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Subject: Need help converting Apshai from cassette to disk
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Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 11:56:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  2 11:56:06 1986
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Keywords: cassette game Basic

I recently acquired two cassette-based copies of the Epyx "Temple of Apshai"
FRP game for $0.99 each (!) at an "Atari liquidation sale" where Video Concepts
was dumping their computer games.  (I was so pleased with the price, I ran to
Sears and got a 1010 recorder for $15!)  I wrote a program to read the very
marginal cassette files, several times if necessary, and output a clean copy
onto a decent Type I ferric cassette (raising the output level ~12 dB in the
process! WHY do people pay $$$ for "computer" cassettes???), but the prospect
of dragging this thing in off tape each time I want to play raised some
questions in my mind.

Running the game seems to involve Basic.  I haven't looked very closely at
what happens, but I suppose that, at least theoretically, the thing could be
modified to run off a floppy.  At this point, I don't even know if the game is
built to save/restore characters, or preserve a game somewhere in the middle.

Does anyone have any experience with this?  I also picked up an "upgrade", more
advanced data files, I suppose, but these are on floppy.  Might they be
compatible?
-- 
-Charles Green at C3 Inc.	{styx!seismo,cvl,dolqci}!decuac!c3pe!charles
		"Batches?! We don' need no compressed batches!"