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Multiface +3 AdviceHi, New to the forum after resurrecting my +3 and looking for a bit of advice on the Multiface 3 please. Quite simply is it worth investing in for…
... PC computer.
First of all - purchase external 3.5 inch floppy ... /itm/AMSTRAD-SPECTRUM-3-COMPLETE-KIT-3-5-DISK-DRIVE ... will need PC computer old enough to have floppy controller on ... build-in floppy controler, not USB connected floppy drive) and ... -
So who's re-set up their Spectrum recently?I put my Spectrum away around 1992. I had it out still when I was using my Amiga but by the time I'd progressed on to a PC and a SNES the Spectrum wa…
... setup with a Multiface 3, external 3.5' disk drive and cassette ... it on my old PC that has a floppy drive so now ... -
Getting a few errors in CPCDiskXPHello, I found some pretty cool compilations someone did (13 or so). They added about 14 games in one .DSK file per compilation. I gues I'll start o…
... with individual files on the PC. Hopefully someone else can advise ... a game/file from a floppy by pressing the Loader option ... on the +3 menu?[/quote]
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Games Club - May 2013Phantomasa - Computer Emuzone Darius+ - The Edge [MOD] Maria on Tour - BaSe1 PrOdUcTiOnZ yeah that's right, totally random this month. pffff…
... going, and I made all 3 of those games with no ... , and I used a friends PC to upload those games to ... JSW yahoo group from a floppy I'd saved them to ... 'd sit infront of the PC til' 6 in the morning ... -
Spectaculator 8 vs REAL diskDoes Spectaculator 8 support real floppy drives? I want to use an external USB floppy drive to read/write +D and +3 floppy disks. I have Windows 7…
... /write/format real Plus D floppy disks (+3 disks aren't supported ... , you do need a real floppy disk controller on your motherboard ... transferring software.
Once PC manufacturers started removing FDCs from ... -
Spectaculator 8 vs REAL diskDoes Spectaculator 8 support real floppy drives? I want to use an external USB floppy drive to read/write +D and +3 floppy disks. I have Windows 7…
... need to say that usb floppy drive usually did not ... support formats other than PC. So, there may be ... sure about +D and +3, but TR-DOS uses 256 ... with usb floppy drive.
You need normal PC FDD ... is may be needed because PC controller may skip some ... -
External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…
... to convert as such, +3 DOS will read anything it ... but once they are formatted, +3 DOS will read and write ... t just use any old floppy drive although I suppose ... to convert a 1.4Mb PC floppy drive into a 720K ... one
Q5: Pc drive - see above
External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…
... than internal drives... most 3 inch disks are damaged ... slow-down faster than 3 inch drives. Some protections ... standard floppy drive could be connected to a +3, but ... I suggest you to use a new floppy ... drive. If your PC has a floppy controller, ...Spectaculator 8 vs REAL diskDoes Spectaculator 8 support real floppy drives? I want to use an external USB floppy drive to read/write +D and +3 floppy disks. I have Windows 7…
... need to say that usb floppy drive usually did not ... sure about +D and +3, but TR-DOS uses 256 ... with usb floppy drive.
You need normal PC FDD ... is may be needed because PC controller may skip some ... to buy a floppy controller board for the PC at all ...External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…
... better than internal drives... most 3 inch disks are damaged now ... do that. Format the floppy disk in a 3.5" drive to ... . Any standard floppy drive could be connected to a +3, but I ... use a new floppy drive. If your PC has a floppy controller, you ...External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…
... with a mixture of floppy drives (from Pentium era ... that. Format the floppy disk in a 3.5" drive to ... read and write the floppy without problems, so long ... the drive itself. Modern PC drives have no drive select ... I'm using an old floppy cable, that support TWO ...External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…
I had used standard PC floppy drive as external. there are ... .net/hardware-mods/30944-modifying-pc-floppy-drives-amiga-use.html[/url ... , but it requires modification to +3 board.External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…
... , CPC-664, Spectrum +2Α, +2Β, +3
You can copy ... PC using the amstrad disk software (it uses a low level floppy ... driver) and tha disk is directly readable on the +3.Machine code/Assembly language back in the dayHello. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn't learn Z-80 machine code, but I was always curious about it. Just recently I decided to explore Z-…
... /> The bigger software companies used PC's with specially developed software ... />
I had a Model 3 with a hard drive. It ... was a ?3,000 piece of kit. so ... dual 180K 5 1/4" floppy drives meant I could redeploy ...Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
Getting aquainted with the Interface1bis. (3)
Need an USB ... hard disk C. When a floppy drive is present then CAT ... USB floppy drive behaves. After connecting the poor orphan, the PC starts ... the PC. This was a normal delay thing in the floppy days ...+3 in my handsAfter so many attempts, I managed to buy a +3 in good working order and almost mint condition. I have yet to check floppy drive, but I hope that he i…
... external 3.5-inch floppy first and convert dsk images from pc to +3 ... exercise and learning on my +3.
Maybe I'll find ... interested, which is the best +3 copy progam (disc to disc ...Downloading code to physical hardwareHi folks, Back in the day, my devkit was a TRS-80 and I had a simple connector device from the TRS-80 parallel (printer) port to the expansion bus o…
... 48k + two 5 1/4" floppy drives (180k per side of ... large as a small modern PC) ?1,200
But ... :)
Total system cost ?3,400 for a black and ...Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…
... 750754]Are the real +3 3" disks capable of supporting this ... a track in a floppy disk has a fixed ... from dsk to a real floppy will keep that interleaving. ... tracks (80 in a 3.5 inch floppy).
b) Even ... used the same tricks on PC systems. I remember using ...Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... it slightly, then replace the floppy cable... but it works fine ... connect an FD1 to a PC to write disk images back ... for connecting a 3.5" floppy drive to the +3's external drive ... the details for the correct floppy cable (or look on eBay ...Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... it slightly, then replace the floppy cable... but it works ... connect an FD1 to a PC to write disk images ... for connecting a 3.5" floppy drive to the +3's external drive ... the details for the correct floppy cable (or look on ... FD-1 to an old pc to read/write disk ...Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... 1 drive to the +3 I should only need to ... on the back of the +3 ?
I ... be used by the +3 as well as the Amstrads ... the drive with the +3? The one that sends ... the drive to my PC not to fry the ... Is it just a standard pc floppy drive cable that I will ...Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... on the back of the +3 ?
I ... the drive with the +3? The one that sends ... Is it just a standard pc floppy drive cable that I will ... left disconnected on the +3 motherboard so it should Just ... special care with the +3 because Amstrad got the pinout ...Z80 onto floppy diskGoing to install a 720k disk drive onto my +3 and I was wondering is there any program out there that I could use to read snapshots from floppy disks…
... . Both of them runs on PC and use fdrawcmd.sys, so ... a real FDC and floppy (=not a USB floppy!).
AFAIK ... that could use the +3 internal disk floppy to transfer images. I ... loader that may work in +3. The downside is that you ...Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... -1 drive externally to the +3? I have the drive connected ... pc now (with the cable unplugged that sends power down the floppy ... into the back of the +3. It looks like an interface ... the drive is a standard pc floppy connector.Amstrad FD-1 Disc DrivesA quick question: With the Amstrad FD-1 external disc drives, I've seen DDI-1 interface cards mentioned. Are the DDI-1 interfaces just for the Amstr…
... drive externally to the +3? I have the drive ... into the back of the +3.
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... 5v connected to the floppy cable unless you are ... the drive is a standard pc floppy connector.[/QUOTE]
3 connector is non standard. ...external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…
... been using and old PC floppy connector cable which can ... connected on the Spectrum +3 side in the "opposite ... the cable at the floppy drive should be connected ... through a switch. Spectrum +3 will use only one side ... how to modify the floppy drive is described here:< ...external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…
... one side of the floppy with the +3 BASIC FORMAT command. The ... data from the formatted floppy (only ... on one side) could be read with PC utilities ... at least double sided from +3 BASIC? ... or this feature ...external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…
... one side of the floppy with the +3 BASIC FORMAT command. The ... data from the formatted floppy (only ... on one side) could be read with PC utilities ... at least double sided from +3 BASIC? ... or this feature ...external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…
... to use a 720K floppy disk in +3 BASIC, if it is ... formatted externally (e.g. on PC) to ...external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…
... to use a 720K floppy disk in +3 BASIC, if it is ... formatted externally (e.g. on PC) to ... do the formatting on the +3, just not from BASIC. There ...
