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  • Atic Atac 128k version?Can anyone confirm that the version of atic atac in the 'UPTG : The Complete Works' is in fact 128k compatible? that is can you load it on a spectrum…

    ... OUT command to stop the disk?[/QUOTE]
    Its not ... the plus3dos should stop the disk motor as normal when its finished ... the same problem with the disk motor if you try and snapshot ... +3 dos cannot turn the motor off because the game overwrites 23296 ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Games
  • Du54I've tried using DU54 to write B:game.dsk to A: on +3. But none of the games work, are they all copy protected? On some I got error message "file to…

    ... was written to a 3" disk then there was no problem ... checksum. The fix forces the motor off and updates the system variable ... to do with the drive motor. Though we've not found ... for it, if the drive motor is disabled very briefly then ...
    obo obo April 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Pacmania on +3 diskEven after the game has loaded up, the disk won't stop spinning. Anyone know what's going on?

    ... has loaded and the motor off timer relies on interrupts ...
    1) insert the disk
    2) enter +3 ... basic and type MERGE "disk"
    3) insert " ... /> 4) type ERASE "disk":SAVE "disk" line 10
    < ... for the motor timeout to stop the disk motor before the ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae May 2010 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... !

    Not every game disk can be written on the ... 're limited to turning the motor off, which creates a smear as ...
    obo obo December 2010 Hardware
  • ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …

    ... anything messy like disk image processing. The 720K disk would contain the ... to follow to recreate the disk.

    The only complication ... be limited to switching the motor off, which on heavy 3" drives ...
    obo obo June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…

    ... blockloop
    call MotorOff ; Turn off disk drive motor[/code]


    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…

    ...
    call MotorOff ; Turn off disk drive motor[/code]
    [/code][/QUOTE]
    John Elliott John Elliott February 2014 Development
  • New Game - Pietro Bros [z88dk/Nirvana+][b]PIETRO BROS[/b] Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from th…

    ... /> out (c),a ; +2A/+3 : disk motor off, 48k rom selected, normal paging ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2016 Brand new software
  • The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…

    ... which is responsible for kicking off the loading process. This allows ... /> out (c),a ; +2A/+3 : disk motor off, 48k rom selected, normal paging ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2018 Development
  • The old days and improving the Spectrum experience.I was reminded of this recently, by a thread about Mask... Back in the day, I used to have a DISCiPLE interface and had to make do with snapshots of…

    ... code required to load from disk and voila - the games were ... , so getting them to load off disk made a big difference.
    Jmk Jmk May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…

    ... does its own low-level disk access. And most importantly, it ... paging or loading bootstrap images off disk. It's not a foregone ...
    gasman gasman September 2009 Development
  • OT : Dragon 32 loading probsSomeone here must have one of these and be able to help. Just got a tape player I can use with my Dragon. I tried loading some games by typing CLOA…

    ... typing CLOAD or CLOADM, the motor is activated, so when you ... switch the motor on and off with the commands MOTOR ON and MOTOR OFF. You ...
    Jmk Jmk February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT : Dragon 32 loading probsSomeone here must have one of these and be able to help. Just got a tape player I can use with my Dragon. I tried loading some games by typing CLOA…

    I tried the MOTOR ON and MOTOR OFF the other day but they ...
    John H John H February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... :)

    [quote]
    Real Disk usage (3.5" or even ... to read the MFM stream off disk using a Catweasel controller.
    Jon Needle Jon Needle December 2003 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... /> [quote]
    [quote]
    Real Disk usage (3.5" or even ... to read the MFM stream off disk using a Catweasel controller.
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2003 Emulators
  • Looking for ramsoft MGT +D Software Compilation ArchiveOnce upon a time on the internet there existed a mgt +d archive on the ramsoft website with specially adapted multiload games as disk images etc. I …

    ... do the tape to disk, disk to tape stuff you' ... some multiload games to run off disk. It would take me ...
    [quote]
    The disk images that end .mgt will ... back to a proper disk by using RealSpec, and ... some multiload games working from disk myself, but I've ...
    exobuzz exobuzz December 2005 Games
  • Anyone program on the speccy and still program?I messed around with Spectrum basic in the 80's mainly doing drawings that I created using basic commands. I then learnt Z80 Assembler for a collage …

    ... the assembler to read/write off disk.)

    Now I write ...
    mjwilson mjwilson October 2007 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... player routine just scan all disk sectors for the "magic number ... the file data across consecutive disk sectors, it should be OK ... instructions, if you're streaming off disk), and when you read the ...
    gasman gasman November 2008 Development
  • PS3 slim = ?250!I've dragged my feet over this generation's consoles due to price and the like (Garden and house DIY tasks really do steal time,) but wow! that see…

    ... ?[/QUOTE]

    Playing games off the Xbox 360 HD is ... quieter and quicker than from disk. With Oblivion for example, loading ... drastically reduced. When playing games off disk, the DVD drive makes a ...
    Daren Daren August 2009 Chit chat
  • The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…

    ... to load the next block off the tape - it'll end ... load a raw headerless file off disk, or open a new .tap ...
    gasman gasman September 2009 Development
  • Graphical Amusementsstefano (another z88dk bod) has been working on something interesting: run them with the usual LOAD "" [url]http://stefanob.webs.com/rabbit.tap[/ur…

    ... opportunity for compression. Streaming pictures off disk or ramdisk seems like a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2009 Development
  • Best Spectrum game from 2009Ok, its almost 2010, and we have to decide which was the best game this year :) Miles Mad Mission [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cg…

    ... with Tr-Dos and floppy disk became a standard. They are ... compressed graphics or attributes loaded off disk and replayed on screen like ...
    joefish joefish January 2010 Games
  • Best Spectrum game from 2009Ok, its almost 2010, and we have to decide which was the best game this year :) Miles Mad Mission [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cg…

    ... compressed graphics or attributes loaded off disk and replayed on screen like ...
    Shiru Shiru January 2010 Games
  • machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…

    how would i go about loading the block from off the disk in machine code?

    it was so much easier to get dizzy 2 and 3 running off disk lol
    djgarf djgarf August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is it possible to access the +3 disk drive via m/c in USR0 mode?Is it possible to access the disk drive of the +3 via m/c +3DOS calls when running in USR0 mode? I ask because I'm having an awful lot of trouble ge…

    the motor off is done in the interrupt routine. Perhaps the interrupt is happening after you have restored the stack and before you return :-?
    guesser guesser October 2011 Development
  • LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…

    ... you're loading the source off disk or a ROM cartridge and ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 Development
  • LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…

    ... you're loading the source off disk or a ROM cartridge and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2012 Development
  • How to stop the +3 disk motorHi Folks. I was reading this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32069[/url] and in post #17, Macc mentioned that the…

    ... enabled in the program the motor will start again though.[/QUOTE ... z,l38ac ; move on if motor already off
    ld a,(FRAMES ...
    out (c),a ; switch motor off
    .l38ac ld bc,$7ffd ...
    The_Bert The_Bert June 2012 Sinclair Basic
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