mz2000_cass: 75 additions to software list, 1 item promoted to fully working and other enhancements #14662
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Opened a new PR to replace PR #14512 as various further additions made.
Summary of combined changes:
The vast majority of these are in the original format. A handful of MZTs are unconverted where these work. Most had MTI extensions but are WAV files so have been renamed accordingly.
A small minority of non-working MZTs have been converted to WAV using DumpListEditor. Some software originally in MTI format froze when loading complete. These have been converted to MZT using DumpListEditor and the freezing issue is resolved.
It has not been possible to resolve this freezing issue with a small number of additions, but a manual hack allows these to run - software does not automatically run (Monitor) or show Ready prompt (BASIC) when tape loading completes, but removing the tape image triggers this, allowing the software to run. It is not clear if this is an issue with the emulation, an issue with these dumps or an issue with the original tapes or indeed a bug in the original machine. But this replication of ejecting the tape triggers the automatic end of loading process. As these run but require this manual intervention, they've been marked as partially supported.
All dumps sourced from TOSEC repositories (largely from UnRenamed Files - Japanese Systems I and Rock's Preserved Games) except the 9 Hudson Soft games sourced from Gaming Alexandria.