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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:35 pm
Topic By: RWAP ON: Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:35 pm
Just a quick note to let people know that I have updated the manual for the DivIDE Plus on my website to include instructions on using MDOS3 (I hope I have got them right and they make enough sense)

The manual can be found at:

http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/spectrum/ ... orage.html

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:11 am
Topic By: RWAP ON: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:11 am
Having searched the threads on here, my notes and the WoS threads, I have found two possible solutions to games which do not load under FATware, including the Ultimate games such as Atic Atac and other problem 128K games.

Basically, once you select the file to load and have gone to 48K BASIC enter the command

OUT 32765,48

Then LOAD ""

The other solution appears to be use

OUT 253,48
Then LOAD ""

What is the difference in these two commands?

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:57 am
Topic By: RWAP ON: Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:57 am
One of our customers has recently been in touch - they have replaced the 3" disk drive in a ZX Spectrum +3 with a DivIDE Plus interface.

In order to do this, they had to run an extension cable from the Spectrum's expansion port (it was soldered to the various tracks), leaving the expansion port available for other peripherals.

At first the divIDE Plus did not recognise the compact flash card - it was found that by shortening the cable to 5" (approx 125mm), this then allowed the interface to work correctly. It would appear that anything over this length causes too much signal loss.

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:06 am
Topic By: RWAP ON: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:06 am
This is just to let people know that we still have a few DivIDE Plus interfaces available - we are now listing them on the retro and vintage computer website SellMyRetro.com

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:08 pm
Topic By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:08 pm
You can actually still use the 128K editor if you install another BASIC - see

using-divide-plus-with-128k-editor-t42.html

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:08 pm
Topic By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:08 pm
There are also some tricks if you only want to move BASIC programs across - see
using-divide-plus-with-128k-editor-t42.html

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:05 pm
Topic By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:05 pm
Once you have all of the files across from disk onto the CF card, you can then re-install the Gosh Wonderful BASIC with

Code:

LOAD %"BASIC.bas"

Code:

%autorun+ "test.bas"

Code:

%autorun-

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:05 pm
Topic By: RWAP ON: Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:58 pm
I have also found that there is a much easier way of copying BASIC files from disk to CF card, than needing to change to +3e ROMs...

Unfortunately, both of the commands to disable ResiDOS do not work properly under Gosh Wonderful BASIC

OUT 23,0 - this just hangs the Spectrum
%ZX - this resets the Spectrum, but then goes into ResiDOS and hangs during the drive initialisation.

So what you have to do is:

1. Restart the Spectrum, holding down 1 if you have the firmware selector installed, so that you can go into FATware.
2. Select ResiDOS and reinstall it from scratch with:

Code:

LOAD ""

Code:

%ZX

Code:

LOAD "program"

Code:

OUT 23,104

Code:

SAVE  %"Test.bas" LINE 1

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Last Post By: RWAP ON: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:05 pm
Topic By: RWAP ON: Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:53 am
I was asked by a customer how to ensure that his Spectrum+3 with DivIDE Plus always started up with ResiDOS and with the 128K +3 BASIC editor.

Having investigated this, the best solution is still to use the firmware selector from Tygrys which we supply - you can select ResiDOS and 128K mode and the Spectrum will then always launch with this firmware installed.

Moving on, to get the 128K BASIC editor (rather than a 48K editor), I see that you need to install either the Gosh Wonderful BASIC ROM (http://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/) or SE BASIC (Can someone provide a current link to SE BASIC).

Once installed with:

Code:

CLEAR 32767
%INSTALL "gw03.rom",1
%ROM "gw03"

Code:

LOAD %"BASIC.bas"

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Last Post By: Vapula ON: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:52 pm
Topic By: Vapula ON: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:52 pm
Thank you for your work... I'll have a look at it as soon as possible.