cassette carries an unconditi…
... unconditional lifetime guarentee. if after experimenting with tone and volume control settings ...Problems gettingI have been experimenting with the audio-out options most Spectrum emulators feature, in the hopes to get some of my games running again from the ROM…
I have been experimenting with the audio-out options most ...Microdrive FormattingHo hum, yawn, microdrives - my favourite subject... ;) I?ve been doing some tinkering around, and have noticed that issuing a FORMAT command (with t…
... issuing a FORMAT command (with the appropriate syntax) from ... or by directly entering FORMAT with a BASIC program present, ... appear to be ?tainted? with remnants of the BASIC program ... clean? format with BASIC present? I'm currently experimenting with the first ...Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…
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I have been experimenting with using SP and popping etc ..."New" games challengeI know that not long ago there was a proposal like this, somebody proposed a game and people would play it for a week or so, and after it they would …
... same thing, but this time with games that people don't ... know, with "unknown" games, games that didnt ... />
We could start this with Turbo Boat Simulator, it still has ...Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... to synchronize the converted video with the converted audio.
... uncompressed avi with different filename, or avi with codec or ... to experiment a lot with basic loaders until they can playback ... . Loading a 1GB avi with all the requirements except the ...
