.prg to .bin Conversion Questions....

charle...@gmail.com

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Jun 13, 2013, 9:20:01 PM6/13/13

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Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing fine.

I'm in the middle of one of those "cartridge projects" and I *did* manage to successfully download a few utilities in the .bin format which I will use in future developments, however I'm awestruck as to how to get the other programs that I *desire* to have for the project......

Novaterm 9.6
CMD Utilities
Unicopy
Mr. Do!
Gauntlet
Ghosts' N' Goblins
1942
Zaxxon

Is there any "feasible" way to "convert" these files into a .bin format or "access" these files in a .bin format someplace?

Thanks in advance as I'm now trying to learn a little 'code." ;)

Charles

Payton Byrd

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Jun 13, 2013, 10:08:54 PM6/13/13

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What you want is an EasyFlash or EasyFlash 3. The EF would allow you to make compilations of single file applications, like those of the CMD Utilities disk. As for the games on your list, I'd imagine they are all single-filers and would work as well.

Clocky

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Jun 14, 2013, 9:13:04 AM6/14/13

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charle...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing fine.
>
> I'm in the middle of one of those "cartridge projects" and I *did* manage to successfully download a few utilities in the .bin format which I will use in future developments, however I'm awestruck as to how to get the other programs that I *desire* to have for the project......
>
> Novaterm 9.6
> CMD Utilities
> Unicopy
> Mr. Do!
> Gauntlet
> Ghosts' N' Goblins
> 1942
> Zaxxon
>
>
> Is there any "feasible" way to "convert" these files into a .bin format or "access" these files in a .bin format someplace?
>

You can convert a PRG to a BIN by removing the first two bytes. I use
Winhex for that.

Anssi Saari

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Jun 15, 2013, 3:13:57 AM6/15/13

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Clocky <not...@happen.com> writes:

> You can convert a PRG to a BIN by removing the first two bytes. I use
> Winhex for that.

Is that enough if the program has a basic bit in the start, shouldn't
that be removed too?

Payton Byrd

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Jun 15, 2013, 2:49:13 PM6/15/13

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And let's not forget that the program has to be written to run from A000 to CFFF or 8000 to CFFF to work correctly. Probably be best to use Exomizer on the PRG, then use a loader in the cart space to expand it back to normal RAM.

Groepaz

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Jun 16, 2013, 2:07:20 PM6/16/13

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a) correct
b) .bin is NOT a cartridge format. really. to put regular programs on
cartridge they will have to be prepared accordingly - usually using the
tools that came with the eprom burner you are using. or the flash cartridge
for that matter.

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Clocky

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Jun 17, 2013, 10:53:24 AM6/17/13

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Yep, a bin by itself burnt to ROM won't work. I'm not sure what Charles
is up to but if it's for his Multicart 64 then it has a menu to select
the program so I'm not sure how that deals with the binaries.

Clocky

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Jun 17, 2013, 10:55:55 AM6/17/13

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Indeed. I don't remember the name of the program I used for turning
binaries into autostart cartridge files but I think there are several.