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 Post subject: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: January 27th, 2013, 3:52 am 
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Some years ago there was this rather sweet site 88TAPE写真館 located at
http://www.george24.com/~toppe/syasin/88syasinkan.html

At the time I made a local mirror using HTTrack. The site is no longer online but there are two very broken attempts, presumably by the author, to reload the site at:
http://88kyou.web.fc2.com/syasin/88syasinkan.html
http://www.angelfire.com/co4/88tapeman/ ... inkan.html

So I have uploaded the copy I made ( with some minor changes to fix illegal characters ) to:

http://www.retroprograms.com/mirrors/sy ... inkan.html

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I hope it all still works.

I do not have any permission from the site owner to do this, and will take it down if he objects, but I have done this for preservation and for anyone who might still want to look at the site.


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: January 27th, 2013, 1:55 pm 
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Thanks ! :wink:


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: January 27th, 2013, 5:06 pm 
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peter_j wrote:
I do not have any permission from the site owner to do this, and will take it down if he objects, but I have done this for preservation and for anyone who might still want to look at the site.


It is really appreciated, thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: January 27th, 2013, 5:38 pm 
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Always sad to see a website with valuable info and resource get taken down, so it's great to see it get backed up. Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: February 16th, 2013, 1:11 pm 
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Thanks Peter for the preservation of that valuable information. :)

I only have a PC-88 game in tape format: "Cosmo Cross". It's a ".t88" file and I don't know how to turn it back to ".wav" so I can not play it on real hardware.

Are there any other tape format games dumped or the only one available for now on the web is "Cosmo Cross"?


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: February 16th, 2013, 2:27 pm 
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Here are some .t88s.

http://www.retroprograms.com/PC-88/PC88_T88.7z

How you get them back onto a real machine I have no idea.


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: February 17th, 2013, 6:28 am 
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Hirao made a bunch of tape image tools.
PCM8001 can convert it back to wav (SquareWave/SineWave).
Some info.

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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: February 17th, 2013, 1:36 pm 
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Does anyone have these Tecno Soft games in .t88?

2001年宇宙の旅パート2 (1981) NEC PC-8001
2001: A Space Odyssey PART 2

バック ギャモン (1982) NEC PC-8001
Back Gammon

ウォーク ワン (1982) NEC PC-8001
Walk One

マッド ファイター (1982) NEC PC-8001
Mad Fighter

ゴルフ アイランド (1983) NEC PC-8801
Golf Island

スターフリート (1983) NEC PC-8801
Star Fleet

サンダーフォース (1984) NEC PC-8801/mkII
Thunder Force

プラズマライン (1984) NEC PC-8801/mkII
Plazma Line


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 Post subject: Re: 88 Tape Gallery
PostPosted: February 20th, 2013, 1:54 am 
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Peter and Anna_Wu, thank you very much!

But... there is still a problem.

I've just converted to .wav with that program some games that run ok under emulation.
Tried converting with "600 bauds" and "1200 bauds". My PC-8801 MC don't recognize any game with 600 bauds or 1200 bauds.
I connect the audio cable to the connectors "audio in" (RCA stereo for white and red cables). Connecting only the white cable (mono) didn't recognize the games either.

I hear the beeps of the .wav in the PC-8801 MC speaker, like all the other computers that use tapes for games (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEu5NUYjNns ). But the PC-88 don't recognize the game after typing << load"cas: >>

The complete commands I use under Basic are:
<<
MON
Enter
R
Enter
hold ctrl+B
load"cas:
Enter
>>

Under emulation (M88) the game loads using those commands and, after that, I simple write << RUN >> and press Enter. But in the real hardware that doesn't work.
Maybe a datassette is needed always for running PC-88 tape based games?
Probably the "audio inputs" are for use the computer as a multimedia station with music editor programs, and never for loading games in audio format.

Maybe I didn't understand well, but I think here it says that any datassette will work (for MSX, PC-8001, ...): http://kitahei88.dtiblog.com/blog-entry-82.html
But... which type of connector does it use? I can't see the typical "REM, INPUT, OUT connectors" in my PC-8801 (http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/4120/img2269fx6.jpg).
Maybe the MC model, being the last one of the family, can't use cassette games? (the same that happens with the MSX2+, for example).


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