-
USB cassette decksI've been preserving my ZX81 tapes using a combination of a portable (not walkman) cassette player, Hi-Fi amplifier, ground loop filter and iMic, whi…
The place I work at has this, :) [URL="http://www.clifford-james.co.uk/online.cfm/music-and-tv/tape-to-mp3-converter/68/yes/52431"]http://www.clifford-james.co.uk/online.cfm/music-and-tv/tape-to-mp3-converter/68/yes/52431[/URL] :D -
Crash Issue 1 and full colour Spectrum Games BiblesHaving a big sale, everything 99p starting price... [URL]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/everythingpasses/m.html[/URL] (And yes its my wifes account so she …
... postal stuff worked they try to screw you on postage. the ... never resends the stuff back to you
there ... used a small bit of tape to seal it.
packaging ... not much more for me to send 6 games as it ... on my stuff for me to send 1 game.. it's ... -
C15 TapesAnyone have some for sale? used would be ok ( cheaper) :p
... first he didn't respond to my emails (said it was ... about another. He has loads to get rid of. I ended ... a fiver and he offered to send 4!
He ... which he can load with tape to order. Also look out for ... -
Damaged Tapes?I have a bunch of spectrum tapes that I'd like to convert to emulator formats. I tried copying one or two, first as MP3s and then using a couple of d…
... you tried any other tapes to check whether it's not ... 'd try an old audio tape to see if it sounds like ... it ought to.
Also, have ... them to the end of a side and then flipping the tape ... for that as it seems to fast forward better than my ... -
Jet Set Willy and the Speedlock loaderHi everybody, I'm building a Manic Miner/JSW tribute site (yes, another one) and I was missing my original copy of Jet Set Willy. It's buried in my …
I've uploaded scans and a dump of my tape to my very-very-work-in-progress website:
[url]http://www.retroreview.com/iang/ManicMiner/[/url]
Click on "Spectrum" under "Jet Set Willy" and you'll see the scans... -
BusySoft Demos, Melody Music and Music Player TZX/TAPsHi! Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but let's try anyway: [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/taps/misc/busysoft-tzx.zip"]Here[/URL] are …
Thanks Martijn,
These loaders are in fact very interesting and worth preserving.
And the demos had nowhere to go with Demotopia abandoned and Russians converting everything to .trd. -
What am I doing wrong with loading?I recently got my Spectrum working, but I'm having troubles loading games. I plug a cable from my computers soundcard out to the Ear port, type LOAD …
I guess I should buy a tape to see if there's a problem with that, or maybe try another cable. -
Spectaculator Load/Save?Hi Any Spectaculator users here who can tell me if or how it is possible to save/merge/load programmes/code/data to HD rather than having to do a ful…
... LERM tapes trying to use it to back itself up, ... ,
nor will recording to TZX AFAIK.
Tape Recording->Insert Tape for Saving (to TAP, ... not ? Is to be able to save to a TZX as ... you had a master tape to generate a custom loader, ... -
Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... Tires requires the pulse to be generated to load, but it looks ... in the middle of a tape to be generating edges. Maybe that ... the tape2wav tool to respect polarity information from the tape file. At ... start looking at enhancing audio2tape to cover some new loading ... -
Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... added PZX read support to libspectrum and had the ... Tires requires the pulse to be generated to load, but it ... in the middle of a tape to be generating edges. Maybe ... pulse or a trailing pause to be added?
[/ ... could get certain tapes to load. Don't remember ... -
Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... the middle of a tape to be generating edges. Maybe ... in emulator if the tape playback stops right there, ... if you have the tape set to repeat mode? Or ... and stop the tape whenever I hit tape end. The ... tape2wav tool to respect polarity information from the tape file. ... -
Relatos De Ahion ... how do you?[strike]I got the Luna emblem-thing and the fire but can't seem to be able to figure out what to do next. The dark room continues to be dark. I was…
... minor bug, which was going to be fixed in the cassette ... version that Beykersoft planned to release...
Glad you enjoyed ... I would love to have this game in tape to play it, as ... would be a new adventure to complete (I dont remember most ... -
Extract files from TDR file?I want to extract a file(s) from a trd file under dos/windows. I found some utilities that convert to trd and to extract from other formats but I co…
... I want to extract a file(s) from a trd file ... under dos/windows. I found some utilities that convert to trd ... and to extract from other formats ... [/URL][/QUOTE]
TRD/SCL plugins for TOTAL COMMANDER ... -
i think its quite strangejust talking in a thread on the sheff forum about old sheff bands from the 80s etc and the manager of one "eat dont hula" wants to hear a 7" of their…
Tell them that tape-to-tape copying is killing the Sheff band scene.
Don't give up your (theirs) goods that easily. -
how many of you are still loading tapes?I have a DiVide but recently for fun, I bought a huge box of Spectrum game tapes I was wondering how many of you are still using tapes to play games?
I have to say that so far I have found tape to be the most reliable method of loading onto any spectrum. -
Lunar Jetman for iPhoneHi. You will find this classic game for iPhone here: [I]link removed - denied game!![/I] The video to show the game in action is here: [I]link r…
... to play these games but the only way is by tape ... Ultimate game then ? On tape thats about 50p on ebay ... fact i cant pay anything to legally play their games ... and doing deals with them to get their games out ... a lot of red tape to get to someone to say yes its ... -
ELITE - HelpI've recently bought a Zx Spectrum 48k rubber key and had to pay for it fixing even though it was advertised on ebay as being in good working order a…
... spectrum switch do on your tape recorder?
Is it ... is, try recording without switching to spectrum. It may be distorting ... short 10 PRINT"HELLO" program to tape to test it, become one with ... -
ELITE - HelpI've recently bought a Zx Spectrum 48k rubber key and had to pay for it fixing even though it was advertised on ebay as being in good working order a…
... spectrum switch do on your tape recorder?
Is it ... is, try recording without switching to spectrum. It may be distorting ... /> all my old games seem to load.
[quote]
... short 10 PRINT"HELLO" program to tape to test it, become one with ... -
Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…
... version) tape,and it loads until it gets to the end ... in 128k (other side of tape) to no avail (does the ... your Spectrum or with the tape itself.
... test the tape with his/her equipment to see if ... s the case, then the tape is probably faulty.
... -
Microdrive using simple coilWhile listening to my iPod using cassette car adapter I came to idea - why not doing the same for the microdrive? Anyone ever tried that? Do you thin…
... ...
Due to the nature of the tape content being sector ... based it would be tricky to put ... holds the end of the tape to the start so that might ... trying it? Unlike a cassette tape, I have no idea what ... -
Snapshot saves = cheating?Do you consider using snapshot saves as cheating? Obviously most modern games allow you to save anywhere but speccy games were designed to be played …
... version of Gauntlet would take to complete in one sitting.
to walk through walls, but even ... PLAY ON TAPE', to later find the tape had come to the end. Now ... ? I didn't even get to see the games ending sequence ... -
Snapshot saves = cheating?Do you consider using snapshot saves as cheating? Obviously most modern games allow you to save anywhere but speccy games were designed to be played …
... PLAY ON TAPE', to later find the tape had come to the end. Now ... ? I didn't even get to see the games ending sequence ... -
Z80 Assembler for MicrocassettesDoes anyone know of any assembler that can generate .mcr microcassette binaries? Pasmo only generates regular cassettes, and since i am going to try …
... no assembler that converts directly to mdr format, there are tools ... like Arda's Snap2Tap tool to convert your snapshot into ... standard Microdrive commands to save your file from memory/tape to the drive ... SJASM then convert your output to a microdrive, as you ... -
Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…
... later on you had to get past the protection.[/ ... asked if you wanted to save a copy of ... was much more reliable than tape to tape copying.[/QUOTE]
... always there, they seem to serve no useful purpose, and ... d played Doom, so to me W3D seemed very ... -
Emulator that breaks on TZX tape stop?Is there an emulator that will break/pause on TZX tape stop, so I can save a snapshot before it redraws the display? TIA!
Ah I was playing with that last night and it didn't seem to do that. Perhaps I need to add a Stop Tape to the TZX file I was using it with to get it to work. -
007 transmaster[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017734[/url] 007 trans-master it's listed as.. today I got the book for it. and there is no …
kk cheers fog
would really love to get my hands on it as it would be a great help with my properly transferring games from tape to the +d (i know i could just make snapshots but i wanna do it properly and not cheat lol) -
The Guild & The Adventure WorkshopI'm trying to help over on the Gamebase64 site with clearing up a few adventure-related questions. Maybe someone in here can help? - Did The Guild e…
... me misreading due to the font and actually refers to "TRD" i.e ... -
Disc rotThis is happening to me more commonly,despite taking care of cd's/dvd's they decide not to play all sudden,i don't bother using the data recovery sof…
... I don't have to get up to change a disc, ... where a girlfriend wanted to watch some soppy chick ... DVDs especially when it comes to doing backups. For instance ... device that records video to some kind of storage). ... of any kind, to tape, to DVD-R, to hard disc, was ... -
Casstte 50 compilation emulator game questionHi - Hope this is the right place to put this question? Wasn't sure? But I have just downloaded the 'Cassette 50' compilation from wos but can't w…
... them?!
I am off to try ALL the cassette 50 ... were good for budding programmers to try n learn code, even ... a follow up tape! hehe I'd actually love to emulate my ... old games but all the tape to computer sound stuff is beyond ... -
Unlisted game - The Battle of MaidaI've just moved back the the UK and unearthed a game called "The Battle of Maida". I really loved this game back in the 80s and I believe a friend of…
I dug out the tape and my old walkman, extracted ... but it won't seem to go into MakeTZX nor directly ... at reading the tape then I'd happily mail the tape to them.
