OX. Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Looking for a little help if anyone knows how to load / repair these tape game WAV's as I'm unable to load them in MAME, I think they are British games and I've never seen them before so interested to see them. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/edzr9ijb5vz44ng1qqkta/h?rlkey=vk7hfq76b7g71wtc9etzuqxlz&dl=0 5 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Fantastic! Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2600PAL Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I just tried the first wav on “real iron” (played from a laptop thru a small amp) and it loads/runs fine So I guess they can all be loaded and then resaved for use on emulators 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I've just loaded one of the games into Audacity ... it had a stereo track ... so I clicked "Split Stereo To Mono" and copied one track .. then pasted it into a new audacity file and exported as wav, and as a mono track, mame is happy with it. 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I 'm doing them all now 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, OX. said: Looking for a little help if anyone knows how to load / repair these tape game WAV's as I'm unable to load them in MAME, I think they are British games and I've never seen them before so interested to see them. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/edzr9ijb5vz44ng1qqkta/h?rlkey=vk7hfq76b7g71wtc9etzuqxlz&dl=0 Whilst i'm on with these ... i'll just say , if you ever come across Firefly games "dodger" or "Castle Conquer" or "Caterpillar" , grab them, they're NOT mine , i did remakes , they'll be the 1984 originals, they're like rocking horse shite to get hold of. I know i keep going on about them but it does my head in how they're not around at all. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrodroid Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I have a collection of my old XB programs on cassette that I'd like to recover to play again via emulation. What's the easiest way to transfer the tapes into .wav format (preferably on a Mac)? 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 (edited) @retrodroid I have used audacity for years and it works like a charm on my Windows but there is also a Mac version of it. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Edited January 8 by ti99iuc 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 ti games.zip Not working: Core, Astro Gallery, Code Breaker @OX. 2 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OX. Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 54 minutes ago, Retrospect said: I 'm doing them all now Nice one Joe. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Just now, OX. said: Nice one Joe. Thanks Ox ... oh and Forest Rally, that don't work either. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 If anyone can get Forest Rally (possibly XB?) , code breaker, Core, Astro Gallery working on Real Iron let us know! Or if you're really good with audacity and can somehow repair the dodgy parts.... i won't even go there cos I haven't a clue ... Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 (edited) some about the titles - Haunted House and Wumpus (this last is from Apex Software and it was the title on the side B of the same cassette tape) - The Boss Christmas Party, Astro Gallery, and probably Forrest Rally were not commercial titles but were published in the UK magazine HCW Edited January 8 by ti99iuc 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 10 minutes ago, Retrospect said: If anyone can get Forest Rally (possibly XB?) , code breaker, Core, Astro Gallery working on Real Iron let us know! Or if you're really good with audacity and can somehow repair the dodgy parts.... i won't even go there cos I haven't a clue ... I just checked Forest Rally so far, it has extreme clipping ... Otherwise I had good results with Tape994a 3.1 so far, but this clipping kills it ... after the Sync no data ... 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrodroid Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, ti99iuc said: @retrodroid I have used audacity for years and it works like a charm on my Windows but there is also a Mac version of it. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Thanks, but what do you use to capture the tape output to get it into the computer so Audacity can record it? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 (edited) 3 hours ago, Atari2600PAL said: I just tried the first wav on “real iron” (played from a laptop thru a small amp) and it loads/runs fine So I guess they can all be loaded and then resaved for use on emulators That's pretty much exactly what i was going to do. First seen this on my lunch break at work. Was going to play them back to my TI from my phone, and save to TIPI. Looks like @Retrospect has done most of them by now. Edited January 8 by jrhodes 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 29 minutes ago, retrodroid said: Thanks, but what do you use to capture the tape output to get it into the computer so Audacity can record it? On some computers there's a Line-In port , maybe hook up the tape player to a PC with Line In , with the relevant lead , and play on the tape player whilst recording into audacity? unless someone knows better. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5383966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) Not so easy, determining which files, were/were not, recovered??? ...Classic99 ...XB ...CALL FILES(1) ...OLD DSK1.CORE ...(FIAD) RUN CORE Edited January 9 by HOME AUTOMATION 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5384033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 ...Classic99 ...TI BASIC ...OLD DSK1.FORRESTRAL ...(FIAD) RUN FORRESTRAL 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5384054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 ...Classic99 ...TI BASIC ...OLD DSK1.ASTROGALER ...(FIAD) RUN ASTROGALER 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5384070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 ...Classic99 ...TI BASIC ...OLD DSK1.CODEBREAK ...(FIAD) RUN CODEBREAK 5 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5384085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Here's a little story...📖 I searched for these game-files, for a while, before attempting recovery from the .WAV files, Didn't find any ...although I missed the first instance of CODEBREAK... that was the one! Later while looking through an older listing, By chance, I came upon an entry for: CODE_BREAKERS.dsk. This list didn't show the FILENAMES, though. I hunted-down the disk entry from the list. It has three of the games! I found the File-list, for this section of disks. But, the entry for this disk, says: C 24 io error. ...haven't tried these though... Index of /video/Chicago TI Fair 2014 Videos/Chicago TI Faire Disk 2014/SPLIT_VARIOUS_1376/C_24/CODE_BREAKERS__1991__BRUCE_.DSK Index of /emulators/pc99/pc99 dsk collection/Collections/CassetteProject/DSSD/BASAPPS.ZIP 5 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5384180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OX. Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 Managed to get everything working now bar "Spudz" @HOME AUTOMATION Any chance you can work your magic on this one as well please? 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5384593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Well... while noise can be masked out... ...I think this file may have a format issue... such as wrong file attributes, size. There seem to be too many records for this to fit into the 9918A's 16K. Though it plays at a similar rate, it is even longer than CORE, and that requires CALL FILES(1). It appears to have an abrupt cut-off, as though it was spliced/continues. Though it could contain the game's data, I'm guessing it's corrupt or random data. I made a gag program that creates such an endless-loop SAVE... But such a file cannot be reloaded logically/sensibly. ...I'll try to look into this further if time permits. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5385048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Well , emulation is one step further in accuracy , we always had that one or more tapes that wouldn't load. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359320-new-tape-game-wavs/#findComment-5385051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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