Dizzy Treasure Island Crashes After Tape Load
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:52 am
Hi,
Wondering if anyone can help - Last week I got a spectrum 128k +2A from ebay - Overall in good condition.
I took it apart and gave it a good clean and inspection (nothing that I could see was concerning), and I also gave the tape heads a good clean with IPA.
It loads most of the games I have tried but there are 2 games it has issues with:
Treasure Island Dizzy - It loads the game fine from tape but just as its about to play the audio (I believe it says Treasure Island Dizzy or something) - the spectrum crashes and I get a repeated humming sound instead. I bought another copy of the tape from ebay believing it was an issue with the tape however the other tape I bought does the same? I've also tried loading from the other side of the tape and it also does the same?
Renegade - Games loads fine and I can play - but when I get killed (very short time as game is so hard! lol) - it freezes. Again I bought another copy and it does the same thing.
Games that play fine: Batman Caped Crusador, Thundercats, ATV, Kickstart 2, Platoon, Ghouls Ghosts, Green Beret..
Other factors - I have a expansion port for a kempston interface plugged into the back, and I have a sega mega drive joypad in here. I have a couple of Atari Compatible Joysticks (both work fine with my Amiga 600) but they seem to auto fire a lot on the spectrum?
Also not sure if related but the reset switch is very intermittent - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't lol
If anyone has any insight that would be appreciated
Cheers,
Fraser
Wondering if anyone can help - Last week I got a spectrum 128k +2A from ebay - Overall in good condition.
I took it apart and gave it a good clean and inspection (nothing that I could see was concerning), and I also gave the tape heads a good clean with IPA.
It loads most of the games I have tried but there are 2 games it has issues with:
Treasure Island Dizzy - It loads the game fine from tape but just as its about to play the audio (I believe it says Treasure Island Dizzy or something) - the spectrum crashes and I get a repeated humming sound instead. I bought another copy of the tape from ebay believing it was an issue with the tape however the other tape I bought does the same? I've also tried loading from the other side of the tape and it also does the same?
Renegade - Games loads fine and I can play - but when I get killed (very short time as game is so hard! lol) - it freezes. Again I bought another copy and it does the same thing.
Games that play fine: Batman Caped Crusador, Thundercats, ATV, Kickstart 2, Platoon, Ghouls Ghosts, Green Beret..
Other factors - I have a expansion port for a kempston interface plugged into the back, and I have a sega mega drive joypad in here. I have a couple of Atari Compatible Joysticks (both work fine with my Amiga 600) but they seem to auto fire a lot on the spectrum?
Also not sure if related but the reset switch is very intermittent - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't lol
If anyone has any insight that would be appreciated
Cheers,
Fraser