Posted By
MIK
on 2022-11-28
05:51:54
 |  Re: What is the default Tape wave format for the Plus4
1, The normal kernal save routine is wholewav. Anything that does not use a Turbo is wholewav.
2, Halfwav is only found with Turbo Loaders on C16/Plus4 but maybe 75% of the Turbo Loaders out there actually use it. Novaload is a wholewav for example, but stuff from say Anco are ALL halfwav. Something like that commercial Kingsize Turbo saving program was halfwav. Halfwav was used to prevent copying or make it more difficult but that just turned out to be pony. All halfwav did was make some prog's a bit more difficult to load if your tape deck was not aligned properly.
It's not easy to tell what a Turbo is be it whole of half. As a little clue as to what something 'might' be, if a Turbo has dull and soft colored raster bars when a program loads then it's more likely a halfwav. Novaload being a wholewav has solid bright colored raster bars.
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