Re: A stupid question: about backups
Hi!Thank you very much for your help :)! Now I know how to spend the next weekend ...Thanks! _Pete
Re: A stupid question: about backups
Some files Cas to disk /\/\ Willem /\/\ - Original Message - From: Petri Py|rre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: A stupid question: about backups > Hello !! > > I have been studying all the MSX manuals i have got, and i haven´t still got any idea how to backup my old original MSX-tape > games to 3.5" disk. My MSX computer is Sony´s HitBit and diskdrive is also a Sony. Should the backupping be possible or do > i need to do it thru a PC´s MSX emulator or maybe run a special MSX-program? > > Please, I need your help with this. It might be so simple, that i just don´t get it :)). > > I have been using my MSX computer since 1987, and it´s still working fine. I have been searching for the diskdrive for ages > :) and at last i found it... My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will maybe soon not work anymore, that´s > why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. > > > Sorry about my bad english! > > > Regards, > > _Pete > > > MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put > in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the > quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) > Dskadres.lzh Disktape.pma Disctape.lzh
Re: A stupid question: about backups
>But if you're lucky, conversion is as easy as BLOAD from cassette followed >by BSAVE to disk. However, this is true for only a few games. From memory >(please correct me if it's wrong), you can get the start, end and execute >addresses of a BLOAD file by reading the following addresses after BLOAD: > >#F23D-#F23E: start address >#F2E2-#F2E3: end address >#FCBF-#FCC0: execute address If I remember corretly the problem was that these adresses only apply when BLOADing from disk... You will have to read the headers directly from the tape if BLOADing from tape. ~Grauw -- >< email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ >< MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: A stupid question: about backups
At 10:50 AM 08/29/99 +0300, you wrote: >My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will maybe soon not work >anymore, that´s why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. The first step would be to search the web for games that are already converted to disk. There is no point in doing the tape->disk conversion again if it's done before. If there are any games left that are not yet on the web, you could post a request for those games either on this mailinglist or on the comp.sys.msx newsgroup. If you can't get disk versions that way either, you really have to start converting. In the worst case, Laurens' story applies: you have to write a program to read the data from tape and you'll get troubles with the usage of the upper memory regions (used by disk controller). But if you're lucky, conversion is as easy as BLOAD from cassette followed by BSAVE to disk. However, this is true for only a few games. From memory (please correct me if it's wrong), you can get the start, end and execute addresses of a BLOAD file by reading the following addresses after BLOAD: #F23D-#F23E: start address #F2E2-#F2E3: end address #FCBF-#FCC0: execute address Example: PRINT HEX$(PEEK(&HFCBF)+256*PEEK(&HFCC0)) Press CTRL when booting to disable the "B:" drive, this frees some memory. If a BLOAD end address is higher than about #ED00, it's likely to cause problems on a system with a disk drive. Bye, Maarten MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: A stupid question: about backups
Hello, >> That should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >No. The version without the mail in it proved to give some problems with >mailers from outside the Netherlands... dunno why. Probably a flaw in >euronet's mailserver. Rob prefers the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address to contact him, because euronet is giving him a lot of troubles (I do not know why...). --[ MARI ]-- MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: A stupid question: about backups
> Hello !! > > I have been studying all the MSX manuals i have got, and i haven´t still got any idea how to backup my old original MSX-tape > games to 3.5" disk. My MSX computer is Sony´s HitBit and diskdrive is also a Sony. Should the backupping be possible or do > i need to do it thru a PC´s MSX emulator or maybe run a special MSX-program? > > Please, I need your help with this. It might be so simple, that i just don´t get it :)). > > I have been using my MSX computer since 1987, and it´s still working fine. I have been searching for the diskdrive for ages > :) and at last i found it... My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will maybe soon not work anymore, that´s > why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. > > > Sorry about my bad english! it's okay. I think I have to disappoint you because it is quite hard to backup tape games. Even hard for me. You need some small ML coding and directly read out the tapeport, process the header etc. It can be made a little easier by copying the BIOSes taperoutines, but it is still difficult. I have backed up some Radarsoft games I had on tape but even after I had backed them up they didn't work too well (probably because they needed more free RAM in the TPA). So there also is a chance that after you have backed them up you can't run them well anymore (inserting a Dos2-cartridge might solve the problem btw). Anyways, it is a quite difficult thing to do (although it can be done). Maybe you should try to check out some emulator pages to see if somebody hasn't already done the job for you. If you can't find anything then I might be able to look up how to do it but it will (unfortunately) require quite a lot of work, and I don't really feel like that. ~Grauw -- >< email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ >< MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
A stupid question: about backups
Hello !! I have been studying all the MSX manuals i have got, and i haven´t still got any idea how to backup my old original MSX-tape games to 3.5" disk. My MSX computer is Sony´s HitBit and diskdrive is also a Sony. Should the backupping be possible or do i need to do it thru a PC´s MSX emulator or maybe run a special MSX-program? Please, I need your help with this. It might be so simple, that i just don´t get it :)). I have been using my MSX computer since 1987, and it´s still working fine. I have been searching for the diskdrive for ages :) and at last i found it... My tape-games are quite old and i´m afraid that they will :maybe soon not work anymore, that´s why i would like to backup them so i can use them from the disk. Sorry about my bad english! Regards, _Pete MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
