Torinak QAOP emulator

[sludge]

This browser based emulator can play Spectrum files you drag and drop onto it, is there any way of downloading or forwarding a link so people without Spectrum emulators can play it?

I've inspected the page with various browsers and cant see any flash content.

Failing that is there any way of converting Spectrum files into stand alone apps that negate the need for emulation?

[hikoki]

You can upload your tap to dropbox and build an url like this
https://torinak.com/qaop/#128#l=https:/ ... et9kwo7ce1

[sludge]

How do you 'build' the URL though?

I've been messing about all afternoon and got nowhere.

[hikoki]

This is the shared link generated by dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wze8qfmz ... f2o8c&dl=0

Compare it with the one I used above:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/f ... et9kwo7ce1

[sludge]

So you use "#1=" then enter the address of the file?

Does it have to be Dropbox of will any file hosting site do?

[PROSM]

You need to use a lowercase L, not a number 1. So you add "#l=" followed by the file URL.

Here's an example from my own website:

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The game link for Aliengun (from the 2020 Crap Games Competition)
    https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/onlineplay/002.tap
The Torinak QAOP link was therefore
    https://torinak.com/qaop#~128#l=https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/onlineplay/002.tap

You can use any URL, as long as Cross-Origin Resource Sharing is enabled for that URL. Dropbox seems to automatically enable this, and other file-hosting sites may do as well. If you're using your own web-hosting, you'll need to configure it yourself. There's a quick guide here that covers various web-server programs: https://enable-cors.org/server.html

[sludge]

L not 1 eh?

Nice one, got it working!

[firelord]

If you don't have much traffic you can bypass CORS policy by using using a proxy like eg corsproxy.io .Just prefix your URL with

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https://corsproxy.io/?

eg

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https://torinak.com/qaop/#l=https://corsproxy.io/?https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/onlineplay/002.tap

https://torinak.com/qaop/#l=https://cor ... ay/002.tap

[sludge]

Now it just keeps saying 'failed to fetch' when using Google drive links.

[sludge]

Is there no utility that will convert a TAP into an executable app that will play on other platforms?

[firelord]

Is there no utility that will convert a TAP into an executable app that will play on other platforms?

Old DOS Warajevo emulator did that with an extra program ( https://worldofspectrum.net/warajevo/ ) . The exe file run on up to windows XP. I haven't tried it on later windows.

https://worldofspectrum.net/warajevo/Features.html :

Using the additional program ZXCOMP the Z80 snapshot files can, with some conditions, be converted to EXE programs which can be executed totally independently from the emulator, and they are not too much larger than the snapshot files themselves. This extremly powerful option is also a unique feature of the Warajevo emulator!

[8BitAG]

That corsproxy link is really useful, thanks Firelord.

[PROSM]

Now it just keeps saying 'failed to fetch' when using Google drive links.

I've had a go myself with my own Google Drive account and I can't get it working either. It's probably easier to just use Dropbox.

[hikoki]

Talking about dropbox you have to replace "www.dropbox.com/" by "dl.dropboxusercontent.com/"
and remove the last string after the "&"

[hikoki]

Another option is to include FUSE-SDL alongside your tap. There you have an example:


I don't know how to make an exe file like the one provided for the game Exotical

[sludge]

Old DOS Warajevo emulator did that with an extra program ( https://worldofspectrum.net/warajevo/ ) . The exe file run on up to windows XP. I haven't tried it on later windows.

https://worldofspectrum.net/warajevo/Features.html :

Unfortunately it wont work on my version of windows.

[8BitAG]

I used the corsproxy to get QAOP working with a file hosted on my personal website...
https://torinak.com/qaop/#128#l=https:/ ... a-v094.tap

Which is cool, as previously I've just piggybacked on the SC link for Play Online functionality.

[firelord]

Unfortunately it wont work on my version of windows.

Just tried it with DOSbox. I converted a z80 file to exe and run it through dosbox. I couldn't run it from wine (because it said it was a DOS program - maybe there is a wine parameter that will run it)


Also, keep in mind that corsproxy.io has a daily limit. If you reach it you can re-use it the next day.

[sludge]

Another option is to include FUSE-SDL alongside your tap. There you have an example:


I don't know how to make an exe file like the one provided for the game Exotical

Got it working!

Used notepad to edit the batch file.

Wonder if you could use ZX Spin in the same manner?

[ParadigmShifter]

Looks like ZXSpin takes a filename of what to open (since when I tried ZXSpin /? expecting to see the command line options it said it could not find file /? so I expect you can. You may need to set the initial options to flashload TAP file though if you want to do that I suppose? Which looks like they live in

default.spincfg

snippet from mine

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[Tape]
AutoLoad=1
AutoStart=1
RewindAtEnd=1
AccelerateStandard=1
AccelerateEdge=1
AccelerateByte=1
NegPolarity=0
Feedback=0
FrameSkip=0
TapeWobble=0
BoostLoadingTones=0

It's a shame there's no documentation for Spin any more since the help file does not open on modern versions of Windows, and I can't find an online version.

I'm just used to using the debugger in Spin which is why I use it (have Fuse as well but I only use that as a secondary test emulator). Maybe I should learn how to use Fuse better and see what its debugger is like. The menu options and stuff aren't as good as in Spin though.

[hikoki]

Got it working!

Used notepad to edit the batch file

The only problem is that it doesn't quit when pressing escape, so you would need to inform the user how to exit the emulator

[sludge]

The only problem is that it doesn't quit when pressing escape, so you would need to inform the user how to exit the emulator

That was my next question, had a job getting out of it myself.

[sludge]

I'm only wanting to use Spin for ULA+ support.

[ParadigmShifter]

Alt-F4 should quit Fuse.

[hikoki]

That was my next question, had a job getting out of it myself.

you can use this bat

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@echo off
echo To exit use the F10 key

pause

Start .\fuse-sdl\fuse --full-screen --machine plus2 .\tapes\Cursed1.0.tap