Atari-Jess Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 What games if any require a loading from the cassette only once into memory? I assume its only earlier older games (if at all), but I'm just curious on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 I would suppose BASIC games would count in that regard.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Lots of games were single-stage load only. Can't really think of specific ones, since I gave tapes up > 20 years ago. Single-stage games were extremely easy to transfer to disk. Multi-stage ones usually just involved looking at 200 bytes or so of code to work out where they loaded and if they had any encryption (which wasn't often). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 yup... transfered many of my cassette games (esp. mastertronic ones) to .com files... or boot discs... just simply look at the loader what it does and where the files are loaded... pass the decrypter if available and save the blocks to disc...then append the files... for single load files i used just one of available tools... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Crystal Raider, Swat, Crack-Up, Hover Bover (?), Colony, Gridrunner. I can't remember any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawk Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Here in Oz, Atari games were expensive, so I could never afford any. The only one I ever had was Crossfire. It was a single load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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