Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...

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From: John Elliott
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 14:04

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In article <RJM.96Feb8133827@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk>, Bob Manners (rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk) wrote:

: 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 ...

  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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Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
Date: 8 Feb 1996 14:04:07 GMT
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