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[Atari-Jess]

What games if any require a loading from the cassette only once into memory? I assume its only earlier older games (if at all), but I'm just curious on this.

[Atari-Jess]

I would suppose BASIC games would count in that regard....

[Rybags]

Lots of games were single-stage load only.

Can't really think of specific ones, since I gave tapes up > 20 years ago.

Single-stage games were extremely easy to transfer to disk. Multi-stage ones usually just involved looking at 200 bytes or so of code to work out where they loaded and if they had any encryption (which wasn't often).

[Heaven/TQA]

yup... transfered many of my cassette games (esp. mastertronic ones) to .com files... or boot discs... just simply look at the loader what it does and where the files are loaded... pass the decrypter if available and save the blocks to disc...then append the files...

for single load files i used just one of available tools...

[John E.]

Crystal Raider, Swat, Crack-Up, Hover Bover (?), Colony, Gridrunner.

I can't remember any more.

[hawk]

Here in Oz, Atari games were expensive, so I could never afford any. The only one I ever had was Crossfire. It was a single load.