| Posted By
LeManiac
on 2002-03-17
|  Convert WAV to TAP...?
Maybe this is stupid question.. But how can I convert a sampled WAV file (from a real +4 tape) to a TAP image usable in emulators?
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Posted By
MIK
on 2002-03-18
 | Yes it's very hard.
It took me 3 or so hours to get the first 1 to work 
The samples must be mono, using a mono tape deck, best one to use it the old ZX spectrum take deck. I can't remember the correct record level, Mike Dailly Author of Minus4 will know because he was the first to bring sample taps to his plus4 emu. His home page is:
http://www.plus4.org/
Also I notcied it was easyer to make wav's of games that have NOVA LOAD turbos like the Mastertronic games. Mike's invaders from Commodore tap was very clean and because I was suffering to make one I 1st went for the same game. Althought the sample did'nt look as clean as his it did work and I later went of to make some more that you see on the site.
regards,
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Posted By
LeManiac
on 2002-03-17
| Seems it doesn't work anyway...
Oh well, I tried for hours. I even downloaded a working TAP sample to see how it should look. But although my sample looks good, and sounds good, the emulator (YAPE) refuses to find anything inside.
Amplifying and cleaning the sample didn't help either.
There must be a trick...!?
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Posted By
MIK
on 2002-03-17
| Yes it can be done but,
I'm not sure if you know this, but just incase I will say.
The wav sample it's self must work/load into YAPE or Minus4 DOS before even turning it into a tap image.
If you have made a sample wav of a game you only have to rename the file extension from .wav to .tap to get the emulators to read it. How ever making sample wav's of tapes is the hardest thing to do. Trying to find a record level so the emulator can read it.
If you have done the above already and they do load then yes there is such a program to convert them in to the real tap format which makes the files almost 10 times smaller. The beta program was made buy Ati author of Yape. I have never used it and not sure how it works because I have an adaptor to save tapes from the 1531 into tap format.
Grab it from:
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~lando/download/wavtotap.exe
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