More Real Spectrum Applications for ZX81 and ZX Spectrum

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serene02
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More Real Spectrum Applications for ZX81 and ZX Spectrum

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Hi, wonder if anyone could shed some light on two tapes I have here and whether you need a scan of the cassettes inlay and pic of cassette.

I have the original book, it states in the book that tapes can be purchased separately. These tapes are on standard looking TDK, is this how these were sold or are they backup cassettes. Not sure on their authenticity.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At9Qx3XY3mOYgoIstOE ... w?e=lFvh8N
https://1drv.ms/u/s!At9Qx3XY3mOYgoIrL7N ... A?e=rvLep6

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Hi, it certainly looks like they do belong with this title. Smaller tape runs were often done on retail cassette tapes. I used to buy the Micheal Orwin game tapes and he did the same.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=12041

If you have facilities to scan the label and backup the tapes, then yes please.

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Not quite sure, could I just create a whole .wav time of each side of the tape and upload to this thread.

I’ll test the wav real Spectrum hardware, I should be able to load from line out to Spectrum line in I imagine?

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With some emulators you can load in the tape input, then saving the files as .tap. or .tzx
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