Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Hi Xavsnap and Mark, As you had both hinted, I improved my capture setup. I have improved my audio cable (joining a MIDI and a 3.5mm cable to attach my DIN tape player to my audio recorder in stereo rather than shorting both Left and Right together), and results are now much better. Tapeutils/ZX81 T...

In both cases, the fault can be in/by anything that is electrically connected to the computer or cassette tape recorder/player. Appolgies to both you and XavSnap. I have been kitting out my new man cave but have got round back to the tape collection. Have got our my second tape player so fingers cr...

Still worth re-recording it and posting it here as might be possible, and maybe try a different cassette player. It might be better than before and might allow some information to be recovered. Hi Fruitcake, sorry for the absence. When I re-recorded it at a lower volume I kind of lost my temper wit...

Here's my replacement switch mode regulator - I wanted to keep my issue 1 reasonably true to it's design so opted to keep the 'tractor' part

Any ideas on whether these two work or not? They are my dad's programmes this time. I think Side A Prog 1.p is an instrument but I've not been able to test it out on my hardware, and the second one Side B Prog 3 does something but I'm not sure if it's all there (it uses the ZXAS I think to load - th...

XavSnap wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:20 am "Program Enhancement Package"

Wow, I certainly feel 'pepped' up after that! I don't think I've seen graphics like that before - was using in EightyOny but quite excited to see what it'll look like on a real ZX81. Thanks again Xavier for taking the time to recover those for me!

Chateau Du Dragon: (fr) Thanks Xavier! I think that is now the whole tape complete! I compared all of the .p you sent to the versions I had half-extracted from the tapes and everything checks out of course. I can't believe how I missed some of the easiest clues :oops: but your detective work is ama...

Fruitcake wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 1:23 am
I've had a look and it is quite badly corrupted. The Side A Tk1 copy was better than the Side A Tk2. You could try capturing it again but at a lower volume.

Ok will do - thanks for taking a look. Will

Thanks. Any info on who made GMSave would be very useful to know, e.g. was it a purchased program or typed in from a magazine. Hi Fruitcake, I asked my father about this, and he remembers using it but he's not sure yet where he might have got it from - he has suggested he might have got it from Ton...

Hi Xavier, I have been trying to get a better capture of the tape 'Jeux 16k', which seems to be a collection of software that my Dad traded with a 'pen pal' from France. Some of these are pirated copies of mainstream releases but some I kind find any info about or copies online. Unfortunately there ...