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A question on broken files.

two so far i have found that load on the dragon so far and then fail.

computavoice and eddie steady go.

eddie even fails using xroar. is there anything that we can do about this?

Try these...

They're not working for me - did you patch the leaders of the ones available here? I think there's actually data missing from them - e.g., Eddie's title screen has obviously missed a block or two. That one might be fixable just be inserting a dummy block I suppose...

sixxie wrote:That one might be fixable just be inserting a dummy block I suppose...

Quickly inserted a block in vim and this loads:

http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/eddie_ste ... atched.cas

No guarantees it'll keep working for long though!

sixxie wrote:They're not working for me - did you patch the leaders of the ones available here? I think there's actually data missing from them - e.g., Eddie's title screen has obviously missed a block or two. That one might be fixable just be inserting a dummy block I suppose...

I used FIXCAS on them. They seem to be working OK when used with Paul Burgin's T3 emulator.

zephyr wrote: I used FIXCAS on them. They seem to be working OK when used with Paul Burgin's T3 emulator.

That's interesting. Suggests the data's in there but being skipped due to various delays (whereas T3 breakpoints the cassette loading ROM routines so there would be no delay). Does my hacked version fail on T3 then? If so, I've generated a new one here with xroar-tapemangle which should only include stuff that actually got read in:

http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/eddie_ste ... tched2.cas

sixxie wrote:That's interesting. Suggests the data's in there but being skipped due to various delays (whereas T3 breakpoints the cassette loading ROM routines so there would be no delay). Does my hacked version fail on T3 then? If so, I've generated a new one here with xroar-tapemangle which should only include stuff that actually got read in:

http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/eddie_ste ... tched2.cas

Your original hack failed on T3, but the tapemangle generated version seems to be working perfectly.

zephyr wrote: Your original hack failed on T3, but the tapemangle generated version seems to be working perfectly.

Cool. The proper solution is a re-rip of course, but I don't own this one.

Thanks Ciaran!

Just tested the archived version (.cas file) of ComputaVoice under T3 and XROAR without problems. I used the following syntax to load the M/C and BASIC demo.

CLEAR200,24000:CLOADM:CLOAD

sixxie wrote:

zephyr wrote: Your original hack failed on T3, but the tapemangle generated version seems to be working perfectly.

Cool. The proper solution is a re-rip of course, but I don't own this one.

I'll add it to the todo list unless somebody else wants to use the XROAR "tapemangle" edition to re-rip from the original tape...