Spectrum Computing

I don't know if these are of use to anyone, but I took photos of my MGT +D box, product, and scanned the manual at 600DPI as it's a little different to the one on the site. You can see the scans at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ioFGEzflSeNOdyr_Ec-jFDzDYliIs9EK?usp=sharing I don't really k...

It sounds very sea shantyish.

You get it - you knew everything apart from the explicit name

2112AD!

Just a feeling - Heartland by Odin?

I'll guess Frogger

Wasn't US Gold set up to republish software from the US? So original titles would be few and far between?

I have a soft spot for Killed Until Dead.
However the Beach Head games, Gauntlet, and Spy Hunter are all ones I have fond memories of.

Annoyingly I don't have a floppy drive connector on my motherboard (Rog Strix B450-F), or on my ancient laptop that I really keep for legacy things (HP Pavillion dv6700 - only floppy drive option there is via PCMCIA card I believe). I could use a greaseweasel as the +D drive is a plain old Shuggart ...

Sorry if this isn't the right forum, I was considering how to get data off 3.5 inch floppy disks from the MGT +D system.
I still have the original hardware. I also have a USB floppy drive for my PC.
Thanks,
Louise

Ahhh ok, no worries

The above are just demos I found at the end of tapes. I don't believe you have them? If you do I apologise. All 3 wavs can be found in here. The Palace demos need to be loaded in 48k mode. Magnificent laugh can be loaded in 128k if you wish. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i1pgnTt9S4snEf1P2n...

Apologies at the consternation with some of the SAM loading errors. I had no way of checking those. The drop out in issue 8 is unrecoverable by azimuth tweaking (I tried for about 30 mins) but I was so conscious of the tapes maybe going wrong given their age and I wanted to get as much of them as po...

And that's 5 there as well

Enigma 6 done and there.

Only Issue 5 left to do. That's for tomorrow.

And Enigma 7 is there are well.

Enigma 8 is now there.

Block 7 - starting 17:20 in the wav has a dropout midway through. Roundabout 18:10-18:20 for a fraction of a second. Unloadable block.
Maybe someone can work some magic

I can confirm that most of the WAV of Enigma #1 works as it should, including everything with a turbo-loader. There's a few unlisted programs at the end which are a bit dodgy and may or may not be an intended part of the magazine - there's a block of scrap data between the last listed program and t...

It's all still a work in progress. I'll post the link, but I'm not posting wavs until I know they load in Fuse. At present 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9 are there. Please recognise that I would rather not have three or four people saying to do things different ways as I am prone to panic attacks caused by work ...

Issues One through Nine and they're from the authors ESD, so no magazine covermount issues. I've just finished encoding 1 through 4 into wav files - the azimuth tweaking is annoying and the margin for error in the signal of the tapes is small. I've scanned all the paper info I have as well. I'm abou...

Oh I forgot to add that all the Enigma issues are fastloaders as far as I recall (Issue 1 definitely is, and I see no reason that they would change). Only the instruction sheet for issue 5 and up mention SAM Coupe explicitly and it's also the first issue that no longer mentions the 48K Spectrum. Tha...

Hi all, I'm Louise from the other forum. I've been liaising with TMD2003 (please tell me I typed that right) to sort out the Enigma issues I have into wav files. I've just managed to do the first one and I've scanned a fair amount of Letters/documents from PD things I had of which TMD has the google...