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Features that emulators don't haveI believe most of us use more than one emulator, mainly because there isn't one emulator that has all the features we need or want to use. We also kn…
... drag and drop files into emulator for easy binary data import ... ]
When you cut/copy from BASin, you really do use ... a Spectrum, or if it was something I saw on one emulator ... -Ability to use numpad in emulator. I'm not talking about ... -
Features that emulators don't haveI believe most of us use more than one emulator, mainly because there isn't one emulator that has all the features we need or want to use. We also kn…
... love an emulator that would save/load directly to/from Microdrive. ... be very nice to load a snapshot, tzx and just ... br /> Why recording on microdrive from emulator when we have hard disk ... microdrive... Actually, no need for tape recorder - just connect to PCs ... -
Emulation or real thingI have an old speccy in 1 of my cupboards, and wondering whether to dust the old girl down and firing her up again, or just continue re living my chi…
... Ill be sticking with the emulator from now on. my old 128k ... it up and load up a tape has been strangely non-existant ... -
AlchNews 21Just a quick one -- [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013968]AlchNews 21[/url] appears to be corrupt (RealSpectrum refuses to lo…
... it into Tapir, saved off a clean copy and -- lo and behold ... don't know if the tape copy is supposed to have them ... still be worth recreating it from the +D version to see ... -
AlchNews 21Just a quick one -- [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013968]AlchNews 21[/url] appears to be corrupt (RealSpectrum refuses to lo…
... into Tapir, saved off a clean copy and -- lo and ... 't know if the tape copy is supposed to have ... still be worth recreating it from the +D version to ... did - we'd make a tape loading version of the main ... lot to tape, three tape decks at a time via a splitter box ... -
E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …
Dom Morris - heh, that's a (great) name from the past!
a full blown +D emulator for the +3. It ... the external 3.5" drive FROM BASIC and would allow the ... , so it was possible to copy files from A: to d1 and back ... -
k7zx, a utility to load programs to Spectrum at very high speedk7zx is a windows program that convert .tap, .tzx , .sna and .z80 files to a wav file that can be played to a real Spectrum. You can down load it f…
... thought about this as a possibility for an Emulator but never thought ... it could work on a genuine ... some kind of animation using a tape as a source. Maybe not an ... real time live streaming on a Speccy from CD could be possible ... -
Codemasters CD compilationIs it downloadable? Where? How? I remember seeing it in a magazine with some envy (I had not a CD player, and ultra-short loads are always welcome), …
[quote=ADJB]A couple of things I noticed....
From putting everything ... the point you could start a game was over 8 minutes ... you could have already loaded a tape or probably about 30 different ... /> 1. I stutter too much, making me sound as if I ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... minutes searching...)[/QUOTE]
From Paul Farrow's website, [URL ... it's in the ZX81 emulator cartridge section):
[ ... .P and .81 emulator formats as well as a new .P81 format ... files representing two sides of a tape doesn't seem any more ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... on the tape, nothing more. you should then have a seperate library ... />
How would such a thing differ from the current CSW formats ... more than just the pure tape contents IMO.
[ ... sending the info to the emulator. the library can be ported ... -
Why design a new Spectrum?Every so often, someone posts up about designing a portable Spectrum, or a new Spectrum with improved hardware capabilities, but I don't see why. I m…
Designing the electronics from scratch for a computer is fun. You don' ... simply use an obsolete laptop. Making a new Spectrum is well within ... Spectrum games, rather than an emulator. That's also justification enough ... and make their own computer from scratch. -
Why design a new Spectrum?Every so often, someone posts up about designing a portable Spectrum, or a new Spectrum with improved hardware capabilities, but I don't see why. I m…
... ;188032]Designing the electronics from scratch for a computer is fun. [/quote ... simply use an obsolete laptop. Making a new Spectrum is well within ... like making stuff rather than just buying stuff and downloading an emulator ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... got put onto a tape.
couple with a portable library that ... do correctly if they load from a read audio source.
5) the portable lib for emulator inclusion.
what i ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... Rak;187906]You are making several fundamental mistakes here. You ... emulator author.
i.e if it was mastered onto a tape ... minds make sure their emulator does what a real one would ... reproduces the data, then an emulator will loads the tapes correctly ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... but history shows that Spectrum emulator writers are often unable or ... Phil how many projects are making use of libspectrum these days ... br />
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the emulator never has to have any ... do correctly if they load from a read audio source.
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PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... Spectrum. If I download a TZX file from WOS that's listed ... are not file format or tape experts nor do they pretend ... are simply very dedicated people making the very best of the ... imperfect representation of the original tape?
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New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …
... a spectrum game on tape and used it via a tape player on your emulator ...
3) have your emulator ... loading a game by tape, audio cd or via emulator snapshot.< ... machines as in (cliff's from amstrad) letter, he says ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... before it got put onto a tape.[/QUOTE]
... how it would differ from CSW? Are you perhaps ... fact that CSW suffers from the rounding errors caused ... to be fairly extensible from the ground up, I ... the tape and sending it back to the emulator. therefore ... -
New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …
... a spectrum game on tape and used it via a tape player on your emulator ... ]
3) have your emulator portable enough to carry round ... , just how does it differ from a standard Speccy? Extended Basic? Extended ... -
Has the wheel been re-invented already?Over in the misc forum, I have been floating the idea of a new speccy built out of off the shelf bits. The main reason for this is that I want to no…
... real spectrum, load games via tape (old skool) and also load ... /128K snapshots (.SNA or .Z80) from disk/compactflash, or load programs ... from TAP. It doesn't support ... the same time, run a ZX81 or ZX80 emulator (and load/save ... -
Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... the data integrity verification process a bit? It looks like it ... (not CSW, as it suffers from rounding errors, so I understand ... may be best housed in a external utility. Perhaps we are ... want from TZX and what the emulator crowd are looking for in a tape ... -
Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... was included for that). Apart from being able to encode asymetric ... list) then you are just making a file with pulses similar to ... for different bit variants... A few table lookups and you ... by (almost) every emulator ? Just because it is a bit better designed ... -
the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…
... in 1993, I bought a load of floppies with . ... can't remember the first emulator, only that I'm ... the Netherlands to get a registered copy would be in 1994 ... Where did you get them from? We did have one BIG ... you didn't get them from Alchemist, I would like ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... way my emulator knows that the user can stop the tape from the ... or pause. You could take a look at what i wrote ... of silence. You cannot make a difference in signal shaping for ... /> [QUOTE]And there should be a reasonable limit imposed over the ... -
Should +2's Be left turned on to save games?Hi, Forgive me for asking you guy's a daft question but, I was just wondering what you think about leaving a Spectrum +2 turned on all the time. The …
... didn't know such a thing was available or possible ... extensive collection of tape games from when I was a kid so ... say I have an Spectrum emulator for when I need ...
It was just a thought I had that perhaps ... left it turned on as a kid to retain games, ... -
Miss WOS competition.I think we should have an anual Miss WOS competition. The competition could consist of the Ladies of WOS, and the wives or girlfriends of WOS membe…
... keeps us all together ... (aside from the obvious, i.e. perhaps ... other things ... the operation of a tape head ... what does that have ... wheels spinning away because of a hamster on the inside ... ... overall good times. Am I making sense here or even coherent ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... make sure your emulator makes the sound of the tape loading, and ... meantime, use a snapshot file, get a cracked version from somewhere or try ... cracking it yourself. It's a ... -
How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)
The main ways were tape-to-tape and using a special copy program ('[I]copion ... [/I]' in spanish), always from ... />
- Tape to tape in case of turbo loading
- Special copy program ... -
Spectrum Games You Always Wanted........I've just downloaded Gauntlet 3, a game I always wanted to play but never sampled until I discovered it on here! It's brilliant! I was just wonderi…
... reports in the press. Bought a copy from Boots, the sticker of ... load. Swapped it for a second copy, which definitely said "48 ... all and returned it for a refund, disappointed, but fired ... have persevered with multiple copies / tape recorders... what gives? Were ... -
Spectrum Games You Always Wanted........I've just downloaded Gauntlet 3, a game I always wanted to play but never sampled until I discovered it on here! It's brilliant! I was just wonderi…
... reports in the press. Bought a copy from Boots, the sticker of ... load. Swapped it for a second copy, which definitely said "48 ... all and returned it for a refund, disappointed, but fired ... have persevered with multiple copies / tape recorders... what gives? Were ...
