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  • Rapid loaderDon't know if anyone particularly cares any more but the loading system used by Travel with Trashman and Zombie Zombie was called "Rapid".

    Remember those strange loaders Elite used on games like Paperboy and Ikari warriors? I think it was called Speedlock or Speedsoft? I can't remember. Also remember that Ocean loader on games such as Daley Thomson that used to echo? Why was that?
    zx1 zx1 December 2005 Games
  • Rapid loaderDon't know if anyone particularly cares any more but the loading system used by Travel with Trashman and Zombie Zombie was called "Rapid".

    ... 't remember. Also remember that Ocean loader on games such as Daley ...
    mulder mulder December 2005 Games
  • 30 game plug in and play direct to tv thingieif there was one avalible for the spectrum (mabie there is?), what would your 30 games be ? remember they have to be used with a 4 button joystick (…

    ... Ultimate games, 3D Deathchase, Saboteur, Turbo Esprit, Ant Attack, Exolon, Lords ... Encounter and TLL, probably), an Ocean movie license and probably Dan ...
    Ashley Pomeroy Ashley Pomeroy January 2006 Games
  • Converted tzx looks differentI finally decided to have a go at converting some of my old tapes to tzx incase i find any mias later on. I converted the game Speed King 2 by master…

    ... has been stored as a Turbo Speed Data block (ID.11 ... ) and force to a ROM loader (-ln) which should force all ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker January 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Alkatraz questionsAnyone know: 1] Before the turbo data block every Alkatraz game does this a few times: ((Out to 3F,Out to 7F) x2) In from 9F What is it doing? 2]…

    ... :

    1] Before the turbo data block every Alkatraz game ... other words, given the first turbo block can the screen be ... same sort of fancy screen loader thing but without encryption)
    turbo block but it'd be ...
    JonNorth JonNorth February 2006 Emulators
  • MakeTzx questionHi! I've been recently making tzx of some Polish Spectrum tapes. I don't have any experience with MakeTzx program, so I just used GUI and followed tu…

    ... more specific about the particular loader that MakeTZX doesn't like ... first 3-4 seconds of turbo data.

    Cheers,
    Luca Luca April 2006 Emulators
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... . This later became the Search loader (Deflektor, Costa Capers) etc ... that by copying the ROM loader and patching it. Incidentally, ... loading the same block (starts turbo, then drops to normal, back ... it gets to loading the turbo block.

    Amfoot - ...
    JonNorth JonNorth May 2006 Games
  • There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…

    ... the name, a couple from Ocean are also very good which ... never have really tried before. Turbo the Tortoise is another favourite ...
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2006 Games
  • Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…

    ... /> Frankie goes to hollywood - ocean
    Galvan - imagine
    Hunchback 2 - ocean
    Incredible shrinking fireman - ... and ghosts, lotus esprit turbo challenge)
    Computer ... cassette pack with cardboard outer - ocean
    Horizons - Psion ...
    mel the bell mel the bell October 2006 Games
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... Flash ROM block and fastload turbo blocks ? It is possible to ... out that General Statistics has turbo blocks ($11) at around 115 ... 's really just a ROM loader. Spin fails to load it ... with Edge Loader, but loads it almost instantly ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2006 Emulators
  • Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…

    ... just hack the Hewson loader, made a loader with 4 colour counter ... can make the loading routine turbo x2 speed.
    FrankT FrankT November 2006 Development
  • What are your favorite Spectrum games?[FONT="System"][/FONT] If anybody has asked this question before, please forgive me as I'm new to the WorldofSpectrum forums, but what are your favo…

    ... ,

    Most of the Ocean film tie ins were cool ... and combat moves).

    Turbo Esprit, never completed but i ...
    Jabbitt Jabbitt December 2006 Games
  • TZX revision 1.20 finalSince everybody seems to agree with the last propositions, the specification for the TZX file format revision 1.20 now becomes final and you can find…

    ... ; do any back-to-front turbo loaders really exist in the ... one day by an anomalous loader" is understandable, although I don ...
    gasman gasman January 2007 Emulators
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    ... favourite loaders would be the Ocean Freeloaders (on teh C64) which ... loaded. (Firebird used a simular loader on CPC games)
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 March 2007 Games
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    ... favourite loaders would be the Ocean Freeloaders (on teh C64) which ... loaded. (Firebird used a simular loader on CPC games)[/QUOTE]
    loader that played music while loading ...
    icabod icabod March 2007 Games
  • divIDE ProductionJust to let everyone know that we have made further progress with the updated divIDE. Board design has been completed and changes have been made to …

    ... files which use the standard loader, as it would be nigh ... . One exception will be that turbo-load blocks will be made ... for LOADing using the standard loader (or for extraction to disk ... be able to load a turbo-loaded game without some modification ...
    glancaster glancaster April 2007 Announcements
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... (so you could copy the turbo saved programs too), to ignore ... the same as normal ROM loader but you will see how ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat April 2007 Games
  • TAP to WAV in TURBO?Hi. Some time ago I found a really good program converting *.z80 files to WAVs, with very strong TURBO mode. (The turbo works only from CD audio bu…

    ... to convert TAP files to turbo... not automatically, anyway. To do ... understand and rewrite the original loader (which is a rather complicated ...
    gasman gasman April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…

    ... else. It is basically the loader Patrik suggested that can't ... be encoded using a normal turbo block? As I see it ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2007 Emulators
  • Transfer to tape from PCHi all, A few years ago I had a program on the Amiga that would take a Spectrum game and save it out via the serial port to a cassette tape player. T…

    ... SNA file is now a turbo loading TZX! It's very ... memory, where go the tape loader machine code program ?

    Gods Gods June 2007 Hardware
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ...

    Companies such as Ocean , Ultimate , Durrell , Hewson , Gargoyle Games ... the Speccy
    Compare Thanatos , Turbo Esprit , Cobra - in fact don ... Enduro Racer for the Speccy , Ocean created Rainbow Islands , Untouchables & ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley August 2007 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    Uploaded screen for "Turbo Tape 5".

    From ... again, but with a custom loader that can load them up ... times faster than the standard loader.

    I don't ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... c embedded in the inital loader program, and the main ... /c CODE block. The loader gives "Nonsense in BASIC". ... roll in the archive has turbo data on the tape, ... used by the standard loader (since the tuner is ... SAVE routine, rather than turbo data, then this tuner ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... modified Rock 'n' Roll loader that allows for customised ... in the archive has turbo data on the tape, ... used by the standard loader (since the tuner is ... SAVE routine, rather than turbo data, then this tuner ... also have the custom loader program now working too. ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... to WOS. It's called 'Turbo Maker', and should hopefully appear ... in order to put a loader together, then spend some time ... 's my TZX, make a turbo version of it' project for ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... ]Lee, can we use the loader code in our basic programs ... ? is loader code relocatable ? can we put ... from scratch with your BASIC loader using the "turboBASIC.szx" snapshot ... an example of how to turbo load/save from BASIC with ...
    Woody Woody December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... =aowen;232792]Is this the loader used on your snapshot to ... page to my site for Turbo Maker while we await a ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • multiloadersWhich were the worst games for disruptive multiloaders? These games came on the scene after I had stuck my Speccy in the loft, so I missed them. I …

    ... in one go (plenty of Ocean stuff: Op Wolf / Thunderbolt, Batman ... more time loading than playing. Turbo Out Run, Galaxy Force, Street ...
    michaelf michaelf January 2008 Games
  • Top 3 Computer Tunes Of All TimeCan be any format, from any era, but preferably from the time when the computer actually made the music, rather than playing an MP3 or WAV file in th…

    ... and one more for luck.. Ocean Loader tune, I believe it's ...
    Fizza Fizza March 2008 Games
  • Speccy sound on tv show - againRemember the spectrum loading noise in two CSI shows? Well, fuzzix on c.s.s. has found what seems to be another clip of Speccy goodness: [url]http:/…

    ... your getting at but no loader could ever simply load in ... matter how small. Even the turbo loaders that pop up the ...
    ZX-MAD ZX-MAD March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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