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The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... 3.5" drives), Speedlock (weak sector), and some OperaSoft disks (32K ... sector). Most other protections use basic sector tricks, though ... -
Sinclair QL ProblemHi there. I purchased recently four Sinclair QL for a not small amount of money. Two german and two english, they are mixed: British or European conn…
... disks - 720K disks.
A sector is 0.5K, therefore a ... -
Getting edsk files on to 3" disksHi I am trying to get edsk (copyprotected) files to 3" disks. I have a 3.5" drive and the internal 3" in my +3. I also have DivIDE and +3e. I have …
... space to write 6K of sector data, as needed for protections ... -
Question about divide +Hi A friend has sent my a faultly divide + to see if I can repair it. If I use this divide+ with a spectrum 48K (That works perfectly with my stand…
... special FAT16 format without MBR sector (without partitions). This can ... card is formatted without MBR sector).
[B]1 ) ... W" for write new MBR sector with partition table to IDE ... problematic CF cards without MBR sector. Please install this system:< ... -
Question about divide +Hi A friend has sent my a faultly divide + to see if I can repair it. If I use this divide+ with a spectrum 48K (That works perfectly with my stand…
... utility for rewrite first IDE sector on master device = make MASTER ... 's copy of first ide sector from my CF card 256MB ... press key "W" for write sector. As next step you must ... -
Question about divide +Hi A friend has sent my a faultly divide + to see if I can repair it. If I use this divide+ with a spectrum 48K (That works perfectly with my stand…
... utility for rewrite first IDE sector on master device = make MASTER ... 's copy of first ide sector from my CF card 256MB ... press key "W" for write sector. As next step you must ... -
The Duke Nukem Forever demo is due out, BUT...The playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever is (finally!) going to be released, on the 3rd of June, one week before the full game is released (on the 10t…
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ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …
... the tracks (720K 9-sector, 1.44M 18-sector), but you can ... you want into to each sector. Opening \\.\A: in Windows gives ... -
ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …
... the tracks (720K 9-sector, 1.44M 18-sector), but you can ... you want into to each sector. Opening \\.\A: in Windows gives ... -
The Work Life Ballance.Is it really possible to be successful in your job and achieve a good work life balance? Is it possible to earn a good wage or get the promotion with…
... to work in the public sector/non-profit rather than the ... -
Microdrive using simple coilWhile listening to my iPod using cassette car adapter I came to idea - why not doing the same for the microdrive? Anyone ever tried that? Do you thin…
... of the tape content being sector based it would be tricky ... header information being stored 1 sector earlier?)
Also, I ... when doing a FORMAT so sector 0 starts immediately after the ... -
Microdrive using simple coilWhile listening to my iPod using cassette car adapter I came to idea - why not doing the same for the microdrive? Anyone ever tried that? Do you thin…
... a good doc available on sector organization? Can it do more ... so if there are no sector table limitations or similar you ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... initializes the computer and loads Sector 0... just like a IBM ... -
Timex Floppy Disk Drive emulation discussionI feel embarrassed for starting this topic because I can't contribute with actual code, but this is a new attempt to simplify and present what the Ti…
... values.
Bajtek published a sector editor for TOS. I must ... -
+3e 8Bit IDE (how to get snaps onto the HD)Hello there my fellow WoSer's I have been playing around a lot with this under-emulation as well as building some prototype IDE interfaces. I wou…
... can't work with half sector disks. I don't know ... -
+3e 8Bit IDE (how to get snaps onto the HD)Hello there my fellow WoSer's I have been playing around a lot with this under-emulation as well as building some prototype IDE interfaces. I wou…
... the "3e" utility. Halved sized sector devices is WIP. I got ... low-level functions that perform sector read/writes, so the accesses ... are "sector size independent". Well, and because ... -
+3e 8Bit IDE (how to get snaps onto the HD)Hello there my fellow WoSer's I have been playing around a lot with this under-emulation as well as building some prototype IDE interfaces. I wou…
... the "3e" utility. Halved sized sector devices is WIP. I got ... low-level functions that perform sector read/writes, so the accesses ... are "sector size independent". Well, and because ... -
DivIDEo - streaming video on the DivIDEThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce the release of DivIDEo, my streaming video system f…
... "read 12 sectors starting from sector number 138762", there's nothing ... an arbitrary offset to that sector number, to create 'gaps' in ... -
DivIDEo - streaming video on the DivIDEThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce the release of DivIDEo, my streaming video system f…
... "read 12 sectors starting from sector number 138762", there's nothing ... an arbitrary offset to that sector number, to create 'gaps' in ... -
Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
... 3DCK disc formatter allocates every sector on the disc to one ... then accesses the disc at sector level to save or load ... -
couple of jobs on the horizon - one firm interviewI have a job interview at the local hospital, for a porter in the sterile services department. Evenings, part-time, 4pm to 9pm Mon to Friday (though…
... had (also in the public sector, local government this time though ... -
couple of jobs on the horizon - one firm interviewI have a job interview at the local hospital, for a porter in the sterile services department. Evenings, part-time, 4pm to 9pm Mon to Friday (though…
... had (also in the public sector, local government this time though ... -
Recovering Deleted AVI files.I need to recover some AVI files from a SD card of my Dads. When he came back of his holiday instead of burning his files to CD he wiped the card. I…
... FAT and reset the boot sector. I don't know if ... -
IDE Hard Drive on your Spectrum!Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Today, I am going to share with you something that has truly captivated me over the last couple of months, some of you…
... that when using the multiple-sector command for loading a 35K ... -
+3 Copy ProtectionHi all, I've been looking at copy protection and I've realised that, as a kid, I thought things like speedlock were there to stop you poking the gam…
... or hide data outside the sector data fields. The NEC ... using the format and sector write commands. With sector writes the FDC ... and syncs to a specific sector, ensuring only that data field ... the entire track contents, with sector headers and data fields placed ... -
PlusD emulation problemAre there any known problems with the plusd.rom file used by emulators? My files keep getting corrupted. Things will be OK for a while, and then I st…
... not build up a used-sector-bitmap if this counter is ... -
Kobrahsoft DB1 - doesn't work?Hi, I've tried loading [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^DB1$&pub=^Kobrahsoft$&loadpics=3"]DB1 by Kobrahsoft[/URL] into two …
... sectors
[*]READ_ID for 10 sector headers
[*]CHRN of ... , 188, 221
[*]read sector 9 data
[*]command result ... . That means the 9th sector is sector 9, when the protection ... of useful details, such as sector positions, multiple error copies ...