Beepola Help

Contents

Introduction

Keyboard commands

Beeper Engines

Compiling Songs

Ripping Songs

*.bbsong file format

Credits

 

Ripping Songs

The Song Ripper is available in the menus under File->Import->Spectrum Song Ripper...

This feature is capable of ripping a variety of song data from Spectrum emulator files (TAP or Z80) directly into Beepola for subsequent playing or editing.

The ripper will currently search for the following types of data:-

Tips for Ripping songs
The TAP file reader in Beepola is very limited and will ignore headerless data blocks. Also, games that make use of data compression or that use one player routine to play multiple songs during the course of a game may be foiled by the ripper.

Therefore, to get the best results, it is highly recommended that you load the game into an emulator and take a snapshot in *.Z80 format while the target tune is playing and select this file in the ripper rather than the original game file. This gives the ripper the best possible chance of locating the required song data and importing it into Beepola format.