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  • Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…

    ... -file from one microdrive to a second microdrive, once we OPEN ... pulls the text from microdrive one character a time ... to "random read access" an OPEN# microdrive stream to read [i]any ... of the same sector.

    Each sector read is precisely placed ...
    mattsteel mattsteel May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…

    ... ,

    The microdrive sector copier is finished, in funky- ... name - what's the microdrive cartridge you are working with ... remember this uses a microdrive toolkit so there are commands ... with Your Spectrum Running Repairs. Read articles:-

    [ ...
    jp jp February 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…

    ... 't it possible to read more than one sector at a time ... and I'm only onto Sector 183 :-o. I just hope ... soon. A similar program like Microdrive Sector Writer would be good ;-), it ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…

    ... 't it possible to read more than one sector at a time ... soon. A similar program like Microdrive Sector Writer would be good ;-), it ... Andy,

    Is your microdrive gear still connected?, or did ... made some updates to the sector copier and wondered if you ...
    jp jp August 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Lerm Transpack 3 - Microdrive versionListed on [URL="http://cgi.ebay.com/Sinclair-Spectrum-MicroDrive-Cassette-Lerm-TPack3_W0QQitemZ320294319441QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11994QQssPageNameZWDVWQ…

    ... - I was thinking, wow a microdrive sector copier? What's this like ... each sector rather than in 4 chunks), is cos the Microdrive seems ... queue the drive to sector 0 and read all the way to ... much time (~= 255 attempts per sector!) searching for those non existent ...
    jp jp September 2008 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Low level microdrive programmingSo I'm on my lunch break trying to find out about low level microdrive programming (without using IF1 ROM). I see one can use port 0xe7 to read and w…

    ... least partially understand the whole microdrive thing. Are following statements ... read/detect it by checking the GAP bit while microdrive ... is active during all the sector read or is enabled each ... tstih;642022]
    8) To read microdrive you -
    a) start ...
    zx81 zx81 July 2012 Development
  • IDE emulation and delaysA few months ago I was told that IDE emulation, while perfectly usable, isn't accurate enough to compare it to IDE access on real hardware. On some e…

    ... after every sector when you do a multiple sector read (the routine ... algorithm that converts a logical sector address to the physical ... programmer employs to give sector addresses to the IDE ... which employs an internal linear sector addressing). You may even ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Emulators
  • Who knows about ZR-UTIL Hendrik BROOTHAERS Marius van der Meer BetadiskI have one old un-identified 5 1/4 Diskette. I thought it was a Betadisk-Diskette, but my real Betadisk v4.12 won?t read it / just displays Sector-R…

    ... v4.12 won?t read it / just displays Sector-Read-Error.
    ... DD Interleave 2:1
    Sector Size 256 Bytes
    Side ... 0 Sector ID?s 2-16
    Side 1 Sector ID?s 2-16
    ("Read Real-Disk-to-.TRD-Image ...
    Luzie Luzie December 2014 Hardware
  • RealSpectrum SoundI'm having trouble with RealSpectrum sound. When I'm in the emulation part, I hear only buzzing and screeching. When I enter some menu, the sound di…

    ... sectors.
    [/quote]
    The sector read/write commands have a physical ... head value for the sector location, and CHRN values that ... must match the sector id header of the sector on disk. Sounds ... the CHRN values for the sector itself?

    ...
    obo obo November 2005 Emulators
  • Anyone got divIDE and +3/+2A?About a year ago, somebody asked me to port the Spectrum +3e ROMs over to the divIDE interface. I did this, but never heard back so I was unsure if t…

    ... it now works with multiple sector read/write. So, sector_count now is ...
    piters piters May 2006 Hardware
  • Anyone got divIDE and +3/+2A?About a year ago, somebody asked me to port the Spectrum +3e ROMs over to the divIDE interface. I did this, but never heard back so I was unsure if t…

    ... this, but Fuse has multiple sector read/write already - I know because ...
    gasman gasman May 2006 Hardware
  • Disk file transfer utilities ?Are there some PC programs for transferring Speccy software between common emulator formats like TAP to disks or disk images? I mean here about +3 f…

    ... - it has on first track sector number #F7 instead 6 ( or ... and after it one 'weak' sector. So, need image format which ... allows specific sector numbers, flags for weak ... report CRC error by such sector read, and simulate changeable content by ...
    piters piters July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Disk file transfer utilities ?Are there some PC programs for transferring Speccy software between common emulator formats like TAP to disks or disk images? I mean here about +3 f…

    ... There are also limitations on sector positions, which can be ... , CRC errors and faked sector headers. The current draft ... image format which allows specific sector numbers, flags for weak ... report CRC error by such sector read, and simulate changeable content ...
    obo obo July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Disk file transfer utilities ?Are there some PC programs for transferring Speccy software between common emulator formats like TAP to disks or disk images? I mean here about +3 f…

    [quote=piters]
    Then emulator need to report CRC error by such sector read, and simulate changeable content by successive reads. '
    [/quote]

    Is this a history lesson? :)
    Woody Woody July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Announce: Fuse 0.8.0Version 0.8.0 of [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/]Fuse[/url], the Free Unix (and OS X) Spectrum Emulator has been released. The major chang…

    ... supported. The lack of multi-sector read was the main thing I ... . I remember something using READ ID to check sector numbers/ordering, but ...
    obo obo April 2007 Emulators
  • Announce: Fuse 0.8.0Version 0.8.0 of [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/]Fuse[/url], the Free Unix (and OS X) Spectrum Emulator has been released. The major chang…

    ... supported. The lack of multi-sector read was the main thing I ... multiple copies of the weak sector, but it did work with ... an example when the weak-sector extension to DSK was first ...
    John Elliott John Elliott April 2007 Emulators
  • New Opus Discovery tool addedFinally, after some years wait, a new [B]Opus Discovery[/B] tool, [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/OpusRead_v200.zip"][U]Opu…

    ... first read. For ERROR_CRC, the sector data has been read into ... 're using a multi-sector read for the full track ... sector in the block. You'll need to read ... the FDC result bytes to see which sector ... complicated than with single sector reads, but not by ...
    obo obo June 2007 Development
  • Rare utilities won for WOS :)In the last couple of hours I've won Micromate Linotype Multichop Artic Assembler Stargazer Worldglobe and a couple of others that I'm not sure abo…

    ... look at speeding up the Microdrive sector copier - I've got real ...
    jp jp April 2008 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ...
    Luis Copy
    Microdrive 1B
    Microdrive Sector Copy
    Poolsdata
    GreenCard GreenCard August 2008 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... the screen!

    [b]Microdrive 1B[/b]: I only tried ... it with a Microdrive connected, so don't know ... side 1.

    [b]Microdrive Sector Copy[/b]: Again I only ... tried it with a microdrive connected. There are two versions ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ...
    Luis Copy
    MicroDrive 1B
    Microdrive Sector Copy
    Micro-Print ...
    GreenCard GreenCard August 2008 Games
  • Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…

    ... busy...
    [*] Fuse's multi-sector-read support was written by me ... where you could keep the sector count register 'topped up' without ... the start of the multi-sector read. (In fact, I have a ... you need to issue another read sector command" in the data stream ...
    gasman gasman December 2008 Development
  • wavide: WAV player for DivIDEPrompted by an email from zxbruno yesterday, cobbled together much quicker than expected... [url]ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/gasman/zx/wavide/[/u…

    ... ' check after every sector when you do a multiple sector read (the routine ... bytes of junk before each sector. Of course, this bug won ...
    gasman gasman August 2009 Announcements
  • many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…

    ... ideas... (1) to take the sector read out of the rom into ... screen atm because the sector reads are 512/sector) - I've realised ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae December 2009 Development
  • +3e 8Bit IDE (how to get snaps onto the HD)Hello there my fellow WoSer's I have been playing around a lot with this under-emulation as well as building some prototype IDE interfaces. I wou…

    ... the "3e" utility. Halved sized sector devices is WIP. I got ... low-level functions that perform sector read/writes, so the accesses are ... "sector size independent". Well, and because ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix July 2011 Hardware
  • +3e 8Bit IDE (how to get snaps onto the HD)Hello there my fellow WoSer's I have been playing around a lot with this under-emulation as well as building some prototype IDE interfaces. I wou…

    ... the "3e" utility. Halved sized sector devices is WIP. I got ... low-level functions that perform sector read/writes, so the accesses are ... "sector size independent". Well, and because ...
    guesser guesser July 2011 Hardware
  • 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://www ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker March 2012 Emulators
  • 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://www ...
    Volker Volker March 2012 Emulators
  • ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…

    ... 4 reads to get sector number of this cluster ... syscall to get raw sector position of opened file ... routine performs a multi-sector read at the start of each ... track of where a new sector begins (it just checks ... insert any 'get new sector' logic without a total ...
    gasman gasman May 2012 Announcements
  • Odd / interesting things to do with Spectrums, IF1 and Microdrives.Firstly, I did not know where to put this, whether to shoe horn it into one of the more recent microdrive-ish threads, or drag up one of my old ones.…

    ... ?[/QUOTE]

    The Microdrive Sector map is 32 bytes in ... IF1 ROM would begin with Sector 255, and count downwards ... until it reached Sector 0, at which point ... corresponding bits in the Microdrive Map for that Microdrive.

    ...
    The_Bert The_Bert July 2012 Hardware
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