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  • 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…

    ... to read/write blocks (f.i. diskimages) and it even addresses sector ... 0, the MBR /partition sector.
    In the ... could not remember having ever read about the described time-out ...
    roko roko July 2013 Hardware
  • A new site for an old projectThe 'Interface 1bis' project site has been moved to: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/interface1bis/[/url] In fact, it's not only a simple relocati…

    ... approach used in the ZX Microdrive systems, potentially making it much ... them a bit easier to read/digest.

    Anyway, this ...
    Simon_Carr Simon_Carr July 2013 Announcements
  • A new site for an old projectThe 'Interface 1bis' project site has been moved to: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/interface1bis/[/url] In fact, it's not only a simple relocati…

    ... have been reading the ZX Microdrive Manual to familiarise myself with ... , but having not had a microdrive when I was a kid ... it much more difficult to read clearly, especially for people who ...
    Simon_Carr Simon_Carr July 2013 Announcements
  • Use 28C64B for Opus, not 28C64Just solved a small problem upgrading an Opus Discovery. I was trying to swap the 2.1 rom with a 2.22 version. So programmed an Atmel AT28C64, place…

    ... buffer the size of a sector when (disk) files are regarded ... the data while it is read and therefore can handle an ...
    roko roko August 2013 Hardware
  • Use 28C64B for Opus, not 28C64Just solved a small problem upgrading an Opus Discovery. I was trying to swap the 2.1 rom with a 2.22 version. So programmed an Atmel AT28C64, place…

    ... buffer the size of a sector when (disk) files are regarded ... the data while it is read and therefore can handle an ...
    bverstee bverstee August 2013 Hardware
  • How to get 720KB on Opus Discovery floppy (using PC drive)I upgraded an Opus Discovery yesterday with a PC drive, but I'm looking for the way to get a floppy formatted as 720KB. If I understand other topics…

    ... and other. Not only the sector size, 256 in stead of ... starts off a track with sector 0 while most others start ... /> The Opus system can use sector length up to 1 (or ... ), where the disk specs are read only once: from the system ...
    bverstee bverstee August 2013 Hardware
  • How to get 720KB on Opus Discovery floppy (using PC drive)I upgraded an Opus Discovery yesterday with a PC drive, but I'm looking for the way to get a floppy formatted as 720KB. If I understand other topics…

    ... ' program is in the boot sector. In fact one could easily ... ), where the disk specs are read only once: from the system ... all games due to the sector buffer taking Spectrum RAM away ...
    roko roko August 2013 Hardware
  • need some WinXP disk recovery adviceMy desktop PC gave a "SMART failure predicted" error on drive C: during startup the other day. It's still working, although occasionally it takes a l…

    I didn't read your first post completely yet, ... clone anything I skip the sector-by-sector approach, and 99.9 ... software because I can ignore read errors from non-essential hard ... hard drive has too many read errors (physical I/O errors ...
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2013 Chit chat
  • need some WinXP disk recovery adviceMy desktop PC gave a "SMART failure predicted" error on drive C: during startup the other day. It's still working, although occasionally it takes a l…

    ... wasn't in a critical sector and so chkdsk was able ... system was reporting too many read error retries on C:. As ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2013 Chit chat
  • Hardware description - PLUS D interfaceThis new thread will contain onformations of different ZX devices. Some devices contain manuals, schematics or firmware for some chips, but some peop…

    ...
    track =235=EB
    sector =243=F3
    data =251 ... /> [CODE][U][B]ADRESS WRITE READ [/B][/U]
    #E3(227 ... ) track track
    #F3(243) sector sector
    #FB(251) data data ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2013 Hardware
  • Hardware description - DivIDE interface[B][U]DIVIDE interface / DivIDE 2k11[/U][/B] [B][U]The main description[/U][/B] DIVIDE is IDE interface with own external memory. Thanks to very goo…

    [B][U]Routine for READ/WRITE IDE sector (by Zilogator - author of DIVIDE ... = number of sectors
    ;E = sector (or LBA[7-0])
    ;- state of carry flag - select read/write operation(1=write/0 ... =read)
    ;- register "B" - number of ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2013 Hardware
  • Hardware description - MB-02+ interfaceOn this thread will soon released info about MB-02+ idisk interface ( memory paging mechanism, list of ports, addressing, MB IDE, schematics, etc... …

    ... /> [CODE][U][B]ADDRESS WRITE READ[/B][/U]
    #0F(15 ... ) track track
    #4F(79) sector sector
    #6F(111) data data ... = /motor active D
    [U]READ DATA:[/U]
    bit 0 ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2013 Hardware
  • Hardware description - PLUS D interfaceThis new thread will contain onformations of different ZX devices. Some devices contain manuals, schematics or firmware for some chips, but some peop…

    ... '. The program was ment to read on each of the then ... DOS (on DOS level) cannot read sector number 0 (as found on ...
    roko roko August 2013 Hardware
  • CSW, DSK, FDI, SB, SCL, SLT, TRD, UDIHow can I operate with these files: CSW, DSK, FDI, SB, SCL, SLT, TRD, UDI?

    ... of data which can be read by an emulator capable of ... format for both disks and Microdrive cartridge image files (the latter ... resume of what you can read (if you understand Italian!) in ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2013 Emulators
  • Dreaming of SpectrumsThis is a sad omission, but last night I dreamt about ZX Spectrums. I dreamt that I went into this charity shop and inside on the bottom shelf at th…

    ... with flat keys and a Microdrive built-in on the left ... say, the day before I read "Sinclair programs March/April 1983 ...
    schombi schombi October 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why?I'm just wondering why people are here? Why are we working on or using old hardware? Why are some of you putting a lot of effort in upgrading the ha…

    ... school friend and I would read through magazines every break and ... then - e.g. Interface 1, Microdrive, Wafadrive, etc - as well as ...
    szeliga szeliga December 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IF1bis vs SpectranetSince I will shortly have access to both an IF1bis (which I've bought) and a Spectranet (thanks to a loan from cmonkey), I will be in a position to g…

    ... number of sectors to be read by an IDE device must ... , the last sector doesn?t need to be read to its end ... the last sector of every frame must still be read and skipped ...
    Dan Antohi Dan Antohi December 2013 Hardware
  • IF1bis vs SpectranetSince I will shortly have access to both an IF1bis (which I've bought) and a Spectranet (thanks to a loan from cmonkey), I will be in a position to g…

    ... replacement for a full IF1/microdrive system then it's IF1bis ... what I've seen and read, there are some exciting and ...
    David Jones David Jones December 2013 Hardware
  • Which Emulator supports Betadisk48?Hi out there and happy new year, I'm looking for an emulator to run with my vision1.7 trdos-rom in 48 mode. Unfortunately most emus only support Bet…

    ... controller.
    95 (5Fh) - Recorder sector controller.
    127 (7Fh) - Data ... (23296 to 23511) for a sector buffer.

    Beta 128 ... BASIC variables every time a sector is read or written (so the ... + 256, depending on what you read).
    [/code]
    Jmk Jmk January 2014 Emulators
  • Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…

    ... 't write less than a sector in a physical disk and ... in mind that +3 can read the size of the disk ... /> The +3 disk drive can read sectors of 128, 256, 512 ... , the ROM routines will only read discs with 512 bytes/sector.
    Zup Zup January 2014 Hardware
  • Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…

    ... 't write less than a sector in a physical disk and ... in mind that +3 can read the size of the disk ... /> The +3 disk drive can read sectors of 128, 256, 512 ... routines will only read discs with 512 bytes/sector.[/QUOTE]

    The_Bert The_Bert January 2014 Hardware
  • Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…

    ... leading bytes (including the sector numbering marks), the data, ... sector, the FDC needs some time before it is ready to read ... the next sector. Meanwhile, the disk ...
    Usually, disk utilities use sector interleaving (i.e.: disordering the ...
    Zup Zup February 2014 Hardware
  • Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…

    ... format, the OS would read and write any +3DOS ... mind. At least two sector error checking programs were ... write to tape, a sector by sector, track by track image ... there, plus utilities to read/write +D floppies in ... MSDOS DSDD disks also (read only, afaik).
    DEATH DEATH February 2014 Hardware
  • Is ESXDOS flexible enough to incorporate e.g. Spectranet commands?I was just discussing the idea with someone about the wish some people have to be able to combine interfaces such as DivIDE (Plus) / DivMMC EnJOY! wi…

    ... to all implementations of READ right? Because otherwise, ... code and the spectranet READ call because that means ... reading the whole 512 byte sector 5 times :lol: ... some code wants to read 5 contigous bytes (assume ... disk should only be read once obviously, but all ...
    guesser guesser February 2014 Hardware
  • Is ESXDOS flexible enough to incorporate e.g. Spectranet commands?I was just discussing the idea with someone about the wish some people have to be able to combine interfaces such as DivIDE (Plus) / DivMMC EnJOY! wi…

    ... reading the whole 512 byte sector 5 times :lol: :lol ... reading the 512 bye sector that that part of ... ... some devices have smaller sector sizes (I'm thinking ... if it has that sector in memory already. If ... allocate another one, read a 512 byte sector in and then ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2014 Hardware
  • OPUS Discocery DriveHi, since I am new here pls. excuse my bad English. I have a problem with 2 OPUS DISK Drive. One of them is working fine the other not. So I decided…

    ... are the max. track and sector numbers. Details can be found ... therefore can use a better sector order (interleave 1 instead of ... ) Standard formatted disks can be read and written of course, but ...
    roko roko March 2014 Hardware
  • How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…

    ... could be run on a Microdrive cartridge was really fun and ... on a few occasions to read up on these guides on ... , and much like you I read their posts with interest and ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay March 2014 Development
  • FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…

    ... cycles for background processing and read -say- 32 bytes and send ... emulator. For example - low level microdrive stuff. And if I can ...
    tstih tstih March 2014 Development
  • FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…

    ... cycles for background processing and read -say- 32 bytes and send ... emulator. For example - low level microdrive stuff. And if I can ...
    zub zub March 2014 Development
  • DivMMC EnJOY! v2014.1Teaser: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea036HH25f8[/url] This is the board version that is designed for the custom case which is worked on at t…

    ... , otherwise
    you won't read this Thread. In my case ... /> Attach/Detach tap images, for read or write (so to LOAD ... , just as you know from microdrive,
    opus discovery, etc.
    Jeroen Jeroen April 2014 Hardware
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