Spectrum Computing

Thanks for the notice @Pegaz. This update seems to have fixed the issue.

Well, it seems I found something. As soon as a file is opened, the emulator keeps writing its path and name in the specemu.ini file again and again, until it is not closed by force in the task manager. File0=E:\Spectrum\DivIDE\Fls.tap File1=E:\Spectrum\DivIDE\Fls.tap File2=E:\Spectrum\DivIDE\Fls.tap...

I tried closing the program, reopening it, erasing it together with the INI file, putting it into a different directory, changing the priority in Task Manager, resetting the PC and trying again all of the above... nothing changed.

None at all. Again, SpecEmu worked for ages on this system until this evening...

@Alessandro : Sorry for the side topic but I couldn't help noticing the original file is .trd and yet you were able to make a .tap file? Do you know how to do that conversion or did it work just this time? Put simply: You cannot convert a TRD file to a TAP per se. Even if the files on the disk imag...

Another modification by goodboy , Slider and Tiboh, this time of Flying Shark. The mod adds sound effects and music from the Amstrad CPC version. Once again, when run on the 128/+2, it will show some nasty "snow effect" screen corruption, but only when game starts, not in the title screen,...

SpecEmu stopped working on my system today. I launch the emulator, open a file - tape image, snapshot etc. - and everything seems to work as normal. Then I reset the emulated computer. All of a sudden, and without any apparent reason, clicking on the menu items hangs the emulator, and I have to clos...

Congratulazioni meglio tardi che mai [better late than never]

Yet more files. Black Magic (password for part 2 removed) Metro Cross (from the fixed version by Ast A. Moore, no system reset on level 5 on the +2A/+3) Metro Cross (from the 128 mod by Slider and Tiboh with AY music from the Amstrad version; fixes suggested by bob fossil and Ast A. Moore applied - ...

RWAC wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:35 am Does Robocop count? The Op Wolf style bit and Photo fit game are more like mini games than actual levels.

I think so. Mugsy's arcade sequence is a mini-game within the main program as well.

Several games licensed from movies had such a feature: Platoon, The Untouchables, Ghostbusters II, Back To The Future Part III, 007 The Spy Who Loved Me, 007 Licence To Kill. Two games licensed from Spanish comic books, Mot and Mortadelo Y Filemon II, are divided into very different parts as well. A...

Not a bug, rather an integration. By perusing inside its machine code block with Tapir, I found that Spectron has been authored with Wye Compiler.

Ast A. Moore kindly provided a fixed TZX file that will work on the +2A/+3 under +3 BASIC and will show the mice from level 5 on as it should. For some strange reason, that does not seem to happen when you load the original unfixed file under 48 BASIC or USR 0 mode. The list has been updated accordi...

Thanks

A TAP file of this fix will soon be added to the TAP files for the DivIDE collection.

Just for the record, the AY mod was made by Slider and @goodboy in 2013.

You also need to check if A hits 128 (CP 128), exiting the loop in that case (RET Z), if you want to print the character set only.

Thank you Ast A. Moore :) The fix seems to get the game working as expected. I made a TAP file that will soon be added to the DivIDE/DivMMC collection of compatible TAP files. http://disegnareconlaluce.altervista.org/MC128C.zip If you could provide a fixed TZX of the original release, it would be gr...

When loaded under +3 BASIC or in USR 0 mode, the game - either the original US Gold release or the modification - will jump to 15872 for some unknown reason at the start of level 5 or, in USR 0 mode, as early as the middle of level 4. In the original Spectrum ROM, the standard character set is store...

About Metro Cross: The game seems to work as expected when loaded under 48 BASIC.

[Content edited and moved to the other thread about fixing the Metro Cross 128 mod by the writer]

Metro Cross: Game crashes and causes a system reset a few screens after the beginning of level 5. Also see here:

https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/for ... php?t=9699

I don't speak Russian. Besides, I just found that the problem also occurs with the original US Gold release, so it is a case of incompatibility with the +2A not depending from the modification.

Hi bob_fossil , thank you for the suggestion :) It seems that on later levels that address for the IM2 table is too low, with obstacles appearing out of nowhere in the lowest lanes and other glitches, so I moved it to 57856 and so far it seems safe enough to hold it there. http://disegnareconlaluce....

This is a hack of Metro Cross which will play the AY music tracks of the Amstrad conversion in the background. It will load on 128/+2/+2A/+3 Spectrums with a DivMMC and ESXDOS, or with an emulator like Fuse which can emulate the Beta 128 interface attached to them. http://disegnareconlaluce.altervis...

Some new files for you to play with :) Great Gurianos (working and modified with Mr. Anonymous's fix to make the final enemy vulnerable) Killed Until Dead (128 KB-only; from an all-in-one Z80 file) Navy Moves 128 (from the +3 disk version) Psycho Hopper (bug fixes by Bad Beard applied; memory paging...

Typing quickly without looking at the keyboard. So many text adventures played in my youth.