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Another 10 Microbee Tapes have been recovered - ChickenMan - 09-05-2021
Thanks to Vivid for providing recordings of all these tapes. Recorded on a professional Sony tape deck at 44khz and saved as a stereo 16bit WAV file and then Left & Right cannel's saved out as separate Mono recordings. All execept for one was later re-sampled at a lower frequency and saved as an 8bit WAV and still retain error free loading. Photographs of the cassettes and their inserts were also provided.
The Atlantic Sea Battle tape have both the cassette and insert labelled as such, but the tape loads as WARGAM and once loaded and run, its titled "Battle of the Atlantic", just to confuse everyone. You’re the Captain of the Bismark, year is 1941 and your mission is to clear the Atlantic of Allied merchant shipping.
The other game was Bunyip Adventure is set in the great outback of Australia. The aim is to catch the Bunyip and on the way you will encounter no end of Australian flora, fauna and folklore. This is also an earlier version 1.0 of the game compared to the one we already have on disk. It was not able to re-sampled at a lower frequency to reduce file size, so is also a large file to download.
This tape took considerable effort to recover, tape volume was very low and noise level high. A manual repair of the WAV at the 7.5min mark of one of the channels of one of the recordings finally achieved an error free load into a PC85. This is a big tape, only a 300baud recording was available on each side of the tape and takes just over 16 minutes to load, not suitable for a 16k Microbee. The saved bunyip.bee file loads and runs from 1000h, so from Basic, use this to run it
runm"bunyip.bee" 4096
Happy Birthday tape is a very simple program that plays, would you believe, the Happy Birthday song.
All the others were Educational programs and already available on some of the Honeysoft disks, such as honeysoft_microbee_air_track.dsk. All the tapes had a loader program for copy protection and will not load via the Monitor, Basic only. These files also recorded perfectly and needed no filtering to get them to load error free.
The *.MWB or *.BEE files are also included in the zip files of the WAV's.
There was one tape labelled as Space Invaders II, this turned out to be the normal Microspace Invaders 2 Colour version, which we already have so only the insert and label are included.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Software/Tapes/Original we placed
atlantic_sea_battle.wav
birthday.wav
bunyip_adventure.wav
geotech_drawing.wav
kinamatics.wav
programming_hints.wav
projectiles.wav
vector_&_graphing.wav
vector_tutorial_side_a.wav
vector_tutorial_side_b.wav
atlantic_sea_battle.jpg <-- these all in the Microbee/Documentation/Pictures/Tapes folder
bunyip_adventure.jpg
geo-tech_drawing_3&4.jpg
kinematics.jpg
programming_hints.jpg
projectiles.jpg
space_invaders_ii.jpg
vector_tutorial.jpg
vectors&graphing.jpg