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  • Transferring Spectrum Games onto tape or diskI've been told you can download Spectrum games in .TZX format and transfer them to a specci through the headphone jack. Can you only then save the ga…

    ... ]

    You can transfer tapes back to a real spectrum ... -Express.

    Oh, +3 disks can be got on eBay ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2005 Emulators
  • Old Source CodeWhilst searching through some old boxes today I came across some printouts of some old m/c programs I did back in the 80's. I obviously couldn't code…

    ... practically all source codes. On disks/CD's now. Not typed ... again... All was stored on tapes, then copied on floppies and ...
    piters piters January 2006 Development
  • where did you keep your games?i kept mine in a biscuit tin. my father had a long running joke where he'd open it hoping to find some biscuits, and look confused at the games i ke…

    A biscuit tin is a good idea, Static proof bags or a metal box would help protect the tapes or disks from static

    Also anyone have a firesafe for there rarest games!
    guesser guesser January 2006 Games
  • DK Tronics Compilation Tapes....MIA ??I have two tapes (no inlays) of compilaitons of DK Tronics games. One is from DK Tronics themselves, has a white label with black text, and contains…

    ... release working but not TZXed tapes as CSW2s. That way they ... have been dumping some +3 disks for SDP.

    Just ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Sneaky/ underhand things you did, to get ur grubby mitts on those precious speccy gamesWell, i got 3 which i need to get of my chest after all these years. 1) Had a friend across the road, went on holiday with him and his parents and w…

    What a honest bunch we are! :D

    I never conned a store but I did copy tapes on my Philips deck. That was about it really. The school network did the rest.
    Arjun Arjun March 2006 Games
  • +3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…

    ... easily.[/QUOTE]
    +3/PC disks are quite trivial to the ... utility disks (Megadisk WILL copy these disks).[/QUOTE]
    The Kobrasoft disks I ... to do it didn't store enough to give a working ... ]And I believe that Speedlok disks used an "unwritten" or ...
    obo obo April 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... notes from coding the Pokerama tapes and cracking various games for ... got involved with +D/+3 disks so there won't be ...
    JonNorth JonNorth July 2006 Games
  • SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…

    ... !

    The biggest store of SAM software is still ... ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/"]disks section[/url] on the NVG ... ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/demos/entropy/TheEntropyExperience.zip"] ... ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/music/MOD/SolarFlareMODPlayerv210.zip"] ...
    obo obo July 2006 Emulators
  • ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…

    ... intended for use on tapes and we're not ... using tapes. You cannot just press ... optional parameter, or you store the autostart in the program ... took for granted while using tapes. Aside from the autostart ... try to simulate the old tapes. You may as well ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2006 Emulators
  • ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…

    ... it would with microdrives, +3 disks etc.

    Second, for ... . If you're not using tapes, get rid of it.
    Dunny Dunny July 2006 Emulators
  • More rare adventures sourcedI travelled to York yesterday to pick up a large collection of adventure games which I'm borrowing to get them dumped... Results are mixed so far, a…

    ... doing it
    for +3 disks that may or may not ... /> this for Donal Hay's disks when we extracted many Adventures ... to do with the tricky tapes ;-)

    Cheers

    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Where do you keep your tape images? CD, DVD, USB drive or Memory Sticks?I have my most beloved games (well over 300 titles) on my SD memory card. What's your type of archive medium?

    ... images'. I transferred my old tapes to floppies long time ago ... in terms of endurance. Hard disks crash, you know? ; )
    Uros Zupan Uros Zupan September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 you could just copy tapes from all your buds to ... HIGH BYTE AND
    DEY ; STORE IT AT LOW ADDRESS
    INY ; AND STORE IT AT HIGH ADDRESS
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microdrive gamesI saw a few Spectrum games on Ebay recently which were advertised as being in the microdrive format, they even had a photo of the cartridge with a la…

    ... we spend hours on preserving tapes and disks, put them up for ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2006 Games
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... that tapes are much easier to pirate than cartridges or disks; you ... on tapes and transferred it as the price of blank disks was ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... that tapes are much easier to pirate than cartridges or disks; you ...
    Spector Spector October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... now tapes as a Mr.A.Barker got all me +3 disks ...
    Deano7649 Deano7649 October 2006 Games
  • Questioning CCSLet's continue discussing some titles from the publisher that I like most of all - CCS. Let's also keep this discussion to what it's about, or I'll …

    ... know there's many +3 disks missing from the SDP list ... of tapes ???
    Then +D/Opus to SDP as they are disks ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Questioning CCSLet's continue discussing some titles from the publisher that I like most of all - CCS. Let's also keep this discussion to what it's about, or I'll …

    ... know there's many +3 disks missing from the SDP list ... of tapes ???
    Then +D/Opus to SDP as they are disks ...
    jp jp October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)

    ... knew you could copy the tapes.[/QUOTE]

    You are ... stuff bought from the local store. A couple of reasons for ... allow us to test the tapes before we bought them which ... we bought it. The local store solved both these problems and ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Music on game cassettes?I was rather amazed at how professional the music included with Everyone's A Wally sounded: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoqq9Vfc0g[/url] I…

    ... hadn't played the Automata tapes in 20 years, so I ... parody of the Desert Island Disks radio show, with Robinson Crusoe ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2006 Games
  • Election of the new maintainer of the TZX formatHi folks, the topic says all, let the discussion begin :) Luca

    ... TZX format, which is to store a tape signal. My 128k ... may be a couple of tapes that require it. It seems ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... drive does actually manage to store 720K of data...

    disks, which I found on an ...
    hldswrth hldswrth November 2006 Hardware
  • Ann - The Preservation Team Shop is now openWe are proud to announce the Grand opening of the World of Spectrum Preservation Team Shop [URL]http://www.ptshop.co.uk[/URL] In the shop we are of…

    ... decided to collect +3 disks rather than tapes where possible. It's ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2006 Sales
  • Trivial Pursuit -- incomplete TZXs?Hope I've posted this in the right place... I've noticed that the following Trivial Pursuit TZXs seem to be missing the question sets: [url]ftp://f…

    ... it's hard to decode/store these tapes. You can use CSW ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2006 Infoseek database
  • TZX revision 1.20 finalSince everybody seems to agree with the last propositions, the specification for the TZX file format revision 1.20 now becomes final and you can find…

    ... and the Signal Level block, tapes are no longer authentic copies ... , it's pointless - CSWs can store exotic loaders, but so can ... block to the very few tapes that we haven't been ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2006 Emulators
  • Anyone have any pics of their collection?I'm an Atari 800XL owner and the main media that games were on for that were tape. Trouble is I've seen loads of pics on the net of peoples collectio…

    ...

    -More than 3000 tapes, some of them were 60 ... min tapes full of games
    -British ...
    -Interface 1
    -3" disks

    And there was ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2007 Games
  • Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…

    ... ready to stop using floppy disks. data sticks are prevelent with ... tapes through them.

    so if you need some ploppy disks ...
    mile mile February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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