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Super Hang-On - Electric Dreams Software.Techradar published their list of the best 30 ZX Spectrum games in 2012, underlining which games stood the test of time. Scottish band Urusei Yatsura included a Spectrum program that showed a satanic message in the beginning of the song Thank You (from the album Everybody Loves Urusei Yatsura). The game had a minor connection with one of his tracks, It's Late. Upon completion your score would be given in terms of a rank of disc, e.g. The aim of the game was to guide your character around a maze, while avoiding bats. Shakin' Stevens included his Shaky Game at the end of his The Bop Won't Stop album. James album in 1996-most notably part of the loading screen from Sabre Wulf on Carn Marth. The Freshies had a brief flirtation with fame and Spectrum games, and the Aphex Twin included various loading noises on his Richard D. Also in 1984, the Thompson Twins released a game on vinyl. The punk band Inner City Unit put a Spectrum database of band information on their 1984 release, 'New Anatomy'. The Buzzcocks front man, Pete Shelly, put a Spectrum program including lyrics and other information as the last track on his XL-1 album. SNA - although these memory dumps have been generally replaced by more complex files, incorporating original loading features and multi-level options.ДЄ few pop musicians included Sinclair programs on their records. 'Snapshots' generated by these black boxes would later become the original filetype recognised by emulators. Special hardware, like Romantic Robot's Multiface which was able to dump a copy of the ZX Spectrum RAM to disk/tape at the press of a button, was developed, entirely circumventing the copy protection systems.

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Speedlock) it was almost impossible to use copiers to copy tapes, and the loaders had to be cracked by hand, to produce unprotected versions.

As the protections became more complex (e.g. Best known were the Lerm suite produced by Lerm Software and Trans Express by Romantic Robot. Most were copyright infringement oriented, and their function was only tape duplication, but when Sinclair Research launched the ZX Microdrive, copiers were developed to copy programs from audio tape to microdrive tapes, and later on diskettes. One very interesting kind of software was copiers.

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Higher speeds are possible using custom machine code loaders instead of the ROM routines. Assuming an even proportion of each, the resulting mean transmission rate is ~1,365 average bits/s. This allows for 1,023 'ones' or 2,047 'zeros' to be recorded per second. A 'zero' is represented by a ~244 Ојs pulse followed by a gap of the same duration (855 clock ticks each at 3.5 MHz) for a total ~489 Ојs 'one' is twice as long, totalling ~977 Ојs. Pulses of different widths (durations) represent 0s and 1s. Since the Spectrum has only a rudimentary tape interface, data is recorded using an unusually simple and very reliable modulation - similar to pulse-width modulation but without a constant clock rate. The software is encoded on tape as a sequence of pulses that sound similar to the noises made by a modern-day modem. Because most British home computer owners used tape instead of disk storage into the mid-1980s, most ZX Spectrum software was originally distributed on audio cassette tapes.