I am trying to write the Castlevania: Spectral Interlude to a spectrum +3 disk. I have downloaded the .dsk file and converted it to a .tap file with dsk2tap. This program claims to "convert a .DSK image to a .TAP file, which when run on a Spectrum +3 recreates the original disc". The program seems to start working, but I always get a "+3 dos error" and it says "9 stop statement" at the bottom of the screen.
Can I ask if anyone has actually been able to use this program to successfully copy any spectrum +3 .dsk to a disk, even in an emulator? Is there any chance that anyone could attempt to convert the Castlevania: Spectral Interlude .dsk to .tap, then upload it for me? (just in case I am doing anything wrong)
http://spectralinterlude.com/dl.php?fil ... dsk_en.zip
http://www.seasip.info/ZX/taptools-w32-110.zip
http://www.seasip.info/ZX/unix.html
This is how I am using the program in windows:
https://imgur.com/a/QNOaF
Converting .dsk to tap with dsk2tap
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Re: Converting .dsk to tap with dsk2tap
I think you probably converted it fine looking at your screenshots.
Here's what I did anyway just in case it's any help...
(1) Converted the Castlevania disk image to a tap file:
dsk2tap newcastleENGLISH.dsk new.tap (pretty much what you did as far as I can tell)
(2) Then in Spectaculator I created a new blank +3 disk image
(3) I then loaded the new.tap I'd created and got an on-screen message saying "Press A to write to A:" and "Press Q to quit" on the line below it.
(4) I pressed A and it wrote the data to my blank virtual disk.
(5) I closed the tap file and tried loading the disk and it worked fine.
The only time I got an error message (Cannot select +3DOS ROM) was the first time I tried loading the tape because I'd forgotten to switch to the +3 machine and had left it in my usual +2 mode instead.
Here's what I did anyway just in case it's any help...
(1) Converted the Castlevania disk image to a tap file:
dsk2tap newcastleENGLISH.dsk new.tap (pretty much what you did as far as I can tell)
(2) Then in Spectaculator I created a new blank +3 disk image
(3) I then loaded the new.tap I'd created and got an on-screen message saying "Press A to write to A:" and "Press Q to quit" on the line below it.
(4) I pressed A and it wrote the data to my blank virtual disk.
(5) I closed the tap file and tried loading the disk and it worked fine.
The only time I got an error message (Cannot select +3DOS ROM) was the first time I tried loading the tape because I'd forgotten to switch to the +3 machine and had left it in my usual +2 mode instead.
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Re: Converting .dsk to tap with dsk2tap
OMG, I'm so stupid, I wasn't using audacity right. Instead of pressing pause, then pause again, I was pressing play, and it was returning to the beggining of the wav file.
It works perfectly. I have castlevania on REAL +3 disk! So chuffed right now
Thanks for taking the time, I got the same results as you with spectaculator, which is the same as my real +3. But I get the same error with zxspin for some reason
It works perfectly. I have castlevania on REAL +3 disk! So chuffed right now
Thanks for taking the time, I got the same results as you with spectaculator, which is the same as my real +3. But I get the same error with zxspin for some reason
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Re: Converting .dsk to tap with dsk2tap
It's pretty awesome that they made a save game feature that saves to the disk, but I'm not sure if anyone actually tried this on a real spectrum +3. Because unfortunately, if you load your save, the disk continues to spin until the next save point. This might not matter with an emulator, but with a real disk drive the save game feature is effectively broken.
I tried to look at the "loader" file on the disk, with the merge and load commands, but all I get is wrong file type. Does anyone know how hard would it be to modify the loader with this?
I tried to look at the "loader" file on the disk, with the merge and load commands, but all I get is wrong file type. Does anyone know how hard would it be to modify the loader with this?
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Re: Converting .dsk to tap with dsk2tap
Nevermind, disregard my last post, if anyone reads this in the future. It was a bad disk