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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…

    ... 'm not much interested for 'tape' software. Even then, I didn ... some sense only for original loaders (who wants to watch Speedlock ...
    piters piters October 2005 Emulators
  • unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…

    ... /> What I really need is tape recorder, better said player, and ... course some tapes with exotic loaders. Will you supply me it ... (or whatever) for any odd loaders we have come across.
    ADJB ADJB October 2005 Development
  • JON NORTHHi Jon, i just followed the last thread with some interest. I used to send you hacks years ago and got a few published in YS!! I can only say dont g…

    ... * but maybe the data itself. Loaders can be recognised, and the ... you were actually loading the tape yourself.

    Of course ... 'd lose things like tape hiss in between tape blocks, but did ... /> Do we *really* need another tape format?

    D.
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Development
  • 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…

    Most of the loaders on Andy's page ... because there are still few loaders that don't use two ... creating tools to support the loaders that can be converted to ... cater for all of those loaders that don't use ... at other machines and their tape support) and maybe if we ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat October 2005 Development
  • divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…

    ... just maps in whenever a tape routine in ZX ROM is ... " when a program loads from tape. Firmware must scan all IN ... standard tape emulation), rather a fault of those who use such loaders :)
    baze baze October 2005 Development
  • 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 ... /> I have only couple tape with speedlock, so I never ... : how is about 'unresolved' loaders? Are that games cracked, are ... />
    C64 used special tape recorder, where polarity is fixed ...
    piters piters October 2005 Development
  • 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 ... better descriptions of their loaders in order to implement ... are as the original source tape was.

    [ ... [quote]
    C64 used special tape recorder, where polarity is fixed ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... we can reproduce the original tape.

    We can ... can't reproduce the original tape from these.

    ... needs expanding to handle certain loaders then please explain excatly what ... able to reproduce the original tape and the final file should ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... VOC format (both sides of tape). What I saw, games for ... , 44100 Hz), except some special loaders which are longer than 48 ... of work to make 20000 tape samplings? We can agree that ... , let itself make 'decoders' of loaders. I can
    wait 30 ...
    piters piters October 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... , 44100 Hz), except some special loaders which are longer than 48 ... /> In fact many of these tape samples already exist - well they ... unusual for example where a tape has been damaged that a ... actually re-introduce the dreaded tape loading error using this method ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2005 Development
  • Truly Trash, manIs it just me or is 'Travel with Trashman' the most difficult game to get loaded. Bloody thing.

    The worst offenders were the loaders on Mikrogen's games e. ... , until I bought a decent tape recorder. Now even the most ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton October 2005 Games
  • 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…

    ... actually re-introduce the dreaded tape loading error using this method ... turbo loaders. I would in such case always try to get tape ...
    piters piters October 2005 Development
  • The Collected Works - Ultimate Play the GameJust wondering on the street price of this? I bought mine last year for about ?45 on ebay. In mint condition, including the letter & envelope, post…

    ... custom loaders for each of the games on the double tape set ...
    Spector Spector November 2005 Games
  • 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…

    ... I've found an old tape with some ZX81 programs! I ... 've sampled the tape at 48KHz 16-bit mono ... are faster than several turbo loaders on the Spectrum, cool :)
    Luca Luca November 2005 Emulators
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... Busy Soft - check the loaders to his Tape versions of demos ! Unbeliavable ...
    JonNorth JonNorth November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Just brushing up on old skills...Ahead of XLR-8 I thought it best I get a little hacking practice in after all these years ;) Chose Op Wolf 128K to pick on this fine evening! lol […

    ... emulator author spends reverse engineering tape/disk loaders? :)

    XLR-8 ...
    Woody Woody November 2005 Development
  • Calling Woody and Andy Ryals: Shed stuff...?Guys - Andy Ryals has some stuff he wants to publish for ZX Shed and Fogartylee has approached me for copy ... do you fancy hooking up and writing so…

    ... and these are supplied on tape! Some poeple like to load ... theory these games will have loaders, hence a hack is needed ...
    ANDREW RYALS ANDREW RYALS November 2005 ZX Shed
  • Bomb Jack EditorKnocked this up a bit back for psj. Works in conjunction with Multiface. Full instructions are in the [url="ftp://82.30.151.43/"]download[/url]. […

    I never considered generating tape files for RBR, hence they' ... to make them. BASin's tape generation routines took about half ... and debug.

    Protected loaders would be a tad harder ... - I'd stick with ROM loaders myself.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2005 Development
  • Rapid loaderDon't know if anyone particularly cares any more but the loading system used by Travel with Trashman and Zombie Zombie was called "Rapid".

    ... :
    Remember those strange loaders Elite used on games like ... me like they used cheap tape and the signal transfered ... along the tape. If there is a ... in the sound on a tape, it can pass from ... one part of the tape to the other on ...
    mulder mulder December 2005 Games
  • +3 disksok i got a question here. Can i put the +3 disk images that i use on the emulator back on to a proper +3 disk ? If so how would i do it and what wo…

    ... .

    To copy a tape to a disk. In +3DOS ... would happen when any 'special' loaders are used.

    I ...
    KeepGood KeepGood December 2005 Hardware
  • ANN: Alchemist Software FTP site up and runningHi guys and gals Just a quick post to announce that the my new FTP site (address in my sig) is up and running. To log in, just log in as annonymous…

    ... create turbo loaders, stuff to put files from disk to tape (and ...
    DEATH DEATH December 2005 Announcements
  • Looking for ramsoft MGT +D Software Compilation ArchiveOnce upon a time on the internet there existed a mgt +d archive on the ramsoft website with specially adapted multiload games as disk images etc. I …

    ... to do the tape to disk, disk to tape stuff you've ... an age to decode speedlock loaders etc.

    [quote]
    exobuzz exobuzz December 2005 Games
  • test my loader?Hello. I was playing around trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised that although I'd found out how to change the border…

    ... big fan of hacking turbo loaders years ago and found there ... the speed because of the tape quality.

    Because we ... probably much better than magnetic tape, how about a challenge for ...
    alchresearch alchresearch January 2006 Development
  • FuseX on the Xbox :releases, testing and feedbackI'm creating a new thread here to continue on from the thread about emulators on the Xbox ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php…

    ... s the same as "Use Tape Traps" in FUSE. Basically ... tape instantly but unfortunately it doesn?t work on all loaders ... which will load the tape in the normal flash ... back to normal when the tape is loaded.

    tape loading and that is ...
    Crabfists Crabfists March 2006 Emulators
  • Legal Sinclair clones?Are any of the cloned Sinclair computers legal, other than the original Timex machines? Are the QL Clones legal? Could a legal clone be produced with…

    ... own BIOS retains the original tape routines since the copyright in ... about half the custom Speccy loaders out there all reused this ... routines determine the format of tape files [ie the idea and ... ). I should divulge that the tape routines were amongst the pages ...
    gasman gasman April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • some questionshello all, I havent been here for a while, but Im back, older and wiser (I hope). No more stupid spectrum OS ideas. Well I have a speccy + 2a and I …

    ... increase the speed of the loaders so they load reliably at ... the MIC input on a tape deck (or INPUT on an ...
    DEATH DEATH April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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