From PC to Emulator To Cassette Question...

Rookie (17)

06-12-2008, 15:56

Hi There!

I have created an Excel sheet that lets me design a new VDP Patern Table, and I can export all the DATA to a .TXT file.

My question is "how can I import this .TXT file into NLMSX (as a BASIC program), and how do I save from NLMSX to cassette so that I can load it into an actual MSX computer...?

Greetings,
Ron.

P.S. My apologies if this has been asked a 100 times over, but I'm a newbie finding my way around the site....

Por flyguille

Prophet (3031)

06-12-2008, 18:36

if the text file has basic's lines in ASCII format (just pure text), a simple LOAD"file.txt" will do the trick, now, how to insert that file in the .dsk image that is loaded by the emulator is another thing.

Por OeiOeiVogeltje

Paragon (1427)

06-12-2008, 21:33

you might be able to do that with

http://www.lexlechz.at/en/software/DiskMgr.html

Por Manuel

Ascended (19300)

07-12-2008, 13:46

If you want to save to cassette, you should use openMSX, AFAIK it's the only emulator that can save to actual WAV format, which can be loaded into a real MSX.
But, maybe you're better off buying a NoWind USB, so that you can a virtual disk drive on your MSX, which is actually using disk images from your PC

Por RetroTechie

Paragon (1563)

09-12-2008, 01:25

(..) how to insert that file in the .dsk image that is loaded by the emulator is another thing.
Under Linux that's a piece of cake: you can 'loop' mount a disk image of your choice (for example a copy of an empty MSX disk) under some directory, and then you access it under that directory just like any other disk. Typically one of those jobs that are *really* easy using Linux , but need purpose-written programs under Windows.