Brilliant! Yes please, I'll send you a PM.
Great work by the way.
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Brilliant! Yes please, I'll send you a PM.
Any luck Shich? If you don't have the TAPs perhaps someone could make representative ones from the YouTube vids themselves?
Any luck Shich? If you don't have the TAPs perhaps someone could make representative ones from the YouTube vids themselves?
Received with thanks, they will be in the next update. How did you make them by the way? Did you use Patrik Rak's utility I've quoted by Bob below? If not can you explain how you did it?
Ta Bob, I missed this one. Can you remember where it came from? What song is it? I'm sure I'll kick myself but I can't place it!bob_fossil wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 5:34 pm Patrik Rak made a utility which lets you create musical loaders:
http://www.thefossilrecord.co.uk/wp-con ... icload.zip
I also had this kicking about on my hard drive. Can't give a credit as there's no info in the zip file.
http://www.thefossilrecord.co.uk/wp-con ... loader.zip
Well, actually no. I did not use any utilities.
Can you give us some more information ?
I've converted this to TZX and it plays the tune but I can't get SPIN or FUSE to recognise it as a viable loader, can anyone help?bob_fossil wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 5:34 pm I also had this kicking about on my hard drive. Can't give a credit as there's no info in the zip file.
http://www.thefossilrecord.co.uk/wp-con ... loader.zip
I get the opposite results: I can fish out the loader, but the payload needs to be converted to CSW or direct recording.
Is it 'Oh Susannah' you don't see the point of, or musical tape loaders in general?Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:58 pm That aside, I don’t quite get the idea behind this exercise. We simply have a series of tones of different frequencies, which don’t translate into data. The only “loader” effect is the border changing color each time the waveform crosses the zero point.
I doubt it!I think I’m missing something here.
I have nothing against “Oh, Susanna”—it’s one of the tunes my wristwatch plays! (Yup, it’s from the 80s, and sill going strong).
Yeah, in a nutshell.R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Jul 07, 2018 2:25 pmMy understanding is that Imperial March and Happy30th do translate into bytes and are worthy of a ZXDB ID, but based on what you say 'Oh Susannah' is only a loader followed by everyday notes that do not translate into bytes and shouldn't have an ID. Sound about right?
I think you mixed up the tapes and left Phil Collins’ But Seriously in the tape player. A rookie mistake.
Holy moly! I originally only managed to have a precursory look at it, and it didn’t look to me it it actually loaded anything. I just tried to play back the audio file in Fuse and . . .
I think I know how it works. I theory, a least.
Sure. It’s still 636K, though. (Grab quickly. The link expires in a few days.)
Ta! I'm not sure why mine didn't workAst A. Moore wrote: ↑Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:17 pm Sure. It’s still 636K, though. (Grab quickly. The link expires in a few days.)
It didn’t work for me when I tried it with fuseutils either, so I took a different approach. I loaded the WAV into Fuse and then saved it as a TZX.
True, but most of the time it’ll mess up the picture, as some data will likely be lost. (You can try it with Fuse as well, using the play/pause command. That way, no data will be lost.)