As i said in my hardware thread, here is my collection of tapes/disks.
I know nothing about rarity, or anything, but please if you spot something in this list we don't have a scan of, or a tape image of on the wiki, let me know and i'll get to giving you them :D
I am not sure what condition these tapes/disks are in - but if any catch your eye i'll be sure to test them, let me know!
List begins, in no particular order all have sleeves unless stated btw
[Disks]
Mini Office II 3" Disk - Manual OK and Case (Plastic Open Case Type - Bought Circa 1990)
Mini Office II 3" Disk - Maunal OK and Case (Box Type - Bought 1992 - (Still have receipt!))
Amsoft Chemistry Revision Disk for GCSE/O Level + Folder/Guide (Soft 1959)
Amsoft Physics Revision Disk for GCSE/O Level + Folder/Guide (Soft 1960)
CPM/System Disks which came with the 6128 as normal
tomahawk with lenslok
TMNT with manual
[Tapes]
Crazy Cars
Marauder
Super Stock Car
750CC Grand Prix Special
Grand Prix Simulater - Digitised Speech!
Speed King
Up For Grabs
Deathkick
Ninja Commando
Mission Genocide
Thrust
3D Starfighter
(Dr) Destructo
Beach Head
XCEL
Killer Cobra
Ace of Aces
Elliminator
Gunship - Missing Top of box - but have: Keyboard Layout overlay, technical supplement and operations manual
Shanghai Karate
Codename Mat 3D
Harrier Attack
Into Oblivion
European 5-a-side
hollywood or bust
T-Bird
Renegade (No Tape Sleeve)
Flyspy
Last V8
software star (A software company simulator? O_o)
3D Stunt Rider
Turbo Esprit
The galactic Plague
Rambo III
4x4 Off-road racing (comes with little inlay manual)
offshore warrior
blasteroids
fighter pilot
bionic commando (comes with little inlay manual)
hunter killer (comes with little inlay manual)
Tales of the Arabian nights
Master Chess
Tomcat
Sport of Kings
deep strike
the covenant
motercycle 500
wec le mans
Zoids: The battle Begins includes manual
Karteien Verwaltung (no manual sadly)
Super Cycle
Now Games 4 - Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Back to the future, hacker, Mission omega, Jonah Barringtons squash (includes manual)
indiana jones and the temple of doom
Kikstart 2 + Course Designer
Kane
Night Gunner
road blasters
seabase delta
Operation gunship
super stunt man
saigon combat unit
joe blade III
THINK!
Super Trolley
Kentilla
Mig 29 - Soviet Fighter
System Paperboy - Box is shattered, but includes sleeve and manual - not sure if the tape is good any more though!
vampire
gunstar
panzadrome
rally simulator
spy hunter
street cred boxing
back to reality
nonamed
strangeloop
ship of doom
vigilante
super tank
macadam bumper
guardian angel
storm or s.t.o.r.m.
target renegade
the worm in paradise
view to a kill
professional bmx simulator (both cassettes)
the rocky horror show
amstrad action pack aug 91 (hero quest, technician ted, 3d construction kit and devpac)
Quattro Combat 4 (Death stalker, SAS combat simulator, ninja massacre and arcade flight simulator)
ATF - Advanced tactical fighter + manual and security table
and an odd tape which says 'Lightpen printer routines' from dktronics
Hope i have something in this list you can benefit from!
Sio
I don't think chemistry or physics from amsoft have been dumped.
software star, never heard of it, worth dumping too.
not sure if the lightpen stuff has been dumped either.
I believe it's worth dumping everything, including utils, educational, games etc.
its worth checking on CPC-POWER, sauvegarde du patrimoine de l'Amstrad CPC (http://www.cpc-power.com) to see if any of them have been dumped.
Quote from: EgoTrip on 10:38, 08 April 13
its worth checking on CPC-POWER, sauvegarde du patrimoine de l'Amstrad CPC (http://www.cpc-power.com) to see if any of them have been dumped.
Well volunteered, sir! We all look forward to your findings.
Quote from: Siorah on 08:42, 08 April 13
Hope i have something in this list you can benefit from!
Do you know if the tape game
Think! is the original Ariolasoft version or the re-release from Firebird? The Ariolasoft release seems to be very hard to find.
Also, I have never heard of
Karteien Verwaltung. That would be of interest as well (I can't find it on CPC-POWER).
"Karteien Verwaltung" is the German word for "filing system management", the type that secretaries / receptionists used to use for names and telephone numbers. I assume it's a simple address-book type app.
Bryce.
Quote from: Nich on 19:53, 08 April 13
Do you know if the tape game Think! is the original Ariolasoft version or the re-release from Firebird? The Ariolasoft release seems to be very hard to find.
Also, I have never heard of Karteien Verwaltung. That would be of interest as well (I can't find it on CPC-POWER).
Hiya nich
I think it is the original version - photo included.
Quote from: Bryce on 19:58, 08 April 13
"Karteien Verwaltung" is the German word for "filing system management", the type that secretaries / receptionists used to use for names and telephone numbers. I assume it's a simple address-book type app.
Bryce.
It may be ... or it may be a very innocent name for a "interesting" game... ;D
Still worth dumping...
Been through my old cassettes and checked them against the current dumps images available
Some potentials not done yet or I could not find them:
Enterprise - Mastertronic version
Titanic - Kixx version
Trapdoor =- Alterantive Software
Six A Side Microprose
Wizards Lair - Bubble Bus
well, is there a tutorial or guide on dumping cassettes?
I will have a look later at the list, but time isn't on my side being a teacher!
it's why i threw the list up for you to chew on lol.
I can see my chemistry revision has not been dumped or photo'ed anywhere, so i am going to need a hand on how to do that with a 3" disk.
Cheers folks
First off for the cassettes you will need an old tape player and a mic or better connector to connect from the head phone socket of the tape player to the mic socket on your PC
Put the volume setting of your tape player on halfway or 50%
Obtain this:
GoldWave - Audio Editor, Recorder, Converter, Restoration, & Analysis Software (http://www.goldwave.com/)
Then press file and new
A box called New Sound will appear
put the number of channels on 1 mono
sampling rate 44100
initial file length 03:00:00
You will see two red buttons press the one on the left let your tape play to be recorded then when it finishes press the stop button
Then select file save as call it something that makes sense then save it
I will begin the arduous task of recording all my tapes this weekend then. Do we have somewhere we can upload to so you guys can make those cdt? files out of them?
I assume you will want the wave files only of course, no compression right.
Still need assistance with dumping disks though - i've just bought a shed tonne off a seller for the PCW community - I only want the disks for class, the contents however could have uses for them, especially as it's 60 disks worth. So any tutorials or volunteers in our little group?
Quote from: Siorah on 20:39, 08 April 13Hiya nich
I think it is the original version - photo included.
Yes, that's the version I was looking for! :D
Quote from: Nich on 20:08, 09 April 13
Yes, that's the version I was looking for! :D
Are you looking to acquire it nich? I can easily sell it to you, I am just going to dump these and sell them on, cassettes sadly don't have much use in a classroom environment - way too much time is lost in loading!
I'd load at least one tape in the classroom, just so that the kids see what we used to have to put up with! :D
Regarding original disks, is it just utilities and serious software you're looking for, or do you want games too?
Bryce.
well i would like as much as possible, but the education stuff is more useful than games.
According to the licencing rules in the school i can use the HxC adapter to a point but i need to find if i can any of the companies that still exist for permissions. It seems some of the games still are under copyright - a la codemasters for example, which i'd have to use an original for.
Any game prior to 1993 and with no surviving company should be ok for an educational setting though. I just would like the fun school series as an original copy for the classroom.
Sio
Quote from: Bryce on 08:50, 10 April 13
I'd load at least one tape in the classroom, just so that the kids see what we used to have to put up with! :D
Regarding original disks, is it just utilities and serious software you're looking for, or do you want games too?
Bryce.
yeah start the loading off, note down the time.
get the kids to do something else coz they get bored quickly.
then tell em when it's done.
I mean we didn't all just sit there and stare at the screen while it loaded.
EDIT: Let them listen to the loading sound too and watch the flashing borders.. just for 1 minute or so ;)
do any of you know a 'quick' loading game?
I was gonna use dizzy as thats only 4 minutes and i can do that while i'm getting the register done. My only hope is the VGA solution works with the smartboard, will you guys want pics of the setup in action btw? just for the sake of the wiki?
If you know any games with a sub 5 min load time, let me know!
Any of the simpler games such as Harrier attack should be faster.
Bryce.
that one doesn't need a speed change does it? I was going to freak them out by loading a game via the ipod :P my CPC6128 has loaded games successfully from my galaxy SII as well as my Ipod, but they dont need speed changes.
I don't think so. Being a very early game it uses the simplest of methods of everything.
Bryce.
Quote from: Siorah on 09:13, 10 April 13
do any of you know a 'quick' loading game?
I was gonna use dizzy as thats only 4 minutes and i can do that while i'm getting the register done. My only hope is the VGA solution works with the smartboard, will you guys want pics of the setup in action btw? just for the sake of the wiki?
If you know any games with a sub 5 min load time, let me know!
I remember the Blue Ribbon game Balloon Buster being a very quick load, but that was from the Amstrad Action Covertape (Issue 92 I think). AA had a screenshot of the Loading Screen on the Covertape page, though wasn't on the Tape itself making it a fast load using a Headerless loader. All the AA Covertape are available online though.
Quote from: Siorah on 09:17, 10 April 13
that one doesn't need a speed change does it? I was going to freak them out by loading a game via the ipod :P my CPC6128 has loaded games successfully from my galaxy SII as well as my Ipod, but they dont need speed changes.
show them a game at normal loading speed, then use OTLA to record a high speed version ;)
Not exactly great, but I remember messing with the loader for Space Hawks (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2005) to speed it up because it was such a small, fast loading game already. I just gave the tape image a load and it was about 2.5 minutes.
Quote from: Axelay on 13:41, 12 April 13
Not exactly great, but I remember messing with the loader for Space Hawks (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2005) to speed it up because it was such a small, fast loading game already. I just gave the tape image a load and it was about 2.5 minutes.
I suck at that game and cringed when I watched the YouTube of it, I can get to the 4th level, though those bouncing balls seem to have my name on them. >:( I wish it took 20 minutes to load. :D
Can you share a photo of two of the classroom? That'd be neat! :)
Quote from: Gryzor on 19:03, 13 April 13
Can you share a photo of two of the classroom? That'd be neat! :)
I don't think that will be possible.
If there were kids in the photo you would need the permission of each parent to allow the photo to be taken and then to be put online.
It may be possible to take a photo of the empty classroom, but that depends on what the school says. In addition, if there are kids photos on the wall, which happens sometimes, then these would need to be blurred or blanked out.
That is the way it is in our local school that my daughter goes to.
However, saying what happened and how the kids reacted to it, should be ok, provided there are no names given out.
Oh yeah, there's that too... The times we're living in :(
That's why there's Airbrush. :D