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- From: elliott@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk (John Elliott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 14:04:07 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University
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- References: <4etnnl$4fj@news.microsoft.com> <LJ4TiD1w165w@krypton.rain.com> <RJM.96Feb8133827@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk>
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- In article <RJM.96Feb8133827@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk>, Bob Manners (rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
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- : Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong! I thought the Speccy could
- : read ZX81 tapes? Maybe it has a backwards compatibility mode? Seems
- : unlikely for Sinclair to do this though ...
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- It _can_ read ZX81 tapes; since the processors run at the same speed and the
- hardware's very similar, you just copy the relevant ZX81 ROM code into the
- Spectrum and away you go. This only loads the program as a raw memory dump,
- but you get the data. I've written a program to do this, which works fine on
- my real Spectrum, but no-one seems able to get it to work on an emulator.
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