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Spectrum - Tape to Tape ;)
Why is PS ... might work for will have to buy this package !!! As they ... -
Anyone still use their Spectrum?I mean, with the quality of emulation available, does anyone still hook up the spectrum and load from tapes? I still have my Spectrum + and it's in p…
... divide ??? But I'll continue to use the real thing instead ... or disk, then connect these to PC and load from it.
ZX-PC has a connection with PC over parallelport and ... />
Disadvantage: You need your PC near your ZX Spectrum.
Got my Wii modchipped todayAnd it's working great. I've tried four "backups" so far, and everyone has worked perfectly. The chip I went for was the [URL="http://www.wiikey.cn…
... clubs were filled with kids tape to taping like rabbits fucking in ... going constantly. It was possible to get every game within a ... games on was a loss to the industry of say ?100 ...Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
There's no reliable way to determine border colour. Basic will ... publishers didn't use this to piracy-protect against the snapshot ... a bit pointless with the tape to tape stuff going on.The Unofficial Official 25th Anniversary celebrations and Website announcement threadAs Martijn's going to be away during the festivities, can people report what they're doing here please, as and when they have something to announce. …
... allowed its members to sign out zx81s to take home for ... I was fortunate enough to live on an airforce base ... pack, attached with duct tape to avoid the dreaded ram pack ... before that I had to write that in loops ... broke causing the wire to make contant with and ...What colour is your lenslok?Mine came from Elite and was red.
... /> I still need to TZX the Mooncresta tape to load into a CPC ... I'll add them both to the [i]Lenskey[/i] list ...Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
... something that left trace when tape-to-taping JSW, but after the ... the game starts, on the tape there's some header beep ... more. Couldn't be arsed to find out what it actually ...Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
You buggers! Now I'm 'loading' in JSW (into an emulator) as if i was playing a tape to see if I DO remember the noises rightly!
It's ALL YOUR FAULT I'm doing this! :pHow did people write large assembler programs on real Spectrums?I have been wondering how people did their development back on real Spectrums. If you should write a large program, there would first be an assembler…
... ...provided I can get the tape to load I bought off Ebay ...New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…
... the protections for fun, not to prevent copying. It would be ... , as you could always do tape-to-tape copy anyway. We in fact ... wanted our programs to get copied, that's also ...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…
... what libspectrum does (for tape files anyway. It ... to the STP team, but they are not file format or tape ... experts nor do they pretend to be, ... has provided technical assistance to the "tape monkeys" for many ... dodgy sample of a tape to a form usable on ...Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... info when Mikie sends it to him.
... were invented almost specifically to be unencodable with the ... Woody's intention was to make loaders which cannot ... is one reason more to have GDB block. Currently ... "tidy" you want the tape to be.
...Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... info when Mikie sends it to him.[/QUOTE]
to see; I'm not ... Woody's intention was to make loaders which cannot ... some made up stuff designed to break things. I again ... how "tidy" you want the tape to be.[/QUOTE]
...Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... has provided technical assistance to the "tape monkeys" for many ... dodgy sample of a tape to a form usable on ... aware that people manage to drop personal statements ... - it is best to just ignore the comments ... /> There is a benefit to looking at the actual examples ...tape to microdrive?not sure where to put this so im sticking it here. how can i convert a game onto a microdrive cart? ive seen some dodgy guy on ebay selling microdriv…
... and selecting from the menu "tape to microdrive tranfer". After that i ... game and it was transfered to the microcassete.
Ofcourse it ... />
The easiest way is to use multiface one or 128 ... think there is a way to transfer multi level loading games ...boulder dash like gamehi, i'm looking for a boulder dash like game, yet i'm not 100% sure it was on speccy. i just remember, (round) stones sometimes fell down althoug…
Repton used to have that feature (some of ... predict where stones were going to fall tho')
It ... least one you can buy to download to PC)
I'm ...Should +2's Be left turned on to save games?Hi, Forgive me for asking you guy's a daft question but, I was just wondering what you think about leaving a Spectrum +2 turned on all the time. The …
Perhaps I will always switch off from now on. After all if I wear out one or two game tapes its not the end of the world I guess, and theres always tape to tape backup!
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SimonCannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
Can you not use Realspec, and convert the normal TZX version to cassette tape, then load that into your +3 or a tape to disk utility?Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... or a tape to disk utility?[/QUOTE]
Tape to disk utilities can ... load it from tape, but I want to save it to +3 disk ... that I don't need to do that everytime I want ...How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)
... /> Then, I used to go to a store where they ... Soft had published. Each tape came with 4 games, ... interested in, go home, tape-to-tape the ones I wanted, and ... payback), and go back to the store complaining that ... ), and I "instructed" him to do the same.
...How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)
Tape-to-tape first (~1989), then I started ...How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)
The main ways were tape-to-tape and using a special copy ... or school mates:
- Tape to tape in case of turbo loading ... of cases.
The tape to tape process was not easy.
Games you wish you'd had the intrsuctions toI would have loved to know what I was supposed to be doing in both Fairlight and The Great Escape
... . There are loads of ways to copy a colour chart nowadays ... day with those pens only to come to a screeching halt at ... its full potential, all down to tape-to-tape copiers. Bastards! :grin:Tape not loading - ideasI have two spectrum 48k rubbers. The tape drive is one that has a data mode and a ph mode. The data mode overrides the volume control. Prior to last…
... br /> The best Method is to spray the sray onto the ... press play on the tape recorder and rub all ... this setting does varie from tape to tape. When you tune this ... you are trying to get the sound as ... something wrong with the tape recorder internally that is ...Has anyone ever tried this (audio cd's)Last night I was having trouble using tape with my spectrum (see hardware thread) But it got me to thinking, about tape issues. I was wondering if …
... Minidisks headphone jack wired to one chanel only. the ... are recorded in mono to double the length of ... /> You can go straight to the arstist you want and ... having to go from start to end on the tape to find ... the characters you want to ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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char *pc; // pc is a pointer to a 1-byte char ... 'is a pointer to'. So, eg, "char *pc" means "pc is a pointer ... we'd forgotten to "pc = &c;" above before "*pc = 'a';" was done ... single-byte char. Adding one to "pc" means move ahead 1 char ...horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
... I find will be donated to the WOS archive. There's ... I did the front end to PLOD too! The menu stuff ... have put the stuff on tape to give to Doug.OT: Commode AmigaYeah don't shoot me....its in chit chat! I won a nice Amiga A500 setup this weekend on Ebay: [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=0…
... actually had ZIV boards to sell with their ZIV ... but as an alternative to FFS SFS is much better ... 76 MB, compared to 1,44 on the PC. There were, ... Amiga floppy drives are different to PC drives. I love the ... Amiga floppys hold more than PC ones (880k DD instead ...Edge top 100 gamesIt's [url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6231&Itemid=2]the top 100 games of all time[/url] from the last 15 years
... it falls way behind compared to Half Life 1 and 2 ... feel like a joke compared to PC FPS games.
