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  • How to transfer spectrum roms to 3.5 floppy diskI have just bought a 3.5 floppy drive and ribbon cable to replace the floppy on my spectrum +3. How do I put games onto the floppy drive? Can I use w…

    ... CPCDiskXP software, a PC with a 3.5'' floppy drive and you're ... driver to the PC in order to make the floppy drive compatible ... with the CPC and +3 disk format ... image, write it on the floppy and you're done.
    gtsamour gtsamour November 2011 Hardware
  • New old stock - help needed!Hi! I thought I'd introduce myself with this modest set of games I recently acquired. I was hoping that you could help me out and let me know if ther…

    ... out to be a +3. How are you with ... membrane fitted.

    +3 has built in sinclair joystick ... Apart from being bulky +3 PSUs are not known for ... an old PC PSU would probably be better. The Floppy drive ... doesn't work in my +3 either, ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 November 2011 Games
  • What spectrum?I am going to have a gent send me some Spectrum hardware in the future. Me being a american and knowing nothing of the sort, what would be the best o…

    ... br />
    The +3 and Black +2 machines have ... is to modify a PC power supply by adding ... into these machines from a PC soundcard for example.
    ... :
    Only the +3 has a floppy controller, and it has ... an internal 180k 3" ...
    guesser guesser December 2011 Hardware
  • A little bit of help.Good Evening, I am new to the ZX Spectrum so please do not grill me! I recently picked one up (being interested in Vintage/Retro Video Gaming) I ha…

    ... in? The old 3.5 floppy system on a PC was notorious for ...
    Turkwel Turkwel January 2012 Hardware
  • A little bit of help.Good Evening, I am new to the ZX Spectrum so please do not grill me! I recently picked one up (being interested in Vintage/Retro Video Gaming) I ha…

    ... in? The old 3.5 floppy system on a PC was notorious for ...
    tag274 tag274 January 2012 Hardware
  • Transferring +3 Disk Image from PC to real +3Is there a way to do this without physically connecting the +3 disk drive to the PC? Something like a Speccy version of the "Xfer in C" utility for…

    ... fold after getting myself a +3 this Xmas.
    Only ... games across from the pc to a real +3.

    ... CPC and have a 3.5 pc drive connected to it ... /> This will do Amstrad and +3 disks - however I've only ... can use a USB floppy drive on the pc to write the ...
    PitfallJones PitfallJones January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Where to find (black) external 3.5" floppy drivesI'm searching like a maniac, but I can't seem to find 3.5" external drives of external drive enclosures anywhere. What I need: some single or dual e…

    ... need for a good looking floppy solution, so maybe I will ... modify a modern 1.44MB 3.5" PC drive to let it ...
    bverstee bverstee January 2012 Hardware
  • Release of the Sinclair QL Games Collection 1Thanks to work by Daniele Terdina and Jiri Dolezal, we have now released the Sinclair QL Games Collection 1. This is a set of 10 commercial games fo…

    ... may release this pack on 3.5" disk for the QL ... not transfer them from the PC.

    If you have ... which can read QL formatted floppy disks, so is ideal for ...
    rwap rwap March 2012 Sales
  • Old GamesHi, Whilst clearing out my old junk, I've found a completed adventure game I wrote, but it is on a tape. I also have a disc with what I think conta…

    ... my Guild of Thieves +3 disc on there, but ... one wanted The Illustrator II +3 disc (anyone want it)? ... even have an old +3 spectrum up there some where ... />
    To transfer +3 disk to PC you need one of ... modified to work with a PC floppy adapter, and the utility ...
    TomD TomD April 2012 Games
  • Old GamesHi, Whilst clearing out my old junk, I've found a completed adventure game I wrote, but it is on a tape. I also have a disc with what I think conta…

    ... =TomD;618417]To transfer +3 disk to PC you need one of ... modified to work with a PC floppy adapter, and the utility samdisk ... grab the Artist 2 +3 disk if it is still ... option is having a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive as ... copier to copy from 3 inch to 3.5 inch, and ...
    Zup Zup April 2012 Games
  • Old GamesHi, Whilst clearing out my old junk, I've found a completed adventure game I wrote, but it is on a tape. I also have a disc with what I think conta…

    [QUOTE=TomD;618417]To transfer +3 disk to PC you need one of ... modified to work with a PC floppy adapter, and the utility samdisk ... also grab the Artist 2 +3 disk if it is still ... [/QUOTE]

    Well, as +3 machines can't seem to ...
    steveinuk steveinuk April 2012 Games
  • Old GamesHi, Whilst clearing out my old junk, I've found a completed adventure game I wrote, but it is on a tape. I also have a disc with what I think conta…

    [QUOTE=TomD;618417]To transfer +3 disk to PC you need one of ... modified to work with a PC floppy adapter, and the utility samdisk ... also grab the Artist 2 +3 disk if it is still ...
    steveinuk steveinuk April 2012 Games
  • New dual floppy disk drives sets offered on eBayI just offered my new dual floppy sets on eBay: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180850230689[/url] Included is the dual fl…

    ... drive to work with a +3 machine (either as Drive B ... know how to connect a PC floppy drive.
    I'll get ...
    bverstee bverstee April 2012 Sales
  • Amiga / Spectrum & Floppy to SD ConverterI'm 34 years old and grew up like many of you on the C20, Spectrums and Amigas. I'm looking at revisiting my childhood memorys and purchasing one of …

    ... also sell the HxC SD Floppy Drive emulator - see
    [url ... /> You do need a standard floppy disk interface to connect it ... power supply) - the PlusD and +3 (built in) disk interfaces are ... you have a PC with a built in floppy disk drive (or ...
    rwap rwap May 2012 Wanted
  • no floppy in PC(a bit offtopic, sorry..) I noticed that most newer motherboards lack floppy drive connector. most will simply buy USB floppy, but I presume that can…

    ... in a USB floppy unit with a 3" drive, the ... protocol used for USB floppy ... drives would limit you to standard 9-sector +3 ... format only.

    My main PC no longer has a floppy ... towards low-level USB floppy boards like KryoFlux ...
    obo obo May 2012 Hardware
  • Transferring to +3 disks again - sorryHope some nice person will lend me a hand... I have a +3 and a divide, blanks disks, speccytape to load from the iPad and everything works great, ho…

    ... . You run it on the PC and then you're faced ... can do this on a +3, or there are tools to ... it on PCs, if the +3 and the PC have compatible floppy drives.
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2012 Hardware
  • Transferring to +3 disks again - sorryHope some nice person will lend me a hand... I have a +3 and a divide, blanks disks, speccytape to load from the iPad and everything works great, ho…

    ... to load z80 snapshots from floppy disk. This is more useful ... if you have a 3.5" external drive connected as ... makes getting files from the PC onto disk so much easier ...
    guesser guesser May 2012 Hardware
  • All going well with the 3.5" driveFolks, all going well thanks to you lot on here... I now have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy and can write .dsk images using samdisk - all very e…

    ... /> 2. Using an ordinary floppy drive connected all up - ... Left switch turns internal 3" drive on and off ... the external 3.5" drive.

    3. Buy ... 3.5" disks

    4. Use a PC with an INTERNAL floppy ... 7. Turn off internal 3" drive on speccy using left ...
    bigredjennings bigredjennings July 2012 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum +3 with 3.5" internal drive for saleI have a modified Spectrum +3 128k with a 3.5" disk drive built in if anyone is interested. The distorted sound problem inherint in the +3 has also b…

    ... :
    Amiga 1200 with external floppy and CD, and multisync monitor ... )
    SNES
    GAMECUBE
    3 XBOX 360's
    PLAYSTATION ... & 2
    2 DOS PC's
    2 XP-WIN98 ... PC
    2 WINDOWS 7 PC's
    and ...
    Spectroid Spectroid September 2012 Sales
  • Adding TAP loading to the +3e ROMHello my fellow WoSers I have decided that I want to make my project official so I can share its development with you all as well as get some help i…

    ... some memory pages (initially, 1,3,4 and 6, if my ... hadn't a 3'' disk drive connected to my PC to use ... , but not in a standard +3 computer, which is not what ... to be loaded from a floppy disk.
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2012 Development
  • Amstrad FD1 and Spectrum 48/128Just throwing an idea out there thats probably impossible but could there ever be a way of connecting the two? You can with a +3 but what about the …

    ... was a very rare external 3" drive with almost no documentation ... directly to a floppy disk controller on a PC, as a 5 ... for the purpose of preserving 3" disks. I was told ... 's why you need the +3. :) The +2A and +2B ... can be converted into a +3, but that's a ...
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2012 Hardware
  • All going well with the 3.5" driveFolks, all going well thanks to you lot on here... I now have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy and can write .dsk images using samdisk - all very e…

    ... for the +3 edge connector and for pc floppy are reversed!
    Pin 1 on +3 edge ( ... and is pin 34 on pc floppy pinout. So, i reversed ... Now the led on the 3.5 drives goes off when ... +3 is turned on. Good ...
    ArtemKuchin ArtemKuchin November 2012 Hardware
  • Disciple troubleAnother day, another problem. While waiting for my 16-to48K upgrade chips to arrive, I tried to bring my Disciple back to life, which I just bought a…

    ... need a desktop PC with a built-in floppy drive (USB drives ... a 48K snapshot from System 3 DISCiPLE or a +D will ...
    Jmk Jmk November 2012 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …

    ... only other common problem with floppy drives is head calibration; it ... /> I'd try it with 3" drive on PC.
    orange orange December 2012 Hardware
  • Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …

    ... ]

    Those floppy disks must have something that ... has a 3.5" 720KB built-in floppy drive which ... you could use with readily available 1.44MB PC ... the contents of a floppy, and load and save ... I have a +3, but the floppy drive doesn't like ...
    Uplink Uplink December 2012 Hardware
  • Internal modern 1.44MB 3.5 drive for +3Hello! this [url]http://www.secarica.ro/html/plus3_hardware.html#3and5inchdrive[/url] says that modern 1.44MB 3.5 driver are unusable as interval …

    ... models of drive etc. Any PC floppy drive should work fine if ... in a 720K driver for +3. I don't know about ... myself formated disks in external 3.5" with simple "format b ...
    guesser guesser December 2012 Hardware
  • How many users of +D is here ?I need to know if +D is frequently used devices. If any +D user is here, inform me in this thread.

    ... 'm also after a Desktop PC for Gaming) - and even if ... way to buy and format 3.5" floppy discs/disks/however the ...
    Swevicus Swevicus February 2013 Hardware
  • DivIDE PlusWould like a DivIDE Plus interface (with CF card if possible, providing the card works). Why? I'm sick of loading games for my Speccy from tapes (in …

    ... the image files to the floppy diskettes... [/QUOTE]

    Was ... - non USB - FDD at the PC).

    /Edit: I think ... .kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=576"]KryoFlux write ...
    Mad Fritz Mad Fritz February 2013 Wanted
  • Will disc drive this work for a +2B?Morning all, I was looking around ebay and saw this, the desprition says it will fit a +3 but also mentions a 34 pin edge connector. My +2B has two e…

    ... the FDD controller on the +3 that isn't on the ... use on my cpc and +3 and it works great
    PC with a proper floppy drive controller not ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN February 2013 Hardware
  • Floppy disk drive emulatorI've been looking at FDD emulators (thinking of acquiring one in lieu of an actual FDD for when I get my Plus D). I just can't decide which one to ge…

    ... USB/SD floppy drive emulators only support "standard" PC disk formats ... It only suports 3.5 and 5.25 floppy formats (and even ... connect that to a +3 is a worse option. ... They've got 3 inch 180k floppies, and ... if you connect a 3.5 inch floppy (and use 720k ...
    Zup Zup February 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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