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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Rocket Rogers fell too
Power Load Variant added to TC.
dc2nconv tool revisited
I was honestly fed up with the wait time required to convert DMP files to TAP so that I decided to refactor the dc2nconv tool to minimize disk access. The result? Ultra-fast conversion.
Jack the Nipper
Uses a variant of the Gremlin loader used in Krakout etc. I guess it’s an “older” variant for there’s no encrypted data at all: Probably the coders had not yet become paranoid (=piss*d) because of disk x-ferrers.
Masters of the Universe – Strong language
I was checking this game to see if it looked like the others I have been studying recently and I noticed that the second CBM block is called “BIG DOG’S COCK”. Of couse the filename was not shown back in the day…
Auf Wiedersehen Monty fell too
Variant is now supported in TAPClean.
Gremlin tape F1 follows the same destiny
Now supported in TAPClean.
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Gremlin tape F2 fell too
The highly encrypted beast has been added to TC. While working at the scanner I figured out that in TC the PRG extraction happens twice for every file.
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Power Load fell too
Now supported in TAPClean 0.26-pre-4.
TAPClean updated again
Added support for Alternative Software (DK) T2 as well (Popeye and Strike Force Cobra now clean 100%). The Alternative Software scanners have brought to the surface a serious limitation in TAPClean when it comes to pulse length and thresholds definition. … Continue reading
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Another scanner was added to TAPClean
Trap Door now cleans 100%. Format spec: http://www.luigidifraia.com/c64/docs/tapeloaders.html#alt_DK
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