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The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... those who wanna save to tape or play to real speccy (like I ... the quality of the source tape.
At some ... Byteload/Flashload, is it possible to separate these ? I imagine Flashload ... with Real Spectrum (no offence to anyone).
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Amazon SystemsIn the 1980s, my company, Amazon Systems, did quite a few Arcade to Home Computer conversions for Parker Games. The games Panama Joe and Death Star…
Well, I have a couple of tubes of chips, but I'm not sure which is which after all this time. I do know I've got several RAM and Sinclair cart / joystick interfaces. Gyruss never got to tape. I'll get back to y'all. -
New Cronosoft game release - MEGAPLEXJust a case of getting the website updated to take account of the new release...! MEGAPLEX, by Triumph Game Labs, is a new 128K only Speccy releas…
... eBay for cheap, second-hand tape deck).
... I used to have problems with the tape duplication (when ... I used to duplicate direct from PC to tape), it's ... a 128K+ Speccy direct to a mono tape deck.
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... the computer literate. They wanted to learn about computing and that ... 6502 was very fast compared to the Z80. I've programmed both ... it takes almost a 4MHz Z80 to match a 1MHz 6502.
to translate to another platform. But the ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... 6502 was very fast compared to the Z80. I've programmed both ... it takes almost a 4MHz Z80 to match a 1MHz 6502.[/quote ... , but that does seem unlikely to me. Otherwise why were 3D ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... was very fast compared to the Z80. I've programmed both ... takes almost a 4MHz Z80 to match a 1MHz 6502. ... but that does seem unlikely to me. Otherwise why were ... seen any code samples to back it up. You ... shorter instruction times due to the internal clock doubling ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... was very fast compared to the Z80. I've programmed ... takes almost a 4MHz Z80 to match a 1MHz 6502 ... />
To be fair, the Z80 can handle 16 bit ... br /> The ZWorld Rabbit Z80 like CPUs are even ... fixed major shortcommings in the Z80 instruction set.
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... 6502 was very fast compared to the Z80. I've programmed both ... it takes almost a 4MHz Z80 to match a 1MHz 6502.
to write *good* z80 code than *good* 6502 ... good performance out of the z80 requires:
* being intimate ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... instruction set to make it easier to program on and to make code ... /> [/quote]
FYI, the z80 was not microcoded. Most of ... can see how fast the Z80 could have been with technology ... there in the z80 to make it easy to interface to typical RAM timing ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... than the 2 the z80 requires. In the ez80 ... in the z80 to make it easy to interface to typical RAM ... an instruction fetch on the z80. This saves 1 cycle ... cycle periodically. Since the z80 generated far more refresh cycles ... (from 5 on the z80 to 3 on the z180).The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... no sense to compare a 2.5MHz z80 to a 10Mhz z80. Clearly the ... ratio 2.67:1 to meet the z80's performance.
z80 switched to CMOS.
[quote ... it's using the z80's refresh cycle to do the counting ...Microdrive gamesI saw a few Spectrum games on Ebay recently which were advertised as being in the microdrive format, they even had a photo of the cartridge with a la…
... to use JPs utility to dump RAW sectors
to Tape and then reassemble to ... a few original Microdrive carts to date. Search the forums, I ... sure JP would be thrilled to test more MDR stuff.
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... DMA device to memory and more contention with the z80 which spells ... /> [quote]An optional 2x speed z80 to compensate for the larger video ... because of the faster grade z80 required. Contention would have had ... on a 2x speed z80 since the z80 would be stopped for ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... karingal]hmmm, had to increase scale to 1000% to get it a ... br />
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I cannot work ... run basin. Possibly connected to selection bugs. Because nothing ... tape loads automatically again. You have to go to "TAPE CREATOR" and clear the tape ....z80 to .tap ?Some days ago I discovered that game I have dreamed for so long is actually existing, and it is Bobby Yazz Show, and of course I would like to play i…
... like to play it on real spectrum, but it is .z80 file ... , and I need .tap to convert and burn ... it to cd...
z80 to .tap job?[/QUOTE]
to a tap-file.How to write an IDE drive (8 bit)?Hi there. I want to build the 8-bit interface by Pera Putnik, and substitute the original ROM by an EPROM with the appropriate program in order to c…
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I want to build the 8-bit interface ... appropriate program in order to connect a Speccy to an IDE hard ... do you copy files (.SNA, .Z80) to the hard drive? I've ... ", but don't know what to do, as its help is ...How To Record To Tape?Hi, Whats The Best Method To Record Files From P.c To Tape? I Am Using Spin At Mo. Will I Need A Soundcard? Cheers Benj
... specs... you can't record to tape anymore
[url]http://www ...Ever find something on tape that should not be there?I remember this from my school days,its an absolute classic this!,i borrowed a game from a school friend at that time(i cannot remember which game)bu…
... and she wanted me to tape a movie so we ... pirate black boxes to decode pay channels ... to go. I carefully slowrewinded to the beginning of the tape ... and then recorded over the hole tape ... br /> i popped the tape into the vhs recorder, ...How To Record To Tape?Hi, Whats The Best Method To Record Files From P.c To Tape? I Am Using Spin At Mo. Will I Need A Soundcard? Cheers Benj
... The Best Method To Record Files From P.c To Tape?
Will ... yet - but I need to get round to doing so)
to put 20 odd programs into ... .
I'll have to get the program onto WoS.Chip tracking on a speccyhey. im a long time tracker. but new to the ZX spectrum, i just heard some AY riders music and i find it very good! how would i go about tracking on …
... 8-10. Protracker (no relation to the Amiga one) is the ... clones.
Re copying to tape: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ]
As an alternative to all the above, you can ...Chip tracking on a speccyhey. im a long time tracker. but new to the ZX spectrum, i just heard some AY riders music and i find it very good! how would i go about tracking on …
... copy one of those trackers to tape from a windows xp
ive just listened to a 28 minute long..interveiw ...Currah MicrosourceHi Anyone here got a Currah Microsource ? I have one, its one of the original eval units complete with 'draft' manual. Just interested to see how …
... GOOD NEWS!
To test the ROM I have ... the program crashed (returning to BASIC with the wrong ... br /> Now all I need to do is either (a) work ... out how to page the page back in ... the MicroSource ROM to tape via a tape routine in uncontented memory ...Chip tracking on a speccyhey. im a long time tracker. but new to the ZX spectrum, i just heard some AY riders music and i find it very good! how would i go about tracking on …
... ... ok ... Death, you beat me to it.
Anyway ... Chipchip ... if you don't want to save it as an audio ... -file to share with friends, then you ... course just record it straight to tape-deck the way Death described ...Chip tracking on a speccyhey. im a long time tracker. but new to the ZX spectrum, i just heard some AY riders music and i find it very good! how would i go about tracking on …
... thought you just wanted to copy the music to tape, as I thought ... />
Seeing as you want to copy the program itself then ... your best bet is to follow the instructions Gasman and ...Chip tracking on a speccyhey. im a long time tracker. but new to the ZX spectrum, i just heard some AY riders music and i find it very good! how would i go about tracking on …
... hooked up to a tape-deck and record the program to tape while it ...How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…
... address 32768 and copy it to the display. This way ... drawn. The poke is to stop the Program: or ... screen is displayed. Make sure to have 14 'x' in ... before RUN 10.
To use type RUN 10 first ... then delete lines 10 to 50.
To save to tape type, SAVE " ...+2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…
we can't save all 112k in one go, aren't we?
We have to flip page, save 16k to tape, flip again, save again?
are there any custom loader that can save all as one block?+2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…
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We have to flip page, save 16k to tape, flip again, save ...Mango Jones Z80 file incomplete (?)Hi there. I was trying out [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=%5EMango+Jones$&pub=%5ECrash$&model=spectrum"]Mango Jones[/URL]…
... sorted. It'll be a "to tape from +D disk" save, ... a pretty good +D disk to disk file copier. Since ... m still happy to email the TZX file to you Mr ... upload my version(s) to WoS as although they came ... have permission from the author to distribute their games in ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... [i]if[/i] you decide to code in BASIC :)
... so you can use BasIN to code and test, then ... transfer it to the Speccy (or emu) ... " the program to be compiled (you have to add several simple ... and save the resulting binary to tape.
It' ...
