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  1. gelthor
    I have the newer XC12 program recorder as opposed to a 410 or 1010. Tried the tape (adapter) both ways up and no luck. Even tried it on the C64 and that didn't work either. (although I've a feeling the tape drive for that is broken) I think it has to be the adapter because we've determined pretty definitively that the computer, tape drive and files are ok. In my frustration with the world of tapes I've ordered myself an SIO2SD from Lotharek, that should hopefully be a better solution all round. Thanks all for your help anyway, might get a better (maybe Sony) adapter in future just to see if the theory was correct.
  2. gelthor
    Still not working I'm afraid. I'm now leaning towards the crappy ebay tape adapter that I bought as the source of the problem, delivering bad quality sound to the machine. That would explain why normal tapes load fine. You can hear it making popping and whining noises even when no audio file is playing. Just to clarify, I'm using an XC12 with said adapter, it's the one at the link below: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Car-Stereo-Cassette-Tape-Adapter-for-iPod-iPhone-MP3-AUX-CD-Player-3-5mm-/331354667934?hash=item4d2646fb9e Different seller but it's the same probably Chinese product. Anyone had problems with these before? For some reason I hadn't thought of it but I watched a Youtube video from Theshadowsnose where he was able to load a game using a similar adapter. It's probably just that mine's the cheapest one possible.
  3. gelthor
    Thanks again to all but still no luck I'm afraid. Tried the culomin_mp file which still didn't work whether I was using an Android tablet, windows phone or windows PC, then tried playing around with volume levels. I realised that if the volume is high, (on any device) the tones from the file sound high pitched and screetchy. I can get them to sound like the normal tape tones by turning the volume (on the playing device) right down. I thought that might have done it but the programme name never appears, both machines (Atari 400 and 130XE) still find nothing. It seems like I have to turn the volume down to stop the sound corrupting in some way, but because of that the volume is too low for the poor old Atari to recognise anything. Not sure what else to try at this stage, very strange. I have no problem playing .tap files into my ZX Spectrum with the same Android tablet.
  4. gelthor
    Thanks, the file is a .cas. I think I was generally mistaken to think that CLOAD would work as I've read that's only for files that have been CSAVE'd. (you can tell I'm new at this) Pretty sure I should be starting the Atari with Start held down to load these. But that fails as well. I can't see that there's anything wrong with the computer, tape drive (it was new old stock) or adapter, it just seems like every single file I try is not something that the real machines can recognise. Either you get an error or they do nothing. My original copy of One Man and his Droid loads from tape no problems, as do all of the BASIC programmes I've typed in. Hmmm...
  5. gelthor
    Thanks for the advice, I gave Turgen System a go, very nice tool. Still haven't got anything to load but it is...different. A WAV file generated from the "culomin" file using Turgen System will now play all the way through with no boot errors. (having started up pressing Start and Option) But it doesn't load anything either, the 130 never indicates that it's found anything. The same thing happens if I just start up holding Start. I tried converting zaxxon using the same tool but that still throws up boot errors if I turn on whilst holding start. Plays fully through without doing anything if Start and Option. Could be the file though. Thanks again for your help so far.
  6. gelthor
    Hi all, I'm tearing my hair out trying to get any downloaded games to run on my real Atari 400 or 130XE. I'm using a tape adapter connected to my android tablet running tapdancer, which can play the audio of CAS files among others. If I try to load by going into BASIC and then typing CLOAD, I get an error 21 after the first set of beeps, and if I hold down start whilst powering on and try to load that way, it lasts a bit longer and then comes up with BOOT ERROR. This happens with many different game files as well as WAV files created with cas2wav. (played with a normal audio app as opposed to tapdancer) The audio sounds a lot higher pitched and possibly faster than what you get when you load a real tape. I'm thinking the audio isn't being reproduced correctly but at a loss as to how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
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