Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Some very interesting stuff in there! Thanks.

Very good post and find! Impressive stuff.

Welcome on board! Not heard of the book (but then, there were quite a few!). Got any more info?

@Lardo Boffin, the easy way to achieve this is making an snapshot first (z80 or sna). Then you can use my modified z802tzx3 command line tool and its GUI to generate your tzx speedup file for loading. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2109552122601666&id=100006406965712 Here you have a sm...

@1024MAK, thanks for your welcome @Lardo Boffin, thanks for your interest.. Yes, this is possible :D , tzx should, what format are you using? Maxduino 1.56 option #ID19REW is not activated by default. As you know there is also an id block for pause in tzx format, that you can insert before each lev...

Just bought another one. Its about time I kept one as they are very useful. The faster ZX81 loading is interesting. Can (or has) the same been done with the Spectrum? The original 48K can load much faster than a cassette player can go (I think Manic Miner can load in about 30 seconds). Can these do ...

Thanks for the information. I will have a look when I buy another one (I tend to sell them when I refurbish a nice condition boxed ZX81 so don’t actually own one!).

Welcome! I have found the tzxduino works well with the ZX81 (or at least the ones I have bought). They always load first time which definitely cannot be said of using a cassette player! Not sure how they work with multipart loading games though? Never managed to get that to work yet, e.g. Rock Crush...

I have a +2a that has a noisy tape player when playing. Its pretty quiet when fast forwarding and rewinding. I wonder if they are just a bit noisy?

There is also the excellent

http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ ... bility.htm

As a bonus you can get colour!!!