I found my TRS-80 yahtzee game. Well at least on one tape. And so far unsuccessful recovering it. But why are the first few lines always readable? Then it turns to crap! There were also multiple versions on the same tape. Below…The 1st two screen shots are the same program (the 1st file on tape) at different volumes. The 2nd screen shot looks slightly better than the first, specifically line 120. Did I adjust volume up or down and how much? IDK. The 3rd screen shot is the 2nd file on the tape which seems different. Also the 1st file is a little over 2 minutes long. The 2nd file is over 3 minutes long. Maybe if I had more control over the volume I would have better results. There are no numbers on the volume. Also how many times can I play the tape before it starts to wear? The tape makes physical contact with the play head.
I’m surprised I haven’t found a simple graphical roll the dice program. Because that’s how I work. I wouldn’t have tried to write the whole program at once. I would first have written a simple roll the dice program. Then incorporated it into my Yahtzee program later.
trs80-tool also has a .asc (text or ASCII) convert to output command. It looks like this…trs80-tool convert test.wav test.asc. So you can look at the program (see below) without CLOADing in the emulator. Below is an example (not necessarily one of the above files). This would make it much easier to save a listing of your program than trying to copy and paste from the emulator.
10 'YAHTZEE
20 'PROGRAMMER: BILL
90 '
100 CLS
120 GOSUB2840'PRINT HEADING
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9075 NAME?LOCDIMEOFATN NAMEMKI$GOSUBHREMÓÏÀ>ÐÁ
3149 LETGETþ>/OR>GOSUBHH/UQOR>TRON@
24832 >ENDGOSUB