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Speccy Retro TypologyHow many types of Speccy Retro are there?
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There's Sony Walkman sized tape recorders, several portable B ... &W TV's all of which ... the book.
I could probably solve the lack of input ... -
Can you make a .TAP file in an Emulator?Hi I been able to save my crappy BASIC programs in emulators as a .z80 snapshot. What about making a .tap file ? Is there anyway I can use the g…
... 0.7 to make all of them.
If you ... (from the menu) Recording -> Tape Recording -> Insert Tape for Saving
... whatever" LINE x if it's normal BASIC. Or SAVE " ... go to
Recording -> Tape Recording -> Eject save tape
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What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
... and higher baud rate for tape loading
- ... of external floppy drive solutions at an additional cost to the user ...
- All of the previous features of the Spectrum+ model explained ... mimicking the Sam Coupe's limitation of 4.5MB) The internal ... -
Making your own tapesTowards the end of last year [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53607/recommend-modern-1994-2017-games]I dropped in here to ask a…
... a thorough scrub-up of the heads and tape transport parts, both ... drive belts that operate the tape mechanism are fine - possibly the ... recording the sound that comes out of the TV speaker; if there's ... a long stream of zeroes, but on this tape it was constantly ... -
Hmm, interesting choiceSo the BBC couldn't help but be PC this year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40624288 All part of their 'fake' diversity policy o…
... Lewis-Smith did a load of skits on gay daleks in ... />
There's also a brilliant 'Dalek Relaxation Tape' recording - that was Peter ... -
Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …
... as the first lines of your program, and write ... properly. When loaded from tape, you can make it ... check the attribute colour of your character hasn't ... the actual checking. The user won't really notice ... but it's not slowing down the player's feeling of control. -
How do I convert a .z80 snapshot to a tape file?I've been fiddling with this for a while but can't get it to work reliably. I use Marvin to write short BASIC and assembly programs that uses .z80 in…
... /> Just go to Recording -> Tape recording -> Insert tape for saving, give the ... of it as a real tape). To save machine code, it's SAVE ... 've finished, select Recording -> Tape recording -> Eject Save tape, reset the emulator ... -
How do I convert a .z80 snapshot to a tape file?I've been fiddling with this for a while but can't get it to work reliably. I use Marvin to write short BASIC and assembly programs that uses .z80 in…
... /> Just go to Recording -> Tape recording -> Insert tape for saving, give the ... order matters of course (think of it as a real tape). To save ... machine code, it's SAVE ... -
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... be to modify a tzx of the recording directly then save it ... possible. Granted, sometimes it’s unfeasible, because the loading scheme ... , anyway). The resulting end-user experience is genuine—you load ... involved process (although, it’s a nice workaround for the ... -
Frankie's ZX Spectrum DigoutsWell, time has come to contribute :-) I got this huge collection of pirat tapes I bought from someone over here in Denmark in the late 90s, a tota…
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xkco8nfujna6zn/Spectrum%20%26%20Spectrum ... Publishers Ltd.
[b]Author(s):[/b] Martin E. Thompson < ... and Back), and photo of tape label (Side A+B)
of tape it says (c) GLENTOP 1986. It was advertised in Sinclair User ... -
I've bought a HIFI tape deck in 2018 - For the Love of Compact Cassettes.You may think it odd, but I've just brought a HIFI cassette recorder in 2018. I had a crappy one I picked up at a charity shop (goodwill), which sque…
... KX393 is a good choice of tape deck, I have one ... the UK the only tape that's still available is ... (FOX C60, made by Recording The Masters, Mulann inc) ... but nobody still makes decent recording heads. If you can ... than something out of the 1970's! No Dolby etc ... -
Book: Giant Book of Spectrum Arcade Games by Tim HartnellDarn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :( I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF. This book has games written in BASIC with machine code ro…
... .org.uk/det/50038/Giant-Book-of-Spectrum-Arcade-Games/
s £99.99
Can ... Wilson? It's a great title for starting of with assembly.
user put a scan online.
Speedlock builderI've seen the Alcatraz dev cartridges although I could not figure out how to use them, only knowing a tiny bit of Z80 probably did not help, but I ca…
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Some releases of the LERM tape utilities ([url="http://www ... .zip"]proof of concept[/url], a series of 3x snapshots ... the first snapshot, start tape recording and press 's' to save the ... />
Here's a quick edited vid of the snapshot saving ...TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... a gap at the end of the recording, because what other explanation ... the WAV of program 1 should have eight seconds of tape hiss at ... the end of it, the TZX ... , whether there's any noise on the tape, what model of Spectrum you ...Loading Schemes > 1-bit per 2 edgesHi Guys, I'm just having another look at loading schemes again (a subject that interests me). Does anyone know if there any loading schemes t…
... ="RobeeeJay;955465"]In 1982, tape to tape copiers were extremely rare, ... was the quality of the recording on the purchased cassette tape...
... being if tape stretching has occurred or the recording you are ... or faster motor, as it’s not as easy to restore ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... cassettes of varying quality, and also what they made the tape heads ... these recent tape recorder threads, and that's the 2 types of recording circuitry ... bright, lots of tape hiss, and sibilance on 'S's on it's own recordings ...New game: DOOM PITHi everyone, I am proud to announce the exclusive physical release of [b][i]Doom Pit,[/i][/b] the official sequel for Clive Townsend's previously …
... scripts and with the user interface - screen and ... is added to widen the user's experience, for instance:
- end-of-game scenes.
... still have the working tape of the authorized Italian version ... for some of my games ;)new interface for WOSwhen did the interface chance, not been on here in a little while and its the first time seeing it, and it sso awkward to use where before you could …
... , it's like the difference between reading a nice, solid hardback book ... the number of results shown, but it's just giving the user more ... important. This is the user's key way of knowing what is a ... ]
Whenever any user views any game's page, they will see ...ZX Spectrum Software Hire Clubs. Does anybody remember them? They used to be quite popular circa 1983 . I think some were just for the ZX Spectrum , Others covered a broader range of micros . I think they rel…
... copying, and libraries and book clubs share books and ... long time. Same with video tape hire shops.
s less of a hassle.
... fifteen years ago. Most of the content disappears. ... the ever increasing amount of ‘data’ I don ...Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …
... be simulating the analogue recording and playback from tape, but without the ... process.
Here's what some of it looks like.
s full of 1's before deciding there's data there ...CSSCGC 2021: 25th edition extravaganza![img]https://csscgc2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/yellow_programmer_960x600.png[/img] [url=https://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/csscgc2021/][b][size=…
... the people of 1977 - "ground zero" for the microcomputer if ... we discount the Apple I - who were completely unaware of ... the potential of computers, might [i ... there's even a tape - but, because there's 69.6K of ...Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... but I am TRYING ( that's a bit like the old ... WARING?").Here is a reminder of Eddie:-
[url=" ... A and side B of the whole tape do not work . ... listings ( as seen in the book of the same name by the ... I redid a TZX of the whole tape and got a WAV ...Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…
There are two versions of the Adventure Builder:
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There ... books. I think Peter Gerrard's book Exploring Adventures on your ZX ...Cassette Tapes and Tape DecksI know from some forum members there still is some interest in Compact Cassettes and Tape Decks for listening to music. So I hope this interests folk…
... my tape deck. I only realised after filling 2 cassettes of Sounds of ... the 60's.[/quote]
recording from CD, I think those ... /EQ set for that sort of tape you end up with distortion ...Cassette Tapes and Tape DecksI know from some forum members there still is some interest in Compact Cassettes and Tape Decks for listening to music. So I hope this interests folk…
... my tape deck. I only realised after filling 2 cassettes of Sounds of ... the 60's.[/quote]
recording from CD, I think those ... /EQ set for that sort of tape you end up with distortion ...Now here's an idea...I don't know if anyone's thought of this before, if they have then I ain't heard of it. How about putting all the electronics required for a kickass …
... don't know if anyone's thought of this before, if they ... then I ain't heard of it. How about putting all ...OT, but I thought this was funny...I was clearing my hard disc out a few days ago, and I found the following, that I'd downloaded some time back. Re-reading it, I again thought it was …
... is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the
of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish ... called Pilgrim's
Progress. The winter of 1620 was ... Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother
died ...Athena (Imagine) has bug or...I have just compared versions of "Athena" on MAME, C64 and Speccy... Our (Speccy) version has sluggish keyboard response :( I mean it looks like Ath…
... ' of main character caused by protection removing ('pirate' tape)
or it's ... feature of original game (on original tape) ???
version (TZX's images of Athena has 'suspicious' loading screens ...
