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Style - Saga Systems Ltd

Andrew BarkerAndrew Barker
edited September 2009 in MIA/STP/SDP
Hi folks,

Regarding:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012138

Andrew Blood kindly sampled for Style by Saga Systems Ltd which is MIA, but we're having a problem with Side A. It seems to stop short of decoding the whole main block by a few bytes. There must be a blip in the sample or something.

If anyone fancies a go at fixing this you can download the sample for Side A here:
http://newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/Binaries/style_side1.zip

Any thoughts are welcome.

Cheers

Andy Barker.
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  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited September 2009
    @ Martijn

    The Comment
    "Remarks Requires the Saga GP Graphics Tablet."

    Should this read "Remarks supports the Saga GP Graphics Tablet" ?

    The basis of this being the Tape has two different versions of the programmes, one for the Tablet and one for Kempston Joystick.

    From what I gather the programme came with a kempston compatable joystick interface. I may have this as there was an unidentified Interface in the lot his came in. I'll open it up and take some photo's later to see if anyone can identify it as something different.

    ps this should have been infoseek forum, but I didn't want to start a new thread
  • mheidemheide
    edited September 2009
    Ah, yes, you're right.
    I also added a comment about the included Kempston compatible joystick interface - I was already wondering about the "Hardware Design" note on the loading screen. :smile:
  • netraidernetraider
    edited September 2009
    Andy,

    Sorry for not replying sooner, but I'll take this opportunity to do so.
    I made some tests with the samples you provided earlier, and so far couldn't figure out where the glitch is.. :(
    The quality of sample is excellent, so no problems there.
    Both sides have some matching data, but there's a lot of differences too..
    The only conclusion I've reached so far is that both the start and end of the file are correct. So the missing bytes lie somewhere in the middle.
    One thing that puzzles me is that when there's some missing data along a block it corrupts a few bits (not whole bytes!), and when that happens you can spot where the corruption is. In this case it must be a coincidence, because the corruption must be affecting a multiple of eight bits, making the place where the corruption happens very hard to find (not to say impossible!)
    Either that or some weird quirk happened when duplicating the original tape.

    NR
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited September 2009
    Gents

    would another sample help ?
  • rwaprwap
    edited September 2009
    I also recently sold the interface and the software to a customer - he did say he would co-operate in saving the software for the archive - if you need another tape, let me know...
    Supporting Sinclairs since 1986 !

    www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
    www.sellmyretro.com
  • Andrew BarkerAndrew Barker
    edited September 2009
    Many thanks rwap. Yer Andy another sample would be great. I thought I replied to this thread, but I must have got side tracked :-o
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