Emulator ZX

Is there at least 1 emulator in nature that reads native Spectrum
floppy disks??? Or how to make Shalaevsky read?

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AL> Is there at least 1 emulator in nature that reads native
AL> Spectrum floppy disks??? Or how to make Shalaevsky read?

UKV for example!

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Friday February 06 1998, Andrew Leslie wrote All:

AL> Is there at least 1 emulator in nature that reads native Spectrum
AL> floppy disks??? Or how to make Shalaevsky read?

There is one called UKV. To read not a file, but a native ZX disk on
, replace the file name with A: or B:
and it will read information from the A: or B: disk...

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AL>> Spectrum floppy disks??? Or how to make Shalaevsky
AL>> read?

VS> UKV for example!

Then here’s the question. There is a Shalaev emulator v3.04, UKV v1.2
^^^^^^^^
But what a joke. Specky worked for me with a 3" drive. And the disks are all
formatted at 720 kB. And the holes for recognizing 720-1.2 are sealed.
That is, floppy disks are recognized as 720 kB. And 3" on IBM, of course, works as 1.44.
So what to do in such a situation? Or stick up the window 720-1.44, but then
in general everything goes upside down..
So how do you still get the emulator to swallow these floppy disks???

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Good luck!

ST> Then here's the question. There is a Shalaev emulator v3.04, UKV v1.2
ST> ^^^^^^^^
ST> But what a joke. Specky worked for me with a 3" drive. And the
ST> disks are all formatted at 720 kB. Moreover, the holes for recognition
ST> 720-1.2 are sealed. That is, floppy disks are recognized as 720 kB. And 3" on the IBM
ST> of course works as 1.44. So what to do in such a situation? Or
ST> paste up the window 720-1.44, but then everything goes upside down
ST>.. So how can you still force the emulator to swallow these floppy disks???

Have you tried changing 1.44 to 720 in the BIOS?

ST> Always yours Sergey Tsvetkov.
ST> Good luck!

09 Feb 98 01:09, Sergey Tsvetkov reported to Vitaly Samoylov about {ZX Emulator}:

ST> Then here’s the question. There is a Shalaev emulator v3.04, UKV v1.2
ST> ^^^^^^^^
ST> make the emulator swallow these floppy disks???

Please look at the instructions. From the words:

“Disk drive 3.5” was not given any attention; testing shows that you can
do something on it, but I get read/write errors on almost every
track..."

Warm greetings, Slava!

ST>> the disks are all formatted at 720 kB. Moreover, the holes for
ST>> recognition 720-1,2 are sealed. That is, floppy disks are recognized as
ST>> 720 kB. And 3" on IBM, of course, works like 1.44. So how to be in such a
ST>> situation? Or paste up the window 720-1.44, but then
ST>> in general everything goes upside down.. So how do you still force the
ST>> emulator to swallow these floppy disks???

VS> And in the BIOS change 1.44 to 1.44 720 haven’t tried?
So it doesn’t help :((I don’t know what to do, I used to have all the programs on Specky
from a 3" drive running. So I got it :( And now they are lying idle, I just can’t
get emulsion into some thread.

VM> Please look at the instructions. According to:

VM> “Disk drive 3.5” was not given any attention; the check shows that you can do something on
VM>, but I get read/write
VM> errors on almost every track..."

That is, in principle, you can forget about 3" dmiskets? :(
And if you make such a joke. Copy everything from 3" to 5", and then in UKV
(MakeFdi) force it to swallow them at a speed of 300 rpm using the "-G2" command.
Do you think such a joke will work?

VS> UKV for example !

ST> Then here’s the question. There is a Shalaev emulator v3.04, UKV v1.2
ST> ^^^^^^^^
ST> But what a joke. Specky worked for me with a 3" drive. And the disks are all
ST> formatted at 720 kB. Moreover, the holes for recognizing 720-1.2
ST> are sealed.
ST> That is, floppy disks are recognized as 720 kB. And 3" on IBM, of course, works as
ST> 1.44.
ST> So what to do in such a situation? Or stick up the window 720-1.44, but then
ST> then everything goes upside down..
ST> So how can you still force the emulator to swallow these floppy disks???
Install 3.5" 720k in SetAp

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ST> So it doesn’t help :(( I don’t know what to do, I used to run all the programs
ST> on Specky from a 3" drive. So I got it :( And now they are lying
ST> idle, I just can’t push the emulsion into any thread.

Have you tried using UKV? I’ve done all the disks that are in the usual way It didn't work out, so I did.
You do this:
1) Create a clean FDI using ZCOP.
2) Make it in the emulsion as B:
3) In the emulsion itself, copy from disk "A" (disk drive) to disk "B" (FDI).
4) Convert it, if necessary, to TRD. (fdi2trd.exe is there?)

That's it!

ST> That is, in principle, you can forget about 3" dmiskets? :(

Apparently, yes :(( No matter how much I tried, it didn’t work. It’s strange, of course, IMHO
the author did not set the data transfer rate correctly (maybe in 95 there was no
such information?) Probably, you change one byte and it starts working with 3.5"?

ST> What if such a trick. Copy everything from 3" to 5", and then in
ST> UKV (MakeFdi) force it to swallow them at a speed of 300 rpm. Do you think such a joke will work?

I don’t know. Why not do it easier - copy with a track copier on
IBM 3 inches to 5, then UKV will understand. TeleDisk - they are not friendly with floppy disks formatted on the Spectrum.
Then another perverse method is to use HoBeta, adapted for 3.5"
to transfer files from the disk to *.$*, and then another HoBeto - to 5.25", or ZCOP
immediately to .FDI or .TRD...

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