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Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... pulse detection from the un47 loader. Seems to be now [I]very ... it's tape drive is knackered. Going to have to fix that ... now; if you can record to tape and successfully load it via ... probably representative of trying to copy Alkatraz tape-to-tape back in the day ... -
Football ManagerHello! I don't know if anyone will remember 12 months ago when I released 'Football Manager Revisited', an update of the 1982 Football Manager with …
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Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... by any emulator that emulates tape input. You just need a ... +3DOS header to the file, then create a disk image using cpmtools ... .dsk" and my disk would be ready to load up.
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Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... played back from real tape, or via a tape to line-in interface ... with a +2. Symptom is that the loader ... never syncs to load any data blocks ... baud by recording to tape, then playing that tape back to the +2. ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... need to work as well as possible with any old random tape ... the same territory as casual tape-to-tape copying back in the day ... using a WoS-developed custom loader?
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Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... are a couple of loader-related anecdotes in [URL ... BYTES-with-different-timings loader on R-Type, but ... they'd sent the tape to somebody to be sorted out. This ... the somebody turned out to be David Aubrey-Jones ... Activision had simply wanted to Speedlock R-Type from ... -
.z80 files load faster than .tap or .tzxHello again, I was wondering why the majority of games can be downloaded as .tap or .tzx but not as snapshots (.z80 or .sna). It takes about 5 minut…
... preserve the data on the tape or disk they came from.
to ultimately get all of the ... much as was needed to get tapes to load - like a real ... , it takes many minutes to load a tape. Newer and better emulators ... -
A few questions about ZX Spectrum assemblyHi, I have a few questions about ZX Spectrum assembly language programming: - What's the best assembly tool for ZX Spectrum? I tried a bit the ZXSpi…
... trying to convert some games from tape to +3e "friendly" disk loaders) ... There are another bugs related to debug window, when you ... disk write protection, being unable to write to +3 disks (but still able to ... write to ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... a short basic loader which copies ROM loader to higher RAM and ... code to 23296 using counter loader and jumps to it.
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Ahh... The Tape Loading Era! - Uber cool demo ... streaming from tape!
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Significant machines by yearI'd roughly divide Spectrum's hardware history into four periods: Sinclair (1980 to 1985), Amstrad (1986 to 1988 ), Russian (1989 to 1996) and Homebr…
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+3 with dead expansion portI bought a +3 from a WoS user. So far, the computer works as expected, but when an interface (e.g. DivIDE (configured correctly) or Multiface3) is co…
... tried to load 128k programs using a tape recorder or floppy disk? Some ... your RAM is working correctly. To do so:
- ... /> Just be sure to remove any diskette from the disk drive, as ... these tests will try to write some data to disk. -
Games Collecting - Why?Inspired by seeing a Sinclair MacMillan educational title sell for ?315 I thought I'd try and understand why people collect Spectrum Games. Is it fo…
I like to play the games I have ... dual disk drive 'Thanks ben' with the tape leads rigged up to my ... files. Then I convert them to disk :D Awesome!
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Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... red wires soldered in to feed power to disk drive etc). No smoke ... out the connections? I seem to recall strange "zaaaap" followed by ... an input signal on the tape output line. This "feature" is ... chips are suspect to be honest. Send it to Spirantho, Ian is ... -
Navy Seals - Space Invaders[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=745356"]Thanks to gorski[/URL], I've just been playing the +3 disk version of Navy Seals…
... ;745402]Is it in +3 disk version only?
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... are there in both the tape and disk releases.
... be side B of the disk or cassette.
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Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... second short basic loader all is ok ... from ram to disk and then tried my loader again ... but it crashed.
Do I just need to ... RAMTOP) = old RAMTOP
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Are there any custom +3 DOS file systems?I'm looking to see if there are any custom +3 DOS disk file systems available rather than the 40 track, 9 sector, 512 bytes/sector (I think that is r…
... the sectors were mapped so disk access speeds were optimised, something ... that would do was write to tape, a sector by sector, track ... . It would allow you to restore back to disk, a perfect working copy ... up a +3DOS legal floppy to tape and back again for use ... -
fitting an internall driveI just bought a kit that will allow me to use a 3.5 inch floppy drive on my +3. I was wondering could I fit it internally instead as the inbuilt drive
... you have to be prepared to do some modding ... means you either have to change/modify the ... are unable to load from tape using the LOADER menu
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Z80 onto floppy diskGoing to install a 720k disk drive onto my +3 and I was wondering is there any program out there that I could use to read snapshots from floppy disks…
... can transfer dsk files to real disk, Samdisk and CPCdiskXP. ... use the +3 internal disk floppy to transfer images. I ... RS232 and dump it to disk, but no one has ... there is a Z80 snapshot loader that may work in ... 45 (you'll need to convert them using other utility ... -
RAM7 in 128K modelsWe are developing a game with lots of contents and we have already filled up RAM1, RAM3, RAM4 and RAM6. I was wondering if there's any problem in us…
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RAM7 contains data related to disk and files, but is not ... the disk is not in use (your program loads from tape), you ... may use RAM7. After loading from disk (and ... [/U] finished with disk. Also, you only need to make room for ... -
Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... returning to basic to save the unpacked game code back out to disk so ... I could use the original disk loader and that ... crashes too. I will need to check ... -
Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... . It seems that paging needs to be locked before launching the ... my old Ghouls'n'ghost loader...[/QUOTE]
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A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…
... won't be able to load from disk), machine code will ... ll need to use DD_L_MOTOR_OFF (or an out to $1ffd) to switch ... can return to the loader after depacking the loading picture to continue ... DD_L_MOTOR_OFF in the loader after I complete all disk activity and ... -
Software to transfer tapes to PlusD discThe CPC had dedicated software to transfer Speedlock games to disc... Are there any programs to do this for the faithful Speccy? Thanks.
... one of the lerm packs to do it but as far ... you need to save it all to tape then transfer it to disk after and ... /> what games were you wanting to transfer to the plusd? -
Emulator TZX multiloader help neededHi all, not sure this is the right thread, I use ZX32 as my emulator of choice, but have tried others to see if it is emulator specific. How can I lo…
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[*]Press ENTER on 128 Tape Loader menu option
[*]Loads Program ... keyboard controls)
[*]Message REWIND TAPE TO START OF SIDE 2 THEN ...
[*]Message START THE TAPE (no need to press PLAY button)
writing incrementally to tape without leadersI want to be able to write intermittently & incrementally to some sequential medium which is supported on any Spectrum (emulator, ie. tape); eg. [cod…
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The simplest thing to do is to convert the program into ... [/I] thing to do is probably to write it out to disk on +3 ... , which doesn't have the kinds of limitations tape ... does. From there it's trivial to take the ...dumping protected BASIC loadersI wrote this a few weeks ago but forgot to post it. It will load & list from tape/TAP/TZX any BASIC program which has been saved with SAVE, including…
... para +3" is an upgrade to the former program. It lists ... from tape or disk (options 1 and 2).
- Save to tape or disk (options ... available at a site devoted to spanish magazines listings, but they ...the worlds longest game tape ?just curious if there is a known title... as I was looking at multimixx 4 and that has gauntlet 1 / 2 and deeper dungeons and it reminds me of an ata…
... longest [i]single load[/i] tape I've ever come across ... data than the entire RAM (to ensure that they won't ... "void" in the tape to decode their own loader. If the game was ... of 128k (unless you want to include extra blocks), so every ...ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…
... me to keep you up-to-date, to prevent ... Now I try to implement conditional sections ...
Well, not enough to load and compile some of ... tape or disk file:
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ZX-Assembler is now already able to ...DSK version of Terramex?I'm trying to make a DSK version of Terramex, but game refuses to load. The problem is probably in a protected loader (302 bytes), but I wasnt able …
... second block to disk, and used a loader "inspired" by the loader of Spellbond ... from 32768 to 49152. The second one disables the disk cache on ... , does a pause to allow the disk motor to stop and then executes ...DSK version of Terramex?I'm trying to make a DSK version of Terramex, but game refuses to load. The problem is probably in a protected loader (302 bytes), but I wasnt able …
... second block to disk, and used a loader "inspired" by the loader of Spellbond ... from 32768 to 49152. The second one disables the disk cache ... does a pause to allow the disk motor to stop and then executes ... a call to 29184 after first block in loader and still ...
