Hello all!
I was wondering, how do you transfer a speccy file to a PC? Is there some software that converts the code out there or something?
Cheers!
Garth {yolkfolk}:delight:
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take a look at the ZX32 spectrum emulator site
http://www.geocities.com/zx32home/
under the special editions section in the downloads, you will find a spectrum tape loader which will convert a speccy tape into a .tap file most speccy emulators will recognise this file type.
All you need to do is connect a tape player to your pc's sound cards mic or line in socket and start converting! {yolkfolk}:delight:
This works the other way too. I did it with my Amstrad and downloaded some tape images. Converted them to wavs. Burnt them onto a cd then recorded to cassette.
Then loaded the game onto my Amstrad :smile:
Then loaded the game onto my Amstrad :smile:
{yolkfolk}:scratch: That page appears to have been deleted. I tried e-mailing the author but it bounced straight back. Any other suggestions guys?!
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This works the other way too. I did it with my Amstrad and downloaded some tape images. Converted them to wavs. Burnt them onto a cd then recorded to cassette.
Then loaded the game onto my Amstrad :smile:
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I've done it with the C64, but funnily enough I find it's more likely to work if I record straight to tape, rather than putting it to CD first, don't know why :smile: But then I got a disk drive and eventually an X1541 cable to plug it into the PC, it's far less messy. Before I got the cable, I wrote a PC program that takes a C64 file, and adds a bit of code to the start of it so that you can then record it to a tape, and then when it loads on the C64, instead of running, it saves the original C64 file to a blank disk in the C64 disk drive! I managed to get most of the Dizzy games onto floppy disk that way, but at the time I could never find a good copy of Treasure Island Dizzy for the C64, it always seemed to crash on an underwater screen.
i couldn't do that since i have no way to connect my pc to a cassette recorder.
Although apprently people have used ipods to loads games by using one of those devices with cassettes at one end and a headphone socket at the other.
You know those things you can use to play music on old car stereos.
Although apprently people have used ipods to loads games by using one of those devices with cassettes at one end and a headphone socket at the other.
You know those things you can use to play music on old car stereos.
I have had experience with doing this and it can make you tear your hair out at times because success rates are very low. Amstrad tapes are a pain to be honest, mainly due to the fact that you need a very clear captured tape file and plus the coders that make the file usable currently do not understand all loaders.
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i couldn’t do that since i have no way to connect my pc to a cassette recorder.
Although apprently people have used ipods to loads games by using one of those devices with cassettes at one end and a headphone socket at the other.
You know those things you can use to play music on old car stereos.
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i think some people have too much time on their hands.
*goes off to code Rail Road Dizzy* :tongue:
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i couldn’t do that since i have no way to connect my pc to a cassette recorder.
Although apprently people have used ipods to loads games by using one of those devices with cassettes at one end and a headphone socket at the other.
You know those things you can use to play music on old car stereos.
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You can use an ordinary cassette deck like a walkman/Hi-Fi for example. Just connect the two using a 2mm audio lead, one end into the earphone socket of the walkman or whatever and the other into the Line In output on your soundcard. I captured the tape using a program called Goldwave because this saves files in the .voc format which is what is recommended.