RETRO The Spectrum User Manual page 46

Chapter 10
Thus in Classic mode you are able to freely swap cassette tape files as needed, either
because a game prompts you to do so or because you want to save a program to a
particular cassette file, and so on.
Warning: Auto-launching a program from a tape file will abandon what you are
currently doing with The Spectrum and replace it with the program that was selected.
Saving programs and data requires a writable cassette tape file and The Spectrum takes
some special steps to allow information to be saved while a non-writable cassette tape
file is attached. Therefore saving programs and data as cassette files on a USB stick
has some considerations, which are explained fully in Chapter 11 - Saving programs
and data.
Saved games
Selecting Saved games gives access to four save game slots per attached tape file.
This means that when you attach a different cassette tape file, the four save game
slots will change to be those for the attached tape file.
Therefore to resume a game that you previously saved into a save game slot, you first
have to attach the cassette tape file containing the game, and then resume the game
from the save game slot.
If you are using a multi-tape program, then switching to the second or third cassette
tape will change which save game slots are shown. Should you need the same four
save game slots to be shown for all files that make up the multi-tape game, set up a
playlist containing the multiple tape files.
Default machine settings
These settings are similar to those used to configure individual programs on a USB
stick as described in Chapter 8 - Adjusting the settings of a program, but instead
configure how The Spectrum operates when in Classic mode.
Any changes to the ZX Spectrum model take effect only when you reset the running
Spectrum session by selecting Reset machine from the options menu.
When auto-launching a cassette tape file from Media access, if you have configured
individual game settings for that file then those settings will override the default Machine
settings while that file runs. Once you reset The Spectrum classic mode session, the
configured default Machine settings will take effect once again.
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