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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…

    ... anything, it is effectively making a NEW format. None of ... blocks IIRC, which presumably anyone writing a ZX-81 emulator would have ... , there is a possible divide between emulator and tape utility authors. ... without fuss. If a user downloads a TZX from WoS and ...
    Laser Laser April 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... />
    Impossible from a tape recorder and probably a CD player too. [I ... [/I]possible in emulation from a tape image file.

    ... changing the speed of the loader depending on which byte ... I've never seen a custom loader do anything except fixed ...
    Woody Woody May 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... /No switch to indicate a Spectrum or a ZX81 format at the ... br /> Not really... kinda. (For a start, the file format makes ... both Spectrum and ZX81 tape images, that's a good thing. It ... built-in knowledge of Spectrum tape loader timings, because those are always ...
    gasman gasman May 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... stores all the tape data for standard loader programs (and indeed ...

    The tape recorder is a separate instance and i ... be recorded in PZX with a moderately reasonable representation / file ... them as soon as a custom loader is encountered which breaks ...
    Kio Kio May 2007 Emulators
  • Thinking aloudLooks like Im finally going to get some free time soon, so I started thinking about doing some speccy stuff again. Its been about 23 years since I h…

    ... you could use a second flash to transfer tape of disk ... wanted to use an physical tape you have you plug ... your tape drive in and can ... (loads just like a tape) and an image as a seperate part on ... 2 secs you could be writing programs etc.. With you ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... involve getting the data into a spectrum specifically.....in which ... data does not belong in a tape file format.[/QUOTE]
    < ... the timings for the exact loader used regardless of the small ... variations on a particular instance of the tape), and then ...
    Fred Fred May 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... [QUOTE]Kraplock2 - Woodys loader
    Contended Loader - Woodys loader again, needs quite some ... format. If I invented a loader which used a 257 character alphabet, ... can't think of a loader that couldn't be ... in ANY ZX Spectrum tape that could be encoded ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... duration, which would limit a puls duration to 9.4 ... And if you have a real low frequency signal which ... there are rarely sounds with a sub-microsecond precision, so ... per pulse anyway. And a nice thing would be, ... 't occur in any real tape loader. And, erm yes, it ...
    Kio Kio May 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... days I can remember using a program called Transfer Express.
    tape to microdrive tranfer". After that ... , just for the ones with a simple loader.

    The easiest ... don't think there is a way to transfer multi level ...
    gtsamour gtsamour May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    In the basic loader there's a line containing 'CLEAR 0 : RANDOMIZE ... calculate those. It calls the tape loading routine that's stored ... .dsk version also runs a disk loader in machine code. If you ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2007 Games
  • Transfer to tape from PCHi all, A few years ago I had a program on the Amiga that would take a Spectrum game and save it out via the serial port to a cassette tape player. T…

    ... your SNA file is now a turbo loading TZX! It's ... good indeed! Put this to tape as before.[/QUOTE]

    tape loader machine code program ?

    Gods Gods June 2007 Hardware
  • dsk images problemHi all I am having a bit of a problem. I use WinTZX0.8A to get programs from my PC to my Spectrum+2B (not using the +3 as I am waiting for a new dri…

    ... images to tape - because it's a disk image and not a tape image ... ]files [/B]onto tape, so it's a manual process. and ... to be unprotected, or a simple protection that only hides ... files, and alters the loader to look in the right ... shouldn't work from tape too.
    guesser guesser July 2007 Hardware
  • Speccy emulators on Mac OS X (Tiger)Need an easy to use Speccy emu for my Mac. That's it.

    ... /distributions/]ZXSP[/url]. It's a lot more consistent in terms ... the Tape Loader, makes using TZX files good fun rather than a nuisance ... . It's neat having a usable screen ...
    Whomper Whomper July 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    Hi Patrik,

    i have updated zxsp to load pzx version 1.0.
    can you please post a link for some example files to test the tape loader?

    ... kio !
    Kio Kio August 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... post a link for some example files to test the tape loader?[/QUOTE ... if you could give it a try, at least I would ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak August 2007 Emulators
  • Emulation vs SpecApologies if this is an old thread, what does anyone think is the best - playing spectrum games through emulation or on a real speccy? I feel it's b…

    ... if it needed features of a Pentagon, etc). And these days ... to be loaded from tape (I have a choice of DivIDE or ... MB02+), unless there's some clever loader ... Israeli Demo I think had a wonderful tape-loader).

    So... emulators ...
    icabod icabod August 2007 Games
  • Mia - Database Ii 48k/128kAfter 20 years all my Sinclair hardware and software is out of the loft for an airing, my 128K has been kindly repaired by 'Phu', im going to have a …

    ... tape, wasn't an easy conversion to TZX, it uses a custom loader ... . We managed to make a TZX using Taper ... helped us refine the timings a bit.
    Anyway it's ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • +3 and 3.5 Floppy Disk DriveCan anyone please help ?. I have a +3 with a faulty Floppy Drive and have a couple of spare 1.44 IDE 3.5 HD Floppy Drives. Does anybody know of a…

    ... and off, then just a switch connected across those pins ... instead of a wire link would suffice.< ... them together, or solder a switch in, and do ... Many thanks

    If a micro switch was attached to ... Hanging and allow the tape loader to work ?
    Martin Baugh Martin Baugh September 2007 Hardware
  • +3 and 3.5 Floppy Disk DriveCan anyone please help ?. I have a +3 with a faulty Floppy Drive and have a couple of spare 1.44 IDE 3.5 HD Floppy Drives. Does anybody know of a…

    ... ]Many thanks

    If a micro switch was attached to ... the drive to close when a disc was inserted and open ... from Hanging and allow the tape loader to work ?[/quote]

    a carriage/slot thing moves it ...
    guesser guesser September 2007 Hardware
  • Tau CetiThe zip of the [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/t/TauCeti.tzx.zip]original release[/url] of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    ... no 128k version on the tape.

    Micronaut One may ... at, rather than it being a turbo loader.

    Cheers
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2007 Infoseek database
  • Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…

    ... try the save to disk/tape options, and save 16384 bytes ... is that the interface uses a custom loader and the copies only ...
    odious odious October 2007 Hardware
  • Fastest Baud Rate On A Loader ?Following on (sort of!) from the thread about the best loading.... Which game(s) had the fastest (highest baud rate) ? I seem to remember a couple …

    ... how the loader discriminates between the long pulse (actually, a long mark ... just play a tape at 2x speed and expect the standard loader to ... work. If you understand at least a modicum ... wouldn't be suitable for a tape where you can't guarantee ...
    Winston Winston October 2007 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    Uploaded screen for "Turbo Tape 5".

    From what ... from tape and saves tham out again, but with a custom loader that ... times faster than the standard loader.

    I don't ... it, but I jumped to a routine within it that prints ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …

    ... ]Could I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to ... load the program using the tape loader menu option ?
    Or switch ...
    zx128k zx128k November 2007 Hardware
  • Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …

    On a black 128+, loaded in 128 mode via Tape Loader:

    Frame ... /> zx128k: I believe 128K mode (Tape Loader) is the one Philip's ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Hardware
  • Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …

    ... ;224807]On a black 128+, loaded in 128 mode via Tape Loader:

    That's obviously a bit wrong, but the results ... thinks it's running on a +3... Must revisit that bit ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall November 2007 Hardware
  • Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …

    On a grey +2, loaded in 128 mode via Tape Loader from real tape:
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous November 2007 Hardware
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... was something wrong with the tape.

    Anyone else do ... 128k+2 for Christmas and a friend brought round his copy ... seen which used a turbo loader and I stopped the tape in front ...
    alaggan alaggan November 2007 Games
  • Games on a D80 based systemHi everybody..... I need to satiate my urge to play Knight Lore. Never did finish that game. To do so I need a good way of getting it onto at least…

    ... /> To do so I need a good way of getting it ... use a tape, but that's too slow. Or a turbo-loader off a PC ... or TZXs onto a D80 disk? Is there a way? I can ...
    velesoft velesoft November 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games on a D80 based systemHi everybody..... I need to satiate my urge to play Knight Lore. Never did finish that game. To do so I need a good way of getting it onto at least…

    ... program onto the disk as a snapshot so you can load ... Didaktik, save the TZX onto tape/CD, load the games ... in RealSpectrum) is to use a tape-to-disk copy program ( ... have to edit the basic loader so it will read ... disk (if it's a loader that uses machine code for ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 November 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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