More C1P tapes (and another emulator)

[bxdanny]

https://trmusson.dreamhosters.com/c1p.html

[ronin47]

Cool, more tape images will help me out I think once I get back to looking at this issue with loading and saving.

[jbtech]

Thanks bxdanny for adding that link. So far I've tried the OSI Invaders tape file from the site and that one works fine.

Apart from typing a couple of short BASIC programs, saving those to tape and re loading them successfully I hadn't tried any larger programs with my Klyball 600 board so this was a good opportunity.

Initially running the program in Mark's WinOSI emulator and testing different RAM configurations I realised I would need to upgrade my on board RAM from 4k to 8k Bytes.

Having done that I just copied the .wav file directly to an older model phone (with headphone socket) turned the volume up and loaded it from there without any issues.

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According to some notes, the procedure was to begin with a cold start pressing 'C' ENTER ENTER then BREAK and 'M" then "L' to commence loading. After a few minutes loading the machine program and data followed by BASIC, the program ran upon completion.

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Not a bad adaptation of the game considering the limited hardware resources and lack of sound. It has no trouble with speed of play and gives a choice from impossibly fast on level 1 to very slow on level 15. I started it on level 9 which seemed quite playable.

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I haven't tried recording the .wav file to tape as yet, I do have an old style mono cassette recorder which I plan to use with the computer but it neds a bit of an overhaul as its record level is way too low so I will see if I can get that working soon.

Regards, John.

[Tim]

Thanks for posting that link to my page, bxdanny

I just dropped by the forum to let people know I finished digitizing the rest of my tapes today.

I'll add them to my homepage when I get a chance, but anyway, here's the whole lot on Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[doperst2@gmail.com]

Thanks!
No text conversions yet?

[bxdanny]

No text conversions yet?

I'm wondering just what is meant by that question, as most of the files on Tim's Google Drive are ASCII text, as far as I can tell.

If there are any undecoded KCS audio files there, they could be converted using Mark's OSIKCS program.

BTW, Tim's website is interesting for reasons that have nothing to do with OSI or old computers, or at least I think so. In particular, the Notes section, and comments he makes about Russia, after having studied studied Russian extensively. The second article there, about the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, I found most surprising. It turns out that Navalny was not at all the supporter of liberal democracy that he was commonly made out to sound like in the Western press, but was instead kind of the opposite in a way, a strong Russian ethno-nationalist. I would never have known that if not for Tim's piece. And I never would have read Tim's piece if I hadn't stumbled across his site while looking for OSI stuff. </off-topic digression>