tschak909 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Ok man, I have to say. devwebcl. BRAVO. BEST...AVATAR...IMAGE...EVER! Wow man, that was _Very well done! I'm impressed. -Thom (a fellow Joy Division fan) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Here you go ... InternationalKarate-Stac.zip I forgot all the versions that I adapted. I am getting old. Nice! Thank you so much! Is it possible to share an XEX version? That would be interesting to have! Best regards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Not making fun but that is an odd request, an xex of a tape loader? There's lots of images out there of of that game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Not making fun but that is an odd request, an xex of a tape loader? There's lots of images out there of of that game? IMHO, not at all. As I wrote in a previous post, this version of International Karate is an special one adapted by Ijor back then. Instead of having 1 scenario as the official tape version widely distributed, this one has 4 scenarios. All of them contained in one single tape loading stage. I haven't seen that version on the net. Regards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 But isn't there a disk version that has them? Whatever the answer all I can suggest is that if you are loading Via Altirra that you press F1 to speed the emulated load time up... Either that or hope ijor does you an xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitoco Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I'm just trying to extract the IK XEX from the CAS. It seems that it is not actually a XEX, but a RLE-compressed file that it is decompressed on the fly into memory. If it matters, I'm doing this just for fun. BTW, this is the first time that I had to analyze code that it is using some "illegal" 6502 opcodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 But isn't there a disk version that has them? Whatever the answer all I can suggest is that if you are loading Via Altirra that you press F1 to speed the emulated load time up... Either that or hope ijor does you an xex Yes, there is a disk version, but this is an special version that Ijor made specifically for tape users. Furthermore, an xex version is easier to convert it into a cartridge, for example. I was able to load the cas successfully in Altirra in warp Speedtest, but the point is to have an xex version to use on cartridges in real hardware or emulator as well. Best regards and thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I'm just trying to extract the IK XEX from the CAS. It seems that it is not actually a XEX, but a RLE-compressed file that it is decompressed on the fly into memory. If it matters, I'm doing this just for fun. BTW, this is the first time that I had to analyze code that it is using some "illegal" 6502 opcodes. Thank you, Victor! That would be useful! Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 I'm just trying to extract the IK XEX from the CAS. It seems that it is not actually a XEX, but a RLE-compressed file that it is decompressed on the fly into memory. If it matters, I'm doing this just for fun. BTW, this is the first time that I had to analyze code that it is using some "illegal" 6502 opcodes. If you prefer I can send you or post the "master" disk. Yes, of course, it is decompressed on the fly, that was the whole point. The illegal opcodes are just for the protection. Note that the recorded loader might not match exactly the sources 100% because it might be a different version. Unfortunately I didn't use to save sources for all the versions at that time, but as I recall there weren't so many and they weren't so different. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement a program that would read a master disk and would create XEX files automatically. But I am too lazy to do that right now, sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitoco Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 If you prefer I can send you or post the "master" disk. Yes, of course, it is decompressed on the fly, that was the whole point. The illegal opcodes are just for the protection. Note that the recorded loader might not match exactly the sources 100% because it might be a different version. Unfortunately I didn't use to save sources for all the versions at that time, but as I recall there weren't so many and they weren't so different. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement a program that would read a master disk and would create XEX files automatically. But I am too lazy to do that right now, sorry That could be great. ¡Gracias! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted July 16, 2017 Author Share Posted July 16, 2017 That could be great. ¡Gracias! It would be great to post the Master disk? Or it would be great to create an automatic converter? May be I didn't express myself correctly. What I intended to say is that it shouldn't be too difficult to implement, but currently I have no plans and/or no time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitoco Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 I'm using tapatalk, so I was too brief and not that clear. I tried to say that it could be great that you share the master disk of IK. I'll use it to confirm that I'm going in the right way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 Posting the Master Disk ... I recovered almost all my STAC masters, more than 20 disks. That's about 50 sides. I will share all of them. The only reasons I didn't already is because a couple of disks are damaged and I still hope to be able to recover them in another drive. Also a couple are still with the disk copy protection, and I want to remove the protection before. StacMaster-22f.zip 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilheim Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Posting the Master Disk ... I recovered almost all my STAC masters, more than 20 disks. That's about 50 sides. I will share all of them. The only reasons I didn't already is because a couple of disks are damaged and I still hope to be able to recover them in another drive. Also a couple are still with the disk copy protection, and I want to remove the protection before. Thank you! That 's useful. I'll take a look into it. Regards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Ok man, I have to say. devwebcl. BRAVO. BEST...AVATAR...IMAGE...EVER! Wow man, that was _Very well done! I'm impressed. -Thom (a fellow Joy Division fan) Thanks ! Yes, it is a little tribute to Joy Division and Ian Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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