Spectum and Sam

Post by **Jeff** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:23 am

caver99 wrote:when i load the file as a a raw file adn the conver/save as and then copy the .hfe file to sd card and view it on the sam its empty but useing the .sad file in the sam emulator its fine.

could you send me this "sad" file ?

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 7:58 am

yeh what e-mail address?

Post by **Jeff** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:17 am

caver99 wrote:yeh what e-mail address?

This one :

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:48 pm

E-mail on its way to you.

Post by **Jeff** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 7:05 pm

caver99 wrote:E-mail on its way to you.

I didn't receive it !

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:01 pm

ooppss sent to wrong e-mail sending now

Post by **Jeff** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:44 pm

caver99 wrote:ooppss sent to wrong e-mail sending now

i received nothing.

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:51 pm

ok i will try again right now

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:52 pm

Sending now

Post by **Jeff** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:45 pm

caver99 wrote:Sending now

ok i got them.

So Prince of Persia.sad is in reality a SDF file type. I have send a mail to Simon Owen (the official author of this format) for more details.

Manic Miner.sad is a SAD file with a header of 22 bytes (in fact this is a true SAD file -> 819222bytes) others sad files extension with a size of 819200bytes are in the MGT file format.
I need some details about this header.

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:26 am

OK.
thats good you finaly got them.

Post by **Jeff** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:15 am

caver99 wrote:OK.
thats good you finaly got them.

I got an answer from Simon Owen:

Hi Jean-François,

SDF was a temporary format I created for SAM Coupé disk images, before switching to EDSK (as also used for +3/CPC disks). Lemmings and Prince of Persia were the only 2 images ever publicly released in SDF format, and the Lemmings dump was later found to be missing a track! Both have since been re-dumped in EDSK format, and I've been hoping the SDF images would be forgotten. Unfortunately the TOSEC/Good collections make that difficult!

There are no public tools to create SDF images, and I'll be removing SDF support in the next release of SimCoupe (the SAM Coupé emulator), so I'd recommend you ignore it too. If you'd still like to know the details I'll dig them out for you.

So i will drop the SDF format. You should be able to found the EDSK version of Prince of persia (The software already support the EDSK).

For the SAD &MGT format i have just send to you a beta version of the software. "Manic Miner.sad" should works now.
I am waiting your feedback.

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:22 pm

Sorry but at the moment my e-mail is down but you can send to my works address which is graham.prout(at)cdk(dot)co(dot)uk and i will take it home.

caver99 · Post by **caver99** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:10 am

I have been useing the one you sent me now and it work great.

Thank You.