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Started by DARKGATE, 14:50, 06 January 12

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DARKGATE

 :) Hi, i have some of questions for the comunity, there are greats AMSTRAD programmers here.
that could make a my little dream, if possible.

1) I have the game tape, victory road, has a turboloading, someone could convert it into standard load, "SPEED WRITE 0 or 1"?I guess you understand, the loading block.

2)There are many games "FREE" in to DISK version, but because they 'do not turn them into .CDT, for play in a real CPC 464?

Thank you. ;)
Do not underestimate the power of AMSTRAD CPC.

SyX

1.- Yes, it's not problem to convert to the firmware loading, only upload the CDT or tell me which tape turbo version of CPC-Power you want and i will convert for you ;)

2.- Well, in the old times, the cassette players were in better shape and making an standard loader version only will add more loading time. It was more interesting unprotect the tape loaders for passing the programs to disk and get a superfast loading time  ;D

DARKGATE

 :) This is, the my personal version, a my dump,  Not 'was downloaded from CPCPOWER
if can you convert it.

You have understood, not is important for me the long time.

It could not be made ​​a program that recognizes the loaders for the crates and bring them to blocks?
Obviously excluding games with multiloads.

However  for the free games disk, I'm already 'doing something, a day made a compilation in .cdt.

For example ACORNPACMAN was good in to .cdt :( .
Thank you and good evening.  ;)
Do not underestimate the power of AMSTRAD CPC.

arnoldemu

Quote from: DARKGATE on 14:50, 06 January 12
:) Hi, i have some of questions for the comunity, there are greats AMSTRAD programmers here.
that could make a my little dream, if possible.

1) I have the game tape, victory road, has a turboloading, someone could convert it into standard load, "SPEED WRITE 0 or 1"?I guess you understand, the loading block.
Why?

if you have real tape, you can record sound and use samp2cdt to convert to cdt then use in emulator.

if you have cdt, you can use playtzx tool to convert cdt to a sound (wav, au) play on pc through soundcard, connect sound output to 464 using the "fake cassette" (cassette with 3.5mm lead coming from it) (for 6128 you need a cassette cable).

Of course, you must wait for program to load.

lots of cdt exist.

Quote from: DARKGATE on 14:50, 06 January 12
2)There are many games "FREE" in to DISK version, but because they 'do not turn them into .CDT, for play in a real CPC 464?
problem to convert back to cassette is not easy if the game has multiple parts.

it is hard work to make a dsk game load on cassette. try to find cdt.
OR, visit cesar's fantastic server and download one of his 1 file game packages.
http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/index.html?lang=1

I can't find the page here.. but it has a big list of 1 file versions of games.

My games. My Games
My website with coding examples: Unofficial Amstrad WWW Resource

tastefulmrship

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@DARKGATE
Here's a file-dump of the VICTORY ROAD .cdt you posted! To play, type RUN"VICTORY"


EDIT1: VR-LOAD.BIN is the original SPEEDLOCK loader... I f*cking hate SPEEDLOCK! Luckily, it's easier to disassemble than the HEWSON ones!

EDIT2: I can SINGLE-FILE it with little or no effort if someone actually wants it...
EDIT3: Well, f*ck it... here's the SINGLE FILE version anyway!

DARKGATE

 :) Thank you, tastefulmrship and arnoldemu, but i want a VICTORY ROAD.CDT with no TURBOLOADING, a victory road with classic loader to blocks.
Example IKARI WARRIORS wich use the standard loader, hope wich SYX  to do.

However thank you at alls.

P.S. But  :-[ how did you bring my version of VICTORY ROAD from .cdt  to disk? Excuse  my ignorance  ??? .
Do not underestimate the power of AMSTRAD CPC.

SyX

Sorry by the delay, Dino-boy take all my free time :)

Slow version uses speed write 0 and fast speed write 1  ;)

MiguelSky

Quote from: arnoldemu on 18:58, 06 January 12OR, visit cesar's fantastic server and download one of his 1 file game packages.
http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/index.html?lang=1

I can't find the page here.. but it has a big list of 1 file versions of games.
This is http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/cng_zip_lz3.htm

DARKGATE

Quote from: SyX on 22:10, 06 January 12
Sorry by the delay, Dino-boy take all my free time :)

Slow version uses speed write 0 and fast speed write 1  ;)

:o :o :o :-X :-X :-X :'( :'( :'(
THAAAAANKKKK YOUUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you SYX, beautiful gift, you have understood perfectly my request, i have only AMSTRAD 464 with add RAM, if a day i buy a FDD1 i want put a lot of games on DISK, :) i love VICTORY ROAD with IKARI.
I'd like to learn to understand how to perform this conversion, what should you do?
Do not underestimate the power of AMSTRAD CPC.

SyX

Today is more easy that in the old years, you need unprotect the game. Magic words for something is only discovering where the game is loaded in ram and the execution address (to being able to launch it).

The requeriments are:
1.- Understand a little of z80 assembler (a quick reference is enough).
2.- Use the wonderful, fantastic, incredible, amazing, ... WinApe debugger  :D
3.- Use common sense... the less common of the senses  ;D

After unprotect the game, you make a mini-loader (300 bytes with decrunching) to put the game datas in memory and launch it. And you only need to generate the CDT, with those files, there is a few tools for that (i use my own python tool, for example).

If you understand spanish in the last "RUA" magazine, Mode2 is making a serie about "how unprotect games", and the level is from the most basic; a year ago, he didn't know anything about "Defence Against the Dark Arts" and now he is teaching ;D

Another spanish resource are in the "Amstrad Personal" magazine, where they had a section about "converting games from tape to disk", but a lot of people used to make unprotected tape games ;)

DARKGATE

#10
 ??? ok, thank you, hope to learn something. :)

I have look winape debug with a game loaded, but i don't understood nothing, :( a videotutorial, private lessons, documents, i don't know how to start. :(
Do not underestimate the power of AMSTRAD CPC.

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