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- From: thdb86%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Damion Yates)
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- Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
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- Date: 9 Feb 1996 13:02:36 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
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- R Ribeiro (rff-ribe@csm.uwe.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Hello:
-
- : I think that you're right till a certain point. It will work indeed,
- : but is like a deck copy (a copy from tape to tape): with each copy you're
- : increasing the level of noise...it will be better if it was decoded and
- : saved afresh!
-
- : I have done in a PC a routine that reads Spectrum tapes and creates
- : a .TAP file in a disk (a binary image of the contents of the tape, already
- : translated). Apart for the little space it uses (compared to .WAV), I
-
- That sounds ideal, but will it read speed loaders?
-
-
- I think whats really needed is a complete rethink because at the moment it's not
- possible to play multiloads that used different routines to the rom one, on any
- emulator that I know of unless you use the actual tape or an image of it stored
- as a sound file of some sort. What we need is something like a mixture of the
- two, ways of doing it. a .tap format but with a varied baud rate, and an option
- in an emulator to 'play' the .tap in like a .wav file so the m/c program is
- fooled in to thinking its getting real sound data, having to use an option would
- be like pressing play on the cassette recorder so I don't think thats a bad
- thing. This would involve a rewrite of most emulators unfortunatly. It 'might'
- be better just to hack the games so that they receive normal data using the rom
- and so the emulator can fake this in the normal way.
-
- : think it's easier to manipulate. (at least for my emulation -- still in a
- : early state).
-
- : It has it's only problems, but I am considering to put it as GNU or
- : something like that... to see if other people are interessed in picking were
- : I left.
-
- : It reads from printer port and from a SoundBlaster: but it's still
- : some problems with noisy tapes.
-
- : Bye,
- : Rui Ribeiro
-
-
- --
- Damion Yates - Sheffield Uni, UK.
- http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdmy
-