[Coco] .CAS images and VCC

[Joef6809]

Ahhh why would they do that? Anyway that not a bad idea. Mind it I use it?
>From Hell's heart I STore Accumulator B at thee!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ciaran Anscomb" <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] .CAS images and VCC


> "Joe F" wrote:
>> I'm working on getting VCC to support .CAS files and I'm running into a
>> snag. I'm not sure how to ask this so I'm just going to ask.
>> Does it seem there are a lot of non-working images floating around the 
>> net.
>> I'm getting mixed results trying to load various files and I'm wondering 
>> if
>> its me or just bad images.
>
> As others have said, this is almost certainly due to lots of CAS files
> not having full leaders - created when the existing emulators all trapped
> calls to BITIN to feed data.
>
> I work around this slightly in XRoar by inserting a sequence of fake
> leader bytes each time the motor is switched on.  It works for quite a
> few, but it's still not perfect.
>
> ..ciaran
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