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  • Turbo save?I'm doing some experiments with turbo loaders, and I don't know how to save turbo blocks on virtual tapes. Spectaculator and fuse don't seem to save…

    ... 't know how to save turbo blocks on virtual tapes.

    blocks are saved without using it ... any emulator that can save turbo data to tape files? If ... or they recognize only some turbo routines... how should I save ...
    Zup Zup January 2014 Emulators
  • Alkatraz protection systemI recently became interested in the Alkatraz protection system, a very widely used tape protection (a infoseek search returns more than one hundred r…

    ... (the original), the main blocks (excluding multiloaders) seem to ... filename
    A headerless turbo-block with some thousands bytes ... br /> A longer headerless turbo-block containing both the funny ... The timings for these 2 turbo-blocks seem to be the same ...
    lfaria lfaria December 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • New tool: tap2turboI've been experimenting with turbo loaders, mainly following the lead of Alessandro Grussu, and using Tapir for setting up the turbo blocks is very i…

    I've been experimenting with turbo loaders, mainly following the lead ... Tapir for setting up the turbo blocks is very inconvenient for me ... ) to change blocks in a tape into a turbo block and set ... timings for Biturbo 1 in blocks 4 and 5 of an ...
    reidrac reidrac August 2015 Announcements
  • TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…

    ... decode it.

    The turbo blocks are 70% speed almost like ... CPC loading speed. Hmm not turbo really but id.11 instead ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2003 Emulators
  • CSW 2Have you been using csw 2 yet? I find the total pulses is sometimes wrong by 256 too short. Also there is a small shift to the right by a few sampl…

    ... . For instance timings for the turbo blocks of Gremlin Loader, Mikro-Gen ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • X-Out level loaderCan anyone confirm all the levels of this game (the original game tzx) will load? Does anyone want to find how the checksum works?

    ... which means the % speed of turbo blocks are just 'estimated' again, rather ... ya rather than nasty red blocks (ooer) in Taper :). I suppose ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • Great fire of londonHad someone sucess loading this game into a emulator? I tried ZX32, RS and R80. Okay, the M1 version works, but does anyone really need a multifaced …

    It will load the turbo blocks with the 0 length of 531 and 1 length of 1063. I got these figures from Cliffhanger. The game itself saves data in flash load so it could be examined for exact timing.
    Fraser Fraser December 2003 Games
  • Great fire of londonHad someone sucess loading this game into a emulator? I tried ZX32, RS and R80. Okay, the M1 version works, but does anyone really need a multifaced …

    ... few downfalls with correctly decoding turbo blocks, many comming out at 100 ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker January 2004 Games
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... and this is essential for turbo blocks on some schemes to load ... all use the ID.11 (Turbo Block) over the ID.10 ... are fine using ID.10 blocks so fret not, if you ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker January 2004 Emulators
  • Great Fire Of London doesn't work!I've tried to load the TZX file of [I]Great Fire Of London[/I] into several emulators but so far I haven't had any success. The game starts loading, …

    I gave A.B. figures to fix his file. The turbo blocks have 0s 542 and 1s 831. The existing tzx I think has the correct data.
    Fraser Fraser February 2004 Games
  • Great Fire Of London doesn't work!I've tried to load the TZX file of [I]Great Fire Of London[/I] into several emulators but so far I haven't had any success. The game starts loading, …

    ... Program:, Bytes: etc. even for turbo blocks.

    Jon.
    Jon Needle Jon Needle February 2004 Games
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... some tapes would need additional blocks to store them (Software Projects ... we just add blocks where required (CPC ROM & Turbo blocks, ZX81 block ... authors only need to use blocks relevant them, that's ... . Emu authors just ignore blocks that aren't relevant to ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... DRB instead of standard or turbo blocks or anything like this. The ...
    Mikie Mikie February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • MakeTzx questionHi! I've been recently making tzx of some Polish Spectrum tapes. I don't have any experience with MakeTzx program, so I just used GUI and followed tu…

    Got it, thanks! The turbo blocks have a pilot tone with ...
    Luca Luca April 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... to only flashload standard rom blocks, with turbo blocks loading normally or accelerated ... cause I like messing with turbo loaders. Its not really a ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2006 Emulators
  • What turboloader?I found some old tapes with some games and some gamehacks with new levels (gyroscope, arkanoid, commando) i made back then. The trouble is i can?t ge…

    ... with weird loaders, filling the turbo blocks with zeros.
    Unless you ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... Flash ROM block and fastload turbo blocks ? It is possible to separate ... out that General Statistics has turbo blocks ($11) at around 115% loading ... 's obviously Flashloading the ROM blocks. I wanted to fastload them ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2006 Emulators
  • Codemasters Cd Games Packim relatively new to using emulators and have discovered that some of my favourite games are still held by copyright and therefore not easily located…

    ... down to basic ROM and turbo blocks, to get a better understanding ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2008 Emulators
  • TZX SuitabilityHi All, Firstly thanks for a wealth of info been a long time since Ive seen those set of rubber keys and symbol-shift and now it back around and we d…

    ... the data content of standard/turbo blocks - and discard all the variables ... reference file doesn't, or turbo blocks that switch the semantics of ...
    gasman gasman March 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • MakeTZXplease tell me where can I find latest version of maketzx ( v2.34?) is there a better program for decoding .wav? thanks

    ... timings once you get working turbo blocks.

    Cheers

    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Twister, Mother of Charlotte .tzx don't load with ZXSpinThe .tzx version does not load in ZXSpin version 0.666, but loads fine in SpecEmu. In ZXSpin it loads with a garbage on the screen and then reset at …

    Yep, it's a v1.20 TZX using a small GDB for the beginning of the block (with is a series of 32 bytes turbo blocks). If you convert to WAV it'll work okay in Spin.
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2009 Emulators
  • LeaderBoard-FamousCoursesOfTheWorldVolume1Every time i play this on emulator, either spectaculator or spin, it crashes at the 2nd or 3rd hole, usually just locks up while drawing the course. …

    ... the tzx, its amongst the turbo blocks. I couldn't even get ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2010 Games
  • Spectaculator Load/Save?Hi Any Spectaculator users here who can tell me if or how it is possible to save/merge/load programmes/code/data to HD rather than having to do a ful…

    ... this won't save turbo and non-ROM blocks,
    nor ... will use a DRB for turbo blocks, but it's a ... save to a TZX as turbo blocks and all. Say you ... into a TZX using relevant blocks to describe it. This ... clean PZX with all the blocks described ?

    ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker April 2011 Emulators
  • Code Masters CD on ebay[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330553816486&ssPageName=ADME:X:BOCOR:GB:1123[/url] He's selling it for ? 99.99 but accepts …

    ... :1598

    For the turbo blocks which are at 695% loading ... are (approx), you have 3 blocks to describe it:
    Pure ... . Then you can get the turbo blocks, make them into Pure data ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker May 2011 Sales
  • Need help with tzxing once again :)You people helped me so much in this thread witch a custom loader: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36109[/url] Maybe we…

    ... loader.

    The main turbo blocks sound slower than the WAV ... by human ear ?
    The turbo blocks sound close by using 555 ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Need help with tzxing once again :)You people helped me so much in this thread witch a custom loader: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36109[/url] Maybe we…

    ... don't like to see turbo loading blocks using the ROM timings ... hate seeing TZXs with multiple turbo blocks where the speed varies, originally ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Improving the Spectrum +2's Cassette RecorderHi people, Nice techie question here! I have a Spectrum +2 (grey). Actually, I have several. I'm trying to get this particular one to load tapes be…

    ... struggle with these sorts of turbo blocks and despite the usual azimuth ...
    thingley thingley October 2011 Hardware
  • LERM Tape Copier & OthersI see from reading a few old threads that there is a bit of confusion with some LERM titles. I've got Tape Copier, which comes with all documentat…

    good work :)
    share wavs with this lerm wafa to get try Andrew :)
    for lerm tape copier i want to say from wav file counting 246 pilot tones before all turbo blocks.

    Greets,
    Gorski
    gorski gorski November 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • SU Issue 27:G8 16 (odd link?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^SU+issue+127%3a+Great+Eight+16$&pub=^Sinclair+User$&loadpics=3"]SU issue 127: Great Eight 1…

    ... in the timings of the turbo blocks, the only differences I can ... the small (4 bytes long) blocks of HaxAmazing (Side 2) that ...
    lfaria lfaria February 2012 Infoseek database
  • DK Tronics Compilation Tapes....MIA ??I have two tapes (no inlays) of compilaitons of DK Tronics games. One is from DK Tronics themselves, has a white label with black text, and contains…

    ... revisit Jumbly again though as blocks 6 and 7 come out ... , especially if the block was turbo and not standard speed. Shame ... a short pilot detect for turbo blocks).
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker May 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
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