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Some thoughts about emulationWhile discussing about 'real tape loaders' I just thinked about wat is total emulation (most complete, perfect). Some authors prefer for example loa…
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What is problem with real tapes/floppies (magnetic media)? You ... digitalization. I simple find to much easier to digitalize once, and then ... hard disk than jump around to start tape recorder, mess with cables ... -
Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…
... and even now I want to put there couple things, ... be certainly latest - need to finish ROM for simple IDE ... at WOS - perhaps need to ask at least 3 ... much in short life. To get/know loading 'scheme' ... faster 10x times than from 'real tape' by speeding emulator (on ... -
Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…
... I test the TZXs (usually) to make sure they work before ... Spectaculator allow loggin to WAV ? I.e. in real tape mode you can ... log the output to a WAV. Z80 used to ... be good for logging to an ... -
Failed ExperimentsI have converted various TZX files to WAV, then CD Tracks and copied to audio cassette tracks for use on my +2A, and every time I cannot get a perfec…
... plenty of TZX files to CD, then audio tape.
First I convert them to WAV format. Sounds obvious, but ... the WAV file into a real Spectrum (I use Winamp ... from the CD, record to audio tape! If it fails ... recording using a cheapo tape deck as HiFi ones ... -
Longest Game Loading Time................Hi peeps.... What game do you all reckon was the longest loading time?...I know alot of 128k games took ages cause of levels being loaded all at onc…
I would like to nominate Nigel Mansell's ... in a single go. No real problem so far - BUIT, ... like you are bound to do since it's supposed ... to be difficult, you have to re-load ...
Guess what happened to that tape? Yeeeees, I "accidentally" broke ... -
Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…
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With regard to the 3.5/3.54MHz ... edges from our real tape. We then convert that to tstates, which is ... artifically constraining the times according to what you've been told ... -
A game that never was.......would anyone like to see it...Back in about 1990 a friend and I sent a game to Newsfield created in the "2D game maker", a smart little graphic adventure, not unlike Dizzy called …
By all means do it. There are even several ways to get your game distributed in real tape and with inlays :)
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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…
... can transfer tapes back to a real spectrum in many ways.< ... WinAmp plugin as a virtual tape player, to replay TZXs through your ... above record onto tape using a HiFi or Tape Deck.
< ... you'd need some utility to transfer tape to disk, like Kobrahsoft utils ... -
Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…
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TAP/TZX
TAP-files are binairy files ... of tapecode. Every data on a tape ... is translated to an equivalent ASCII-code ... is used for loading from TAP-files
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Machine Code QuestionHi All Not sure if this is the right place for this but it seems closest. Am starting to read the Toni Baker Intro to Machine Code book and its ver…
... machine understands. We give names to those bytes ("the opcodes") ... an assembler to translate those names back to those bytes.< ... the usual opcodes that correspond to real machine code, assemblers offer ... will also create self loading tap files with a basic ... -
3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …
... ). It still failed to boot, returning me to the tape loader.
to 128K mode with an emulated +D using real disk ... support. Booting from a real +D disk ... problem with the +3 in real disk mode? There are more ... -
3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …
... ). It still failed to boot, returning me to the tape loader.
to 128K mode with an emulated +D using real disk ... support. Booting from a real +D disk ... problem with the +3 in real disk mode? There are more ... -
Spectune (MIA) WAV->TZX problemI've just got the tape for Spectune (Xorsoft, 1983), which loads direct on a Spectrum or emulator OK, and from which I created a WAV which also loads…
... if you know how to use the pulse colouring ... tests it seems not to be the TZX ... load from tape with mirror to TAP and the TAP blocks are ... doing the mirror to TAP, the resultant TAP won't load; ... tape loads, a WAV from the tape loads; but a TAP from the tape ... -
SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…
... Copier to do this automagically.
5. Start your [virtual/real] tape ... recording and press a key ...
This is going to ... you are going to use this on a REAL cartridge make ... on? If you manage to dump some real microdrive sectors, then ... -
Woody?s Tape2wav tested[quote] I've uploaded a new version of Tape2WAV to the same URL as given above. Any chance of giving this version a quick test? [/quote] Hi Woody, …
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1- 100K Base ... ,
1- 4K7 Collector-to-VCC (Emitter to GND)
1- BC548 ... want not to use the driver (if I connect a real tape player ... ://alchemistsoftware.homeftp.org[/url] seems to be offline all the time ... -
Unpublished spectrum gameHi there I have a Spectrum PDS development environment and before I get rid of my old PC which has an ISA slot I thought I should ask this question i…
This might work as well.
When the code was still in BASIC you can
give a load command in an emulator which will load from soundcard or real tape.
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loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…
+2a does not allow tape input via the socket, ... converting TZX (or TAP) to WAV and then burning to a CD, ... then recording from the CD to tape (keeping the CD as a ... error", and if the tape hasn't been played for ... Try tuning your tape head a little to see if you ... -
XLR-8 mastering utilities - help wanted!!Hello. Ironic I know given I wrote them! I can't for the life of me get the XLR-8 mastering utilities to work under emulation. It goes through the m…
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Back to xlr8. I have a working ... is easy enough to produce the stuff to tape but I've ... I think this is due to a polarity bug in my ... would work on
real tape decks (whatever polarity they use ... me so I can reply to it.
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New TR-DOS GamesI'm really impressed with the quality of "Fire n Ice" - a clear example of what can be achieved on the [modified] hardware. Can anyone recommend any …
... version of Fire'n'Ice to .TAP format, but it has waaay ... are compressed. So to do a proper .TAP of it one would ... routines) - find some memory to have tape loader in (and somehow get ... or so TRDOS cracks/games to .TAP ...
But Fire'n'Ice ... -
mp3/wav download spectrum gamesI'm new to this board and would like to say hi!.. Just recieved a zx spectrum from ebay today. I used to have tons of tapes many eons ago but they ha…
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these are great utilities to do the work
(authors ... from a CD (using discman) to real Speccy and Didaktik M/Kompakt ... try it too and report to the authors about your progress ... a second copy from CD to tape for different manipulation and "retro ... -
files on +3 discHello! I have question. As you know, when Spectrum +3 loads CODE file from tape, you can get by CAT command from audio header to which address it…
... correctly, you want to transfer files from disk to tape.
to tape drive
SAVE "game. ... Alchemist library to transfer files from disk to tape (and tape to disk) ... 720K disk images to a real tape for you to use on your ... -
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…
... to do. Now this thing actually had animation - and I mean REAL ... screen left to right and right to left scrolling ... to be given it had to keep going back to the tape to ... very odd. It read tape edges in a way ... used as little physical tape as possible, however it ... -
Speccy and LinuxI try to run Spectrum emulators under Linux (PCLinOS Mandriva based distribution, kernel 2.6.12), with Wine 0.9, but without much succes. Spectacula…
... sp.lo szx.lo tap.lo tape.lo tape_accessors.lo ... If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries ... :
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable< ... execution
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…
... I'm sad enough to listen to a tape and know what ... , but don't know the real differences.
Indeed, ... mag said I was the Tape Monkey, which I still ... it. It intrigues me to see all these laoders documented ... I doing... oh yer Tape Monkey, best get back ...There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…
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I used to play this a lot with ... -Type is MUCH more fun to play than Zynaps. :D
tap to play to confirm this... my original R-Type tape is a ...Game: Farmer Jack in Harvest Havoc!He's a couple of screen-shots of the game I've been working on for the last few months... [url]http://www.sinclair-heaven.net/bob/FarmerJack_ingame_…
... you all up-to-date - this is very nearly ... memory as I'm determined to make this a 48K release ... , but I'm making steps to sort that, and any memory ... the emulator-image and the "real" tape version."Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…
... QUOTE=NightSprinter]I need to know if there are ... into when using the real tape mode features in Spectaculator ... couldn't get the tape loading signals no matter ... was a problem due to my tape recorder (actually a ... would have helped?), the tape or the emulators and ..."Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…
... ve never ever tried to use any Real Tape mode, but I ... on a soundcard. The real Spectrum was designed for ... be the closest to a real spectrum's Mic ... socket, so use that. Then, when the tape ... sound comming from the tape player, comming out of ...
