>Hello, > Does anybody know how i can get .z80 snaps back on to the spectrum?
well, that kinda depends on whether yr using the v3.02 'came free with PC Format magazine so it's technically not shareware but, let's face it, everyone has a copy' or the registered v3.04 or thereabouts... the latter comes with a utility to convert .z80 snaps to .voc sound files which, with the help of a soundcard on yr pc, can be recorded directly on to ordeo cassetten and then loaded back into t'old speccy. i'm assuming that you are, in fact, using a spectrum emulator on a pc. if, on the other hand, you've just downloaded shedloads of .z80s from nvg and would like to try 'em out on a real machine, then, as far as I'm aware, there is no easy way. I suppose I ought to write a freeware convertor for them (i've already written a freeware convertor for converting audio samples of spectrum cassettes into .tap files for use with spectrum emulators... v. useful... so i suppose i should've written one to go the other way, as well as a convertor from .z80 to .tap - which, to be fair, should be a piece of piss ) ps - did anyone received my previous message about using samdisk / samtoms .. ? the gist was : neither of these utilities actually work on my pc (not really: the first spouts some crap error about not being able to find tracks or something, and the second just give me some bollocks error message - i think. something like that. point is, they don't work properly). so i wrote my own which DOES work. has anyone else had any problems in using these or similar pc utilities to try to convert sam-format floppy disks into .dsk files for use with simcoupe? and also, if anyone else has been able to use samdisk successfully, could they tell me how quick it is? my program takes around a minute-and-a-half to read a complete sam-format floppy, but it mucks about with reading sectors out of order in a quite arbitrary (but evidently successful) fashion. also: if anyone is seriously (as in, actually) considering porting simcoupe to native win32 code then i will be HAPPY (read: willing, and (possibly) able) to help. especially doing the bits that no-one else would probably want to do (eg, sound) -- dave
