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  • +3 Copy ProtectionHi all, I've been looking at copy protection and I've realised that, as a kid, I thought things like speedlock were there to stop you poking the gam…

    ... ' sectors used by some Speedlock protected disks, which change the bit ... 's possible to read or write any disk. The KryoFlux USB ... you tell the drive to write the bits in different places ... using the format and sector write commands. With sector writes the ...
    obo obo August 2011 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. …

    ... screen, etc, I can even write text on some unused rows ... . Of course it's not protected in any way, so you ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • The last batch of 50 DivIDE interfaces!Yes, I said that before, but now I'm sure. I started on my last batch of 50 DivIDE interfaces, here's the eBay-offer: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/…

    ... Multiface 3 so I can write games back to 3" disk ... not suited for writing copy protected games to 3" diskettes.
    orange orange November 2011 Hardware
  • References advice...Good people of WoS, I have a query with regards a mate of mine that has just been offered a new job. He wants to know if current employers provide …

    No, they're not allowed to write a bad reference. Medical details are protected by doctor/patient confidence so if employers put that on a reference, they're breaking the law.

    It's either a good reference or not at all.
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 November 2011 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... vfs driver that I'll write for z88dk. The essential part ... +3 disk or divide or microdrive or serial interface and it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…

    ... guys who used it to write maths programs like e.g ... , storing them on cassette or microdrive wasn't an option.
    Ralf Ralf December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Some gifts: ZX-Spectrum/ZX 81 cassettes, and some Speccy hardwareDear ZX-Spectrum and ZX-81 fans, I have some remaining cassette games for those lovely home computers. Also I have got many older ZX-Microdrive Cart…

    ... have got many older ZX-Microdrive Cartridges, a Music Machine, ... ]http://www.zxmodules.de/fotos/Microdrive%20Cartridges.jpg[/IMG]
    < ... want that stuff, should write here and will get it ... Spectrum related hardware/software + Microdrive items, I don't have ...
    polomint polomint January 2012 Sales
  • Transferring +d images to real 3.5" diskTheres probably a tool out there to do it, anyone point me in the right direction please?

    ... to read, write and format both standard and copy-protected disks. In ... too much time on copy-protected disks if they don't ...
    obo obo February 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Transferring +d images to real 3.5" diskTheres probably a tool out there to do it, anyone point me in the right direction please?

    ... your drive speed so copy protected disks write back.
    For reading ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What if there was no memory or space limitation?What if there was no memory or space limitation? We've had topics about the limitations of the Speccy's hardware, topics where we discussed how good …

    ... ESXDOS and freedom to read/write files to mass storage without ... couldn't have done with microdrive or disk and media swapping ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Internal ROM expansionHas anybody designed a multiple-ROM interface that plugs into the internal ROM socket instead of plugging onto the edge connector? It would be useful…

    ... /> * Make working my Opus Discovery (microdrive clone?) with MAX desktop gui ... instead rom (rewritable or with write protect). Also 128rom can be ... rewritable ram (poke 49152,0 write byte 0 to adress 0 ...
    velesoft velesoft May 2012 Hardware
  • 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 ... checking the GAP bit while microdrive is running (do I ... br />
    6) To write to microdrive you -
    a) start the ... />
    8) To read microdrive you -
    a) start the ...
    tstih tstih July 2012 Development
  • 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…

    ... partially understand the whole microdrive thing. Are following statements ... information about the IF1+Microdrive inner workings are 10% ... 642022]
    6) To write to microdrive you -
    a) ... write.

    [QUOTE=tstih;642022]
    7) To erase microdrive ...
    zx81 zx81 July 2012 Development
  • MinnaMicroZ80 v0.21 - Z80 Snapshot to Microdrive converterMinnaMicroZ80 v0.21 - The Z80 to Microdrive Snapshot Converter -------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Rob Shepherd…

    ... snapshots to run on a microdrive:
    [url]http://www.robertsworld ... part (128K) I'll probably write up next week.
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay July 2012 Announcements
  • Excel -> OpenOffice Z80 spreadsheet problemI tried transferring my [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/z80times.zip]Z80TIMES[/url] spreadsheet from Excel to OpenOffice the o…

    ... write to the system-wide one whilst running under a UAC protected ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2012 Chit chat
  • Excel -> OpenOffice Z80 spreadsheet problemI tried transferring my [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/z80times.zip]Z80TIMES[/url] spreadsheet from Excel to OpenOffice the o…

    ... write to the system-wide one whilst running under a UAC protected ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Chit chat
  • 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]

    ... tape which just like Sinclair Microdrive cartridges alas they were prone ... running programs that tried to write into areas of memory that ...
    Hercules Hercules October 2012 Hardware
  • Setting up an IDE HDD on the +3e helpHello, Just installed a HDD in my +3e (ROM ver. 1.11). When turning on it takes a few seconds longer but then shows 2 IDE (available) as well as 1 fl…

    ... take ages and longer to write them back).

    [B ... at the IBM/Hitachi/SeaCrate Microdrive you can get these in ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 March 2013 Hardware
  • Setting up an IDE HDD on the +3e helpHello, Just installed a HDD in my +3e (ROM ver. 1.11). When turning on it takes a few seconds longer but then shows 2 IDE (available) as well as 1 fl…

    ... take ages and longer to write them back).

    [B ... at the IBM/Hitachi/SeaCrate Microdrive you can get these in ...
    thomas3120 thomas3120 March 2013 Hardware
  • Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …

    ... perfectly suit my task, I write it myself. If I think ... can do it better, I write it myself. Sometimes I'll ... /> I used MegaLZ for my Microdrive snapshot conversion software, because beyond ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay March 2013 Development
  • "Chronos": how fast should it really be?I was reading [URL="http://timfollin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Archive.htm"]Tim Follin's webpage[/URL] the other day and came across a curious remark abou…

    ... anyone even semi-professional would write in my place. But, of ... , if the CPC scroller was protected by a patent, than I ...
    introspec introspec May 2013 Development
  • "Your Game" - a ZX Spectrum game making competitionHello! Here is an interesting information from Alone Coder: **************************************** "Your Game" ZX Spectrum game making competi…

    ... design of a circuit is protected by copyright.[/QUOTE]
    Only ... topography of a circuit is protected by copyright, the topology is ... I know except those who write for a company under a ...
    Alone Coder Alone Coder May 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Could a Spectrum game loader play music?On the Games forum there's a thread entitled "[I]Which game did you like the loading noise the most?[/I]" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums…

    ... any of the disk systems/Microdrive if a custom loader was ... for a clever chap to write one!
    jamorski jamorski June 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DIVMMC, a new compact interface for ZX SpectrumAfter a long gestation period and a short period of testing, Mario Prato, member of the Italian [URL="http://apuliaretrocomputing.wordpress.com/"]Apu…

    ... write protect feature.

    After press key "D" will eeprom protected ... and press key "D" for write protection.
    velesoft velesoft June 2013 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... available, allow you to read/write blocks (f.i. diskimages) and ... MB of Spectrum stuff is protected from Bill by invisibility.
    roko roko July 2013 Hardware
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... =1&loadpics=0"]tapes protected by the Alkatraz loading scheme ... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]microdrive[/URL] and [URL="http://www ...
    jp jp August 2013 Development
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... I would plough through and write some little routines to test ... /> Ok, these programs will first write a value of 0000 to ... dev kit lol and a microdrive.

    That didnt come ...
    wibble wibble August 2013 Development
  • The Pros and Cons of "alternative" assembler syntaxContinuing from [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=720754&postcount=72[/URL] [QUOTE=u6c87;720754]But that wouldn't change if…

    ... it's pretty easy to write code that can be re ... programs between +3 disk/divide/microdrive. Ability to convert z80s to ... ]
    Not really. You can write software entirely in C and ... , but you still have to write spectrum specific code for a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... , etc) directly, so programmers could write machine-specific programs that contained ... have support for virtual memory, protected mode, or different privilege levels ...
    Winston Winston November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... , at least having read and write attributes on each page) since ... /> Incidentally, my idea for adding protected mode and memory management for ...
    Winston Winston November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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