+Mitch Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I do not believe Picturemate has been dumped. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) I gave PictureMate to ....can't remember.... same guy who done (dumped) SongMate. Thing was, the Pictureate tape had some reading problems (yes, mine was nib, so there you go, deterition perhaps, even nib doesn't save tapes). Edited February 15, 2016 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Here are some nice scans of the PictureMate instructions. I'll try to find a way to read in the tape as a WAV file. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I do not believe Picturemate has been dumped. Mitch I have a WAV file that has all of Side A on it of PictureMate. Side B is blank so a user can save pictures to it. I counted 22 tracks in all. Unfortunately, it is 136MB so it too large to post here. Ideas of how to get this to the community? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 I think the dump of songmate was MP3 format but I have never tested it personally. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 It wasn't too bad to break up the large WAV file. Below are all 22 tracks of PictureMate. PictureMate_Track01.wav PictureMate_Track02.wav PictureMate_Track03.wav PictureMate_Track04.wav 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Tracks 5 - 8 PictureMate_Track05.wav PictureMate_Track06.wav PictureMate_Track07.wav PictureMate_Track08.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Tracks 9 - 12 PictureMate_Track09.wav PictureMate_Track10.wav PictureMate_Track11.wav PictureMate_Track12.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Tracks 13 - 16 PictureMate_Track13.wav PictureMate_Track14.wav PictureMate_Track15.wav PictureMate_Track16.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Tracks 17 - 20 PictureMate_Track17.wav PictureMate_Track18.wav PictureMate_Track19.wav PictureMate_Track20.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Tracks 21 and 22 PictureMate_Track21.wav PictureMate_Track22.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Awesome! Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 That's cool, Toymailman! If possible, would you be able to do the same for Songmate? The dump we have now is mp3, and if it's dumped in .wav it is much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Sure. I'll open up one of mine and hope its a good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Cool! Thanks for sharing those dumps!By looking at the waveform (I used Audacity), you can figure out how the data is stored. 2 tones are used to record the binary data:- 1 cycle of a sinewave at about 1300 Hz- 2 cycles of sinewave at about 2600 HzAssuming that the lower freq corresponds to a '0' and the higher one to a '1' bit, the data format is the following:1 '0' start bit (green)8 data bits (gray - we don't know if they are sent from least to most significant bit or the other way around)4 '1' stop bits (red). The first about 10 seconds on each track is probably an header to sync the software in the compumate with the cassette. It follows the same format described above, but all the data bits are '1'.In this picture you can see a detail of the end of the header and the beginning of the actual data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Ah yes, my SongMate was dumped by the guy who's nick I cannot remember way back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Cool! Thanks for sharing those dumps! By looking at the waveform (I used Audacity), you can figure out how the data is stored. 2 tones are used to record the binary data: - 1 cycle of a sinewave at about 1300 Hz - 2 cycles of sinewave at about 2600 Hz Assuming that the lower freq corresponds to a '0' and the higher one to a '1' bit, the data format is the following: 1 '0' start bit (green) 8 data bits (gray - we don't know if they are sent from least to most significant bit or the other way around) 4 '1' stop bits (red). data_format.png The first about 10 seconds on each track is probably an header to sync the software in the compumate with the cassette. It follows the same format described above, but all the data bits are '1'. In this picture you can see a detail of the end of the header and the beginning of the actual data. header.png Someone should convert these images to binary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amstari Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Ah yes, my SongMate was dumped by the guy who's nick I cannot remember way back. That was me. SongMate worked fine but PictureMate had read errors. So it is great to see it has now been dumped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 That's cool, Toymailman! If possible, would you be able to do the same for Songmate? The dump we have now is mp3, and if it's dumped in .wav it is much better. Done! The tracks are uploaded in my next posts. Cool! Thanks for sharing those dumps! No problem and glad to help. That is some cool work you did in decoding the files! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 SongMate Side A Tracks 1 - 4 SongMate-A_Track01.wav SongMate-A_Track02.wav SongMate-A_Track03.wav SongMate-A_Track04.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 SongMate Side A Track 5 SongMate-A_Track05.wav SongMate Side B Tracks 1 - 3 SongMate-B_Track01.wav SongMate-B_Track02.wav SongMate-B_Track03.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 SongMate Side B Tracks 4 - 6 SongMate-B_Track04.wav SongMate-B_Track05.wav SongMate-B_Track06.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks again, Toymailman!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 That is great! Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 It's gotta go on Atarimania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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