L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk 路 Jun 16

More tape loading stuff tonight. There's quite a lot to the TZX format, it seems to support practically any kind of loader that existed back in the day. Certainly more flexible than a TAP file or snapshot. I've got about a third of it implemented now, enough to get a SpeedLock game loaded. And TLL.

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L Break Into Program 路 Jun 16

The only thing stopping this from loading was its use of the archive block. See the text at the bottom-left of the screen. Vortex never released a duff game. This is still one of my favourites. I also used to be very good at it, honest.

Matneee 路 Jun 16

I always struggled to land the Tornado in that game for some reason. No idea why馃槄

Peter Mulholland 路 Jun 18

if you want a real challenge baud rate wise, try Travel with Trashman. I think its got the highest baud rate of any Speccy loader. I wonder how many copies were returned as faulty back in the day!!

MadDamo (Ye olde dev) 路 Jun 16

I adore this stuff, you feel almost godlike watching your creation load something in don't you? Looks great!

good standing 路 Jun 17

good stuff here

Michael Martin 路 Jun 17

This is how I've learned that Spectrum TAP files are _completely different_ from Commodore TAP files (which are essentially .WAV files).