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'Ocean' development microdrivesI think one of you guys should take a look at this thread over at The Ocean Experience: [url="http://oceanexp.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=memory…
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Looking for rare TZX blocksBy rare I mean out of the hundreds of TZX I have non of the following blocks exist. I need to test my loading/handling/saving code. Are there any TZX…
... [1] representation of every Spectrum tape, then we clearly need it ... to keep the format as clean as possible, then we don ... needed only once in a tape.
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Preservation QuestionsHi, I went reminiscing of the past recently and found this site, and firstly can I say thank you VERY much, this is by far one of the best Spectrum s…
... condition/type of the tape. Ive also included some ... /> Atom Ant
Beach Head
Cowboy Kidz
Zzoom
Tape 2 of a James Bond ... it...pretty useless without Tape A tho >& ... Batman Penguin Plot
Beach Head (again)
Cyberoid
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Q on cleaning Atari 2600 game cartridges.So ... I have a couple of Atari 2600 games ... what would you knowledgeable lot suggest I do to clean the cartridges? My wife says she used rubbing …
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Longest Loading TimeWhat game do you blokes think had the longest loading time My vote is for "Driller"
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"Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…
... first two radio series on tape and have the TV series ... they talk about the other head. The scene where he launches ... -
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Lots of Speccy games / hardware for saleGot a lot of tapes/unboxed tapes, hardware for sale (not sure what all the hardware is !) Any ideas on a rough price for it all ? Also any help iden…
... Decathlon
Horizons starter tape
Planetoids
... Phasorchase
Sinclair Test tape
Horizons tape
Park Patrol ... Original
Your Sinclair tape - Viz playable Demo with ... /> Handicap Golf
Horizons tape
Street Hassle
Presevation malarkey - what i've found in my collectionhey, just gone through all my old speccy games, the original purpose was try get rid of them but i'm finding myself loath to do it anyway, i've run …
... need a tzx of this tape.
[url="http://www ... part of the full cover tape tzx files we have. ... All the major tape magazines and freebies are fully ... :
Athena, Batman, Head Over Heels, Legend of Kage ... Movie. Its a double tape set, i have it ...AZIMUTH HEAD ALIGNMENT KITSHow do they work ????
... position on the tape, in reality the head can become slightly ... the tape will not align perfectly with the read-write head. ... tape - the sound will be quite muffled. (Dirt on the head ... frequencies, because writing data to tape (particulalry turbo loaders) use ...AZIMUTH HEAD ALIGNMENT KITSHow do they work ????
An old tape for head aligning might not work well if its deteriorated.Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryProbably seen that film more than Jaws and StarWrs put together, its great. I have hope that the new one will be at least ok, if not good(ahem; for t…
... kid just went over my head.
I now enjoy ... there is a chicken having head cut off though !!
I did not Tape-to-Tape Games as a Kid - your ...Unsweetened Sugar From the Guardian [url="http://tinyurl.com/9tkke"]http://tinyurl.com/9tkke[/url] My back hurts just here.
... 's the point in having clean toilets in school? It only ... flush a 'first-year' pupils head down the bog.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…
... ](game + multiload levels on 1 tape)[/I]
- Trivial Pursuit Genus ... 2 tapes included - the game tape and the uniload extra questions ... Boomer Question Pack [I](1 tape)[/I] + Young Players Edition ... off the top of my head include...
- Frank Bruno's ...Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…
... past quite a few tape returns of stuff that ... of putting things to tape was to use Spectaculator ... on the PC straight to tape
which proved unreliable, ... to save out a 'clean' copy to tape - which seems to ... length, the maximum feasile tape size is a C90, ...Why nothing will ever beat a real SpeccyI believe that one of the reasons that Speccy games were so good was because you had to wait so long for them to load! I remember sitting in front o…
... stick a screwdriver into my tape decks head to move the reader ...convert tzx/tap back to wave file for playback by mp3 player to speccyOk, so here's the problem. I want to be able to use my mp3 player to play back mp3's of tzx/tap files, so i can load software directly into my trust…
... player than becaomes a cheap tape deck as blank CDs are ... unreliable (just like tape really :)) A good clean sample onto a CD ...Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.
This emulation shit goes way way over my head, I can still play all the old games right? real tape? issue 2? se?? the most technical I ever got was telling people that pulling the power lead out of the computer to reset would damage their spectrumOUCH!!!! I just cut my mouth with a cracker!!!!I have just cut the roof of my mouth whilst eating a bastard cracker...damn those water bisuits!!! And it wont stop bleeding... has anybody else had…
... Sports) was hit on the head by a Meat & Potato ... know if he managed to clean it out of his hair ...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…
... /> There is pretty confusion about tape 'preservation'. Obviously people has not ... are as the original source tape was.
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C64 used special tape recorder, where polarity is fixed ... s a little above me head, but there's again many ...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…
... a stop-gap for getting tape data into a TZX ... might sound like a corrupted tape, but the game won't ... do we separate that from tape hiss if we don' ... then we could make a "clean" sample which would compress very ... where you are on the tape. It's expecting a pilot ...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…
... In fact many of these tape samples already exist - well they ... unusual for example where a tape has been damaged that ... compromised by something simple like head alignment on the recorder. Or ... actually re-introduce the dreaded tape loading error using this ...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…
... compromised by something simple like head alignment on the recorder. ... actually re-introduce the dreaded tape loading error using this ...
No doubt that bad head alignment will significantly lower quality ... case always try to get tape and sample again, with ...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…
... the magnetic fields on the tape by using a SQUID, tunnel ... something. And then add the tape reader to the hardware emulation ... GUI for adjusting the azimut, clean the headers... That way we ...SoftRom emulation possible?Hello. Quick question to all emulator developers: How easy would it be to emulate a SoftRom? The mastering utilites for my protection system XLR-8 a…
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The example file on tape is called "ROM" as per ... , example ROMS, and documentation (including clean scans) is appreciated by all.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…
... tzx of a real live tape :) (catacombs.tzx if you're ... sample has to be pretty clean for the process to work ...Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... by that, price and a head start look to be the ... from Dixons. Not surprisingly, the tape player didn't work. Thanks ..."Unknown disk format"-error on Spectrum +3Hi, I have just gotten around to changing the drivebelt in my newly acquired +3. I tried to format one of the 3" disks I bought on eBay the other we…
... been formatted in a double head drive al la Amstrad PCW ... , and so put it on tape, load it up on your ...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…
... TAPE ERROR..SYNTAX ERROR....TURN THE HEAD SCREW..TURN THE GOD DAMN HEAD ...
