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  • Minor updateWhilst there is nothing major to announce, be assured that a lot of work is being carried out 'behind the scenes'. We now have 3 developers workin…

    ... ROM chips can be protected by a physical write protect switch. The ... data on the HDD would be protected ... by there being no write access to the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2015 Updates
  • Sinclair QL: Software Preservation Program (NEW)https://sinclairql.wordpress.com & http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/ql-microdrive-software-preservation/ If someone want to help us in preserv…

    ... other people are thiefs. You write to me trough email you ... me convert the mass of microdrive cartridges and disks to ... around 500 disks and 2000+ microdrive cartridges.

    You ... which is untested on original microdrive - probably non-working for £ ...
    rwap rwap June 2016 Feature Requests
  • ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…

    ... is: LDI will try to write to address #0000.

    protected with resistors, but that is ... cartrige is connected) is not protected, as far as I remember ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Hardware
  • Sinclair QL: Software Preservation Program (NEW)https://sinclairql.wordpress.com & http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/ql-microdrive-software-preservation/ If someone want to help us in preserv…

    ... software titles - normally on microdrive cartridge - this is where ... br />
    b) Repairing the microdrive cartridges and then using several ... disks were again copy protected and most of the ... were only ever supplied on microdrive cartridge.

    ...
    rwap rwap July 2016 Feature Requests
  • ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…

    ... is: LDI will try to write to address #0000.

    protected with resistors, but that is ... cartrige is connected) is not protected, as far as I remember ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2016 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…

    ... is: LDI will try to write to address #0000.

    protected with resistors, but that is ... cartrige is connected) is not protected, as far as I remember ...
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…

    ... is: LDI will try to write to address #0000.

    protected with resistors, but that is ... cartrige is connected) is not protected, as far as I remember ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2016 Hardware
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... />
    Anyway, what did I write? Nothing of any real value ... it. So I wanted to write my own (I later ... of Go!, I decided to write a Chess program and modify ... when I was using a Microdrive (yep, I was an ... program from (I didn't write it, it might have been ...
    geosiou geosiou October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Getting Tasword to save to CF cardHey chaps I have a Plus 2 with a simple 8bit IDE interface installed. I was hoping I might be able to use the +3 disk version in conjunction with …

    ... 've been using Quill to write some of the article so ... QL it would have been microdrive or disk for storage. So ...
    Hiddenevil Hiddenevil February 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The ZX Spectrum as a Business MachineMaybe it is time to treat this"business" side of the Spectrum more seriously . What spurred me int action was the arrival in the post today (from Eb…

    ... have even bought one to write a novel on...
    [/quote ... all his vital documents on microdrive as he would be far ...
    guesser guesser July 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Preservation of microdrives.Hi! Im not sure this is the right forum or if the topic has being brought up here before (couldnt find anything when searching thru the fourm at lea…

    ... handle all Microdrive carts if they were
    copy protected.

    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2017 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Any of the emulator authors want to add interface1bis emulation?Hi, I know it´s complex, but can someone of the emulator-authors idea to add emulation for the If1bis Interface with it´s many features ( [url="ht…

    ... /forums/profile/5937/Dan%20Antohi) write Software for it. I ordered ... . Unrelated but hoping Zeaarux adds microdrive support soon!
    jonesypeter jonesypeter September 2017 Emulators
  • Any emulator with divIDE IDE mode only ?Hi, Is there any emulator that supports divIDE in IDE mode only ( no divIDE ROM paging ) ? All seem to always enable divIDE ROM when divIDE interf…

    ... like a enabled DivIDE (ROM protected, NMI active, starts on USR0 ... checkmark disabled allow you to write to use an hfe file ... and check DivIDE. Leave DivIDE write protect unchecked (checked means normal ...
    Zup Zup October 2017 Emulators
  • SpecEmu startet with or without Adminrights uses different INI-File - Sugg.: INI File in SpecEmu-DirHi, when I start SpecEmu "as Administrator" or not "as Administrator" uses different SpecEmuWindow.ini-File in different locations: C:\Windows\Sp…

    ... is "fixed" not to write to protected locations without being properly manifested ... without full administrator rights to write to that location. It will ... or above) or redirect the write to the VirtualStore location (as ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2018 Emulators
  • SpecEmu startet with or without Adminrights uses different INI-File - Sugg.: INI File in SpecEmu-DirHi, when I start SpecEmu "as Administrator" or not "as Administrator" uses different SpecEmuWindow.ini-File in different locations: C:\Windows\Sp…

    ... is "fixed" not to write to protected locations without being properly manifested ... without full administrator rights to write to that location. It will ... or above) or redirect the write to the VirtualStore location (as ...
    Luzie Luzie March 2018 Emulators
  • Backing up games on 3-inch disketteHi everyone, I recently acquired a copy of Outrun on 3-inch disk, which means I can now play one of favourite games (no criticism of my taste, ple…

    Outrun is copy protected with Speedlock +3 1988 so ... Controller and using samdisk to write the DSK back to a ...
    BarryB BarryB May 2018 Games
  • If you had four roms...Just wondering if you were designing a Spectrum from scratch, and you used a 27512 EPROM, which would hold about 4 spectrum roms, what you would inst…

    ... the day looking into the Microdrive, and it looks like it ... the SD version of a microdrive and can verify this? From ... be very quick to read/write with an access time to ... on all of the virtual microdrive cartriges and the speed is ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk February 2021 Hardware
  • If you had four roms...Just wondering if you were designing a Spectrum from scratch, and you used a 27512 EPROM, which would hold about 4 spectrum roms, what you would inst…

    ... know if anyone made a microdrive-based CP/M but it ... to 512K, and then just write the disk handling routines. Well ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk February 2021 Hardware
  • Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …

    ... sense, I only need to write some known data to the ... knowledge to figure out a microdrive protocol without even breaking a ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk February 2021 Hardware
  • Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …

    ... from mapping sectors for write operations, read operations use ... maintaining compatability with the standard microdrive software ( aside from the ... the tables when performing a write, by reading sectors, ... IDs are only used for Write/Erase/Channel operations.
    cj7hawk cj7hawk March 2021 Hardware
  • Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …

    ... s one heck of a microdrive cartridge... Big enough for several ... must be found. Generally, the write operation will ensure this happens ... was being targetted by a write command.

    Two ... first ID that received the write command. This would reduce the ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk March 2021 Hardware
  • Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …

    ... allows writing, including default write operation when the cartridge is ... empty sectors.... BUT, when you write....

    It ... microdrive.

    This works well, because CAT and Write ... ( in which case, write the first record straight after ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk March 2021 Hardware
  • Strange Microdrive format.Hi all, I got a new (old?) cartridge today and it's called "ArchBak" and just ran forever in my Spectrum when I did a CAT. However when I looked d…

    ... for the microdrive at least. It doesn't even write to the ... a normal read through the microdrive didn't just loop forever ... . You would also need to write code since the format itself ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk April 2021 Hardware
  • Strange Microdrive format.Hi all, I got a new (old?) cartridge today and it's called "ArchBak" and just ran forever in my Spectrum when I did a CAT. However when I looked d…

    ... connects via GPIOs to the Microdrive port and via USB to ... ). So you can use all Microdrive commands exactly as you would ... could revert after an accidental write.

    Regards,
    Alex
    xelalex xelalex April 2021 Hardware
  • Questions about microdrivesHi! Bought an Interface 1 and two microdrives along with around 10 microdrive cartridges. Installed (great but very expensive) vdrive zx into one …

    ... new rubber rollers in the microdrive, but only one of my ... in a good way to write to the cartridge.

    cj7hawk cj7hawk May 2021 Hardware
  • Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …

    ... test it. I'll write up a superformat and ... it is to rebuild the write routines, so sectorIDs 204 ... but would tell the microdrive controller to change directory.
    write up a better spec, ... works, then the ZX Microdrive format has been cracked ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk June 2021 Hardware
  • OqtaDrive - Microdrive emulator for Spectrum & QLQuite a while ago I reported about my [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55983/yet-another-microdrive-emulator#latest"]first prototy…

    ... on MacOS. Everything worked except write operations. Blocks sent from the ... can fit this into a Microdrive case. [/quote]

    Nice ...
    xelalex xelalex June 2021 Hardware
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