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monotone27
msx user
Posts: 60 |  Posted: June 29 2004, 22:59 |
I just got this game on cassette and I'm not sure what I should type to make it run. I tried typing CLOAD and then played the first side of cassette one til the end, but nothing loaded. I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Kevin
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snout
online
msx legend
Posts: 4991 | Posted: June 29 2004, 23:09 |
The tape quality might have become too low to actually load the game. I think a CLOAD should always work, shouldn,t it?
To be honest I never fooled around that much with tapes on MSX...
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MarioFungi
msx friend
Posts: 3 | Posted: June 29 2004, 23:47 |
The game is in machine language so you need to
bload"cas:",r to run.
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pitpan
msx master
Posts: 1368 | Posted: June 29 2004, 23:47 |
To load a tape game you should use:
CLOAD or CLOAD"CAS:" for tokenized basic, not very usual
LOAD"CAS:",R or RUN"CAS:" for ASCII coded basic programs
BLOAD"CAS:",R for binaries
Probably you should use RUN"CAS:"
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ro
msx guru
Posts: 2320 | Posted: June 30 2004, 09:55 |
whooh, cassette !!! cool, thaz ancient dude!
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evulopah
msx addict
Posts: 456 | Posted: June 30 2004, 10:00 |
Turn up the volume....
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Alex Ganzeveld
msx lover
Posts: 81 | Posted: June 30 2004, 10:04 |
Brrrr...Cassettes. I still have nightmare about them. Buttah, I think you can Cload to locate files on a tape. It will say "Skip:" when it finds binarys, as I recall.
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Alex Ganzeveld
msx lover
Posts: 81 | Posted: June 30 2004, 10:05 |
Or turn off the monitor, that used to work too.
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Sonic_aka_T
msx guru
Posts: 2261 | Posted: June 30 2004, 10:10 |
Wind and rewind it a few times. Cassettes tend to 'unwind' after a certain time in disuse. Since the tape is no longer tightly wound it will pass the head at varying speeds. This causes a doppler effect that distorts the original data. I've never used data tapes to be honest, but I've come across this problem a number of times with audio cassettes. I guess it's no different for data tapes.
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ro
msx guru
Posts: 2320 | Posted: June 30 2004, 10:13 |
audio cassettes? what's that.. ancient recording devices??  |
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manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3381 | Posted: June 30 2004, 10:23 |
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CLOAD or CLOAD"CAS:" for tokenized basic, not very usual
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AFAIK CLOAD"CAS:" doesn't work and it isn't useful anyway. CLOAD always only applies to cassette, hence the C. So, just CLOAD will load the first tokenized basic program off the cassette.
CLOAD"filename" will just search for the file named 'filename' on the cassette and load it.
Note that filename may not be longer than 6 characters and is case sensitive. |
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