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Troubleshooting my +2To put this in context: a while back (i.e. late last year and earlier this year) I was looking to put together a compilation of modern Spectrum games…
... /> [quote="1024MAK;925686"]Most (but not all) DRAM chip faults, take ... programs crashing during, or after loading, is an error in the ... the right output to make tapes with. With the standard Windows ... of use for, were it not for one problem - I don ... -
ZX Spectrum +3 repairI have my first +3 here, and it needs repairs. Hoping someone here can help me out. When I power it on I get this screen with black and white line…
... receiving muffled sound so tapes wouldn't load at ... +3. Unfortunately, it has not proven to be the case ... sold as "for parts or not working", alongside a joystick ( ... and also whether or not their load from tape ... able to test this one loading from tape as well, ... -
Reviving a Microdrive (and its notoriously fragile media)eBay has been getting a [i]lot[/i] of business out of me lately, which brings me to this... Context: some years ago I bought a job lot of Spectrum…
... there were two boxes of tapes all at 10p each. Some ... a "too big" message. Loading the code directly caused it ... two bags of assorted Spectrum tapes which don't have ... I've got some chewed tapes in the "assorted" bag, ... it's not as if too many of these tapes will ... -
Tape loading on harlequinHi guys As per other thread I have completed my harlequin 48k build and it's working really well, I have a super card and loaded all kinds and pla…
Well didn't go well not able to actually load anythjing all tapes at different pints stop loading -
TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... WAV of a standard-loading tape is a TZX ... one or two turbo-loading blocks of 5-7 ... (magazine covertapes, I mean, not the Spectrum itself). Only this ... was probably not at fault. The Your Sinclair tapes I've ... been sampling to WAV (and not, I ... -
Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…
... entering The Twilight Zone. Tapes 9 and 10 contain ( ... I'd previously identified as not working on my +2, ... (and it will probably not be as simple as swapping ... , because of the longer loading times of these, for the ... none of the remaining tapes have six games per ... -
Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…
... for the descriptions of the tapes in between levels, and ... for perfectly capturing... well, maybe not Sir Clive himself, but certainly ... million lightnings (or million not working lamp posts... ZASH), ... said "1984" on the loading screen. Going digging for it ... -
Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…
... beginning. That list is not quite exhaustive, though. And ... has an ending! Not sure what became of ... - more shootacular goodness, not Nirvana but I've already ... I particularly like the loading screen), but whack on ... every other game from tapes 9 and 10, as ... -
+2B DatacorderHello all, I am looking for some advice/guidance as to what could potentially be at fault with my speccy +2B. The datacorder works in terms of all it…
... 48k spectrum loading attempt) but the datacorder plays the tapes. I have ... appear to be broken or not attached to the circuit boards ... -
Frankie's ZX Spectrum DigoutsWell, time has come to contribute :-) I got this huge collection of pirat tapes I bought from someone over here in Denmark in the late 90s, a tota…
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[b]Filetype ... code only game includes a loading screen, which states that it ... 153 done. Will not find 8 gems on all tapes, on some ... -
Frankie's ZX Spectrum DigoutsWell, time has come to contribute :-) I got this huge collection of pirat tapes I bought from someone over here in Denmark in the late 90s, a tota…
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[b]Source:[/b] Not original tape
[b]Filetype ... Interface crack without loading screen, and that awful loading finish :-( But ... on those Load ‘n’ Run tapes were on WOS. Are any ... there a place were these tapes are online, an Italian site ... -
Flying Shark - Maximum firepower PokeI'm playing Flying Shark again and it's difficult! The tip shop has pokes for immunity, extra lives etc. but these make it too easy. So does anyon…
... /> line 70: should be "1e9" not "ie9"
line 100: the ... DATA statement should be 168, not 18.
So I ... I've noticed that with tapes set to fast load then ... deployed, but work fine when loading with normal speed - you can ... -
Why do we do it?I was sitting down thinking just now, why am I so into this Spectrum retro scene thing? Better than that why are there so many of us into the retro s…
... "][quote="Scottie_uk;951529"]Tapes are bad for you, not only will the ... /> [/quote]
Ah, tape loading error! Return, return return!, break ... -
TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... .g. for one of the tapes the right channel was obviously ... - just like you, I did not want to paste together different ... what I remember was it loading with red and cyan bars ... -
TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... some tapes all in one go because anything which switches loading schemes ... see instructions such as "do not use the TZX Beautifier on ... 're using etc. I'm not good on the actual terminology ... to see if the emulated loading variation affected it.
Sinclair User issue 127: Great Eight 16 - what happened?I've been trying to make sure I have an as-near-to-complete-as-possible collection of Crash, Sinclair User and Your Sinclair covertapes (at least as …
... package...
...were it not for Hacks Amazing.
loading (it shows up on the ... [/i] time, because I'm not dealing with a Distribution Denied ... of trying to preserve the tapes as digital copies a decade ...Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... been learned so far (well not much Maths - but I ... to loading it the old way. I did not expect ... useful as some tapes just do not like or work ... with certain recorders and the tape loading ... on them . Newer recorders do not.
5) ...Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... dots!) All the other tapes/sides are the Modules ... up all those tortuous tape loading times.
... TZX but this could not be determined till the ... . And success could not be determined until the ... old school" tape loading a tape loading error could be ...Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... to work well with computer tapes . There were millions ... buy a tape recorder for loading computer games. (eg from ... easily . And I was not finding this out till ... that later recorders do not often have.My old ... if each module has not been individually tested (just ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
I use original tapes quite often, too (to tell ... as audio for Spectrum - reliable loading plus all the niceties of ... much more (=too) quickly and not really playing any of them ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
Did you mean actual physical tapes then ?
I thought ... referring to emulators using speed loading.
I don't ... speccies to facilitate storage/speed loading. I did have a vague ... , it is tape loading as I've not had time to put ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... but still quite expensive tapes Earlier in this thread ... with old school tape loading?In other words is ... one of those "difficult" tapes to load.I do know ... tape so it does not matter much if one ... . MIA does not mean totally unavailable: rare tapes can still be ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... would then prevent any game loading, not to mention a music track ... to mediculously index all my tapes with the counter positions - ... 'wander' and end up not quite reading correctly leaving me ... found it so reliable at loading those tricky recordings. Whenever I ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... dodgy but still quite expensive tapes Earlier in this thread it ... associated with old school tape loading?In other words is there ... place . MIA does not mean totally unavailable: rare tapes can still be ... hole lot difference with certain tapes I never let go of ...Special mono tape recorders for Micro owners of the early 1980s So what were the KEY FEATURES of these machines that separated them out from the normal mono tape recorders ? I cannot really remember- but I have …
... for the "almost mute tape loading sounds" feature . Was it called ... type of recorder.I do not think the "speed pitch control ... is really useful for computer tapes so this maybe this is ... can this feature be excluded? (not sure).
But "data ...Special mono tape recorders for Micro owners of the early 1980s So what were the KEY FEATURES of these machines that separated them out from the normal mono tape recorders ? I cannot really remember- but I have …
... ideal, isn't it?
Not that bad for an integrated ... should have been great at loading tapes. :-? )
When is someone ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... @stard! We couldn't afford tapes and heads never mind the ... own programs or remember the loading noise from a more wealthy ... I tell thee. We could not afford a TV, so we ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... peripheral marketing extras that did not ,in practice , make a lot ... seemed to be good for loading Speccy tapes and TZXing etc .Need some help building a cable for Spectrum 128k +2 to US Commodore 1084S-PHello WoS users! Does anyone have a diagram detailing how to build a cable to go from the Spectrum 128k +2 (grey) to a Commodore 1084S-P (US version…
... , nor do the loading bars show - and indeed no tapes load. Now ... Sinclair light gun but am not sure what games might support ...If the ZX Spectrum AND the Commodore 64 were not available which 8 bit computer would you have got?Following on from the “[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/218/your-favourite-machine-apart-from-the-spectrum/p1"]Your favourite …
... Emulator and it does not appear to support tapes ? Mind you having ... seen a YT vid of a loading screen loading ...
