Posted By
Mad
on 2018-11-16
15:16:20
|  Re: Translate
Hello Sam! I have no clue at all about this tap stuff.. I know that there are special prg conversions of many tap games done by the people of plus4world.. Seems there is some coding involved to get them from tap to prg, I have no clue here :)..
Most probably you can save all the memory the game occupies.. It's not needed to be exact on the ending address you can save more of the memory, if you want to. I don't know if saving to more than $8000 is a good idea, but I think even that should work, too! :)
The start address however should be more correct.. Some areas below $1001 contain system stuff, if your tap file did load starting below $1001.. I have no clue what happens when you save the a prg with a starting adress below $1000.. I think other people here know much more about this..
If your game starts !!without!! actually typing "run", then it's most probably loading with a startaddress from below $1001 and perhaps it will get more complicated to do a propper prg file out of it, the other people of plus4world surely know more about that!
However the data of the prg is differently encoded than your average (windows/linux/macos) text editor.
Commodore uses Petscii ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII ) and not Ascii ( http://www.asciitable.com ), perhaps you know this already.. So perhaps some of your letters differ in a normal text/hex editor (from that what is shown in the plus4 monitor).. I think you know that already, so crossing fingers, that you get your stuff done..
I hope you get your problem fixed! All the best!
Edit: Ok seems Petscii and Ascii have just upper and lower case reversed :)..
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