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  • The trials and tribulations of the external tape recorderAnd you may find this a strange topic, because having been a +2 owner for the last 31-and-a bit years, it's not something I've had to deal with in th…

    ... bought one of those new tape recorders from Argos, the ... would have the same tape transport mechanism as every ... and played the Oh Mummy tape into Audacity, and it ... no longer look like a square wave, it's closer to ... of these modern-built tape recorders and had a ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone May 2019 Hardware
  • Research into tape to real spectrumHi eveyone, I am doing research into getting tape files to work on the speccy from an audio port. So you can connect your computer to a real speecy,…

    ... am doing research into getting tape files to work on the ... a real speecy, play a wave file and it loads.
    tape to wave software. it does not ... , this is what a real tape does.

    Still looking ...
    Robin Robin October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • loading programs using taper on a spectrumHello, I have the taper program and a bunch of games in a tzx and tap file format. I'm trying to load them to my spectrum/or make copies on new caset…

    ... soundcard and first save to tape, then tape to speccy). The only ... it to produce sine wave instead of square wave (which is produced by ...
    Mikie Mikie February 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.

    ... a representation of the master tape.

    - Some master ... cassette data output); the tape hardware can stretch or contract ... />
    - So, the tape hardware writing the tape can stretch the signal ... /> It isn't a square wave as the hardware tries to ...
    Anonymous Anonymous July 2002 MIA/STP/SDP
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    ... or the sampled speech in Robocop for example (yes that ... tone being given by a square wave clock signal.

    ... As for outputting a sine wave... no - there just isn' ... range. You can form square waves from sine waves using ... end up with a square wave.
    cyborg cyborg August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... 100 Hz to 11kHz. Accordingly tape recorder electronics typically include filters ... and 1s directly to tape because the tape recorder itself will ... you want to record on tape. This pushes the frequency ... output M cycles of a square wave at 2kHz (or something). ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... waves that make up a square wave by different amounts; this will ... the square wave as it is recorded to tape, making the square edges less square ... ).

    Other waves output to tape ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... emulator or a near-perfect tape. I was thinking of having ... it can reliably write to tape.

    Anyway, the ... by using four different frequency square waves or perhaps 3 bits ... high-resolution measurement of the square wave period length.

    If ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Emulators
  • Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.

    ... to a 25 KHz
    square wave. For emulators to
    mimic ... standard spectrum tape i/o in ROM generates two square waves + pilot ... />
    And to sample said tape i/o you need to ... loading from a real audio tape, well then you'd want ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2005 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... to build this new "compressed square wave" format file type (I love ... 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
  • Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …

    ... but then shifts each sine wave in time differently (phase distortion ... edges in square wave signals, like what are present in tape loading ... get a realiable load from tape through the soundcard. That ... what the state of the tape to soundcard load programs ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Games
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... already stores all the tape data for standard ... /> When playing back the tape recorder renders an audio signal ...
    When recording the tape recorder samples the audio signal ... /> To emphasize the "any square-wave signal": The potentially/hopefully killing ...
    Kio Kio May 2007 Emulators
  • 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 …

    ... " of the signal on the tape is unimportant, the Speccy is ... the tapes have the harsh square-wave sound rather than a more ... />
    Background noise on the tape would mean it would be ... /> If the user stops the tape or something goes wrong, the ...
    Laser Laser October 2007 Games
  • Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…

    ... the notes with 1 bit square wave loading beeps, with the help ... plays well in an ordinary tape anyway.
    Arda Arda December 2007 Games
  • Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…

    ... both the same length on tape so the music plays at ... the notes with 1 bit square wave loading beeps, with the help ... plays well in an ordinary tape anyway.[/quote]

    Best ...
    Woody Woody December 2007 Games
  • Running TZX off an IDE drive? Or streaming from a NAS?Hello. I know about the DivIDE project, and about the ZX Ethernet project, but not how far they've come or what they can do. So: 1. If I have a squ…

    ... because tzx accurately stores the tape as it was originally on ... the original loader in standard tape speed (4.75 cm/second ... be loaded as if from tape. And the tzx stores the ... playback, perhaps something like Compressed Square Wave format would be easier to ...
    FrankT FrankT September 2008 Hardware
  • TZX SuitabilityHi All, Firstly thanks for a wealth of info been a long time since Ive seen those set of rubber keys and symbol-shift and now it back around and we d…

    ... method of extracting the sin wave from the cassette and knowing ... as philip said as a square wave and use the way the ... had the same tape regardless of speed of tape deck?

    Richard_Butler Richard_Butler March 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX SuitabilityHi All, Firstly thanks for a wealth of info been a long time since Ive seen those set of rubber keys and symbol-shift and now it back around and we d…

    ... philip said as a square wave and use the way ... be inconsistent from tape to tape, and tape recorder to tape recorder, even ... rendering of the source square waves from the Spectrum.< ... " of the tape to extract the theoretical master square wave.
    < ...
    Fred Fred March 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Tape loadersi understand how ROM tape loader works but i dont understand why it so 'complicated'. it measure time until two edges in signal appears. why it does…

    ... We're dealing with tape drives of questionable quality here ... pretty decent analogue sine wave. It's a mistake ... Spectrum can only make square wave - square wave is the one thing ... reliable with the crummy tape recorders we had in ... saving and loading from tape.
    Winston Winston September 2009 Development
  • ZxCam videoSomeone has been kind enough to upload a video of [URL=http://itunes.com/apps/zxcam]ZxCam[/URL] loading a picture from an iPhone onto a real Speccy v…

    ... maximum possible amplitude for the tape sound square wave. I'll be submitting ...
    JamesW JamesW March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex 2048 documentsHi, I got Timex 2048, seems to work, but no colors on screen :cry:. Neither TV out, nor Composite works. ULA fault ? It seems TC 2048 uses MC 1377 a…

    ... may try to find different tape recorder, but this I am ... signal present there is a square wave(sort of...).
    retrorepair retrorepair April 2010 Hardware
  • TZX/TAP player for iPhone/iPod Touch?I was wondering if anyone has though about making a TZX/TAP player for the iPhone or iPod Touch. I've converted a bunch of games to MP3 and use my i…

    ... /apps/zxcam]ZxCam's[/URL] tape player internally generates a tap ... the amplitude of the output square wave in an effort to fix ... original, presumably mono-mono, Spectrum tape cables. Loading into emulators that ...
    JamesW JamesW May 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • looking for a tap2wav coded in Python, Perl, Ruby or Luasince some months i started this project - [url]http://nitrofurano.altervista.org/experimental/webcampictureson8bitcomputers/index.html[/url] the pr…

    ... I use to output a tape block as a wav in ... values are unsigned so the square wave trough is 0x0, the peak ... T-states at 0xFF per wave.
    [*]Sync Pulse - 667 T ...
    JamesW JamesW January 2011 Development
  • Code Masters CD on ebay[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330553816486&ssPageName=ADME:X:BOCOR:GB:1123[/url] He's selling it for ? 99.99 but accepts …

    ... .. I do remember seeing a square wave as how the signal was ... I guess :) .

    the tape would be the loader and ... loader , much like say turbo tape on c64.

    joystick ...
    fog fog May 2011 Sales
  • azimuth adjustingum, sorry for these newb questions.. I never adjusted the azimuth for ZX, and it seems to be quite important. Do recording and playing heads have …

    ... idea of using a commercial tape as reference, while it is ... various publishers would use different tape duplicating services, so that even ... very important, because the tape signals are essentially square wave pulses, and the ...
    The_Bert The_Bert September 2011 Hardware
  • BUG in zxspin and SpecEmu - read Loading speed in WAV fileI'm created a new save, but it can run at 44.1 KHz, to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44.1 KHz to 88.2 KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin…

    ... is that typical tape recorders (and the tape medium) only have ... recorders along with good tape medium can get 18-20kHz ... finite bandwidth of the tape recorder, tape medium and the audio ... inter-symbol interference (the square wave gets turned into these rounded ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2012 Emulators
  • BUG in zxspin and SpecEmu - read Loading speed in WAV fileI'm created a new save, but it can run at 44.1 KHz, to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44.1 KHz to 88.2 KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin…

    ... ULA not generate a perfect square wave (a i7 neither)

    The tape reading-speed should not change ... is removed. Put a tape, press play, press the ... only used for not tape tangle. Yes it will ...
    The weight of tape is a big problem on ...
    Z80user Z80user April 2012 Emulators
  • BUG in zxspin and SpecEmu - read Loading speed in WAV fileI'm created a new save, but it can run at 44.1 KHz, to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44.1 KHz to 88.2 KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin…

    ... . If a tape player claims to move tape at the standard ... the player and tapes wear. Tape recorders were designed such that ... in the electronics of the tape recorder, then the physical ... and magnitude of the sharp square wave spectrum. Really fast pulses, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2012 Emulators
  • ISO-Copy - Individual Software revisitedHi folks In another thread about Supertape: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36203[/url] ... we touched on ISO-Copy by th…

    ... need to correctly understand the wave, by direct observation, so ... a naturally shaped wave is highly recommended. It ... file, converts it to a square wave file, and boundaries of ... four standard pilots in this tape throw following timing approximations: ...
    jlsoler jlsoler June 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
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