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Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
I agree with an earlier comment that a ... a lot of the compilation tapes with the games that were a ... totally amazing & have stayed with me for soo long that ... this game to the PC with better graphics/faster response etc ... -
cassette cover scans.Hi, You guys really helped me out last time....i hope you can maybe help here. I am looking for some sort of site where they have good resolution sc…
... buy collections of the original tapes (with inlays) from any of the ... /> I'm not good enough with computers to know how to ... -
Sinclair Light GunAny idea what it actually does? And how you connect it to a +2A?
... AUX port. It also came with the Action Pack which was ... James Bond pack. A tzx with the same name is available ... . Wos says there are three tapes with the Action Pack compilation but ... -
Professional PiracyI was just wondering... Back in the early nineties I tripped into my local John Menzies (Dunfermline) to buy a few Speccy games. Having picked up a …
... eighties that companies were experimenting with these machines in order to ... and stock of thousands of tapes.
I can imagine that ... are not as valuable as tapes with a real inlay and instructions ... -
TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…
... be a format to preserve tapes with perfect precision, Fraser's idea ... -
Do this names sound familiar ?Hello, Since i found WOS (about 2 months ago), i've been looking around for tapes with 48K software. I found some titles, that i've runned on Infosse…
... . Many are simply UK titles with protection removed.
For ... as WAV/VOC then decoding with one of the decoders ? Also ... as I don't transfer tapes with this method.
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loading games the old fashioned wayhello everyone i'm back, my pc broke so i had to save and convince myself to buy a new one,which i did. Anyway i just got spectaculator since i now h…
... interesting to watch the various tapes with this scheme load in a ... sit listening to the tape with NO emulator or Spectrum... just ... 'm tring to decode the tapes into TZX for the latest ... -
Attic Attac - return of the Speccy!I had gone to my hometown over the weekend to my grandma's place. And while investigating the attic, I found a trunk full of Speccy goodies includin…
... damage your soundcard but with a sound editing ... track machines to convert tapes, originally for recording music ... handy for salvaging old tapes with all its little knobs ... you should play the tapes out of your stereo ... on the tapes and very bad tapes can be ... -
ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…
... days... on random clunky old tapes my dad didn't want ... only kept one or two tapes - one with utilites, which I've ... lost (dammit!) and one with type-in games on it ... one of my old Speccy tapes with a few useful programs on ... -
Manic Miner - Different Tape InlaysSo why did bug byte have two different inlays for MM? [ This Message was edited by: mlasham on 2003-07-28 12:38 ]
There are quite a few of those reissue tapes with Spectrum games on one side and CPC games on the other. -
Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…
... an original and was created with a straight tape to tape ... memory were from Altervative tapes...
With regard to distribution, again ... why and subsequently the problems with the other file were corrected ... -
Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…
... should have very little trouble with this.
So, Andy ... made of ten plain white tapes, with only "SPECTRUM GAMES COMPILATION", "TAPE ... /> I may run into trouble with tapes 2, 4 and 10 since ... already in the TZX archive with the black & white ... -
Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…
... made of ten plain white tapes, with only "SPECTRUM GAMES COMPILATION", "TAPE ... -
Frog Hopper/Code Name Mat Dixon's Pack ??I have found this tape in my collection that I can't find a reference to anywhere. It's a compilation of Frog Hopper and Code Name Mat (one game on e…
... /> Eh, how are you TZXing tapes with yer speccy
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Just a straw Poll on Collection size :)And no, this isnt a piss furthest contest, just a simple question, how many collectors are out there ? As for wot a collector is ? Thats a tough one…
... . I'm talking about original tapes, with inlays and boxes, another hundred ... handful of boxes / inlays without tapes.
Anyone fancy coding ... -
Great Fire Of London doesn't work!I've tried to load the TZX file of [I]Great Fire Of London[/I] into several emulators but so far I haven't had any success. The game starts loading, …
... 's recommended way of testing tapes, with Flashloading off etc, and it ... make them more user friendly with emulators...
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TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…
... 't have the tape anymore with the specific loader that I ... , so until we get actual tapes with that I would say lets ... is a wave" block BUT with the possibility of setting BOTH ... -
I think I have some titles not in your archive, but am afraid to ask....I don't venture in here much. I don'd understand it, last time I thought I had some I didn't.... and I am embarrsed to try again... Anyway I have; …
I've since come to a casual agreement to trade tapes with another member of W.O.S for hardware & or console gaming stuff, they will be taking care of any M.I.A's I might come across too. :) -
I think I have some titles not in your archive, but am afraid to ask....I don't venture in here much. I don'd understand it, last time I thought I had some I didn't.... and I am embarrsed to try again... Anyway I have; …
... a casual agreement to trade tapes with another member of W.O ... /> well i have loads of tapes for trade if you are ... -
Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
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Atari (Ya, 8 bits with keyboards)
Dragon 32, 64 ... . It was an MX-400 with plotter printer and tape drive ... 1994. It had some tapes with it, boxed with instructions. THe machine worked ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... of technology - i had fun with it, but that's all ... was a community feel with the speccy with all the magazines and ... playground talking about games, swapping tapes with friends, even a group of ... -
How did you make it load?I used to have great difficulty getting games to load on my old Speccy + and found using superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape…
... , a reference to the 100 tapes with the +2 :). It just so ... finished TZXing the entire 10 tapes.
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How did you make it load?I used to have great difficulty getting games to load on my old Speccy + and found using superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape…
... , a reference to the 100 tapes with the +2 :). It just ... finished TZXing the entire 10 tapes.
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... (Xeno, Agent Orange...) , those with coloured stripes (Defcom, Nether Earth ... />
My set of tapes was with the "+2 Starter pack" - ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
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Playing 2 player with your friends on Bubble Bobble ... you could load up different tapes with it then after buying Sinclair ... -
not INPUT -- 'The Home Computer Course'The Home Computer Course. Published by Orbis in 1984. It's like INPUT in that it's one of those weekly magazine things. Really just an overview of c…
... 2 issues that had free tapes with them. I noticed one has ... -
Archive Bugreports 'NONSENSE IN BASIC, 2020', component #2. Could someone please confirm
... 's some programs on those tapes with a READ C command at ... line 2020, and others with a PRINT followed by arrayed ... -
Spectaculator Cassette RecorderOn the misc section, someone asked about options to play back tzx files apart from TAPER. I gave him the answer that there aren't many. The best I ha…
... successfully loaded a great many tapes with a wide variety of loaders ... -
Spectaculator Cassette RecorderOn the misc section, someone asked about options to play back tzx files apart from TAPER. I gave him the answer that there aren't many. The best I ha…
... successfully loaded a great many tapes with a wide variety of loaders ... -
Opus Discovery Floppy Disk DriveHiya all I've just bought an opus discovery. I have been informed that even though it has a picture of a 48 rubber on the cover, it is in fact the u…
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3D Construction Kit Games?Did anyone out there ever actually write their own Freescape game with 3DCK? And are any of them in the archive? :)
... /> Didn't that actually come with the 3DCK itself? I seem ... it on one of the tapes with the program.
If ... it then it's probably with the 3DCK aswell, unless it ...
