Are these tapes broken?

[SkoolKid]

Following on from How to load and run these 128K games?, I now turn my attention to the other games on the FTR (fails to run after LOADing) list:

• Subbuteo (Subbuteo & Subgame - Side A.tzx) - Variable not found
• Swiss Navy - Nonsense in BASIC
• Sexwords - hangs
• Brexit: The Final Countdown! - hangs
• Bolas Diabólicas - Out of memory
• Tres en Raya - hangs

I can't get any of these working in Fuse or ZEsarUX. Is there a trick to getting any of these to work, or are they just broken?

[PeterJ]

Tres en Raya - hangs

The itch.io page suggests this is 16k only:

https://espamatica.itch.io/tres-en-raya

I'm not near a computer to check. Could you give it a go?

[PeterJ]

Bolas Diabólicas - Out of memory

It looks like the machine type is wrong. It's a Timex 2068 game.

[SkoolKid]

It looks like the machine type is wrong. It's a Timex 2068 game.

Yep, it works in ZEsarUX in TC2068 mode. I'll recategorise this one (Bolas Diabólicas).

[SkoolKid]

The itch.io page suggests this is 16k only:

https://espamatica.itch.io/tres-en-raya

I'm not near a computer to check. Could you give it a go?

Neither Fuse nor ZEsarUX in 16K mode get anything useful from this tape.

[PeterJ]

@SkoolKid,

Please could you try the file direct from the itch.io page?

[SkoolKid]

@SkoolKid,

Please could you try the file direct from the itch.io page?

I did. It's the same tape as the one on this site.

[PeterJ]

Very strange. If nobody else sorts it before, I will look on my PC in the morning.

Peter

[Stefan]

The TicTacToe.tap on the itch page works fine, there are differences with the TresEnRaya.tap - the first is that the 27 byte code that ldirs the loading screen to screen memory is using a different source location, however the basic loaders /look/ (I cannot be bothered looking at the 5 byte actual representations of the numbers) the same.

OXO = 24250 (which matches where basic is loading the next code block)
T&R = 25150 (which does not match so shows a screwed up screen)

The TresEnRaya.dsk does work on Fuse with +3 as machine.

-> the T&R tap is botched.

[Stefan]

Swiss Navy contains insufficient data statements, it is reading data in an outer loop with 6 iterations and an inner loop with 8 iterations, but there are only 6 * 7 elements of integer data:




It is a type in from The Rainbow Book of Basic Programs - a scan with the correct data statements can be found at everygamegoing.com - see page 26:

[Stefan]

Subbuteo - this rubbish should be removed from the database (IMHO).

A work in progress (?) basic program with no magazine references whatsoever and an author that has produced nothing else....

[Stefan]

Brexit-game works on Fuse with 128K - hangs with 48k - not sure why.

https://namco.itch.io/brexit-the-final-countdown

This game isn't quite finished but is enough to showcase what football manager-esque games were like.

Written on the 128K Spectrum BASIC (to help quicken the coding process) and is my first Spectrum BASIC game.

Please note: This game needs to be in 128K mode in order to play it - I will update the page if I can see how to get it to run in 48K mode as well.

[SkoolKid]

Swiss Navy contains insufficient data statements, it is reading data in an outer loop with 6 iterations and an inner loop with 8 iterations, but there are only 6 * 7 elements of integer data

Well spotted! Here's a tape with fixed DATA statements:

https://skoolkit.ca/tapes/SwissNavy.tap

I'll upload this to the site if someone else tests it successfully.

[Stefan]

I'll upload this to the site if someone else tests it successfully.

I'll pass on this tripe thanks.

[PeterJ]

Brexit-game works on Fuse with 128K - hangs with 48k - not sure why.

https://namco.itch.io/brexit-the-final-countdown

Under updates on the itch.io page it says

Just a quick one, I've re-coded this onto the 48K Spectrum

I'm not home to test.

https://namco.itch.io/brexit-the-final- ... ick-update

It's up to Einar, but I don't think we should be listing unfinished titles.

[SkoolKid]

I'll pass on this tripe thanks.

Sometimes I wonder whether it would have been wise to have a "no tripe" policy for inclusion in the t2sfiles project, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed.