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Type-in Software Digitization Guide
Commodore (petcat)
Prerequisites
- VICE emulator suite - comes with both emulator and petcat
Typing
- Type the Commodore BASIC listing into a text file using a modern text editor.
- Consult this website for a mapping of glyphs to their petcat encoding.
- Consult this website to find out how certain screen codes affect the display - this is useful when they're hard to read.
- Note that typing lowercase for characters which appear uppercase is deliberate.
- Run the following command to convert the BASIC text file into a .PRG:
- Commodore 64, VIC-20/VIC-1001, MAX Machine:
petcat -w2 -o FILE.prg FILE.bas
Playing/Testing
- Commodore 64 (Japanese): Open the
x64
VICE emulator, Preferences → Settings, Machine → Model → Japanese, Close, drag .prg file onto emulator window. - VIC-1001 (Japanese): Open the
xvic
VICE emulator, Preferences → Settings, Machine → Model → VIC1001, Memory expansions → Common configurations → 3KiB (block 0), Close, ALT-F9 to soft reset, then drag .prg onto the emulator window.
Family BASIC (VirtuaNES)
Guide provided via Gaming Alexandria.
ZX-81 (zxtext2p)
Preparation
Typing
- Type the ZX81 listing into a text file using a modern text editor.
- Consult the zxtext2p documentation for special characters/inverse video/etc. information.
- Run “zxtext2p.exe -o FILE.p FILE.txt”
Playing/Testing
- Launch EightyOne, File → Open Tape, “FILE.p”
- Wait for the tape to load.
- Press “R” (RUN), then ENTER.
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