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test my loader?Hello. I was playing around trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised that although I'd found out how to change the border…
... the audio quality of a TZX file is probably much better ... a challenge for the fastest TZX turbo loading of Manic Miner ... be reliably loaded in a real Spectrum (15.345 seconds) ;)
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SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…
... Running Repairs series in Your Spectrum. How I've used ... sectors have been read. On real hardware the whole process takes ... the TZX and then write them out to a real ... data directly from the TZX to create a virtual ... , really sorry to harp on about it, but this ... -
Loading games onto a real Speccy from an iPodA regular on my site recently bought a 48k Speccy and tried to run programs stored on his iPod, but the volume just wasn't enough so he added a modif…
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Loading games onto a real Speccy from an iPodA regular on my site recently bought a 48k Speccy and tried to run programs stored on his iPod, but the volume just wasn't enough so he added a modif…
... use Gasman's tzx decoder to play tzx files directly on your iPod. It ... br />
A complete Spectrum library on the iPod will just take ... load games that are stored on normal speed without any ... have the impression that the tzx decoder is not perfect yet ... -
Mortal KombatI was looking through the archive last night looking for game maps, and I came across Mortal Kombat for the speccy! It's a surprisingly good conversi…
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Spectrum Game CompatibilityHi, At the moment I have a spectrum 48k. I am planning to get a 128k +2, but I have a problem. Will my 48k games work on 128k +2? Because some of the…
... Fairlight 48K *will* work on the 128K, provided you ... a snapshot saved on a 48K Spectrum (or emulator) ... Some games, including some Ultimate: Play the Game ones, will not ... the right thing (based on my experience) in ... haven't used a real Spectrum in a decade or ... -
Games that could do with running faster, without affecting the timer, the music or the controlsRegarding the topic on the emulation forum, what Spectrum games do you think would benefit from a speed boost? Nowadays, most of us play Spectrum gam…
... emulator to speed up based on CPU load so that optimum ... and Cybernoid play just fine when there is little going on, but ... crawl just as it did on a real Spectrum. Speeding up the emulator ... -
Games that could do with running faster, without affecting the timer, the music or the controlsRegarding the topic on the emulation forum, what Spectrum games do you think would benefit from a speed boost? Nowadays, most of us play Spectrum gam…
... the topic on the emulation forum, what Spectrum games do ... most of us play Spectrum games using emulators rather than on real Spectrums, and ... , or whatever of a real Spectrum, and watch the games ... of the host emulator from real Spectrum speed to the maximum ... -
pSpectrumok, know i know this wont interest everyone, or maybe not even any of you! Anyway, the guy who developed the PSP speccy emualtor pSpectrum, has rece…
[QUOTE=brcu]You can still play homebrew on your PSP if you use ... with older firmware and old Spectrum,C64,Snes,Megadrive and Amiga ... 'm still waiting for some real classics to be released. At ... moment there are hardly any real classics, which is probably why ... -
mp3/wav download spectrum gamesI'm new to this board and would like to say hi!.. Just recieved a zx spectrum from ebay today. I used to have tons of tapes many eons ago but they ha…
... , and as long as the TZX file is reliable, so is ... TZX files that work fine on an emulator do not work on a real Spectrum ... it has been discussed here on the forum. I seem to ... -
When did Spectrum games "jump the shark"Sorry to use that hackneyed term, but there's no easier way of putting it. Basically, during the Spectrum's commercial life (roughly 1982-1992) when…
... started to play games in 1988 and from then on right through ... about 25-40% of native Spectrum speed on an 8MHz machine, and ... authentic looking semblence of a Spectrum running on a 16MHz PC that ... I've barely touched a real Spectrum since then, although I see ... -
Games you didn't like after first loading but appreciated them laterYou know the story: new game, first loading, few minutes of playing,"it's crap!". But few days/weeks/months later you load this game again (because y…
... to enjoy it. I still play it, in fact I've ... it across to tape for play on a real Spectrum. -
What should I get??I want to add a Spectrum to my collection but having come from the Atari/Commodore/TI/Apple world, I am a little unsure what to get? Something that …
... games to fit even more on a disc. There were ... going to look for the "real" Spectrum experience, instead of an ... other Spectrums, as it can play 128K software, it has ... that's far easier on the finger than the ... isn't there a page on WOS, on building your own +D ... -
speccy +2A composite videorecently bought a +2a , it works perfect , though can?t get a good picture out of it with the rf output plan to use it on a viewsonic 2010 LCD, th…
... in giving good color ! -only on the palb tvs- :-P
spectrum color :smile:
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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 punters as possible. On the Spectrum, and indeed other ...
Did you ever play it at the higher levels ... what decent non-arcade on-foot vertical scrollers can ... be said that the Spectrum wasn't particularly suited ... - but that its real strength lay in the ... -
Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …
... from various sources. WAV, TAP, TZX, CSW... The list is quite ... 't load properly to a real spectrum. When passing the decryption tones ... (emulator is happy, but genuine Spectrum crashes at this point), and ... just skip it and move on to the next block, although ... -
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
[quote=Vampyre]Bloody hell. All I did was mention that we might be able to play JetPac legitimately!! :-)[/quote]
I can already do that - on my real Spectrum with the original tape. :p
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... that showed the Spectrum was able to play games good enough ... same processor used in the "real" machines, was expandable, had ... for market wants; the spectrum on the other hand was successful ... games couldn't appear on the Spectrum. But there are many ... -
TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…
... worry about RealSpectrum; on PCs we can always use TZX files.
TZX files:
1. ... of which don't support TZX files. Obviously, the support ... br />
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. They're a mite ... miracles with preshifting and UDGs on occasions.[/quote]
I'm ... it though.
[quote]On the whole, whilst hardware sprites ... into a real computer though... I just play a few games on it ... -
Decent Assembler...I'm quite in the mood to learn a bit of Z80... Can anyone recommend an easy to use assembler (that will run on a real Speccy) that's not too complic…
... Zeus if you want to play on a real Spectrum with assembler. I used ... its editor can be little on the quirky side. -
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…
... ]I've got about 50 on emulator. It's a lot ... bed to get to the spectrum tapes which are in a ... just to switch the pc on and play them - it ain't ... !
I'm off to play Paperboy now, anyone wanna watch ... 's curious, I have my real Spectrum+2A working and all of ... -
2 Hot 2 Handle TZX'sRight, here's a question for you preservation guys. Downloaded and tried to play the 2 Hot To Handle compilation. Shadow Warriors won't load on Spe…
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[B]But my TZX now works on Spectaculator 5.3 - the ... /> I use Spectaculator and a real 128K toast rack. I use ... converting games back to my real Spectrum are with the various versions ... TZX files - or files that are known not to work on a real Spectrum ... -
2 Hot 2 Handle TZX'sRight, here's a question for you preservation guys. Downloaded and tried to play the 2 Hot To Handle compilation. Shadow Warriors won't load on Spe…
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2 Hot 2 Handle TZX'sRight, here's a question for you preservation guys. Downloaded and tried to play the 2 Hot To Handle compilation. Shadow Warriors won't load on Spe…
... load that they would work on a real spectrum. I think they should ... , but that an assumption on my ... watch out for. Clever people on this list keep finding more ... emulators and utils render the TZX to WAV/Audio out differently ... -
Sentinel ? :( ?Huh I need help. What do we do in The Sentinel. All I can do is look around and I crosshairs... :( help?
... the CPC version I played on the XBox emulator, not ... index.html[/URL] ). A real pity, as I was really ... many opportunies to play it anyway). The Spectrum version was brilliant ... really bothered with Elite on the ST and can' ... t comment on it (except to say ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... transfer the project to your real computer and finish it ... Vortextracker or doing it on a Spectrum program like Soundtracker. gasman ... machine code routine that will play music while your basic ... of my favourite spectrum games will work on the 2068 without ...
