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  • Hook CodesIf you've dug into the Interface 1 this should be an easy question. I last had 'em circa 1990 while I can remember the things they did Start Motor C…

    ... his "master your zx
    microdrive" (1984 Edition (not 1983)) ... MOTOR 17F7 1532 1532 switch microdrive motors on or off.< ... READ_N ---- 1F25 1F27 read a Network packet.
    30 WRITE_N ... 0DB2 0E4F 0E4F write a Network packet.
    31 NEWVARS ...
    Geoff Geoff February 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... files open on a single microdrive and each will have a ... buffer but share the same microdrive map.

    With 8 ... open on separate cartridges 8 microdrive maps are created.

    network buffer is left hanging.
    Geoff Geoff October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... />
    * An IF1 compatible network port but again driven by ... streams for the RS232s and network port. I would have ...
    [quote]
    Introducing a microdrive after Amstrad took over may ... potentially useful feature was the network port that came bundled ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... intending to include the whole microdrive interface but I didn't ...
    [quote]* An IF1 compatible network port but again driven by ... streams for the RS232s and network port. I would have ... potentially useful feature was the network port that came bundled with ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…

    ... fun, the audio cabling Sinclair Network way could be used to ... or similar to read from microdrive and write down the
    the microdrive to the RS-232 port ...
    The_Beard The_Beard October 2006 Hardware
  • Some things I bet you didn't know about Microdrives...Quote: This can be attached to any 16k, 48k, & 128k Spectrum Computer, it always for increased performance, and more detailed BASIC code. The Micro …

    ... this is an Interface and microdrive with two connectors) will work ... as working streams to files, network and RS232. If the seller ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2006 Hardware
  • Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…

    ... be to effectively re-direct microdrive accesses to MMC/SD cards ... and run the native IF1 network commands, or will you just ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Hardware
  • Network cableSorry for almost flaming with all my... er.... two questions now...! ;) I read in the Microdrive 1 manual about network but I cannot find out what k…

    ... a SCREEN$ via the network is a similar speed to ... 64 busy Spectrums on a network there might be some ... gain exclusive access to the network for each packet. Unfortunately I ... my 8 microdrives so a network transfer will be my ... a link to your microdrive one please.
    beanz beanz February 2007 Hardware
  • How did people write large assembler programs on real Spectrums?I have been wondering how people did their development back on real Spectrums. If you should write a large program, there would first be an assembler…

    ... the object code over the network to the other for testing ... would save source code to microdrive and assemble large object code ...
    Geoff Geoff April 2007 Development
  • Work In ProgressHi folks, Many people ask what is in the pipeline to avoid sourcing tapes/disks/carts that we've either already dumped or have as WIP. They may rem…

    ...
    Circuit Drawing / A.C. Network Analyser Unknown
    Clever Clogs ... Software
    SD5 - Tape to Microdrive Utility Kobrahsoft
    Sinclair User ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…

    ... DivIDE (and family) compatibility anyway (Microdrive compatibility would be a 'nice ... be nice to have a network filesystem that is accessable from ... currently thinking of a 'tiny network filesystem' so that you can ...
    Winston Winston November 2007 Hardware
  • 5 down 3 to Go!!I have just taken delivery of a further two microdrives to add to my collection. I now have 5 Microdrives. Who else has microdrives??Anyone else …

    Is the network cable somthing specialist?? Or can ... like is an extra long microdrive cable so that I may ... how to make a long microdrive cable? Will the length cause ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hardware fault - HELP!I bought a speccy 48K (rubber) on Ebay. I was delighted when it arrived. It was in PRISTINE condition, it looks brand new! However, the machine has a…

    ... viewing your site regarding the Network adapter project you are doing ... email client that runs via microdrive :-)

    That would be ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills February 2008 Hardware
  • Spectrum Ethernet update...in which a toastrack 128K machine prods a machine outside of my LAN for the first time. [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_eve…

    ... example, during a RESET, the network adapter traps the instruction fetch ... to borrow an IF1 and microdrive, since people are asking for ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Hardware
  • Channels and streamsSo I've put some thought into channels and streams, and read the dead (and presumably rotting corpse) of the CSS FAQ which contains some information …

    ... Spectrum ROM, the network was new and the microdrive software would require ... development of the Nine Tiles network etc. went on for three ... different to the Nine Tiles network but apart from John Grant ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2008 Development
  • I just learnt that Spectrum has 1kB of unused ROMWell, man learns through all his life. I have just discovered that Spectrum has over 1 kilobyte of unused ROM memory, from address 14446 to 15615. Al…

    ... for RS232 and the Sinclair network, but as with the ZX81 ... was supposed to be for microdrive support too..
    polomint polomint October 2008 Development
  • I just learnt that Spectrum has 1kB of unused ROMWell, man learns through all his life. I have just discovered that Spectrum has over 1 kilobyte of unused ROM memory, from address 14446 to 15615. Al…

    ... was supposed to be for microdrive support too..[/QUOTE]
    ... It is doubtful that the microdrive software could be incorporated ... Early adverts only claimed the network and RS232 software.
    ... suggestion that he write the microdrive software.

    ...
    Geoff Geoff October 2008 Development
  • MDR file to real MicrodriveHow do you get a MDR file onto a real microdrive cartridge? It is possible without a bunch of jiggery pokery?

    ... MDR file onto a real microdrive cartridge? It is possible without ... lead, or the better shrouded network lead, between
    the line ... is equally effective in creating microdrive cartridges
    from a downloaded ...
    Geoff Geoff March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …

    ... because the peripheral(s) (RS232, network, microdrive?) these commands should act on ...
    roko roko July 2009 Development
  • 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…

    ... IF1 provides both serial and network connectivity as well as supporting ... release of ROM that improves microdrive cartridge formatting, and enhances networking ...
    jp jp November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Faulty Interface 1I bought a 'tested' Interface 1 on ebay the other day. Aside from the previous owner 'cleaning' the contacts with WD40!!! (bad, bad, bad eeurrgh :rol…

    ... to be attached to a Microdrive for it to function properly ... ?[/QUOTE]

    no a microdrive isn't required to use ... of the microdrive outputs in my ULA :( but the network port still ...
    guesser guesser December 2010 Hardware
  • What if the Government backed Sir CliveHere is a question I have always wondered about... What if the Government had backed Sir Clive back in the Eighties... That is, placed his computers …

    ... a couple of 480z's, network storage was provided by a ... by the government then the microdrive would never have existed and ...
    Saboteur Saboteur January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…

    ... results.

    The microdrive, tap, if1 interface are very ... write one.

    - microdrive driver
    - serial port driver ... 5. There shall be a network support called SpecNet available via ... IF1 network and/or via serial ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Development
  • Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…

    ... user port, the old Speccy network hardware, such that it was ... of +3DOS over the old Microdrive style Ramdisk commands. (So much ...
    spodula spodula January 2011 Hardware
  • Z80 Assembler for MicrocassettesDoes anyone know of any assembler that can generate .mcr microcassette binaries? Pasmo only generates regular cassettes, and since i am going to try …

    ... point...
    ...Com'on you microdrive users (all three of you ... and used to use the network daily but not for some ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2011 Development
  • z88dk stdio fopenI'm trying to write a fcntl library, based on the p3.lib one. Looking at fopen(), it calls freopen_z88() which turns the mode string into mode and f…

    ... will also serve as the network model when I get to ... has been doing for the network and tnfs, but fleshed out ... +3 disk or divide or microdrive or serial interface and it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • The Sinclair ZX Microdrive Resurrection Project (long)Dear Spectrum fans! [Management summary: Download [url]http://www.bartheld.net/temp/mdv2img.zip[/url] and tell me what you think. All help very much…

    ... carts using Jim Pass's Microdrive Sector Copy:
    [url]http ... taste, the proprietary IF-1 network connection needed special hardware on ...
    Volker Volker March 2012 Emulators
  • INPUT LINE and STOP in INPUTWhat was the reason for the ROM Editor routine causing "down arrow" while in an INPUT LINE to cause the "H STOP in INPUT" error report? Why doesn't i…

    ... .g. the RS232, ZX* Network or from a microdrive file.
    The ...
    Geoff Geoff April 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • INPUT LINE and STOP in INPUTWhat was the reason for the ROM Editor routine causing "down arrow" while in an INPUT LINE to cause the "H STOP in INPUT" error report? Why doesn't i…

    ... . the RS232, ZX* Network or from a microdrive file. Therefore a control ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2012 Sinclair Basic
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