[1]The C64 Community Loading... This site is best viewed in a modern browser with JavaScript enabled. Games from Tape DarrenP001 I've got a lot of C64 games still on tape, is there anyway of connecting an old Datasette or any tape player to a PC to transfer these games to USB to work on the C64Mini? Seems unlikely, I cant think of how it would work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- walnutwhip probably the easiest way is to just source premade .t64 images of those games that you own from a rom site. i cant list any here. but googling 'c64 roms' will likely list loads of sites. long story though is yes it can be done by connecting the output of the tape player to the input line/microphone of the pc. then using a waveform program on the pc to record the playback i suspect theres even specific c64 programs on pc that will do the recording and conversion. ive never needed to do it though -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parcival [2]@DarrenP001 Something like this? [3]IFrame You can then use something like DirMaster to create a .d64 file for use on the C64 Mini from the resulting .prg file -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DarrenP001 [4]Parcival thanks, I'll give it a go. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- spannernick1 I wouldn't mind loading from tap too cause I like the loading music.. [5]:D -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PantherUK [6]spannernick1 My thoughts exactly, I have my entire tape collection as .taps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- lowtone I have attempted to : 1. copy c64 datasette to mini disc as mono 2. then to wav-prg/ AudioTap on windows 7 to create a .t64 file, again mono with invert wave. 3. then use DIRmaster to create a d64. wav-prg recognises the sound input with no errors and DIRmaster has PRG file from the t64 image. file name is changed to THEc64-drive8.d64 and c64mini finds file on usb and syntax error on run. Going to try a direct tape to wav-prg but im not confident it will make a difference[7]:( -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIK Most .tap images you might find were made with a program called Mtap which is an old dos tool... You also need an adapter so you can plug a 1530 or a 1531 into the serial port of an older PC. In short Mtap makes perfect digital recordings of commodore Vic20,C64/C128,C16/Plus4 tapes without the fuss of volume levels ect... Awesome tool. Today though you can also get tape recording cartridges like the Princess C64SD that do the same thing for use with the real hardware. Before these came along most of the mainstream games had already been .tap'd using Mtap any way. The Princess C64SD is more used for loading .tap images into the real hardware. [8];) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- lowtone had a breakthrough by changing from usb interface to line/ mic IN from tape source to wav-prg (mono) . This time the t64 file was able to identify a prg name not a number as previously. The C64 mini did not return syntax error but unfortunately seemed to stick on a READY flashing screen. Going to experiment with input levels -------------------------------------------------------------------------- johnnyhotrocks [9]lowtone Did you try typing run when it stopped and flashed ready? You used to get this back in the day and on the mini but most games booted once you typed in run followed by return. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- lowtone [10]johnnyhotrocks yeah but no command could be entered. tried virtual keyboard input and know some Games allowed spacebar to interupt load so tried joystick buttons too but nothing. i saved the state on c64 mini for file load just in case i was being impatient but its Die Alien Slime I was trying to load. which had a 3 min single side load time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- spannernick1 TheC64 Mini Basic is a emulator not hardware,its Vice so the only way you be able to load tap files is by the same way you load a disk in TheC64m but have to wait until Retro Games makes it available.It can load tap files cause its Vice but the option is missing at the moment. Retro Games need to make a file menu so you can load tap,crt,prg,g64,d81 and d64 files.basically all of them that Vice can run.Hopefully they will in 1.0.7 firmware update..fingers crossed .. [11]:) I use this more than my real 64,its sooo cute.. [12]:D -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIK [13]spannernick1 Yeah, it's quicker as well once you have your stuff saved to the machine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- spannernick1 I wouldn't mind them making a menu to load images like the CCS64 emulator,where it looks like you are still in the c64,thats the one thing I like about the emulator,I remember when that was DOS only emulator,It was the first C64 emulator I used years ago... [14]:D and I still use it now. Thanks Hakan Sundell.. [15]:D [16]CCS64 loading a image into a device D64,Tap -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Goclastninja [17]spannernick1 this is the one I have always used,always had issues with vice getting it to work -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIK CCS64 was my choice as well, but in recent years with new PC hardware ect I have been lazy and use the real thing mostly. The C64mini makes things even easier, if only we could get more features like extra file support and a file management list loader app it would be even better! [18]:+1: I used to use Magic64 on my Amiga1200T a fair bit as well back in the late 1990's/early 2000's, I have an 060 which made a real the difference. Was kinda cool to have a C64 on an Amiga even if it was light years behind the PC ones. One of the first things I ever emulated was the SID chip playing loads of .dat/.sid tunes on an Amiga500 using Hippo Player! Was heaven hearing all the classic tunes on demand and coming out of something else, and that sort of fake stereo because of the split 3 channels across the 4 Amiga ones was interesting. [19]B) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jammet My very first C64 emulator barely worked. To this day, I can't say who wrote it. It may have been a very very early version of C64S. Downloaded off a local BBS in 1992 or so? Along with a few d64 files to test it out. My PC wasn't fast enough, but that emulator was also completely raw and unoptimised. Later in the mid 90s I used C64S a lot. All the way. It had a competent file browser, a few good options, floppy drive emulation kinda okayish, and it transformed my 286/386/486 into a cute little Commodore 64. PS: I remember that I've also downloaded a C64 "emulator" before that, when there were still these Shareware/Freeware download disk stations all across the computer stores in the city. You would pay a flat fee of 3 german marks, and you'd be given a DD 3,5 inch floppy disk. There was a computer with thousands upon thousands of games and other software on it, shaped like some kind of booth or arcade machine, in which would then you insert the floppy, and you can copy as much as you can fit on there, from whatever was stored in the computer. There was a fake C64 emulator that I copied. It animated the blue BASIC screen with cursor, but every time you would enter something, it would just say SYNTAX ERROR. Boy I am off topic. Sorry. Ramblings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- spannernick1 Anyone remember Frodo c64 I think was called.I used it years ago and on the Mac Power 64 I remember I put a old Macbook in the case of of a C64 breadbin so you could only see the screen of the Macbook and used my Keyrah to use the C64 keys with the Power64 emulator,I liked how it would play the games like a screen save and change to different ones by itself.Its the only emulator I know that did that.I still have the MacBook its from 2000 and its white.still works but has a battery problem well it would its 18 years old... [20]:D [21]http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TheDead [22]spannernick1 I’m sure I had Frodo on the GP2X handheld, had a lot of fun playing C64 games on the move! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jammet I still use Frodo on Android. I haven't found anything else that works for me, on the phone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PantherUK [23]Jammet C64.emu is a really good one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [24]Next Page » References Visible links 1. https://community.thec64.com/ 2. https://community.thec64.com/u/DarrenP001 3. https://www.youtube.com/embed/b4KI6SOCMlY 4. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/3 6. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/4 9. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/9 10. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/10 13. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/11 17. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/13 21. http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/ 22. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/18 23. https://community.thec64.com/d/198/20 24. https://community.thec64.com/d/198?page=2&id=198-games-from-tape [1]The C64 Community Loading... This site is best viewed in a modern browser with JavaScript enabled. 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