Media menu

A machine can have floppy drives, hard disks, an SD card or a cartridge slot, depending on the hardware it copies. A divMMC can be added to the Sinclair models and the Pentagons. The Media menu lists only what the running machine has:

Items	Described in
Tape Player, Tape Play/Stop, Tape Record/Stop	Tapes
Disk Manager, Floppy Drives, Fast Disk Access	Floppy disks
Next Side, Previous Side	The other sides beside an image
Cartridge	Cartridge, below
divMMC	divMMC
SD Card, Drives	SD cards and hard disks

Which machine has what

Machine	Floppy	Hard disk	Other
ZX Spectrum 48K	-	-	cartridge, divMMC
ZX Spectrum 128K, +2, +2A	-	-	divMMC
ZX Spectrum +3	+3 drives	-	divMMC
ZX Spectrum Next	-	-	SD card, divMMC built in
Pentagon, Pentagon 1024 SL	Beta Disk	-	divMMC
Scorpion ZS 256	Beta Disk	-
Scorpion ZS 256 Turbo+	Beta Disk	SMUC
ATM Turbo 2+	Beta Disk	ATM Turbo
Profi v3	Beta Disk	-
Profi v5	Beta Disk	Profi
ZX Evolution, both	Beta Disk	NemoIDE (ZX Evo)	SD card
ZXM-Phoenix	Beta Disk	-
ALF TV Game, ALF TV Game 128K	-	-	cartridge

Beta Disk is the TR-DOS disk interface with up to four drives, A to D. The +3 interface has two drives, A and B, and runs +3DOS.

A machine with no disk interface of its own can be given one. Open the Machine page of Options and pick it in the Floppy disk row: None, Beta Disk (WD1793) or +3 (uPD765). The Hard disk row does the same for an IDE interface: NemoIDE, NemoIDE A8, NemoIDE (ZX Evo), SMUC, ATM Turbo or Profi. An interface that is part of the machine’s board cannot be changed: the list is grayed out, and its tooltip says Built into this board. A Beta Disk cannot be added to the +2A and +3.

Cartridge

The ZX Spectrum 48K has a slot for an Interface 2 ROM cartridge, and the ALF TV Game consoles have a slot for their own game cartridges. Media > Cartridge shows the cartridge in the slot, or (empty), and has:

• Open… - a cartridge image, .rom or .bin, up to 4 MB. The machine is reset with the cartridge in.

• Eject - take the cartridge out; the machine is reset if it was running from it.

• Tapes
  • Putting a tape in
  • The Tape Player
  • The block list
  • Playing
  • Fast loading
  • Recording
  • Saving a tape
  • WAV files
  • Copying a block to a disk
  • The tape in the status bar
• Floppy disks
  • Putting a disk in
  • Disk formats
  • The boot file
  • Fast Disk Access
  • Changed disks
  • Disk Manager
• divMMC
  • Setting it up
  • Switching it on and off
  • Which esxDOS
  • Using it
• SD cards and hard disks
  • SD card
  • Hard disks
  • A folder as a disk