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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!
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How 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…
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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 ... -
How 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…
... I can get the tape to load I bought off ... decide where I was going to place graphics, buffers, maps ... the tape dedicated to that module.
Used to hate ... would crash, you had to SAVE the source code before ... crash and then you had to load it up again, ... -
Anybody guess...The combined weight of these two items - without the pirated cassettes? [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZX-Spectrum-games_W0QQitemZ320111386244QQihZ011QQ…
... ]... I'd be sorely tempted to get hold of one of ... . Also always wanted to use a VHS tape to store PC or Amiga ... games, but never got round to ... -
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.
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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]
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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 ... -
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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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…
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.
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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 ...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.Emulating the Plus3e in SpinHi. At the weekend I finally got my ass in gear and started to go through my many +3 discs, with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF…
... which does the reverse of tape-to-disc, that would be lovely ... on a +3 to do:[CODE]COPY "A:*.*" TO "T:"
or ... :"[/CODE]so I'm going to have to load up each BASIC ...Emulating the Plus3e in SpinHi. At the weekend I finally got my ass in gear and started to go through my many +3 discs, with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF…
... which does the reverse of tape-to-disc, that would be ... files out en masse. To do this, you might ... be able to use my MSDOS transfer program ... floppy) and copy them to a FAT-formatted floppy ... emulator which writes direct to a floppy would probably be ...Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…
Thanks to the kind RAM chip doner ... chips, I finally got back to the wonderful (C) 1982... ... message. Interesting to note that broken chips did ... some of my stuff from tape to MicroDrive when FOOM! Random ... screen and I'm back to square one, looking at ...Why did Gargoyle Games go downhill?Why plan to do a trilogy? Marsport, Fornax then Gath but then get no further than the first installment and instead bring out stuff like Scooby Doo, …
There later games probably sucked due to diminishing returns, tape to tape meant that games only sold for so long, and the development time for good games probably wasn't worth it.Worm In Paradise/playing text adventuresHi folks I've seen this game highly lauded in many sections of this website and I've been dabbling with getting back into text adventures recently. …
... I think the best way to play the old L9 games ... game into it (not a tape image), and it will do ... charm of waiting for the tape to load and the original colour ...text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
... the code blocks from a tape to a binary file from the ... Tape Creator. You can then import ...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... on programs which convert from tape to disk. I know there's ...How to convert from real tape to TZX?i bet i'm not the first guy to ask this, but i searched the forums and could not find an answer to this question anywhere. what's the best way to co…
... ;211451]It succeed to detect the blocks but ... this, them sample your tape to wav (44100 hz, ... /> I coded Damtape especially to recover old programs self written ... loadable ( or convertible to tap ) in ordinary ... help with DamTape feel free to ask me.
...Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... tools which converted TAP file to Disk directly, but sometimes destroyed ... program, then allow people to uncompress onto their own floppies ... running Transit - a public domain tape to disk utility. Of course, it ... I'd prefer this to be kept to a minimum since I ...Work In ProgressHi folks, Many people ask what is in the pipeline to avoid sourcing tapes/disks/carts that we've either already dumped or have as WIP. They may rem…
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SD5 - Tape to Microdrive Utility Kobrahsoft
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Spectrum / 64 Tape Computing Nr 0 Aackosoft
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