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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…
... local copies of games that I love (.tap/tzx) because of my ... is no DRM on Spectrum games.
I might not ... />
If we source our games from a single service provider, then ... far more risk of art/games being lost over time than ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... from currys).. 3 things REALLY crippled it... tape loading ... a few games.. dropzone.. elektraglide (30 minute loading time from tape!!) ... so like making cpc ports from speccy games..
the ... a lot more people bought games, and decent "freeze" carts ... -
In-game screen problemsI'm having problems creating an in-game screenshot for the games [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0025081"]Arkar[/URL] and [URL…
... in-game screenshot for the games [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... seems at the moment that loading it from scratch (in Spectaculator) fails ... the Spectrum and then re-loading seems to get it ... />
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Super Nova: MAT[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005071[/url] There is some signature on Super Nova screen (MAT?). May be somebody knows anythi…
... I have has a different loading screen than that, and a ... did get my copy direct from the author though so that ... it. It had sample loading screens from other games he had planned on ... -
USB mod?Is it possible to modify a Spectrum computer so as to add a USB port, so I can load games from a USB flash drive instead of tape? :)
... link?
3) How far from completion is the ZX Matrix ... link for many reasons including loading games, backing up 3INCH +3 discs ... -
Spectrum +3 and DivIDE+I have won a +3 on ebay. When it arrives, I know that I can use my DivIDE+ with it, but I have read about the +3E ROMs. I mostly use Spectrums to pla…
... problems of loading by tape. A certain amount of the games that ... 128K Spectrum (a massive upgrade from a VIC 20!) spent most ... life struggling to load 48K games from tape. Now things are much ... -
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…
... solutions available for downloading or loading games on a real Spectrum. My ... varaibles for a 48K range from 23552 to 23733 (182 BYTES ... that paper as long gone from my possession.
So ... trouble of saving the screen from being corrupted for a couple ... -
Spectrum +3 doesn't workMy recently ebay purchased +3 arrived today, so I was quite excited to have one again. I plugged it in and all was well, except for a slightly worry…
... . I even prefer R: Tape Loading Error to some of the ... how to load Spectrum 128 games from my PC to the +3 ... -
Best of HomebrewWhat are everyone's favourite homebrew games? I haven't played many but have been impressed by the quality of those that I have played.
... have left out all the games from our eastern friends because I ... . I remember the one whose loading screen is an owl and ... this one and other came from a games competition, and some of ... -
JoyTape Player - a new product by GoCom & WSSHere is a new, small gadget to ZX Spectrum. If you like to know more, please visit our sites! [url]http://wss.sinclair.hu[/url] or [url]http://w…
... new batteries, and play back TZX (even TAP, though that's ... tape player that can load games from a PC archive file. -
JoyTape Player - a new product by GoCom & WSSHere is a new, small gadget to ZX Spectrum. If you like to know more, please visit our sites! [url]http://wss.sinclair.hu[/url] or [url]http://w…
... is just a subset of TZX with only one block type ... tape player that can load games from a PC archive file.[/QUOTE ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... a lot of the games for the Spectrum that ... had their graphics converted from an Atari ST. How ... Spectrum could read data from a cassette tape? Apparently ... than a ZX81 at loading data from data cassette so why ... much faster rate for data loading?
What ... -
JoyTape Player - a new product by GoCom & WSSHere is a new, small gadget to ZX Spectrum. If you like to know more, please visit our sites! [url]http://wss.sinclair.hu[/url] or [url]http://w…
... more information...
From what has been said so ... you to use the 6 games that already come with ... to load their own games and TZX files, then Iv no ... alllows you to play the games that are already on ... batteries, and easily add TZX files (or TAP or ... -
ZX-Spectrum Game ContestHi, a year ago I bought a zx-spectrum from an auction on the internet, and today Im searching for the very first game I played back in the 80's. Unf…
Ah, good old games from 1983. I remember Spectral Panic ( ... Harry has a quite good loading screen:
[IMG]http ... . It seems to be missing from the archive unfortunaly. -
ZXC3 Rom CartridgeI recently aquired a ZXC3 Cartridge Rom from [URL="http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/"]Paul Farrow[/URL] fully populated with the latest diagnostic softw…
... this limits you to 16k games?[/QUOTE]
... allows you to select from a series of snapshots. ... or 48K game by loading data from different blocks into ... to program from your PC. They range from simple bugfixed ... loading up to 16K of data at a time from ... -
Redubbing cassettes from the WoS ArchiveHello all. I have some games that I recently bought that won't load from tape. It has been suggested that I redub them from the archive. How would I …
... be to simply play the TZX (if you want the ... br />
Alternately, convert the TZX to a WAV file (TZX2WAV ... from the utilities section in the archive) to extract the loading audio from ... the TZX or TAP file. It ... -
My Speccy Collection (pics)Not sure if Games is the right place for this, but games is what these are pics of, so.... I've stuck a load of pictures of my entire (well, almost.…
... collection :)
Although only 2 games from the new productions??? Comon!! there ... are many great games out there you can get ... 've got loads more as TZX or snapshot files for use ... -
Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... about GAMES in this topic. In such scenario, continuously loading data from the ... . Besides, I believe that Speccy games should be coded to be ... create games in interpreted Sinclair BASIC is also a bad idea. From ... must, when it comes to games. -
Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... ]Well, we were talking about GAMES in this topic.[/QUOTE]
loading data from the RAM disk is a ... not suggesting you load data from a RAM disk continuously but ... ]Besides, I believe that Speccy games should be coded to be ... -
Strange DivIDE ScreenI've just got an SD card adaptor for my DivIDE and it does something strange. On startup, I can see the DivIDE logo and it registers the adaptor, bu…
... want to go back to loading up tapes ever again :)[/QUOTE ... find myself loading up a TZX game with a nice loader from the ... PC sound card from ... -
The microdrive was an awesome device.I have to say i used to love the Microdrives. It was a damn shame they never took off as i could have seen them being a really good way of storing yo…
... I received a second set from Sinclair. My brother said I ... someone who would buy it from me. But since I had ... is a better solution for loading games.
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PS2 megathreadRight i was searching for ps2 discussions, couldnt even find the one id previously done about retro collection packs so thought id start a new one :)…
... playing all of your PS2 games from hard drive, as it's ... USB port and load the games from there. If you have a ... faster than loading from disc. Still, it's better than loading from the game ... that allows you to load games straight from your hard drive. It ... -
Problems loading from iPodI'm trying to load audio from my iPod into the emulators I've got on my Mac. I'm running both FUSE and ZXSP but neither seems to 'hear' the iPod when…
... tape image files in .tzx or .tap format which ... if the data is coming from a real tape.
... 't think Fuse supports loading directly from real tapes (or other ... to open up .wav files from the File -> Open ... to the more usual .tzx/.tap formats, although I' ... -
Best games, and fast loading?I'm getting my long-awaited Spectrum 48+ in the mail tomorrow, and I want to know what are some of the best games for it. I know about games like Jet…
... I load games faster? I've converted some files from .tzx to .wav ... , wav will be identical to tzx, it'll load the same ... -
Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... for it in TZX format, assuming it was from an original source ... require the extra blocks of TZX. Right now I'm not ... of any software that enables loading from TZX images on real hardware, but ... -
Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... is basically very stripped back from TZX with a similar structure ... in the loading scheme
So where TZX has ( ... broadly) one block type per loading scheme, PZX ... extended for each new loading scheme. TZX requires that the loader ... -
Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... of independent modular per-loading scheme decoders have a ... to output to TAP/TZX and PZX just so ... audio2tape will write to TAP/TZX/CSW as-is. My third ... could create a TZX/PZX or some direct from WAV/Sample, ... I'll pick a loading scheme from the list on your ... -
Movie (missing something?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003300&loadpics=3&model=spectrum"]Movie[/URL] The loading screen in WoS has the initials DCS…
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Huge compilation - 7(ish) tapes?I'm trying to remember the name of a speccy compilation that had about 100 games and (I think) was on about 7 or 8 tapes. My mate bought it from a m…
... games on both sides from what I recall. Some of the games varied from ... there were some decent games on them as well ... one, there's several games that were on my ... some of the missing games on the list are ... stilll loading that from my cassette I still had from when ... -
What is the current state of (non-Spectrum) emulation?It's been years since I've bothered with any emulators on the PC other than Speccy emulators. I do still occasionally use MAME and other emulators on…
... see how badly all those games that impressed me with their ... played. Coming from an ST, I find the games and copied disks ... keypress. The accurately emulated loading times from the emulated floppy drive are ... And then there are some games I just have no idea ...
