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  • Full disk systems for ZX Spectrum?Hello. Although I don't use much more than TR-DOS, but an acquaintance of mine, a user of Atari XL/XE, always says (which is annoying and irritatin…

    [QUOTE=John Elliott;679163]+3DOS isn't ... ). It just uses the same disk format.
    [/QUOTE]


    All disk systems need a disc operating ... system. One DOS and one disk format for all systems would ...
    Speccyman Speccyman February 2013 Development
  • Computer shops that copied games while you waitI was talking to a workmate today about buying games from shops in York when we were nippers. He was an Amstrad owner and mentioned that towards the…

    ... ST from that system at John Menzies.. I got two discs ... or screwed up and copied Disk 1 twice.. I never got ...
    Grunaki Grunaki March 2013 Games
  • Multiface +3 AdviceHi, New to the forum after resurrecting my +3 and looking for a bit of advice on the Multiface 3 please. Quite simply is it worth investing in for…

    ... -COMPLETE-KIT-3-5-DISK-DRIVE-RIBBON-CABLE-POWER- ... -COMPLETE-KIT-3-5-DISK-DRIVE-RIBBON-CABLE-POWER- ... diskettes then simply copy DSK disk image to 3.5" ... member of this forum Mr. John Elliott - SNA2DSK which you ... ability to create +3 disk image with custom ROM ( ...
    ikci ikci March 2013 Hardware
  • Multiface 3 programming guide anywhere?I'm interested in the tantalising little bit of text at the bottom of my Multiface 3 manual (under the "Using 8K RAM" section): "Please send a SAE…

    ... guessing...


    [QUOTE=John Elliott;691799]I have disassembled ... MF3 state-saving, compression and disk capability to be able to ...
    u6c87 u6c87 April 2013 Hardware
  • Tape handling on a +3I'm seeing some strange behaviour when loading a basic program from the Loader option of a +3. I'm currently using the fuse emulator (I don't have an…

    [QUOTE=John Elliott;729737]There's a ... that stopped it loading from disk. I think this could account ...
    u6c87 u6c87 October 2013 Hardware
  • The Long Earth (possible JSW mod/hack)I've been reading Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's [I]The Long Earth[/I] series of novels recently - the idea behind it is there are an unknown (…

    [QUOTE=John Elliott;733019]JSW128 and JSW64 ... 're multiloading the levels from disk but leaving the game engine ...
    leespoons leespoons November 2013 New game ideas
  • PCW 9512 Information RequiredHi, I've just acquired a PCW9512 with printer, keyboard, some disks (locoscript/basic/cpm utils etc), tractor feed paper and around 8 ink cartridges…

    ... bet the belt on the disk drive needs replacing - unfortunately, to ... is a standard 3" disk drive - John (PCW) King has listed some ...
    rwap rwap November 2013 Chit chat
  • Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…

    ... a sector in a physical disk and you can't ... read the size of the disk but it can only ... do it if your disk uses 512 byte sectors. There ... risky).

    The +3 disk drive can read sectors of ... gentleman by the name of John Elliott has written an utility ...
    The_Bert The_Bert January 2014 Hardware
  • how to load .SNAOk all, here is my problem. I have got the lead so I can run an external floppy drive unit as "B:" I have used the CPCdiskXP software program in Win…

    Hi John,

    If I use ... 3 sna's on one disk.

    Also when I ...
    owdeuk owdeuk February 2014 Hardware
  • how to load .SNAOk all, here is my problem. I have got the lead so I can run an external floppy drive unit as "B:" I have used the CPCdiskXP software program in Win…

    [QUOTE=owdeuk;752202]Hi John,

    If I use ... 3 sna's on one disk.[/QUOTE]

    From the ...
    John Elliott John Elliott February 2014 Hardware
  • Creating actual floppy disks using .dsk files on the SpectrumHello ZX friends I have a +3 and diskette related question. I have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy disk drive and a divIDE+. Is there a way I can …

    [QUOTE=John Elliott;771573]DU54 should be ... to do it if the disk is a standard format (ie ...
    guesser guesser May 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Creating actual floppy disks using .dsk files on the SpectrumHello ZX friends I have a +3 and diskette related question. I have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy disk drive and a divIDE+. Is there a way I can …

    [QUOTE=John Elliott;771618]No, disc to . ... read a .dsk file off disk.
    (my +3 is in ...
    guesser guesser June 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Creating actual floppy disks using .dsk files on the SpectrumHello ZX friends I have a +3 and diskette related question. I have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy disk drive and a divIDE+. Is there a way I can …

    ... There's a utility called Disk Dump here.
    ... It transfers the entire disk to tape blocks and ... to a disk.[/QUOTE]

    [QUOTE=John Elliott;771618 ... br />
    [QUOTE=John Elliott;771618]No, disc to ... of my most favorite disk utilities for the Spectrum ...
    memrah memrah June 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • festivalssince its glasto time thought wed best talk abou the festivals youve been to, the bands youve seen etc first glasto i went to was 26/27/28th june 19…

    ... /> Friday
    bitty mclean
    john otway big band
    hugh ... mcdonald
    tiny dancers
    elliot minor
    the films
    mel the bell mel the bell June 2014 Chit chat
  • Tell me your computer history...Hi, my history of computers.. Spectrum zx 81 in 1983 Spectrum 48 1984 Spectrum 48 plus 1986-87 Amstrad cpc 464 1987 Commodore 64 little time in 198…

    ... EA double header Hockey, and John Madden Football. Also briefly owned ... Amstrad CPC464 with colour monitor, disk drive, multiface, and loads of ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum October 2014 Chit chat
  • Help getting SAMdisk running on WinXP please.Hello speccy-chums. I was wondering if you clever folks out there could help me with my poor PC skills:lol:. Basically I want to run SAMdisk but it n…

    [QUOTE=obo;797051]Hmmm. I really gotta add a quick GUI method for writing images! ;)[/QUOTE]

    If all you're doing is formatting/writing disk images you can just use John Elliott's dsktool anyway :)
    guesser guesser October 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Some Spectrum Adventure ReviewsHi, HeeHee... Today I found some old short reviews I did of some Spectrum Adventures for contributions to "SynTax" disk adventure magazine in the 19…

    ... /> Various Authors. Zenobi Software 2 Disk set.
    Reviewed by: Phil ... a Dark Night Sky by John Wilson
    -------------------------------------------
    You play ...
    catventure catventure March 2015 Games
  • Spectrum +3 loading problem.Hi all Recently bought a game off ebay that I've been waiting for, for ages but the A side doesn't work , but the B side does. Now normally I'd j…

    It will be this disk then;-

    worldofspectrum.org/ ... John Elliots SNA2DSK which converts 48k emulator snapshots(.SNA), to a disk ... that to a real 3'' disk. You can build your own ... forum rules to share working disk images, although its to fix ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum July 2015 Hardware
  • APII am currently writing the API for publishers. I have set the API to return the following formats:- PHP (a multi-dimensional array) JSON JSONP …

    ... /> "authors": [
    "Quixel",
    "John Kavanagh",
    "Raffaele Cecco",
    "type": "+3 disk image",
    "origin": "Original release ...
    Vampyre Vampyre April 2016 Feature Requests
  • Tape to +3 disk transferWhen the first basic part was merged from tape, to be saved to disk, and it looked like this: [img]https://i.imgur.com/UQx1hc2.jpg[/img] how di…

    [quote="John Elliott;950675"]Or you can ... work burning the real +3 disk, without throwing up a 3dos ... again for these wonderful tools, John ^:)^
    wootlanter wootlanter February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…

    ... way to create a compilation disk
    (A)Until I get ... then use John Elliott's utility tap2dsk to create the disk file ... on a +3, catalogue the disk and then ask you to ...
    TomD TomD May 2019 Development
  • CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...

    ... />
    My computer's hard disk failed this morning, and as ... away.

    Regards,
    John
    PROSM PROSM June 2020 Announcements
  • NOMAD data formatApropos of a discussion in the WoS Facebook group, I wondered how easy it would be to work out how the map and graphics are held in N.O.M.A.D. Just i…

    [quote="John Elliott;970297"]NOMAD, Mailstrom, Gift ... 's why they were on disk and ran perfectly well when ... any mention of this +3 disk collection on infoseek database though ... 't someone upload the +3 disk version as well then?
    Arjun Arjun September 2020 Games
  • Software Distributed Electronically This is a bit puzzling - I cannot find the thread that raised this method of software distribution only a few days ago ;ZX1 and You Spec-Chum and…

    ... UK shop John Menzies.
    The machine could duplicate a disk/cassette ...
    merman merman November 2020 Games
  • CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...

    ... who can use the Beta Disk interface (or a Pentagon or ... not be Russian). According to John's review, this is a ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2020 Announcements
  • In memory of John WIlson @ ZenobiName and discuss your favourite [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/publishers/Zenobi-Software"]Zenobi [/url] game... I always enjoyed deser…

    I was playing Agath's Folly the other day (a game I hadn't played before) in memory of John Wilson and was quite enjoying it until it unexpectedly crashed when trying to save to disk in Spectaculator. I should have stuck to Zero. :P
    Arjun Arjun June 2021 Games
  • Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…

    ... it, eg;

    "Well, John Matheison and Martin Brennan were ... some video capture stuff, the disk drive
    hardware and some ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk August 2021 Hardware
  • +3 disks and pc'sHi, This is my first post, and was wondering if someone could help me. I have some +3 disks from my original +3 that I want to put on my pc to use i…

    ... to connect the +3 3" disk drive directly to the pc ...
    Anonymous Anonymous February 2002 Emulators
  • plus3Does anyone know if there is a windows prugram not dos That can copy files from disk to disk to disk like star commander for c64 can

    Does anyone know if there is a windows prugram not dos That can copy files from disk to disk to disk like star commander for c64 can
    peter peter February 2002 Emulators
  • can you make .dsk files?Hi all, Does anyone know of an emulator or prog that lets you save a tap,tzx or z80 file to a +3 dsk file? I have access to a friends pc that has an…

    ... on tape but not on disk, for example my ultimate collection ...
    Bluemanjay Bluemanjay February 2002 Emulators
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