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  • Mikie tape error?I purchased a copy of this to play on my +2B, but something strange happens once it appears to have loaded. The screen goes black with lots of heart…

    ... the +2B, or is the tape duff?

    Cheers
    Evil Stripe Evil Stripe November 2010 Games
  • The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…

    ... levels - for multiload games, tape counter positions, 1-to-5 ... read in some book about error trapping for BASIC. So, one ... would capture any BASIC runtime error and display a message ... interrupt table, move the relocatable error-trapping routine and started it. ...
    NicAdi NicAdi August 2002 Games
  • TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…

    ... amount of free memory, and error trapping support via the ON ERR ... need to speed up your tape player slightly and it may ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…

    ... [*]Error escaping: ON ERROR STOP.
    [*]Error skipping: ON ERROR CONTINUE.
    [*]Error trapping: ON ERROR GOTO ... [*]Quick entry for most common tape commands.
    [*]Quick start ... -res mode.
    [*]Simplified error messages.
    [*]Simplified flags ...
    chev chev October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • pc playback to spectrumwhat methods do ppl use to play for example a tap file and load it on to a real spectrum? i cant use taper due to it not liking NT based OS's and for…

    ... too soon which gives a tape error on the real speccy
    vanpeebles vanpeebles March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Adding commands to Spectrum BASIC?Are there any articles on how to do this? I think it could be done by making the error trapping routine point to your own commands, but not sure exac…

    Are there any articles on how to do this? I think it could be done by making the error trapping routine point to your own commands, but not sure exactly how.

    Derek
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... you got your error B, there is NO ERROR TRAPPING in this because ...
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…

    ... even on 48K Spectrums)
    [*]Error-trapping commands and functions for BASIC ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Hardware
  • Small Machine Code Routines Which Maybe UsefulAs part of creating Flynn's Adventure in Bombland I created a lot of little routines to do all sorts of things. A lot of these I created based on inp…

    ... /> ; output - none
    ; notes - no error trapping
    ; =======================================================================
    _PLOT2CHR:
    ; **************************************************
    TomD TomD April 2011 Development
  • Human Killing MachineHi again folks! I tried loading this on my mp3 player as a tzx from this site,on me new found grey speccy but it crashes on me with a tape error for …

    ... crashes on me with a tape error for some unkown reason:???:.
    bully bully June 2011 Games
  • Platoon (BUGFIX)This is a bugfix for game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003759"]Platoon[/URL], please add the following "known errors" desc…

    ... the original release, if a tape error occurs when loading a level ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas June 2011 Infoseek database
  • Bit of an obscure oneThink it may have been Dynamite Dan? If it crashed when loading near the beginning , an R:Tape error would appear on screen , but also a message in b…

    Think it may have been Dynamite Dan? If it crashed when loading near the beginning , an R:Tape error would appear on screen , but also a message in brackets saying something like "Look Jim , another pirate"). Anyone else remember seeing this?
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley January 2012 Games
  • Some MIAshi Guys I've procured a box of spectrum stuff from someone who was moving house. In this box I found an "Unidentifiable backup tape" with software …

    ... I found an "Unidentifiable backup tape" with software by J.T ... />
    Side 1
    HouseBreak (Tape error)
    3D Noughts and Crosses ... /> Record
    Record
    Yahtzee (Tape Error)
    Hangman Musical
    Hangman ...
    wozname wozname January 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
  • OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…

    ... copy machine code command), ON ERROR (error trapping), PALETTE (switch 64-colour mode ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Creating your own BASIC-commands on IF1bisThe old Sinclair IF1 has offered an easy possibility to create your own new BASIC-command: The use of the shadow variable VECTOR. This is described i…

    ... using the same procedure of error trapping, one could try to do ...
    HZJ HZJ March 2014 Hardware
  • 48k noise problem..Hi guys, I need some hardware advice with my old 48k. The machine is VERY noisy - I've fixed the video noise by performing the 'composite' mod, but …

    ... programs, as I just get 'tape error' messages when loading them.
    tape recorder. . . There's no problem ...
    GameBaddie GameBaddie January 2015 Hardware
  • Spectrum 48k won't start any software but passes all RAM testsI have a rubber key 48k which will not start any software - it appears to work perfectly right up until the end of the tape and the program would sta…

    ... until the end of the tape and the program would start ... screen or gives an R tape error (20:6 or 6:20 ... .com/brendanalford/zx-diagnostics/wiki/Tape-Tests no problems were found ...
    britain4 britain4 October 2016 Hardware
  • 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…

    I like the random tape error idea - perhaps in the tape options you could ... ] Played a bit.
    [3] Tape is a few years old ... /> [5] A 15 year old tape that's been played to ...
    Refrenz Refrenz December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is spectaculator emulating the +2 correctly?i remembera few games that would crash when running in 128K mode, due to a bug in the hardware of the grey +2, hence it being replaced with the +2a. …

    ... it dont fakkin work. bloody tape error. perhaps it's because it ... 's a 90min chrome tape.

    other than the ... tape, am i doing everything else ...
    Interceptor Interceptor August 2003 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... alarm would sound with a "TAPE ERROR" flashing message. It was pretty ...
    Mark_C Mark_C February 2004 Games
  • 128 ramdisk loaderanyone got a program which will save the contents of ramdisk to tape in one go, rather than saving each file seperately then loading them and save!in…

    ... THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"Tape error - rewind tape": GOTO 30
    50 ...
    John Elliott John Elliott July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Some interesting stuff - maybeJust going through my latest aquisitions to bundle up and flog and have come accross a few bits and pieces which may be of interest. WORD MANAGER - …

    ... /> Bytes: RED

    L Tape Error

    [ This Message was ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 November 2005 MIA/STP/SDP
  • WOS - The Computer Game I may start looking at putting some quick routines together for this over the weekend, so wanted to establish some sort of concensus as to the form …

    ... /> Bytes: RED

    L Tape Error

    [ This Message was ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 December 2005 Games
  • Datel Electronics disk driveIs it possible to get my pc to read and re-save software ( in an emulator friendly format) that I have stored on 3.5" disks that were created with th…

    ... /> Bytes: RED

    L Tape Error

    [ This Message was ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Colindars.....Hi guys, I like to wear a colindar on my head whilst I play on my speccy....A NICE YELLOW ONE.... [url="http://www.plugface.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/loo…

    ... NOW..COLD!....TIRED..TIRED......R TAPE ERROR..SYNTAX ERROR....TURN THE HEAD SCREW ...
    Dusti Dusti December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Colindars.....Hi guys, I like to wear a colindar on my head whilst I play on my speccy....A NICE YELLOW ONE.... [url="http://www.plugface.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/loo…

    ... NOW..COLD!....TIRED..TIRED......R TAPE ERROR..SYNTAX ERROR....TURN THE HEAD SCREW ...
    Daren Daren December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... ideally need would be some error-trapping facilities such as I added ...
    glancaster glancaster April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Amstrad CPCWhy did the CPC lose out so badly to the Spectrum and C64 - it looks a tidy bit of kit and seemed to have a half decent number of games released for …

    [QUOTE=karingal]No the C64 was bland, I found the Amstrad range to be very good computers. They were certainly excellent for coding on.[/QUOTE]

    Yeah they definately had an excellent BASIC with timers and error trapping and other tasty goodies.
    absorbentgnome absorbentgnome May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone good at VBA? Need helpHope someone can help. I have a file called models.txt which is just a list of items, e.g. Car Toaster Wheel etc. i.e. each line is separated by a …

    ... String

    On Error Goto ReadFileToCombo_Err

    ...
    Xit:
    On Error Goto 0
    ReadFileToCombo = ... br /> ReadFileToCombo_Err:
    On Error Resume Next
    Close #iG ... log file at the error-trapping handler, but that's ...
    Marcelo Marcelo May 2007 Chit chat
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