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Could a Spectrum game loader play music?On the Games forum there's a thread entitled "[I]Which game did you like the loading noise the most?[/I]" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums…
... on the other side of a tape. European countries and capitals featured ... other one would be a +3 disk loader that played music ? but ... -
Fast Z80Todays Spectrums are fast as hell and few software utilises this. Z80 in ReVerSE runs at 42 MHz, in Speccy2010 at 28 MHz, in Pentagon 2.666 and in N…
... , samples, keyboard controll in menus, tape loader routines in ZX rom, etc ... ...[/QUOTE]
There is always a "slow" mode. -
"Jumping Jack" on Kempston Joystick.Hello. I'm new here, so at start I want to welcome everybody :) I'm totally newbie in ZX Spectrum. But I'm still own Timex without cassete player (I …
... work there. So I use tape loader command under 128 model. And ... write under Amiga and X128 a snapshot z80 file and try ... Windows. Can you give me a hint what I can do ... -
Spectrum +2(grey) rf problem not tuning inHi lads, first of all a quick intro. Im a speccy enthusiast in Ireland, had my first speccy when i was seven in 1987(grey +2). Eventually it got repl…
... of all a quick intro. Im a speccy enthusiast in ... rf channel, it showed a blank screen (black diamond ... a very fuzzy background but i could read tape loader ... just about read the tape loader menu but would not ... CINCH-output shouldn?t be a problem.
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Tape loading - blocks with checksumThese were sometimes used for 128K games and had a searching / loading message, ie. Loading Block 08, then if a block didn't load right one could rew…
... ;709470]I think there was a Dinamic loader ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ... Bleepload - pause then rewind the tape for some reset fun... ;) -
New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…
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I can assure ... me mad (I'm finding writing a utility [U]hard[/U]) CGD ... will be out in a few weeks.[/QUOTE]
Excellent Stuff! Is there a law that says all game ... -
Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…
... anyway. Even after a few years, for a bedroom amateur just ... you.
A second computer of any sort ... save it to the tape output and load it ... you didn't need a dedicated bit of hardware ... just used the ordinary tape loader function to receive what the ... -
Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…
... of us had use paper tape...
I only did ... was for rich people) and writing a program in BASIC on paper ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... border; and if the tape is pointed at data during ... the bits decoded from the tape are held). We then ... been found, the tape is sampled in a loop and H ... />
Given that the tape doesn't stop moving, there ... I've got a handle on how a loader works (it basically ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... we are looking for the tape signal to go
... code that calls the loader looks like this:
;; otherwise, there was a tape error
rst 8 ; ... /> defb 26 ; "R Tape loading error"[/CODE]
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Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... insert a longish string of zero pulses (512T in our loader), enough ... L)
;; otherwise, there was a tape error
rst 8 ; error ... ; at this point in the loader, only DE
;; is important ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... this point will result in a tape loading error).
However ... is also where the ROM loader starts failing with my setup ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... at about 60% tape volume.
A couple of observations:< ... tape volume, the pilot/sync detection went fine, but the loader ... almost immediately with a Tape Loading Error. The ROM loader goes back to ... looking for a pilot at ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... almost immediately with a Tape Loading Error. The ROM loader goes back to ... looking for a pilot at this ... loader blocks and it exits with a tape error each time it hits a ... I lack. The ROM loader has such a loop, and I didn ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... ULA, and not something that a loader can do much about. Rather ... pulse and a one pulse.
Take a notional loader that uses ... into the loader, and where the cutoff between a 0 and a 1 ... . And as he increased the tape volume, it got worse; my ... -
Is there an emulator that can "autosnapshot" after loading a tape?The reason i'm asking is that my everyday speccy is a grey +2 with a DivIDE 2k11. Some TAP files simply won't work because of rom checks and other in…
... ?[/QUOTE]
There are a few .tap files I've ... if you save a .z80 snapshot of the 128k tape loader in an ... another - but it's been a while since I tried to ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
Well well, this looks like an encouraging project! I like the 6500 baud potential, and its huge flexibility in terms of control codes embedded during loading makes it a very interesting prospect. The tape loader revival continues!! -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... of payback. The Amstrad CPC tape hardware is almost identical to ... and a different bit). Commodore has hardware acceleration of the tape loader[/QUOTE ... to be viable with magnetic tape, if you can get it ... directly to the Speccy's tape input. That's the approach ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... of a loader - a ROM routine loader (for emulators with ROM traps), a magnetic tape compatible ... turbo with a beautiful loader (for cassette mastering) and a playback ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... anything fundamentally wrong with your loader, just that it's ... today occurred when I made a tape from an Ogg Vorbis ... necessary. The ROM loader timings are conservative for a reason!
... 47loader down a bit? My three requirements for a custom loader are, ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... use 44100Hz, try making a tape using 48000Hz; if you ... a fast loaderr.
No further work on the loader ... about recognizable as a screen, albeit a very rapid one ... .rldecode_run:
ld (de),a ; copy byte
inc ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... 's ready to try on a tape yet? I can beta-test ... on a +2A; no time this evening ... .
Under Fuse, the loader is silent; I guess you ... -
Possible dodgy +2 - resets when loadingSo I have a grey model +2 with a recently refurbed tape deck (new belts and cleaned heads). It might be a product of bad loading, but from what I ca…
... 718753]It might be a product of bad loading, ...
You probably have a problem with the PSU, or ... but reset when using the Tape Loader option.[/QUOTE]
a classic example) don't ... 128K RAM paging until a reset, hence why they ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... if it might be a dodgy tape, I tried Skool Daze ... and Versaload on another tape. Same failure mode in ... br /> I then tried a fast loader that I have had success ... in the past: the loader used by snap2tzx in ... authkey=!AL3kZYxhj17X66c"]Here's a 3000bps TZX file made ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... to release new software using a custom loader? Excellent! Most modern releases ... the standard loader, which I think is a bit of a shame.
tape[/QUOTE]As do I. If ... -
Modding +2 - Tape CounterGot my first Spectrum April this year and I hit 40 in July, was always a Commodore 64 user back in the day and that machine now sits side by side wit…
... back in the day so a tape counter was normal everyday stuff ... then pick up a Technics, Radioshack or whoever tape deck for around ... ?30 (with a counter) delivered ... the main loader on the first side of the tape and then ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... need to turn off automatic tape loader detection, as Versaload uses new ... hardware via TZX playback from a PC:[/B] Last version was ... as of yet, alas. Loader timings were originally based on ... Skool Daze, being a fast known-reliable commercial loader - but we're ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... (but never actually committed to writing a line of code about) for ... loaders is a different encoding scheme, for example ... ) to try and get a higher bit rate without needing ... was already used in my loader for [url=http://www.worldofspectrum ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... my Copious Free Time is a Z80 decoder for [URL= ... as ZX7 (it's a byte-oriented LZ compressor with ... use it over ZX7, but writing a decoder would be an interesting ... the final block is always a chunk of literals to ... wrong, and watch the loader fall flat on its face ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... of articles on a Supertape, a multi-platform tape system that uses biphase ... mark encoding to give a ... it looks like a great start for a speed loader. Relevant magazines are ...
