Spectrum Computing

Also consider ZX-Editor, part of the ZX-Modules suite: https://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx-modules.html

You can run Taper in DOSBox, but in native Windows it won't have run since... Windows 98, most likely. Sergey Gordeev created a new version of Taper that will run under later Windows version. Download it at: http://sg-software.ru/taper/ (click on the black button with "Скачать Taper 3.1" ...

Thank you R-Tape :D I suspected it was a traditional tune in fact. Meanwhile, I found the version I most probably heard first. It was in Angelo Branduardi's musical score for State buoni se potete, a 1983 film by Luigi Magni broadcast on TV by RAI the following year. Which is actually earlier than 1...

Chords and rhythm of the first few bars sound vaguely similar. However I surely did not hear it there, I played the Monkey Island series up to the third chapter.

Lately I was wondering about the tune playing in the menu screen of The Ice Temple. I think I heard it somewhere else, not a long time ago, certainly not back in the day.

Does anyone know its title? Or is it an original composition?

CPC? What's that? Codice di Procedura Civile? (*) Seriously though, Amstrad was known in Italy mostly for rebranding low-end hi-fi and car stereo systems in the 1980s, so that their home computer range did never take off here. Neither did their business machine one, for the strong presence of Olivet...

Fantasy Zone Escape from the Pyramid only works without in-game music, perhaps there are multiple .TAP files of this one for that reason. Correct: you have to load the files marked as "128" in fact. EDIT: @Alessandro wrote both volumes...700+ pages all about speccy :shock: :o :o :shock: Y...

On other side, I don't understand why anyone is selling Spectrum games this days. Well it's not "anyone", the majority of contemporary authors (including yours truly) just encourage you to give a small optional donation. Anyway - I shall give my motivation for it. When I put Italia 1944 o...

I didnt realize DivMMC (which I got) adds even /more/ compatibility issues, lol. But hey, good excuse for me to look into tape loading the old fashioned way! Perhaps some indie devs do this on purpose to make people buy the tape? :shock: No, contemporary games usually come in TAP and sometimes TRD ...

Completely agree with @AndyC. No one in their right mind would ever think about making a profit out of Spectrum games - apart from the proverbial pack of Rolos (or whatever candies you fancy, Ricolas and Golias in my case).

Hi segasonicfan , if you wish to know everything about Spectrum file formats, I cannot but recommend you my Spectrumpedia. You will find all the information you need written in a concise and exhaustive way in Vol. 2, Chapter 2, pages 229-246. The link to download a free PDF copy is in my signature. ...

What for? There are lots of people here who cut their teeth on the keyboard, including yours truly

Welcome on the forum :) I must admit have a soft spot for the +2A, it is the only historical Spectrum (apart from the old rubber-keyed model) I hold more than one unit of in my collection. At least on my LED TV and VGA monitor, colours are much more vibrant than the previous models and beeper and AY...

Wizball was and still is one of my favourite games of its era on the Spectrum, and I never found its beginning that difficult. Just, as Jason wrote, bounce very slightly and acquire left-right movement, then full directional movement. The rest should be rather straightforward. On the other hand, Ka...

Same for me. Windows 10 x64, no option present.

Not something I shall miss anyway, I already made a TAP file out of it following the instructions, and played it on real hardware through the DivMMC.

... that I found while playing Atic Atac: This is the starting room: https://i.postimg.cc/Kz8BMwwp/ROOM.jpg If you see the ACG helmet down left, we can see it has the letters ACG printed on it, but in a way according to the perspective of the whole screen, but if we turn the screen around, the helm...

Hi @Bolton80, try this file of Side A. I am not familiar with this game so I cannot tell whether it runs as expected or not.

http://disegnareconlaluce.altervista.org/Rats-test.zip

Interesting... I should mention this in the third edition of the Spectrumpedia in 2032 :) Maria Teresa Ruta states in the interview that the computer is fed data about the matches to be played next Sunday(*), then the program elaborates a system for the Totocalcio pool prediction contest(**). This l...

Some PSS strategy games, namely Theatre Europe, Tobruk, Battle Of Britain and Bismarck, contain some simple, and in some cases optional, arcade sequences alongside the main strategic part.

They will work if you load from 48K mode. However, this will obviously leave you without the AY music (which will please @equinox's dad at least). Again, the Musical 1 re-release will play AY music in the background. A TAP file of it will soon be added to the collection for the DivIDE, in the next ...

In 1993, after nine years of honorable service, the voltage regulator failed and fried the RAM.

On a side note, all Spectrums in my collection were purchased on Ebay in the 2010s.

(Edited: nine years instead of eight)

The original Firebird release of Bubble Bobble won't work on the +2A/+3.

The Hit Squad re-release will, but without background music. The Musical 1 re-release runs with background music.

(See the +2A/+3 incompatibilities and corrections list in my signature)

My knowledge is very poor when it comes to Sam Coupe and I decided to improve it a bit today :) Sam Coupe could run Zx Spectrum games and other programs, right? So did it have a copy of Spectrum ROM? I guess that without ROM memory a lot of programs would crash. If so, how did they deal with copyri...

Sad news. Rest in peace, Zzoom alone gave me so many hours of fun back in the day.