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Can anybody tell me how to get a file listing for X1 tapes to boot the games on them? Either a viewer or the appropiate basic command. A lot of the tapes aren't auto-boot, and as long I can't at least get to the start screen they'll stay in my "problems" folder.

run"CAS:" (case sensitive for the CAS: if i recall) will launch next to everything. It looks for the first file on the tape, which is usually the loader.
I couldn't manage to load in the emulator some of the bigger .tap files, which, I suppose, are compilation of multiple tapes.

Thanks, that did work for a lot of them. I'll have some remaining problems with tapes and a number of disk images, but I figure I'll list those in my coming dedicated X1 thread.

Also LOAD, then RUN will do.

The tapes that won't run either way give me a "break message", or a "bad file mode" message along with a file name I don't know how to load.
It shows
Found "Dig Dug . "

for example.

I went into "bad file mode" errors a lot when I dealt a bit with the PC-6001 series, and it usually meant I was trying to load an assembly program as a Basic one, or something of that sort.
Well, errm anyway...
Here most of the X1 tapes are auto-loading in any case (I found that to be incredibly nice and refreshing, after dealing with all sort of other 8-bits computers and their prompt of doom), Dig Dug being one of them. Maybe the image file is just bad?
Here is mine if you want to try it out :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uwl0ey

Otherwise, you could try some pretty standard Basic loading procedures :

LOAD"(file name - always case sensitive)"
RUN

RUN"(file name - always case sensitive)"

RUN"(file name - always case sensitive)",r

LOAD"(file name - always case sensitive)"
RUN"",r

LOAD"(file name - always case sensitive)",r
RUN

I don't know which (if any) might be relevant for the X1, as I never had to use any of those for that particular computer.

As to list files on tapes, I used to just LOAD"randomgarblage" and watch the file names being skipped. Cheap, I know. For floppies, FILES is the standard Basic command.

Ha, your Dig Dug is indeed auto-boot, mine isn't.
Also, I have no idea how to properly utilize the various forward/rewind options. I think I just really leave it at that for now, and post soon my stuff, and then we shall see what's in demand and what can be fixed/needs to be substitued.

It's definitely on diskette, I have the box for the game to prove it. It says "X1/F/Turbo 5"FD" right on the front. Unfortunetly I don't have the diskette itself, just the box

You know what that means, don't you?

Scans!
Scans!
Scans!

By any chance, do you have box AND manual? Or just the box?

Preferably, HQ scans. But oh well, I'll take whatever pic you scan I guess.