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  • Accessing +3 DOS with DivIDE enabledI'm thinking about making a tool that copies files from a FAT partition to a IDEDOS partition. Currently, I've got two problems: - Getting the ESX…

    ... what RST 8 codes can I use.
    - Accessing +3 DOS with my ... , I can do everything with +3 DOS but I guess I can ... 't use RST 8 to read from the card ... into a USR 0 mode (+3 paging and ports are enabled ... for 48k and not the +3 one.

    Anybody ...
    Zup Zup September 2016 Development
  • 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…

    ... if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James January 2014 Hardware
  • TZX2TAP neededA quick question. Does anybody have a tzx to tap converter program that I can use in batch mode and will take long filenames?. If so can you please…

    ... tzx2tap which takes filename.tzx (dos 8.3) as input. Now make a ... dos directory listing using dir /X *. ... delete all other columns but 8.3 dos filename + header, end and empty ... .cmd and run it from dos prompt. Result => all tzx ...
    Timppa Timppa November 2005 Development
  • TZX2TAP neededA quick question. Does anybody have a tzx to tap converter program that I can use in batch mode and will take long filenames?. If so can you please…

    ... tzx2tap which takes filename.tzx (dos 8.3) as input. Now make a ... dos directory listing using dir /X *. ... delete all other columns but 8.3 dos filename + header, end and empty ... .cmd and run it from dos prompt. Result => all tzx ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall November 2005 Development
  • Win_TZX2TAPI just wrote a small&simple TZX to TAP Converter for conversion of standard blocks. It is dedicated to all DivIDE users who want to do a quick batch …

    ... a TZX2TAP program out there (DOS only), yours far excells as ... DOS4GW, and works only with 8+3 DOS filenames. This was the reason ... program. Another reason to quickly (3 Hours) write it, was that ...
    LCD LCD July 2009 Announcements
  • HelpAfter a hard drive crash, I've manged to rescue a lot of data, but some of the files are now named illegally (illegally as in Windows doesn't like th…

    ... filename in the directory to 8.3 (DOS-compatible) form:
    [QUOTE]for ...
    ajmoss ajmoss July 2009 Chit chat
  • +3 DOS questionHey all, Is it possible to catalogue a +3 disk to a variable somehow from BASIC? I'm looking at extending my Snapshot to Microdrive utility, so it s…

    ... it possible to catalogue a +3 disk to a variable somehow ... Microdrive utility, so it supports +3 disks as well.

    3 manual but the only DOS commands there seem ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay April 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Games Menu v2Hello WoS, Following [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=651506&postcount=234"]JTB's Games Menu v1[/URL], here's one I did w…

    ... on, as on line 3 at the LET l$='_ ... Warrior":".ti /games/j/JUNGLE~3.TAP": LOAD "": DATA "EOL": ... be easier.
    On a DOS prompt, type this: DIR / ... only 2 columns - the 8.3 title with the extension (.TAP ... to rename the titles, so I left them in their 8.3 ...
    XvarZ XvarZ October 2012 Announcements
  • Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…

    ... based games / software to your +3 DOS hard-disk partition. For this ... how to emulate your +3e DOS environment and how handy it ... working we now need to rename files, I find this easy ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 January 2013 Games
  • Varios +3(e)DOS questions?I'm converting tape games to disk, for being used in my +3e. I'm trying to convert them to standard BASIC loaders, so files could be copied using BAS…

    ... can I store in a +3 DOS floppy? And when using +3e ... be a file in +3 DOS and still be COPY-able ... but I'd like that +3 BASIC could COPY them from ... .

    - What about DOS INIT? My loader would launch ... from BASIC, so I guess +3 BASIC has initialized +3DOS. ...
    Zup Zup May 2013 Development
  • How to load a +3 dos file from disk to memory in z80Hi all again, Are there any example z80 code listings (not BASIC) to load a +3 binary dos file from disk to a specific memory destination? Thanks.

    Hi all again,

    Are there any example z80 code listings (not BASIC) to load a +3 binary dos file from disk to a specific memory destination?

    Thanks.
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • DVD-RW questionI've made up a DVD-RW disc with various old VCR clips, but when I come to copy it onto my PC's hard drive as backup, it comes up with a message after…

    Windows is still using 8.3 filenames in "the bottom". If you get a corrupted filename, then you can rename it using DIR /X to find the file's 8.3 name, and hence rename it. So it still has some of ye olde MS-DOS in it.
    Pilsener Pilsener November 2007 Chit chat
  • DVD-RW questionI've made up a DVD-RW disc with various old VCR clips, but when I come to copy it onto my PC's hard drive as backup, it comes up with a message after…

    ... ;227904]Windows is still using 8.3 filenames in "the bottom". ... rename it using DIR /X to find the file's 8.3 ... name, and hence rename it. So it ... still has some of ye olde MS-DOS ... has nothing to do with DOS, it's about disk ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2007 Chit chat
  • TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Centre)Hello, Can anyone explain how TOSEC works? About all I understand after reading up is that it's about cataloguing and that they don't distribute s…

    ... ROM (or tzx) collection, and rename your files to match their ... from DOS emulators and want proper long filenames instead of 8.3 ones ... not related with TOSEC, only rename ROM collections to match their ...
    Zup Zup April 2017 Chit chat
  • My custom debian with some emulators - for everyone to tryHello, I'm posting here my modified debian linux distribution,based on debian 9 & puppy linux. I don't have much time to make it a generic distro s…

    ... /" folder. Do [u]not[/u] rename it.

    zzz_openbox_zx_settings_addon_v001_190806.squashfs ... that SGD is a DOS program so 8.3 filenames/folders will be ...
    firelord firelord August 2019 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum +3 into a Microvitec CUB 452 MonitorSo nearly had this working! Had a lead made up for me that should have worked but the wiring was a bit off, after a bit of messing around and search…

    ... Pinouts below;
    8 pin to 6 pin(CUB ...
    7 - 1
    8 - 3

    CUB Pinouts are ...
    Macc Macc May 2012 Hardware
  • +3 BASIC DOS_DemoI got side-tracked while working on the Op.Wolf conversion and ended up writing this +3 DOS utility which provides most of the disk functions that mi…

    ... and ended up writing this +3 DOS utility which provides most of ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Confused about DOS SET MESSAGEI'm confused about this function and the ALERT routine. I was rewriting a machine code +3DOS loader and I was trying to use this routines to collect …

    ... calling +3DOS from my code (DOS OPEN, DOS READ), +3DOS returns errors ... happens on english +3 (DOS 1.00), spanish ones (DOS 1.01) and ...
    Zup Zup July 2015 Development
  • Long filenames crashing ZX32I've renamed all my TZX files to TOSEC standards using Romcentre. Now, ZX32 crashes whenever I try to load these files with long names, ie Arkanoid…

    ... , Windoze shortens the name to 8.3 standard, otherwise it has lots ... ]. There was a bug in DOS where path names over a ... an extension of the old DOS format, maybe there's a ... system, but a shell for DOS. Or maybe I'm just ...
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket September 2001 Emulators
  • Spectrum Database ProgramsWhat would people recommend to be a decent database program for the emulators? I've been fiddling with SGD but the databases are outdated, and ZX Rai…

    ... , I rename every file I get from WoS: the 8+3 names for ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall January 2004 Emulators
  • New vault updateWell, it's interesting to see how totally underwhelmed most people are about the new update! Or are they still busy downloading everything ;) The on…

    ... renaming all files in traditional DOS 8+3 format, because the first emulators ... , I still use the old 8+3 format most of the times ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu August 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Long filenames.Does anyone know how to get long filenames to be displayed in DOS? Or more specificly long filenames to be displayed in Taper? It's a right pain tryi…

    Forget it. It's not possible. DOS is an ancient dinosaur, only capable of showing 8.3 filenames. Windows 95 introduced long filenames with Joliet.
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Long filenames.Does anyone know how to get long filenames to be displayed in DOS? Or more specificly long filenames to be displayed in Taper? It's a right pain tryi…

    ... and what some people said DOS couldn't possibly do.
    8.3 and the original message was ...
    AndyC AndyC November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I found this stuff I did way back in the DAY!Nosing through my attic I thought it was about time I threw my old pirated Spectrum games out. They didn't have anything on them that I haven't got o…

    ... that case, try using a DOS 8.3 filename instead.

    Also ...
    jpablo jpablo June 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Binary file cutterDoes anybody know of a command-line utility which will extract a section of binary from one file, and save it in another? For example... xxx file1.…

    ... for plain DOS so will only support the old 8.3 filenames, but ...
    StuBruise StuBruise April 2007 Development
  • SCR to SCREENS$Hello, is there a way to convert a .scr file back to a screen$ to load it into an emulator? Thanks!

    ... actually are DOS-based, meaning they only work with 8.3 filenames (hence ...
    icabod icabod August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recent Returnee to the spectrum fold needs hardware adviceHi all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. This is my first post to this forum after I stumbled on this site just a few weeks ago, i only reg…

    ... interface ? allows to format 3,5" disks with up ... games and Demos
    3. IDE interface included ? enables ... included)
    6. BS-DOS (booted from FDD) allows ... disk, disk tape, BS-DOS disk MSDOS or +D ... the internet
    8. BS-DOS runs in 128k Mode ...
    beanz beanz October 2007 Hardware
  • crosassemblerHi, i need crossassembler z80 for windows. 1. compile $0000 - $3fff 2. multiple ORGs could you help me?

    ... .
    After launching the shortcut dos prompt, all you need then ... your filenames in old [I]8.3[/I] format.
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2007 Development
  • Elite +3This is a patched version of ELITE that saves commander data on +3 disks (and +3e hard disks) and of course loads them back. Commander names can only…

    ... to adapt Elite to +3 dos that to me has come ... 1. Yes I agree that 8 symbols in a name of ... uncountable adaptations for TR-DOS there such will not ... reduce simply with 10 to 8, but you even have ... saving and loadings after introduction 8 symbols. In original code ...
    Russian Russian October 2009 Games
  • +3 how to detect if a file exist ?Need help. I am making a generic menu to my compilations over the spectrum +3. Exist some way programatically to detect if some file exists on the d…

    ... for the existence of a +3 disk file. The code ... I've written anything for +3 DOS!)

    The m/ ... course). It uses file number 3 for its test; if that ... lines are the LD B,3 before each ROM call.< ... /> 40 DIM n$(8): DIM s$(3): POKE 23658,8
    50 INPUT ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2010 Sinclair Basic
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