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  • Any expert on not-standard game loaders here?Maybe someone could help me... I have had on my hard disk for a quite a long time some Polish games and utilities which lack the complete .tzx versi…

    ... you deal with such exotic loaders.

    And here is ...
    Ralf Ralf October 2010 Development
  • Loading tunes possible?Ever since I first saw the pacman load-a-game loader by Andy Severn on Joe Blade 2, I`ve wondered if it were possible to have loading tunes. Would i…

    ... saw the pacman load-a-game loader by Andy Severn on ... there any other load-a-game loaders on other titles?

    FrankT FrankT January 2006 Development
  • basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…

    ... between the two views? Think game loaders.

    In Spin is ... stop it loading a full game when you load a tzx ... spin just loads the whole game in.

    Cheers
    dekh dekh January 2007 Emulators
  • Why Spectrum has a lots of software?I'm thinking a lot of it and can't find "magic" which produced a lots of software (games, educational, utility) for Spectrum. My suggestions: 1. Ea…

    ... which were firmly attached in game loaders.
    kmatveev kmatveev June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Truly Trash, manIs it just me or is 'Travel with Trashman' the most difficult game to get loaded. Bloody thing.

    The game loaders that used to annoy me most were the early Speedlock ones, like on DALEY THOMPSONS DECATHLON and KNIGHT LORE/UNDERWURLDE

    Having to wait till the end of the entire load before it told you that it was a bad load.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2005 Games
  • RealSpec screen$ saves?????Yeah ok, so how do I get RealSpec to save out a screen$ is the scr format? It's a good emulator, no doubt about it, but I just can't find an option …

    ... was busy trying to crack game loaders so I could stick them ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Emulators
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    ... was quite cool. Bloody good game too, so it wasn't ... technically sophisticated as the animated/game loaders.
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
  • Stopping autostart/autorun and entering POKEsHi, I want to enter some POKEs into a game on my ZX Spectrum, but whenever i do a LOAD "", my games always autorun. Is there any way I can get the pr…

    Some game loaders are protected so you can't use MERGE "" on them.
    ghbearman ghbearman April 2007 Games
  • Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…

    ... see some more 'load a game' loaders like the pacman loader, but ... like that. Hows about that game that has a triangle of ... . Judging by some of the loaders in this thread, this should ...
    FrankT FrankT December 2007 Games
  • The new GP2Xpectrum releases threadYeah, I know the thread title isn't exactly too original, but I've decided that just one post to hold all updates makes more sense than a lot of smal…

    ... , and contended mode while the game is loaded.
    - "flash loading ... /> - "edge loading" option to accelerate game loaders dynamically.
    - "Tape Auto Play ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain February 2008 Emulators
  • Spectrum +3 to PC serial cableGreetings, I apologize if this has been discussed before. I did a search and came up with a few things related but not exactly what I was looking for…

    ... changed for it, but most game loaders are hard-coded for drive ... have 2 or 3-stage loaders, with later stages heavily encrypted ...
    obo obo April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Running TZX off an IDE drive? Or streaming from a NAS?Hello. I know about the DivIDE project, and about the ZX Ethernet project, but not how far they've come or what they can do. So: 1. If I have a squ…

    ... conceivable you could trap flash loaders that run from RAM, but ... way about dealing with custom loaders! This is before getting onto ... various other obfuscation schemes that game loaders use (which you know much ...
    Winston Winston September 2008 Hardware
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... to see more load-a-game loaders like in [url=http://www ... about a sliding block puzzle game while loading?

    The ...
    FrankT FrankT September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... to see more load-a-game loaders like in [url=http://www ... />
    Its a pong style game where you need to shoot ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Using real 3.5" floppies to load a +3 game (emulated)Is it possible to load a Spectrum +3 or Amstrad CPC 664/6128 game with the use of 3.5" floppy disks (providing the emulator can support real disk mod…

    ... , and can fix some +3 game loaders that are known not to ...
    obo obo August 2010 Hardware
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... .

    Many Spectrum game loaders use tricks and complex methods ... to hack every single Spectrum game and save the physical ... code (before the game runs) to the WOS ... besides many games used custom loaders overwriting the system and BASIC ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best game writte in BasicThere's probably already a thread about this but who cares. I'm going for Rebelstar raiders.

    ... to get to protected Basic game loaders or long forgotten, non-used ... Basic in game code blocks was very fascinating ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2014 Games
  • RANDOMIZE USR, PRINT USR etcHello just wondering why is it called RANDOMIZE UsR what does randomising have to do with it ? When calling machine code routine from adress x you ty…

    ... routine was used on many game loaders, to avoid showing the screen ... of Zub. It launchs the game with RANDOMIZE USR 56576+USR ...
    Zup Zup October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... br />
    The custom loaders simply attempted to protect the ... moving and decryption after the game was loaded. (The Alkatraz ... too. For example, the custom loaders in [i]Mask[/i], [ ... the fastest commercial Spectrum game loaders didn’t require much bandwidth ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore August 2019 Games
  • Animated loading screensDoes anyone know how many spectrum games had an animated loading screen? The only ones i can remember are Technician Ted and I think, Manic Miner.

    ... ?
    [/quote]
    The Ultimate game loaders got reworked for the "ULTIMATE ...
    cole cole September 2020 Games
  • Animated loading screensDoes anyone know how many spectrum games had an animated loading screen? The only ones i can remember are Technician Ted and I think, Manic Miner.

    ... "]I know there's another game out there - probably more than ... ="cole;970492"]
    The Ultimate game loaders got reworked for the "ULTIMATE ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2020 Games
  • Turbo loadersDid turbo loaders actually make a 48k game load significantly faster? Taking into account the time taken to load the code for the turbo loader progra…

    Did turbo loaders actually make a 48k game load significantly faster? Taking into ... can start loading the actual game data, did it really work ...
    Neil^P Neil^P July 2003 Games
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I ... you the plot of the game. Very clever)
    Dynamite ... play Pacman)
    Another Players game, Probably Deviants (you could play ... another game while loading)

    ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Game: Nipik 2 by 3umfThere is a new (128k only) game released by 3umf : NIPIK 2 . Again provided by kyv^3umf :) zip contains TAP, TZX (custom loaders, doesnt work on Spe…

    There is a new (128k only) game released by 3umf : NIPIK 2 . Again provided by kyv^3umf :)

    zip contains TAP, TZX (custom loaders, doesnt work on Spectaculator) and SCL version :

    [url]http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/nipik2.rar[/url]
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat October 2008 Games
  • Converting games to disk: difficult loadersThis thread has an spanish version in foro speccy, but I haven't gathered enough information to overcome my problems. I've been converting some game…

    ... br />
    - [b]Some special loaders from Dinamic (Astro Marine Corps ... haven't touched yet those loaders. There are many blocks ( ... loaders for that games and dissasembly them to know when the game ... that they use standard BASIC loaders (to use it from floppy ...
    Zup Zup January 2013 Games
  • Unspecified Custom Loaders IdentifiedThis thread specialises in loaders which are considered to be "Unspecified custom loaders" according to the Infoseek engine. These loaders (after som…

    ... considered to be "Unspecified custom loaders" according to the Infoseek ... listed as having "Unspecified Custom Loaders" - and I've identified ... if it is a multiload game)
    - The remaining ... just picking out random custom loaders (NOT protection schemes). I ...
    Swevicus Swevicus February 2013 Infoseek database
  • JSW1 - Game Loader DifferencesThere were four releases (five if you count the PGC bugfix) although with a few exceptions the loaders are about the same. [B]Loader: Pre-Production…

    ... with a few exceptions the loaders are about the same.
    game code is loaded at a ... what is present when the game is running. I have heard ...
    spider spider September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Unusual custom turbo loaders - with sourcesI have always been fascinated by turbo loaders; my games all feature a TZX version with one of such schemes implemented, and I have been experimentin…

    ... always been fascinated by turbo loaders; my games all feature a ... loading routines of four 'exotic' loaders and recorded data with ZX ... TZX files of my forthcoming game [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2014 Development
  • Game loads in emulators but not in real SpectrumA case was reported to me in another thread:<br>http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/50520/new-sh-t-game-time-video-renegade-iii#latest<b…

    ... /discussion/50520/new-sh-t-game-time-video-renegade-iii#latest ... by adding colour to the game. I used normal (or I ... (different). Unfortunately I suck  at loaders, emulator tape formats and so ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2015 Emulators
  • 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 …

    I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent ... commercial games that use turbo loaders and they load, so it ... 't tried the load the game from cassette (could be a ... made me think: are turbo loaders worth it?

    Unless ...
    reidrac reidrac March 2016 Development
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