... too. unfortunately i was a tad too young during ... ive had my hands on a real spectrum. i had started again ... in from magazines ( thats a horror to do reading ... provide ( which is great, a real not to be missed sort ... :-/ ) thats it in a nutshell but we will discuss ...

... /> There's been quite a lot of interest. I've ... we're due for a review in Micro-mart soon ... software. I'll get a picture of the cassette ... /> If anyone who writes a game should want their own ... Yepp -- I tested it on a real Spectrum beforehand (well... it gives ...

... . For some bizarre reason, when using the TAPER transfer program, the ... of the header plays at a slightly different pitch. It happens ... /> I think I'll start using a real Speccy to do the transfer ... to everyone who's bought a copy, or is thinking of ...

... /> I prefer playing with a real spectrum not real spectrum. But preservation needs to be ... done.
I still want a ... so that i can make a back up set of my ...

... I tested it loading a real spectrum from a PC so theres no question ... aren't going to have a 128k timing block then maketzx ...

Does anyone have a .sna .tap .tzx of the ... so I can load into a real spectrum.

Any help appreciated ...

... what you'd do with a real Spectrum when the
time comes ... the cassette recorder
- Do a File->New and choose ... that makes sense - there's a fair bit in the online ...

... an enthusiastic poster, a very fine artist and a real Spectrum lover.

Hmm, not an easy one to answer.

R-Type and Operation Wolf for their closeness to the coin-op originals.

But that said, I've been playing both recently on a real Spectrum so that has probably influenced my choices.

if you want the Tap files to load on a real spectrum i think you can convert the z80 files with zx32, but im not sure, or you can use Lunter's Z802Tap

Purist is.......


Loading SPECTRUM games in on a dodgy tape deck, on to a real SPECTRUM, in a room where all the furniture fixtures & fittings is from the 1980's or before!

... in on a dodgy tape deck, on to a real SPECTRUM, in a room where ... ]

My phone is a 1984 analogue job, two-tone ... grey with a nice big receiver and proper ... my taste in lampshades is a large paper ball thing, with ...

... /> Then I got the Spectrum for a Christmas present one year, ... felt somewhat adrift and had a brief flirtation with the ... a PC, and hit the emulation scene. But I still use a real Spectrum ... and real Commodore +4 (C16 compatible ...

... m8, I use a program called Cool Edit ...
I then save as a VOC file. You can use ... />
There's a link to a demo version on Steve ... through MakeTZX. There's a GUI version available which is ... I have a crappy s/card and using a REAL speccy using the line ...

... will ultimately be running on a real spectrum, and trying to find ... by step towards a real spectrum and usuable implementation for a slow 8 ... 't tell me if the spectrum compressor is working correctly. ... br />
I've writen a basic program which is simply ...

For heaven's sake!
A Sprinter is *NOT* a real spectrum. Neither is the PC.
By a real Spectrum I mean a modern computer based on Spectrum technology. With graphics cards, and sound (covox) cards and everything.

... thing you could really call 'Spectrum' technology is the ULA. ... isn't unique to the spectrum. And frankly having meantioned ... /> You can't propose a 'New Spectrum' then bang on about ...
Hence a simple question - just what in your mind is a real Spectrum?

... /> A Sprinter is *NOT* a real spectrum. Neither is the PC.
By a real Spectrum I ... mean a modern ... computer based on Spectrum technology. With ...

... again ;)

"Just because a game works with flashload settings ... work without them or on a real Spectrum".

Road Runner ... above is a prime example. The TZX is ... the data straight into the Spectrum's RAM.

...

You could try CSW V2.0 and CSW Viewer to experiment with tone control until the waves are distinct between '0's and '1's. CSW and maketzx has more chance of reading a cassette than a real spectrum.

... - what I want is a new spectrum: decent computer and decent ... same board. It is still a Spectrum, isn't it.
... sound subsystem and add in a harddrive interface without making ... come up with a better technical reasoning for what a *real* Spectrum is because ...

... comes with a 2 second sample of a guitar chord.< ... at 11.041kHz, allowing a signal bandwidth of 5. ... did, for one). On a PC, you do definitely hear ... who tries this on a real Spectrum as to how noticeable ... be filtered out by the Spectrum's circuitry. At 16kHz, ...

... the C64. If you have a load of emulators (as with ... . It's more ugly than using a real brown machine! Vice is just ...

That's way cool TomCat :) Haven't been able to test on a real spectrum yet, but works pretty cool on Spectaculator in standard loading speed mode - which should be only as good as a decent signal coming from the PC :)

...
Sorry, saw this thread a bit late ;)

Spectaculator renders a TZX with almost cycle-accuracy ... />
A real Spectrum would receive a quantised version at 44kHz ... emulators - these probably rendering a 44kHz stream internally.
...

... 't work when replayed to a real spectrum either (tested).

So ... we need a new WAV/CSW for reference ... timings and we'll get a better TZX out of it ...

Has anyone tried using a DOS Spectrum emulator on the Xbox under ... , but it's surely worth a go. And that way you ... could still use SGD as a front-end, if you wanted ... , but you really need either a keyboard attached to your XBox ...

... that, I load it on a real spectrum :D

DOS doesn ...

... (modified ROM) can read spectrum snapshots directly..

It ... may as well be the real thing, and the timings etc ... ) , and also will require a far less powerful processor - so ... too. Also - it would be a *REAL* spectrum compatible, which is far better ...

I use a +2 mostly. Only have a handful of games for it.


I was using a rubber key 48k with 2 dozen games on a CD walkman to load in, but that died.