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Loss of innocenceI suppose my ZX Spectrum era lasted longer than most (although not sure longer than most of you on here). I received my first Speccy back in '83, and…
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Issue 65 of Scene+As I understand that some programmers wants to be informed if their programs were distributed on our disk magazine, here is a list what will be on ne…
... programs were distributed on our disk magazine, here is a list ... the programs converted on real disk or tape. We do not ... changing the loader for the disk-users. Our aim is to ... -
Best Way to Load TZX Files on a Spec Using a Mac?Evening all, I've spent the afternoon bastardising two knackered Spectrum +3s, and I now have one fully working unit. Although I've got a working d…
... I've got a working disk drive and Multiface 3, I ... -
Digital rot - the modern DRM scourge[B]A place for History[/B] I love WOS. Completely love it. It is completely crazy in its scale and is the best of its kind. I love that games have s…
... /128 ) plus a cassette player/disk drive.
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Speccy games that let you save your progress?beanz mentioned in another thread that he thinks he "[I]used to save after each 'game' day[/I]" in Lords of Midnight, which got me wondering. Aside …
... mid-game to cassette or disk? I know plenty that had ... -
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…
... the emulator can support real disk mode)? I'm assuming it ... burn it onto a floppy disk. Would that work? -
Boxed Spectrum +3 128k Action Pack For SaleCirca 1987ish I think. This pack comes with a light gun and 3 games. 1)Barbarian (I think Wolf from gladiators is the front cover model!!!) 2)Arcad…
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PC trouble!First my flash disk suffered a spectacular crash and now my PC refuses to boot up. I mean, all I get is the powered on LED light, and the internal fa…
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Hack into Mescaline Synthesia 128Hi folks, this thread is not about copyright, although if somebody knows the e-mail adress or another way how to contact the author "DeMarche" pleas…
... have that program on our disk - magazine SCENE+. As soon ... trying to convert it to disk.
There ... and write a Basic disk loader for every part< ... MC loader from tape into disk
I have ... work as MC routines for disk are simply longer than ... -
Boxed Microdrive and boxed Interface 1Hello All Couple of nice bits of boxed hardware in addition to a load of games and utils on disk: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI…
... of games and utils on disk:
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+3 issues....Hello All I came by a couple of +3's on ebay and I'm having issues with them. Since I only ever owned a rubber key, thought someone might be able to…
... load disks. I insert the disk, hit return to start the ... this an error with the disk (tried 2 different games) or ... a broken belt on the disk drive itself?
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DIVIDE+: SATA drivesHi, has someone tried a SATA hard disk drive on a DIVIDE+ and an IDE-SATA adapter? If it works, can the actual disk capacity (>=200Gb) be used? Than…
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has someone tried a SATA hard disk drive on a DIVIDE+ and an IDE-SATA adapter? If it works, can the actual disk capacity (>=200Gb) be used?
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Curiosities about .TAP and other formatsI was reading everything I could find about these formats but a couple things are way above my head. Also searched the forums and didn't find any sim…
... use. There are also the disk formats (+3, Plus D, etc ... -
Dead external HD....help?Hi Folks Gutted. You may have noticed I've been uploading some nice inlay scans over the past months. Have over 10,000 scans on my external HD, wh…
... an OS issue.
Disk Doctors are quoting 500 quid ... to transfer the disk to another case....
Error with WinTRDFormatting from a disk with WinTRD works. But when I write back a TRD file then it gives an error on track 80. I use 3 1/2 Zoll disks with 1,44 MB. …
Formatting from a disk with WinTRD works. But when I write back a TRD file then it gives an error on track 80. I use 3 1/2 Zoll disks with 1,44 MB.
MickyRealSpectrumI have today had to try and make up a new G+DOS boot disk for the Plus-D interface. In the past (when I had Windows XP and a PC with built in disk d…
... a new G+DOS boot disk for the Plus-D interface ... a PC with built in disk drive), I could do this ... from Real Spectrum's disk utilities.
However, I ... Windows 7 and a USB disk drive.
When I ...Date/Time/Autostart by hardware?Hi everyone, to use the good old zx spectrum for daily work I (and most of all other people) need some "elementary" functions: date, time and autosta…
... automatic loading a programme on disk.
Is there already ...Wanted- Mercenary on disc for +3 SpeccyI'm trying to get hold of Mercenary for the +3, Disk version not cassette. Will pay good money! Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks
I'm trying to get hold of Mercenary for the +3, Disk version not cassette.
Will pay good money!
Any help greatly appreciated.
ThanksAnyone wanna put together a Speccy package for a noob?Hey all, Bought a couple ZX Spectrum tape games off eBay a while back. My whole collection soon went into storage and I hadn't unpacked it until rec…
... venerable 48k+ with the side disk/tape drive?
I ...Programs & hardware you lostThought i would start a thread on a discussion of stuff you lost, sold, gave away....& pehaps stuff you now find you are in the process of getting ba…
... a500
My MAME cd disk set, My DAPHNE CD set ...ZX BASIC and garbage collection...Hi Folks, I was thinking about using the following approach in a program I am writing: [CODE]DIM d$(100,50) LOAD "NAMES" DATA d$() ... DIM d$(50,25…
... saved to the 128K RAM disk. During the execution of the ...Loading arrays in BASin...Hi Folks, I have been playing with loading and saving arrays from BASIC in BASin. By trapping the SAVE command the DATA can be saved to a .TAP file…
... or directly to the hard disk as a .bsd file.
A file was found on disk, but could not be loaded ...Microdrive faultHi, After a chat with "Winston" at the R3PLAY show I have been able to fix my 48k spectrum faulty M1 signal. My problem with the microdrive is int…
... will not " cat 1 " any disk. I get the microdrive not ...A game called Jetpack (not to be confused with Jetpac)This actually sat on my hard disk for ages (months, a year?) before I bothered playing it. I suspect I downloaded it thinking it was a DOS version of…
... actually sat on my hard disk for ages (months, a year ...Tarot Master MIAHi I'm new here. I wrote this program and still have it on +3 disk. Whether it still works or not I cannot be sure. I have no way of testing it as my…
... still have it on +3 disk. Whether it still works or ... can do is send the disk to you and hope that ...+3 disks (writing errors)is there any way to check a disk for bad sectors? i seem to get I/O errors of one type or another when writing to disks. the thing is the disks forma…
... any way to check a disk for bad sectors? i seem ... belt was fitted to the disk drive and some disks i ...3.5" drive on +3I've been trying to use a 3.5" DD drive on my +3 with no success. I have connected it to Drive B connector with a 34 way cable with 5.25" connector a…
... missing anything or is the disk drive maybe faulty?
The ...
