I haven't looked at it but cassette programs often had loaders which
were just little bits of BASIC that was just a convenience to take the
place of something you could do manually.
It's probably trying to operate a tape deck using the remote plug to
stop & start the player to load the next part. And the "next" part is
probably really the main/only part if you don't count the loader.
Try to look at the loader in ram, IE load it and then LIST instead of
RUN. If it's basic, maybe you can just see what it's trying to do and do
it yourself instead of having the loader do it. Like maybe it's just
loading a .CO file or something. You could play the wav until the first
gap, pause it, manually type something like CLOADM "something",tt,ee,xx
(based on reading the loader code)
Then un-pause the player.
It is possible the game really does need to control the player to load
more parts or even to play audio later, but the simple loader thing was
common so just start from that assumption and see how far that goes.
The loaders were often totally unnecessary. Usually all you really need
or care about is the actual program which comes next.
--
bkw
On 9/12/25 19:44, Alex ... wrote:
Well, I got my cassette cable, but I can't get the first stage loader to
even work. It starts with Found:LOADER, but fails anything after it
with ?IO Error or just waiting.
I've tested my MP3 recorder I'm using and it works to save and load
files from my own computer, so I wonder what's wrong with the WAVs provided.
Has anyone else had any luck?
-Alex
On Fri, Sep 5, 2025, 12:04 John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Cool, Alex, I will check it out :-)
I have a cassette cable here somewhere. But if someone converts it
to a loadable text or binary I wouldn't complain :-)
-- John.
-= Model T's Forever =-
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM Alex ... <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello model T nerds,
This isn't my work, nor do I know much about it, but I figured
I'd post it here since I haven't seen anything on the list about it.
Somebody in Japan made this cute puzzle game and ported it to a
zillion different vintage computers, including ours. Scroll down
to row 97 or so for a link to the M100 cassette WAV.
http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/svellas/ <http://
inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/svellas/>
- Alex
--
bkw
