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Opus Discovery 720K DriveOK, so I bought an Opus Discovery recently. Went through a whole process of fitting a second drive, which I know to be 720K. Eventually got the thin…
... per track, 512 bytes per sector. Now that should give you ... on a single sided 9 sector floppy.
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From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
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As for the education sector of the market, only the ... -
Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…
... if Sam C actually offers sector reading - if not it can ... - BDOS) to load files sector by sector until you get to where ... end showing the next track/sector) - sort of mimicing READ AT ... -
Tranferring a game back to +3 disk?Hi, Haven't been on here for ages, but got my Spectrum down from the loft recently, due to a house move in the next few months. I'd forgotten, but so…
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250Kbps MFM, 1 sector, 8192 bytes:
1:0 ... it has a partially 'weak' sector. The protection expects part of ... -
PlusDHi all, Are there any utilities for manipulating the physical PlusD disks. Other than the Scumari ones which just error out for me? Thanks in advan…
... disks use the same 10-sector format, just with additional file ... -
Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... use. For example, the third sector of the brilliant Dan Dare ... -
Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... it doesn't support multiple sector reads. However, both Fuse (on ... -
NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... ,(5CEB) ;read from track $01, sector $00
LD BC,0905 ... $0109 Read from track $01, sector $09
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NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... of sectors in trdos, one sector = 256 bytes
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Doctor Who - Animated finally gets the green light!!Well, they have been talking about it for years and it's finally happened! A Doctor Who cartoon has been made! it's a single story called 'The Infin…
... the Patrick Troughton story The Invasion were done as animated episodes ... so they could release The Invasion as a complete story on ... -
Doctor Who - Animated finally gets the green light!!Well, they have been talking about it for years and it's finally happened! A Doctor Who cartoon has been made! it's a single story called 'The Infin…
... the Patrick Troughton story The Invasion were done as animated episodes ... so they could release The Invasion as a complete story on ... -
Death Pit by DurellIt WAS completed! How about to release it now? It would be great! [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Death+Pit$&pub=^Durell+S…
... (Jim Pass) we have a sector copyier to reconstruct copy protected ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... from research from the private sector. There was a few secret ... -
Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…
... indeed a brilliant game, that Invasion II or whatever for me ... -
Death Pit PreservationClive Townsend has found his Death Pit tape and cassette inlay.... He also had a microdrive cartridge apparently containing the game... What's the b…
... too, as well as the sector:sector MDR dumps I've currently ... -
I've just had an email from Mr Blairexplaning why I am wrong to oppose the ID cards, he hasn't convinced me. Anybody else had a reply from one of the government market research partiti…
... be changes in the transport sector. Our aim is to relieve ... -
horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
Salamander springs to mind - one of my all-time arcade faves.
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RealX?Just wondering if anybody know anything about it. Ramsoft's page hasn't mentioned it since november 2004 and their e-mail addy doesn't work. This mus…
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RealX?Just wondering if anybody know anything about it. Ramsoft's page hasn't mentioned it since november 2004 and their e-mail addy doesn't work. This mus…
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Yay ITV have seen the light.ITV has axed that gawd awfull phone in shite Play. Probably partly to exscape prosecution from offtel and the like.
... ]because[/i] of the foreign invasion of players and the whining ... -
Hard drive crash - any help?My HD has crashed, the OS is Windows 2000 Server. Right at the start of the boot process it says "Error loading operating system". Running the reco…
... guess is that the boot sector has been corrupted, so the ... superuser) to copy its boot sector over onto the original disk ... -
Hard drive crash - any help?My HD has crashed, the OS is Windows 2000 Server. Right at the start of the boot process it says "Error loading operating system". Running the reco…
... guess is that the boot sector has been corrupted, so the ... superuser) to copy its boot sector over onto the original disk ... as tolerant to FAT/boot sector/etc manipulation but there are ... -
Hard drive crash - any help?My HD has crashed, the OS is Windows 2000 Server. Right at the start of the boot process it says "Error loading operating system". Running the reco…
... and never had a bad sector.
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Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…
.dsk and +3after successfully connecting 3,5" PC FDD as drive B: , i'd like to backup all my 3" disks from A: to B: as .dsk images on ZX+3 (not PC) All of them …
... 'd like to do complete 'sector by sector' copy, not file by ... /> You can't do sector by sector copying as the disk formats ....dsk and +3after successfully connecting 3,5" PC FDD as drive B: , i'd like to backup all my 3" disks from A: to B: as .dsk images on ZX+3 (not PC) All of them …
... 'd like to do complete 'sector by sector' copy, not file by ... format or altering the boot sector so the disc is marked ....dsk and +3after successfully connecting 3,5" PC FDD as drive B: , i'd like to backup all my 3" disks from A: to B: as .dsk images on ZX+3 (not PC) All of them …
thanks to obo I got DU54, but there is small problem, some of my 3" diskettes have a unreadable sector. Unfortunately it seems DU54 cant skip them? they might be unused, and I'd like to retrieve readable rest of diskette.. what to do?.dsk and +3after successfully connecting 3,5" PC FDD as drive B: , i'd like to backup all my 3" disks from A: to B: as .dsk images on ZX+3 (not PC) All of them …
... of it preserving the partial sector and CRC error like it ...Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…
... from the past - such as Invasion II that featured on Sam ...