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ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... )data is; I haven't read about it before.
read, it only contains some videodata ... file, it only gets first sector of file and then issue ... -
ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... time that the routine will read them) so it's just ... on that assumption: keeping 'current sector' in a counter that simply ... between frames, and sending a 'read multiple sectors' command at the ... inner loop mid-frame to read more data.
If ... -
IND/INDR/INI/INIR/OUTD/OTDR/OUTI/OTIRI'm looking for confirmation that the official Z80 User Guide from Zilog is wrong and that these composite instructions actually change the value of …
+3DOS couldn't read a disk sector with a pre-decremented B register in INI.
+3DOS couldn't write a disk sector without a pre-decremented B register in OUTI. -
IND/INDR/INI/INIR/OUTD/OTDR/OUTI/OTIRI'm looking for confirmation that the official Z80 User Guide from Zilog is wrong and that these composite instructions actually change the value of …
... ;628194]+3DOS couldn't read a disk sector with a pre-decremented ... couldn't write a disk sector without a pre-decremented B ... -
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…
... limit you to standard 9-sector +3 format only.
read and write. The software is ... -
Problems with my +3Hello everybody :) I, after almost 2 years, am back in spain and I was able to plug my +3 and play. The thing was going quite good until I inserted …
Drive belt symptoms are read/write errors because the disk spins in a different rpm, misaligning sector start and size.
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Problems with my +3Hello everybody :) I, after almost 2 years, am back in spain and I was able to plug my +3 and play. The thing was going quite good until I inserted …
... ;630394]Drive belt symptoms are read/write errors because the disk ... in a different rpm, misaligning sector start and size.
Can ... -
Stress-testing a harddiskI'm suspecting that a couple of my drives are about to fail, as I'm getting some strange behaviour under certain conditions. Can anyone recommend a …
... utility such as SpeedFan to read the S.M.A.R ... manually and the "Uncorrectable Sector Count" and "Reallocated Sector Count" had both ... -
Stress-testing a harddiskI'm suspecting that a couple of my drives are about to fail, as I'm getting some strange behaviour under certain conditions. Can anyone recommend a …
... for viruses, check for errs, read System events for notifications or ... it. Thus, if, say, Reallocated sector count is 150 and the ... -
+3 software disk copyHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am curious to know of any disk utilities that I can run on my +3e to copy Disk data to the Harddisk - specifically t…
... Microhobbys utilities), that can be read using +3 commands. These disks ... . These disks loads via boot sector, and then the game is ... -
Low level microdrive programmingSo I'm on my lunch break trying to find out about low level microdrive programming (without using IF1 ROM). I see one can use port 0xe7 to read and w…
... of tape. I can read/detect it by checking the ... GAP is put before each sector?
4) What ... ?)
8) To read microdrive you -
a) start ... w bit
c) read from port e7 (byte-by ... middle of the gap, will read work correctly?
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DooM on Spectrum 128kHello my fellow WoS'ers My hope is that you can help me, recently I discovered a DooM clone -esque on the Humble spectrum, - here is a [URL="https:/…
... point to a data block read seems to be $3d14 (15636 ... displayed
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A sector would appear to be 256 ... -
redirecting Z80 sub-routine CALLsI'm working on changing a TR-DOS disk program to work from standard +128k tape and thought that rather than painstakingly working through the code ma…
... to determine what sectors are read in where and when and ... the whereabouts of the disk read calls in those code blocks ... to determine the sector numbers & lengths being read, and the destination ... -
redirecting Z80 sub-routine CALLsI'm working on changing a TR-DOS disk program to work from standard +128k tape and thought that rather than painstakingly working through the code ma…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;645193]just to determine the sector numbers & lengths being read, and the destination page & address[/QUOTE]
You arent writing a virus, are you? :-o -
DooM on Spectrum 128kHello my fellow WoS'ers My hope is that you can help me, recently I discovered a DooM clone -esque on the Humble spectrum, - here is a [URL="https:/…
... pages which would normally be read off disk, so I may ... are:
[code]
start sector load address #sectors RAM page ... EXIT door I can just read the blocks off tape at ... -
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…
... ) and the disk can be read on the Spectrum then, but ... after a few seconds with "Sector data lost". What?s wrong ... -
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…
... ) and the disk can be read on the Spectrum then, but ... after a few seconds with "Sector data lost". What?s wrong ... problems, try using SAMdisk to read the written disk back on ... -
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 …
... Microsoft formatting tools tried to read existing parameters from the disk ... if it couldn't read the boot sector (the /u option, or ... -
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 …
... , +3 BASIC tries to read the boot sector. If it fails with ... formats the disc. If a read succeeds, then +3 BASIC asks ... before formatting. But if the read fails with another error such ... -
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 …
... , +3 BASIC tries to read the boot sector. If it fails with ... formats the disc. If a read succeeds, then +3 BASIC asks ... before formatting. But if the read fails with another error such ... -
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 …
... , +3 BASIC tries to read the boot sector. If it fails with ... formats the disc. If a read succeeds, then +3 BASIC asks ... before formatting. But if the read fails with another error such ... -
Dead +3 drive. Help needed.While i am waiting for a TV master to find his demagnetizing loop to demagnetize my disks i decided to fix my third +3 drive today. I changed the b…
... started to read something but went wrong on track 2 sector 1 ... -
Odd files on disk games (Op.Wolf, Typhoon, etc.)I've noticed on some disk games which I've been looking at recently that the loading sequence starts by loading two 512 byte files and comparing them…
... 0 sector 2 returns different data each time it's read. The ... protection reads the that sector up to ... the last byte in the sector data between reads, which is ... 3 samples of the changing sector data, so supporting emulators (such ... -
Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…
... call into the ROM to read the keyboard or access the ... data than the PCW boot sector can handle, then it's ... -
The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... one single binary, or to read the DISCiPLE ROM without an ... code. It also contains the sector buffer (which might be left ... map, whole-disk sector address map and individual sector buffer) are held ... -
The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... , then consider low level Read-Write-Sector routines as part of a ... -
The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... able to produce utilities to read disks from other systems. There ... SAM but use 1024-byte sector-pairs for high density disks ...
