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| How to convert my cassettes to PC??
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RTR
msx friend
Posts: 1 |  Posted: March 21 2004, 22:45 |
Hi,
I am totally new to this. I own a Philipps MSX computer which i bought in 1982 or 83, and i have about a 100 games (all originals believe it or not).
Now I thought it would be great to copy the games to My portable PC, but I can´t find a way to do it.
Is there a kind of manual out there which can explian me in steps how to convert the games to my PC?
The emultaor I use is NLMSX V.048 (I donloaded it a couple of weeks ago)
It would be great to play some games like H.E.R.O. or Boulderdash again, with the old a great sound of my 8-bit computer.
Thank you already in advance. And it is great to see that MSX still rules.....
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Sonic_aka_T
msx guru
Posts: 2269 | Posted: March 21 2004, 23:13 |
I guess the best way is simply to record them on your PC. Just hook a cassette player up to the sound-in of your PC and record them to a .WAV file. I've never tried it myself, but I've heard it works. I think there's a WAV2CAS util out there that you can use to convert them to .CAS files for use with emulators like NLMSX.
I read in some news or forum post here there's now also a cassette player for PC, believe it or not. I guess you could also buy that if you're a really big fan 
Good luck, if you run into any problems just ask around on these forums... |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: March 21 2004, 23:17 |
Sample the cassettes using your soundcard. I'm not sure what the sampling resolution and frequency should be, but you can't go wrong with16 bit 44kHz I guess 
Emulators like openMSX and MESS can use the .WAV files directly as if they were a real cassette.
Other emulators (e.g. fMSX) use a format called CAS, which is a binary representation of the analogue cassette. Many games use custom loaders that cannot be supported by CAS, but for games who can, it's a more efficient way of storing games.
Programs to convert to and from WAV and CAS are here: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~vincentd/ |
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bubusan
msx friend
Posts: 3 | Posted: April 07 2004, 20:54 |
Do you know a program to convert .wav file in .dsk file ?
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: April 07 2004, 21:08 |
.wav is from cassette, .dsk is from diskette. There is no program to convert between them. Although you could do the conversion manually, but this requires knowledge of MSX programming.
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bubusan
msx friend
Posts: 3 | Posted: April 09 2004, 16:02 |
It know the procedure to load the file. wav with the emulator mess?
The boxes(cassette) converted in wav that formed should have?
I experienced to load the file with mess but does not succeed to individualize not any game.
Us and' some tutorial that explains detailed how to load the file. wav with emulatore openmsx?
I ask sorry for my English
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3531 | Posted: April 10 2004, 11:35 |
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