Load64

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Support forum has been very quite for almost a year.It's very nice and motivating to get feedback time to time.

Direnc veya kondansator kullanmadan,direk isaretli pinlere baglanti yapabilirsin.

Buradaki oyunlardan Commando'yu kaydedip denedim,sorunsuz calisti.

Kayit yaparken sesini sonuna kadar ac.Kasetten C64'e yuklerken,kayit yaparken kullandigin ses kaynagini kapatmayi unutma.

You need to get those lines thinner same as the photo above by turning up the volume.
Turn off the bluetooth,WI-FI on your phone.Try the airplane mode.
Also place the datasette away from the TV.Turn off the fridge,don't sneeze and stop breathing 

I'm messing about with the website at the moment.You can use the links below

www.load64.com/a
www.load64.com/b

I think I found the reason.Here is my board





My opamp is in the opposite orientation.So try this instead,





If you don't get any signal,try a 100nf capacitor.

P.S. There is no AC voltage on the datasette.5V DC is used on the board,6V DC powers the motor.

Download Audiotap and WAV-PRG HERE.
Download Audacity HERE.
Download FinalTAP HERE.

For the first time you plug the adapter to your PC,you will need to setup the settings below,

1.Press Windows Key and R to open RUN window and type mmsys.cpl



Or right click on the speaker icon and select recording devices.



2.Set the USB microphone as default and go to properties.Change the device name to "READ".
3.Custom tab,untick the AGC.
4.Set the recording level to 0 (We will adjust this setting later on.)
5.Advanced tab choose the 48000 Hz



Right click on the speaker icon and goto Playback devices.Find USB Speakers and click on the properties.



1.Change device name to "WRITE"
2.Set the volume level 100%
3.Enhancements tab,tick the box says "Disable all enhancements"
4.Go to advanced and choose 48000 Hz
5.Spatial sound tab - set it to OFF and click on the OK below.

Adjusting the READ volume and backing up a cassette tape to PC:

Insert a good condition,original copy cassette game to the datasette and press play.

Start Audacity and click the RECORD button.

Find the microphone volume setting and slide it to the right untill it fills the screen.





After recording that side of tape save it as WAV.



Start Audiotap,click on "Create a tap file",tick "from an audio file"
Click OK,choose the WAV file,OK,give the tap file a name.



Drag and drop the TAP file to Finaltap



If you get Recognized 99% you have done a perfect backup.Click on Repair & Optimize to clean it up.



After the cleanup.it should show all green and Recognized 100%



Click on the save as (disk icon) to save the clean tap.

Keep in mind,you don't get these results with all TAP files.It depends on the loader.You might try Tapclean program aswell.

Drag and drop the cleaned TAP to winvice emulator and check if it works.

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Recording software to blank cassette tape:

TAP Files:



Start AudioTap.
Select "convert from a Tap file" and "to a sound",tick "inverted waveform", click OK and choose the TAP file you want to record.
Press Record and Play on the datasette.

Turbo LOAD T64,PRG,P00 Images

Browse through this website and download T64,PRG,P00 Images.
Unzip those files to a folder on your desktop.

Start WAV-PRG and choose "Convert a PRG,P00 or T64 file to a sound"



You don't need to change any settings.

Click on "Sound Card",tick "inverted waveform", and higlight the files,drag and drop it to WAV-PRG.



Press RECORD and PLAY on your datasette.

This is it.

Good luck.
 

We need to know how much juice left in the internal battery pack.
So I bought this 11.1V Li-Ion Battery Status Indicator of ebay.



I removed the LED lights and the top of the switch.I shorted the switch so it will always be lit.



I also bought rectangular RGB LED's of ebay.



I soldered the LED to the indicator board.Added 330R resistor to the negative leg.



I added a connector to the +12V input of the voltage regulator for easy plug in.



It's ready to plugin.



Push it in where the original LED was.Perfect fit.



It turns red when low on power,green medium and blue is fully charged.

Head Alignment Without the Real C64

Download this RAR file and open it on your desktop.


www.load64.com/up/auto.rar


Put the tape in the datasette and press play.


Find and run the file headalign.bat in that folder.


After the azimuth alignment loads up
go to datasette control and fast forward and
go to datasette control and start


You will see the lines.At this point ALT+W for 1 or 2 seconds to catch up with the real datasette.


Use the screw driver to align the head.Try to make the lines thin and straight as much as possible.


This is not easy,you will have to try a few times.

This tape interface can be used with any Commodore computer system with a tape/datasette port.Instead of using cassette tapes,we will be using MP3 audio files as medium with modern devices like smart phones,desktop/laptop or tablet PCs.

If you want to use a tablet PC or a phone,there is only one setting you need to do which is the sound volume level.You should play the MP3's anywhere from 75% to 100%.

If you want to use a Windows PC,follow the steps below,

1.Press Windows Key and R to open RUN window and type mmsys.cpl



2.Double click on Speakers and go to levels.Set it to 80%
3.Enhancements tab,tick the box says "Disable all enhancements"
4.Go to advanced and choose 48000 Hz
5.Spatial sound tab - set it to OFF and click on the OK below.



Loading games from the website

VIC20 users,press the Shift and Run/Stop keys.Go to this page and click on one of the games.

C64 users,Press shift and run/stop keys.Go to this website and click on the one of the games.When you see the FOUND screen,press space bar.

Converting games to MP3 files:

You can find lots of VIC20 games on this server also C64 games on this site

DOWNLOAD this rar file and unrar it to your desktop.
It is a little batch script for converting the programs to WAV files,trimming down the pilot tone and converting it to MP3 files.
Copy the PRG,T64 and P00 files in to the newfiles folder.
If they are for C64,double click on the C64.bat file.If they are for VIC20,run the VIC20.bat.
When the conversion is complete,you will find MP3 files only in the newfiles folder.Other files will be deleted.


You can make gameplay screenshots by running the game with the winvice emulator and pressing the ALT+C keys.You can embed that image to mp3 file by using the mp3tag program and use add cover option.

Loading with android app TAPDANCER:



There is an android app called Tapdancer.This app converts the TAP,PRG,T64 and P00 files to sound so you can load it on your Commodore.Unfortunately this app hasn't been updated for the new android versions so it was taken off the app store.
If you have a 5-6 year old device laying around,you can DOWNLOAD Tapdancer and give it a try.