Tag Archives: TAPClean

TAPClean update

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

TAPClean was updated again in order to support Visiload T7, yet another Visiload type used in “Puffy’s Saga”, kindly provided by Paul. The multiload in “Puffy’s Saga” also required some ad-hoc coding, as the one I wrote for “Narco Police”, … Continue reading →

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TAPClean: Wildload scanner rewritten

Posted on July 8, 2017 by

I plan to do some extension of the Wildload scanner in order to support a variant found in “Mindfighter”, supplied by Paul. However, the existing code was still pretty much in the state it had been when TAPClean was forked … Continue reading →

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TAPClean Front End update!

Posted on June 24, 2017 by

TAPClean Front End version 0.37 has just been published! Binaries are available for Windows and Linux on my Software page. For user convenience these binaries also provide the latest released version of TAPClean, 0.34. An updated version of the user … Continue reading →

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Visiload T6 support in TAPClean

Posted on June 21, 2017 by

A further Tx variant of Visiload has been discovered and provisionally named “Visiload T6”. The variant is used in “Spindizzy 64” (part of the “Five Star” compilation), provided by Paul. Here’s a summary of the Visiload Tx variants that are … Continue reading →

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CRL loader

Posted on June 20, 2017 by

After Pawel contributed his tape backups of Vengaence, I decided to look at my notes about the CRL tape loader and attempt the implementation of a scanner for TAPClean. Needless to say that processing the bulk of CRL turbo files … Continue reading →

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TAPClean 0.34 released!

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

Ahead of a substantial change within the Visiload scanner, I decided to release TAPClean 0.34. Not all binaries are available for all supported platforms, but that’s something I will work at in the next few days. Linux and Mac users … Continue reading →

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More TAPClean updates

Posted on June 11, 2017 by

Thanks to Paul, the “Freeload Slowload T2” format used in “Smith’s Super Champs” has been identified and is now supported in TAPClean 0.34-pre6. The previously supported format has also been renamed to “Freeload Slowload T1”. For the time being encoding … Continue reading →

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