Add ascii file to .tap

[mariano_dm]

This might be a dumb question.

I haven't found any suitable utility to add a file to a tape or dsk from command line. bas2tap and bin2tap only work with executables and tokenized basic.

I was able to do it via tapcat (after a pain to make it work). and I can see the new file in the new tape, but now load just keeps looping (it is a logo program, so no tokenizing should be required)

thanks for your help

[+3code]

Not sure, perhaps:
https://github.com/mosaicmap/zxs_data2tap

[patters]

z88dk-appmake, from https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/releases?

I have used it to insert a loading screen into a TAP file - e.g.:
https://github.com/patters-syno/artille ... ake_tap.sh

[Luzie]

I haven't found any suitable utility to add a file to a tape or dsk from command line. bas2tap and bin2tap only work with executables and tokenized basic.

What kind of file do you want to add? Binary Data or as your questions suggest, plain ASCII-Characters?

Two TAP-Files can be simply put together with using e.g. CMD-Command:

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COPY /b TAP1.tap+TAP2.tap TAP1and2.TAP

[mariano_dm]

just a plain ascii file
trying to autorun a logo proogram

[flatduckrecords]

Hi @mariano_dm,

This works for me:

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bin2tap.exe -append -a 49722 -o logo.tap SQRSTR\ LOG.txt

The contents of SQRSTR:

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TO SQUARESTAR
REPEAT 8 [SQUARE RT 45]
END

Just had a quick look at Sinclair Logo—is that what you're using? It needs to have the filenames 10 characters long, ending with "LOG" and padded with spaces in between if necessarty. It's also case-sensitive. The bytes header needs to specify location 49722 (0xC23A). If any of those is not quite right the loader routine will just keep looking (emulated tapes will loop around).

Line breaks in the text file need to be encoded as 0x0D (not 0x0A) or the interpreter will get confused.

Hope that helps!

[Luzie]

just a plain ascii file
trying to autorun a logo proogram

So it should be loaded via

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LOAD ""CODE

or

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LOAD ""

?

[+3code]

So it should be loaded via

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LOAD ""CODE

or

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LOAD ""

?

The first, I assume, as it is a LOGO source code, not BASIC.

[+3code]

trying to autorun a logo proogram

Time ago I was with the same idea. The only solution I found was to make an snapshot after all is loaded and ready and then use a utility like SNAPRUN to load and run directly the snapshot.

Edit: you can use too the old transfers like Multiface, etc, to make the runable snapshot.

[mariano_dm]

thanks everyone for your replies, I'll give them a try !

[mariano_dm]

I finally had some time to try it
found this nice utility to add files to tapes

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tr '\n' '\15' < AUTORUN.LOG > AUTO.LOG
./taput add -n "auto   LOG" AUTO.LOG tape.tap

almost there, just it seems I also have to translate the EOF, it is trying to read a 'W' past the file

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TO SQUARE
REPEAT 4 [FD 30 RT 90]
END

TO SQUARESTAR
REPEAT 8 [SQUARE RT 45]
END

SQUARESTAR