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chriz74
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 39 |
Any tutorial for converting tape multiload to disk ?
Does anyone have a source for a tutorial of that kind ? Freeload for example. |
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chriz74
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 39 |
Quote: Haha, how well did it do?
Readable. However I don’t think there’s any info on how to replace a tape loading routine with a disk one there. |
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chriz74
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 39 |
Quote: I cover the whole process of converting Gauntlet from tape to disk in this video: https://youtu.be/1MXB6b6mm7c
Starting from the hardware, understanding the loader code, extracting files, and then altering the code to load from disk and creating a disk.
Cool! I checked it and I think I need to watch it over and over as the whole understanding the loader part is not very digestible to me. I see you replace the routine very easily but I need to sit and try myself. I guess one can rip the levels with programs like Tapex and then just replace the loader. |
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Martin Piper
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 726 |
Quote: Cool! I checked it and I think I need to watch it over and over as the whole understanding the loader part is not very digestible to me. I see you replace the routine very easily but I need to sit and try myself. I guess one can rip the levels with programs like Tapex and then just replace the loader.
Yes the state machine of the loader is quite hard to understand. You could use a tool that magically extracts the tape data, but I think it is worth trying to understand the lower level code, what data format it expects, and then how to translate that into extracting data from tape.
Being able to understand the lower level process allows for working on games that are not parsed well by a magic tool. |
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Fungus
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 691 |
I suggest trying to figure it out yourself and if you get stuck then ask questions, you'll have more fun, and understand the process better than using tools (until you know how to do it) and get more out of it that way. |
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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1791 |
Quote: I suggest trying to figure it out yourself and if you get stuck then ask questions, you'll have more fun, and understand the process better than using tools (until you know how to do it) and get more out of it that way.
+1 It's about having fun! |
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