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Converted tzx looks different

festershinetopfestershinetop
edited January 2006 in MIA/STP/SDP
I finally decided to have a go at converting some of my old tapes to tzx incase i find any mias later on. I converted the game Speed King 2 by mastertronic and followed the guide. I used the command line function as the gui programm wouldnt work for some reason. I used the command maketzx bike.voc bike.tzx -f and it created it ok. It loads up ok from the 48k basic load"" just like the one allready tzxed but when i looked at it in the tape browser it has different blocks by the looks of things.

http://www.savefile.com/files2.php?fid=9730417


[ This Message was edited by: festershinetop on 2006-01-09 15:16 ]

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  • Andrew BarkerAndrew Barker
    edited January 2006
    Hi there,

    Try converting the VOC using the -ln switch:
    "MakeTZX -fr1 -ln file.voc file.tzx"

    A quick look at the TZX in Fuse on OSX reveals that the header block has been stored as a Turbo Speed Data block (ID.11) instead of ID.10, so it wouldn't display it as:
    Bytes: "SKINGB ", or whatever that block is called...
    Yer using PlayTZX -one I can see that he said block is 103% loading speed and the pauses look good too.

    The above command line syntax would decode using a filter (-fr1) and force to a ROM loader (-ln) which should force all blocks to ID.10.

    You could change the block in Taper to a ID.10 block if you like.

    The TZX loaded fine in Fuse as well. Oh and I just compared the TZX on WoS and yours and it looks alright.

    Cheers

    Andy

    [ This Message was edited by: Andrew Barker on 2006-01-10 10:43 ]
  • MayboyMayboy
    edited January 2006
    Im also having a go at creating some tzx files of my own. Just one question not that related really but does anyone know if u can use the "maketzx" program for amstrad cpc conversions aswell
  • Andrew BarkerAndrew Barker
    edited January 2006
    For CPC tapes you need to use Samp2CDT which is derrived from the VOC2TZX source.
    Kevin Thacker created a more modular source bed and gave us Samp2TZX and Samp2CDT which handles more sample formats.

    Samp2CDT can be useful to transfer some troublesome speccy tapes too ;) I think that's what we maninly usd for ADATE and Amstrad tapes on the Vault... which reminds me *cough*...

    Cheers

    Andy
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