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  • Moon Cresta tzxI still insist on playing Spectrum games on the original machine (when my 128 feels up to it), so I like playing tzx files through TAPER into the mac…

    ... />
    Indeed it's the turbo version of Powerload 48 rather ... uses normal speed, possibly ROM Loader even ?

    Regards
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker March 2003 Games
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... theres GOT TO BE a loader for these pics SOMEWHERE, pleeeaaase ... (I have a Scorpion 256+ Turbo, but without GMX. It is ...
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…

    ... a problem in implementing TZX loader, and it is very strange ... Tone Length in blocks 11 (Turbo Loading Data Block) and 12 ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2003 Emulators
  • TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…

    ... any Speedlock versions either. The Turbo Data and Pure Tone blocks ... to see what type of loader it is.

    You ...
    Woody Woody April 2003 Emulators
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... Position as the most annoying loader.
    As far as I ... , it used a Sentinel style loader (sorry, I dunno what the ... the data split up in short blocks - but unlike sentinel etc ...
    Neil^P Neil^P July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... Micromega had a bloody annoying loader from what i remember...
    turbo/normal loading blocks...

    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    Now that I think of it, did Codemasters ever use any custom or turbo loaders? I've got a (relatively) huge stash of CM games, all with the standard loader...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... ever use any custom or turbo loaders? I've got a ... games, all with the standard loader...

    [/quote]

    loader. i almost bought it 2 ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... tuneful. Not so much on turbo loaders though with the higher ... stripes!) which was a tuneful loader - though I no longer have ... />
    Incidentally, the most tuneful loader I've ever heard is ... - towards the end of the loader there is what could only ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • Turbo loadersDid turbo loaders actually make a 48k game load significantly faster? Taking into account the time taken to load the code for the turbo loader progra…

    I think most turbo loaders shaved a couple of minutes off loading times.

    With the exception of those horrible Ocean Speed-lock loader thingies, which waited till it had loaded the entire program before crashing.

    Grrrr....
    chaosmongers chaosmongers July 2003 Games
  • TAP or TZXI have several emulators, but none seem to work with TAP files. The games I really want don't have TZX files anywhere onkline. How can I play the TAP…

    ... stores a tape, usually ROM Loader blocks (ID.10 for TZX ... other blocks that would store turbo loaders. It is possible to ... store some turbo loaders, but we'll not ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2003 Games
  • TAP or TZXI have several emulators, but none seem to work with TAP files. The games I really want don't have TZX files anywhere onkline. How can I play the TAP…

    ... stores a tape, usually ROM Loader blocks (ID.10 for TZX ... other blocks that would store turbo loaders. It is possible to ... store some turbo loaders, but we'll not ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone August 2003 Games
  • Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…

    ... odd loader - with higher-pitched pilot tones, and alternating turbo/normal ... blocks. Jasper has a similar loader. There is ... t make my own custom loader as I'm not ... they've got a custom loader similar to Softlock without actually ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2003 Games
  • CSW 2Have you been using csw 2 yet? I find the total pulses is sometimes wrong by 256 too short. Also there is a small shift to the right by a few sampl…

    ... instance timings for the turbo blocks of Gremlin Loader, Mikro-Gen Type ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • ZX81 and ZX80 emulator on Spectrum 128KA couple of weeks ago we were talking about a new ZX81 emulator for the 128K. Someone beat me. More details at [url="http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/S…

    ... force ROM (ID.10) or Turbo (ID.11) would be beneficial ... tapes seem to have either short or long pilot lengths. ID ... be some cases where the short pilots matter, some for of ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • X-Out level loaderCan anyone confirm all the levels of this game (the original game tzx) will load? Does anyone want to find how the checksum works?

    ... which means the % speed of turbo blocks are just 'estimated' again ... checksumed alkatraz (1 & 2) loader mind ya rather than nasty ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • Need_Help...*.SCR TO *.TAPPLEASE...NEED HELP... HOW MADE STANDART 6912 BYTES ZX-SPECTRUM SCREENBLOCK (.TAP OR .TZX),FROM .Z80 OR .SCR(.GIF) FILE??? In 'Taper' convert .z80…

    ... files are immediately converted to turbo-loading, compressed tapes, to be ... file, since a
    custom loader is used!
    High Speed ... deck to reliably record.
    Turbo Speed (3000 bps) This is ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2003 Games
  • ANN: Spectaculator 5.3 (Speccy Tour players - please read!) Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/…

    ... loader.

    Although all they needed to do was a short ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2003 Emulators
  • 64loader.txtIs the txt file wrong about the 0 and 1 waves? The mechanism that detects the amplitude change on C64 only works in one way i.e. it only detects the…

    ... /> #define ROM_S_HALF 616 /* ROM Loader SHORT Half Wave = 616 */
    Loader LONG Half Wave = 1176 ... ROM_S ROM_S_HALF *2 /* ROM Loader SHORT Wave */
    #define ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • EMULATORSHi, Everybody in SPECWORLD!!! Can someone tell me if exists an "emu" or, BETTER, "utility" for PC\WIN (..In Bill We thrust...?!?!) to see the "PREVIE…

    ... whatsoever, by looking for standard/turbo/pure data/etc. blocks of ... number of files. With some loader recognition and decoding, this number ...
    GOC GOC January 2004 Emulators
  • Another Free Ebay Day ;- Link to 300+ ?1.50 all in[url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cornishdavey&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200&rdir=0"]http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/w…

    ... /> Harrier Attack x 2
    Turbo Esprit Ps

    E ... /> Shao-Lin?s Road
    Short Circuit
    Super Hang On ...
    Cornishdavey:)) Cornishdavey:)) January 2004 Sales
  • My speccy sold it's soul to do this.Which 5 speccy moments defied logic and managed to impress you the most at the time? 1. The loader for Moonstrike. 2. The almost flawless R-Type con…

    >1. The loader for Moonstrike.

    Hmm, what is so special with that loader ??? It is just different coloured ones and later on a bit of a turbo speed...
    ??

    TC
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat February 2004 Games
  • My speccy sold it's soul to do this.Which 5 speccy moments defied logic and managed to impress you the most at the time? 1. The loader for Moonstrike. 2. The almost flawless R-Type con…

    ... pretty astounded by the Fairlight loader as I had never seen ... that before (some kind of turbo load or something). It counted ...
    WhizzBang WhizzBang February 2004 Games
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... noticed that some seemingly ROM Loader have 6000 pulses instead of ... where required (CPC ROM & Turbo blocks, ZX81 block etc etc ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... />

    3) New turbo block (e.g. ID 0x18 ... />
    ID : 18 - Extended Turbo Loading Data Block
    ..................................
    loader uses *up to* 2^ ... such as
    TomCat's loader using 3 different pulses might ...
    Luca Luca February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... due to my fever ;) - this loader closely resembles a BPSK modulation ... and durations, which the Supertape loader will decode using its own ... to surrender from the second turbo block onward because it hasn ...
    Luca Luca February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... DRB instead of standard or turbo blocks or anything like this ... better compression ratio. The standard loader was only used as an ...
    Mikie Mikie February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... would be similar to the turbo data block, but the data ... /ftp/pub/cpc/ADATE/tape/loader/bleep.zip"]http://andercheran.aiind ... /ftp/pub/cpc/ADATE/tape/loader/bleep.zip[/url]

    turbo data block. But, a special ...
    Kevin Thacker Kevin Thacker February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • light grey plus 2 external tape deck?can i just plug a tape deck into the socket on the far left, ear to ear? or does the light grey model not support it?

    ... sommit.

    OR - many short progs. ;)

    But I ... will load all progs in turbo mode, which is much faster ...
    Yerz Yerz March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…

    ... F_ia_th. Not F_ai_th. :p
    Short for Fiathriel, from Warhammer roleplay ... the emulator similates what the loader is looking for then the ...
    fiath fiath July 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
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