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A feature missing in emulatorsJust yesterday a thought came to me while trying to load a really old and worn tape. Wouldn't it be interesting if one of the emulators had a featur…
... -cassette-deck OR poor-quality-tape/copy) + fussy-loading-scheme = unreliability :)
Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …
... like to get a nice tape copy, but for me I would ...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…
... russian coders wrote a routine on Spectrum 128 which ... With rewriting Gasman?s routine I just want to ... with a LDIR copy-routine which will copy the second screen ... ?t believe that his routine left much time left ... example, because my own routine is too slow), so ...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…
... the last sequence of the copy routine, when the attributer are transfered ...Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…
... .tzx files made from tape copies, provided the copy originates (however many ... was created with a straight tape to tape copy and not via copying ...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…
... tape recorders -- variations in tape playback speed).
Custom tape ... an opportunity for the tape load routine to synchronize with the ... edges recorded on tape) is ... and 1s directly to tape will be less reliable ...T.I.M. - A New Interlace - Demo for DOWNLOADHere's something that's been in the works for quite a while ( mostly in my head ) and recently I've aquired assistance to help it come to fruition. …
... has pretty fast stack based copy routine:
LD SP, HL ... , again
so he can copy 8 lines very fast and ... /> (so it is fastest looped copy known to me)
ooops ...TZX in ROM...Is it possible to modify BASIC ROM to load TZX images from external memories like Flash EPROM? [ This Message was edited by: klingler on 2004-07-0…
... the TZX files still have copy-protection in it?
[/quote ... said it was very good copy protection :) It's enough to ... onto a new tape. Protection provided against direct tape-to-tape copy: zero.
On 48k, can I copy 4k before next screen updateFollowing on from my thread at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=6423&forum=11"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/v…
... point, I basically want to copy back to front screen with ... delay the start of your copy routine after the interrupt. There are ... starting your pixel-line order copy, you will be updating behind ... . At this time, if your copy routine is still running, you will ...Story House from Creative SparksIs this MIA ? [url="http://koti.welho.com/hgerkman/SH.JPG"]http://koti.welho.com/hgerkman/SH.JPG[/url] - Peter -
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I send tape copy and make manual .PDF
- Peter -Pirate game trading at school?How many people traded pirate games at school? At one school, there was a group in which members would trade pirate games for all systems most break…
My dad's philips stereo system did excellent tape to tape copying. Never did fiddle with tape copy programs.Controlling Sqij.I am trying to get this game to work but the bird doesn't want to move at all. According to the TXT file this should work : CONTROLS: Z - Left X - …
... years ago with my original tape copy (I think it only let ...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…
The longest loading time has to be DALEY THOMPSONS DECATHLON.
When it's a seventh generation tape to tape copy, recorded on a 18p hong kong cheapo cassette that's been chewed three times and left a bit near a big magnet.Programming MC : first stepsIsn't nice to collect all kinds of short routines to help making the first steps into MC for everyone who never touched MC? What I mean is mostly th…
... ? E.g, sprite printing routine, tile printing routine etc. Hmm, maybe they ... /> [/quote]
Well, the COPY routine for non-ZX Printer is ...Fairlight 48k - version 1 missing from archive.I have an original version of Fairlight WITHOUT the copyright message 'Copying this tape is against the law under the Copyright Act, amended 1985. C…
... /> Do you need my original copy? I could possibly post it ... at all(MIA). Its a tape-tape copy though, on a 'compilation'. And ...Games that wouldnt loadI had a few of these, and even after taking them bck some still didnt load first time :( anybody else have/had games like this The pain in the asses…
Dynamite Dan, most of the time it just won't load (must have been a duff part of the tape since the volume went down for a second).
Ended up doing a tape to tape copy on the reverse side from a friends copy which did work.Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …
... only downside was that each tape-to-tape copy reduced quality by about ... borrowed a tape from someone that was already the 5th copy, then ... chances of making a successful copy was pretty hard.
< ... prestige in having an original copy and the price was usually ...Problem with rotating procedureHi folks! I wrote a proc in z80 asm, based on: x' = x * cos (z) - y * sin (z) y' = x * sin (z) + y * cos (z) I used a precalculated table of sin a…
... directly to screen (avoiding copy routine which takes ages), uses ... T takes the fastest plot routine ? 100T ? 90T? 85T ? Nope ... br /> [code]
;draw routine
compute next line point ... fastest, table driven, put pixel routine takes about 90T. but when ...Detect if program was loaded from tape or microdriveHow (if at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was loaded from tape or microdrive? This can be helpful to then load the screen or more machine code…
... it's RETurned via the tape loading routine or the IF1?Legal Warning to Steven BrownIf you ever try to gain a copy of my property again, i will take legal action.
... an ebay auction for a tape which is currently STP. I ... were prepared to make a tape to tape copy for me, so that ... .. As it turns out, the tape wasn't copied for me ... way interfered with the original tape and was not going to ...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…
Re. the tape tself, my advice is to get your contact to make a tape to tape copy of it, then forward the copy to either Andy or myself so we can get it dumped...
SteveAtic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... , and saves the code to tape so that you can make ... own disc from the new tape copy. When I get the time ...AlchNews 21Just a quick one -- [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013968]AlchNews 21[/url] appears to be corrupt (RealSpectrum refuses to lo…
... Tapir, saved off a clean copy and -- lo and behold -- the ... don't know if the tape copy is supposed to have them ...AlchNews 21Just a quick one -- [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013968]AlchNews 21[/url] appears to be corrupt (RealSpectrum refuses to lo…
... Tapir, saved off a clean copy and -- lo and behold ... 't know if the tape copy is supposed to have ... I used to duplicate AlchNews tape editions the same way ... for AlchNews, and make tape loading syntax loaders for ... the whole lot to tape, three tape decks at a ...New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…
... , as you could always do tape-to-tape copy anyway. We in fact ...Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... those. It calls the tape loading routine that's stored in that ...How do I clear only a specific area of a screen (quickly) in machine code ?I'm looking for a machine code routine which will clear the first 20 rows of the Spectrum's display (or any number of rows or columns) . I have found…
... version:
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; Routine to clear a number of ... /column character
; The ROM routine gets the line start from ... is different from the ROM COPY routine - not sure why...
Fastest Baud Rate On A Loader ?Following on (sort of!) from the thread about the best loading.... Which game(s) had the fastest (highest baud rate) ? I seem to remember a couple …
... that when I wrote the tape loading routine for [url=http://matt ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... code which is obviously a tape loader routine. So it's clearly ...
