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  • White Spectrum+Hi Folks, There is a photo of a white Spectrum+ on Rick Dickinson's website - did this actually exist i.e. working machine? Paddy

    ... and with a built-in Microdrive (and the issues you list ... 's why a +3 can read CPC and PCW disks but ... a CPC can't read PCW disks (it had AMSDOS ...
    chev chev August 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DooM on Spectrum 128kHello my fellow WoS'ers My hope is that you can help me, recently I discovered a DooM clone -esque on the Humble spectrum, - here is a [URL="https:/…

    ... pages which would normally be read off disk, so I may ... are:
    [code]
    start sector load address #sectors RAM page ... EXIT door I can just read the blocks off tape at ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Games
  • Please, tell me something more about: ROTOTRONICS WAFADRIVEWhat do you think about Wafadrive? Was it a successful product in the 80's? [youtube]2yjEyoOeJrI[/youtube]

    ... "transfer utility" link:

    "Microdrive cartridges do have a finite ... a wafer than in a microdrive cartridge so it's under ... , I remember the magazines (I read them from 1986 onwards) offering ...
    Jmk Jmk October 2012 Hardware
  • Disciple troubleAnother day, another problem. While waiting for my 16-to48K upgrade chips to arrive, I tried to bring my Disciple back to life, which I just bought a…

    ... ) and the disk can be read on the Spectrum then, but ... after a few seconds with "Sector data lost". What?s wrong ...
    schombi schombi November 2012 Hardware
  • Disciple troubleAnother day, another problem. While waiting for my 16-to48K upgrade chips to arrive, I tried to bring my Disciple back to life, which I just bought a…

    ... ) and the disk can be read on the Spectrum then, but ... after a few seconds with "Sector data lost". What?s wrong ... problems, try using SAMdisk to read the written disk back on ...
    obo obo November 2012 Hardware
  • Help! Experts in BASIC/ASM, Hardware, in-game screenshots needed!There are several games which are too complicated for me to get the in-game screenshot. If you guys could help me, the Spectrum community would appre…

    ... to be transferred to a Microdrive or Disk, depending upon which ... the Des Chiffres files to Microdrive. They won't all fit ... f=1 TO 5:
    READ f$,start,length: LOAD f ... f=1 TO 9:
    READ f$,start,length: LOAD f ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Support files
  • Help! Experts in BASIC/ASM, Hardware, in-game screenshots needed!There are several games which are too complicated for me to get the in-game screenshot. If you guys could help me, the Spectrum community would appre…

    ... to be transferred to a Microdrive or Disk, depending upon which ... the Des Chiffres files to Microdrive. They won't all fit ... f=1 TO 5:
    READ f$,start,length: LOAD f ... f=1 TO 9:
    READ f$,start,length: LOAD f ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx November 2012 Support files
  • DivIDE problemsHello, Can anyone advise me on the problems I got with a DivIDE please? I bought it off someone second-hand and it has not worked properly from the …

    ... ocurred to me when I read your post was the power ... job?

    The CF microdrive will have lower power requirements ... more life out of the microdrive with an external supply connected ...
    ramsrc ramsrc November 2012 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …

    ... Microsoft formatting tools tried to read existing parameters from the disk ... if it couldn't read the boot sector (the /u option, or ...
    obo obo December 2012 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …

    ... , +3 BASIC tries to read the boot sector. If it fails with ... formats the disc. If a read succeeds, then +3 BASIC asks ... before formatting. But if the read fails with another error such ...
    John Elliott John Elliott December 2012 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …

    ... , +3 BASIC tries to read the boot sector. If it fails with ... formats the disc. If a read succeeds, then +3 BASIC asks ... before formatting. But if the read fails with another error such ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2012 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …

    ... , +3 BASIC tries to read the boot sector. If it fails with ... formats the disc. If a read succeeds, then +3 BASIC asks ... before formatting. But if the read fails with another error such ...
    obo obo December 2012 Hardware
  • Dead +3 drive. Help needed.While i am waiting for a TV master to find his demagnetizing loop to demagnetize my disks i decided to fix my third +3 drive today. I changed the b…

    ... started to read something but went wrong on track 2 sector 1 ...
    ArtemKuchin ArtemKuchin December 2012 Hardware
  • Odd files on disk games (Op.Wolf, Typhoon, etc.)I've noticed on some disk games which I've been looking at recently that the loading sequence starts by loading two 512 byte files and comparing them…

    ... 0 sector 2 returns different data each time it's read. The ... protection reads the that sector up to ... the last byte in the sector data between reads, which is ... 3 samples of the changing sector data, so supporting emulators (such ...
    obo obo December 2012 Games
  • Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…

    ... call into the ROM to read the keyboard or access the ... data than the PCW boot sector can handle, then it's ...
    John Elliott John Elliott February 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • maximum addressable RAM for a Z80 using bank switching?What is the maximum addressable RAM for a Z80 using bank switching? The Enterprise64 home computer could address up to 4MB, is this the limit for a …

    ... a sector map, just like the one used for the Microdrive.
    sector map. Remembering all of this ...
    RST#08 RST#08 February 2013 Hardware
  • The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…

    ... one single binary, or to read the DISCiPLE ROM without an ... code. It also contains the sector buffer (which might be left ... map, whole-disk sector address map and individual sector buffer) are held ...
    zub zub February 2013 Hardware
  • The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…

    ... , then consider low level Read-Write-Sector routines as part of a ...
    roko roko February 2013 Hardware
  • The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…

    ... able to produce utilities to read disks from other systems. There ... SAM but use 1024-byte sector-pairs for high density disks ...
    zub zub February 2013 Hardware
  • Beta testing FuseHello everyone, We are preparing Fuse for a new release soon and would appreciate help in testing that all the new features and all the old features …

    ... a bit different. I will read te lot
    Thanks, both ... guess we should go for sector skew / interleaving of the same ... as is added when loading sector-based (rather than track-based ...
    zub zub March 2013 Announcements
  • Swift Disk EmulationIn the past couple of weeks there have been two (to my knowledge) Swift disk systems come up on Ebay. Nowhere can I find roms for such a beautiful sy…

    Having read an article on it, it was the Microdrive emulation that got me interested the most. Also the fact that it was encased in an Interface 1, which is genius!
    jamorski jamorski March 2013 Emulators
  • BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…

    ... now handles the If.1/Microdrive commands as well. It turns ... .
    [code]1000 REM Test Microdrive commands
    1001 CAT 1 ... ,255: PRINT #3: RANDOMIZE 12345: READ a,b$: REM Remark
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Keyboard scanning routines / techniques?What keyboard scanning routines or techniques do people use? I'm looking to write something which doesn't rely on the ROM-based keyboard scanner, an…

    ... -university attempt at a boot-sector).

    The kernel is ... something similar. If the values read are stored, then XOR'd ... with the last set read, any '1' bits indicate which ... , and inspection of the values read tell you whether it was ...
    u6c87 u6c87 May 2013 Development
  • Keyboard scanning routines / techniques?What keyboard scanning routines or techniques do people use? I'm looking to write something which doesn't rely on the ROM-based keyboard scanner, an…

    ... -university attempt at a boot-sector).[/QUOTE]

    Perhaps we ... . GDB-Z80 knows how to read SDCC debug files so when ...
    tstih tstih May 2013 Development
  • Keyboard scanning routines / techniques?What keyboard scanning routines or techniques do people use? I'm looking to write something which doesn't rely on the ROM-based keyboard scanner, an…

    ... as far as a boot sector and a mock up of ... such as malloc(), open()/close(), read()/write() should be identical, or ... snapshot (anything which can be read by libspectrum) and uses that ... fuse to be able to read an external symbol table, so ...
    u6c87 u6c87 May 2013 Development
  • Creating "strange" disks in emulators?Back in the day, Microhobby published a program (Superformat) that used 42 tracks/disk and 10 sectors/track to allow more than 200k/disk side. I thin…

    ... (althogh I strongly recommend to read the MicroHobby article before using ... disks without 512 bytes per sector won't be detected by ...
    Zup Zup June 2013 Emulators
  • How slow can a CF-card goSurprising. My 48k Spectrum did not allow me to CAT all the 254 files that my private DOS (for CF-card) can store in each sub directory. Spectrum get…

    ... some 10 seconds after a READ SECTOR(s) command is issued, even ... ) are not yet read from the CF's sector buffer.
    It ... it's back to single-sector works, to fit the standard ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2013 Hardware
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