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  • Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.

    ... only lazy people demand real tape emulation, what would you think ... will not get here new wave of shallow posts.
    Really ...
    piters piters October 2005 Emulators
  • 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 tape stream is determined by duration of whole period of wave ...
    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…

    ... specially instrumented emulator loading the tape. If the ROM routine is ... combine this iformation with the wave data.
    NotFound NotFound 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…

    ... specially instrumented emulator loading the tape. If the ROM routine is ... combine this iformation with the wave data.

    [/quote]
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... sensitive (If you invert the wave, it screws up the gap ... new TZX file, leaving the tape position at the end of ... than one program on the tape, you can just repeat step ... ok by selection Options->Tape->Source->TZX Manager ...
    MikeW MikeW November 2005 Emulators
  • DarkStar.tzx in Spectaculator 6.25Hi all I think I have found a bug in Spectaculator. Darkstar.tzx(OriginalRelease) wiil not not load. DarkStar.tap loads The DarkStar Re-release t…

    ... using tap2wav and loading the wave file as an audio source ... fails too with an 'R Tape loading error' right at the ... .

    The tzx and wave file both loaded into Spin ...
    cg cg November 2005 Emulators
  • Writing for MultifaceI was just wondering, is it possible to write a BASIC program, compile it and use the Multiface to run it? I'd like to write a small util to edit te…

    ... games competition by replacing the tape routines with a simple compiled ...
    mulder mulder November 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... ?topic=11465&forum=11"]tape bit lenght trick[/url]", this ... " and "1" bits, but opposite wave sign. That thread got completely ...
    Black Hole Black Hole January 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... machine had a built-in tape deck, and that it was ... most popular of the "second wave" of 8-bit machines i ...
    Ashley Pomeroy Ashley Pomeroy January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... machine had a built-in tape deck, and that it was ... most popular of the "second wave" of 8-bit machines i ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Raf Cecco - misguided genius?Probably one of the greatest Speccy programmers, but were his games any good? From my experience: Exolon - Great game, well designed, good controls,…

    ... life, you're back to square one on the weapons, and ... , trying to shoot a whole wave of aliens so that you ...
    Gwyn Gwyn January 2006 Games
  • Raf Cecco - misguided genius?Probably one of the greatest Speccy programmers, but were his games any good? From my experience: Exolon - Great game, well designed, good controls,…

    ... life, you're back to square one on the weapons, and ... , trying to shoot a whole wave of aliens so that you ...
    Daren Daren January 2006 Games
  • Vague memories...Hi all. I know of several games i used to play in the 80's, but only vagely. Of course, i can't remember their names. I wonder if someone knows what…

    ... took a single 8x8 pixel square on screen, still viewed top ... an officially bought tape. Played it until the tape stopped working. Why ...
    Cihl Cihl January 2006 Games
  • Advice needed - Xbox EmulatorsDoes anybody have experiance of using a speccy emulator with an Xbox ? My intention is to install Linux and then try and run an emulator (most like…

    ... loaded the game snapshot (or tape image). The user could then ... like (just the stuff in square brackets) :



    ewgf ewgf February 2006 Emulators
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... file address for each character square, as indicated by the ... and associated tile pointers from tape -- in this case only ... the "sp1_update" array from tape with preset display file addresses ... for the last updated character square since, for occluding sprites, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Linux WAV to TZX convertorsI looked through the posts and seen a few threads about converting WAVs to tzx but none of them are working for me. I have a few old tapes that don't…

    ... sense anything on the Stryker tape (though it does work with ... input file... ok!
    ? RIFF Wave PCM (WAV) 16-bit mono ...
    jujuberry jujuberry May 2006 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... up the screen one character square at a time, also later ... keep going back to the tape to load edges).

    tape edges in a way no ... I used as little physical tape as possible, however it spawns ...
    JonNorth JonNorth May 2006 Games
  • 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…

    ... perfect for clash-free character square colour...)

    I used ... this... my original R-Type tape is a couple thousand miles ...
    48K 48K June 2006 Games
  • Problems with my +2A DatacorderHey folks, Bought a speccy from ebay, but i think its fucked. What do you think? Basically it turns on fine, but when i try load a game nothing wor…

    ... hear something. When the tape starts to load, you ... the electronics on the tape deck circuit board, or ... a look at the silver square(ish) thing that moves ... forwards to contact the tape in the cassette? This ... component is called a tape head. At the back ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2006 Hardware
  • tapper on xpdoes tapper work on xp? planning to convert tzx to voc to wav

    ... save favorite games on a tape. First I load a copying ... insert a brand new TDK tape, and save a game! :)
    tape deck, so - we have no ... to play wavs using some wave editor, eg. SoundForge.
    xor xor July 2006 Emulators
  • Datel +D clone[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Plus-D-D-interface-NEW-FDD-for-ZX-Spectrum_W0QQitemZ140007699563QQihZ004QQcategoryZ50223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] I have…

    ... , right down to the red square sticker to protect the EPROM ... the master disks and onto tape for conversion to TZX or ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2006 Hardware
  • Last Ninja RemixI see from the WoS database that a TZX is required for Last Ninja Remix by System 3. Is it still required or shall I make a VOC of my copy and send i…

    ... yet another original of this tape, that now it's confirmed ... to be the 5th dodgy tape I've encountered :-(.
    < ... 's a missing sample (sine wave) or it's
    ... even tried chopping the sine wave down so it acts as ... a normal wave (a 1 ?). It will ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …

    ... division routines, not to mention square roots - at least it would ... appeared on the 16/48 tape - I assume he's referring ...
    jonathan jonathan August 2006 Games
  • Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …

    ... division routines, not to mention square roots - at least it would ... appeared on the 16/48 tape - I assume he's referring ...
    Malc74 Malc74 August 2006 Games
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... load one game (seriously) from tape, and then the game was ... per eight by eight pixel square, no joystick port, and a ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…

    ... from different positions on the tape. When the spectrum tapes ... and right signals leave the tape head they are amplified separately ... through preamp stage (in the tape deck), then the amplifier.< ... likely a discrepancy between the wave forms and their timings (i ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2006 Emulators
  • TZX filesI copied a spectrum tape program onto my PC as a .wav file and used a converter to convert it to a .tzx file. The DOS window appeared during conversi…

    ... input file... ok!
    | RIFF Wave PCM (WAV) 16-bit mono ... (38988 Bytes)
    End of tape[/FONT]
    zx128k zx128k October 2006 Emulators
  • How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…

    ... red "Record" icon in the tape deck (Ctrl+Alt+Space)
    square "Stop" icon (Ctrl+Space)
    Black Hole Black Hole October 2006 Emulators
  • Tapefix - *unlisted* UtilityWhen I was struggling to fix my *old* tapes, I stumble upon an (shareware) utility called tapefix. The URL is: [url]http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~arsen/tape…

    No I haven't yet. But I'm working on it. I'll put the wave into Soundforge 7 to see what can I do for it.

    Btw. What's the best sampling rate for tape signal editing?
    Arda Arda October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... colour in an 8x8 pixel square but this program puts 8 ... in each 8x8 pixel square.

    [quote]
    Same ... a PC and export a tape image afterward that can be ... . If you are starting from square one, it will be months ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
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