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by .mad.
Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:54 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

Lucifer's Kingdom. fixed and modified CAS for Dragon32. The Original tape crashes on Dragon32 [resets], when loaded in Dragon64 the fire button doesn't work. Joystick control in Xroar goes a bit funny (no auto centre). so the ship floats diagonally up the screen. if you select Keyboard for LEFT joys...
by .mad.
Thu May 30, 2019 12:10 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

Larkspur Trilogy (Doublet) ;) H Bullman & J Smallwood version is missing from the archive download. I found a CAS version with a corrupt last block and fixed it. The John Penn CAS version has different filenames and a few extra lines of BASIC. i fixed the incorrect spacing between the blocks, so it ...
by .mad.
Mon May 27, 2019 3:57 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

Johnny Reb - Working!

Both the WAV and CAS in the archive failed to load.
found an alternative WAV and converted it to CAS.
by .mad.
Sat May 25, 2019 12:24 pm
Forum: Software Requests
Topic: Dragon demos for download?
Replies: 31
Views: 16341

Re: Dragon demos for download?

acsi wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 4:44 am Nyan Cat? :lol:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59748
why not do Dragyan? :lol:
by .mad.
Fri May 24, 2019 4:11 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: MAME Emulation
Replies: 95
Views: 45726

Re: MAME Emulation

There's a similar Dragon64 problem with most of the Infocom CoCo Conversions.
attached two for you to test.

Seastalker - only boots in Tanodr64

Cutthroats - crashes on both machines when you type any command e.g. "GET UP"

both seem to work in Xroar with a Dragon64.
by .mad.
Wed May 22, 2019 4:26 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

Hotel on Mayfair (Datacom + Preston)

fixed CAS to load Data file correctly.
and found the missing the 2-6 Player game mode (HOM2)
by .mad.
Mon May 20, 2019 6:19 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

Screaming Abdabs comes to mind. It has some standard blocks and then it switches to a custom loader with no standard block structure. Does it load on Mame? Yes, that custom loader works!. even the old TOSEC version that is corrupt with a few random hex [54] instead of [55] works??? here's another o...
by .mad.
Mon May 20, 2019 11:03 am
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

I think that the Dragon really don’t care that much about a lot of things, and maybe it’s due to a flaw on Mame’s side. Yes, I would 100% say it's a MAME problem with the CAS reading routine. i don't know how to fix / rewrite the MAME code to read the tape loader correctly. but i know what it needs...
by .mad.
Sun May 19, 2019 6:02 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: repaired games from bad tapes
Replies: 91
Views: 40256

Re: repaired games from bad tapes

Fix for MAME only (it works in Xroar and most likely on real Hardware).
the CAS will not work in MAME as it will not load a BASIC file without a name or header.
it stopped with IO error at the loading pic.

i just put a blank filename and leader gap to make it work.