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Okay... I made a quick change to DCWIN so that it down-converts the 16-bit samples on-the-fly and your WAV file then worked straight away. The result is much the same as the previous analysis: Loading C:\EddieSteadyGo.wav Read 18602352 bytes (17MB) Calculated volume threshold 31 Calculated average w...

I don't have anything to hand for checking the WAV header, but looking at the bytes in your file, presumably it's a 16-bit sample?

What you describe doesn't sound like protection; if you're seeing sync bytes as 0xAA that probably simply indicates you're not sync'd with them? It's only likely to be necessary to do that if the cassette doesn't use the standard block structure (such as Screaming Abdabs, IIRC) although even then yo...

Works like a charm for me. I did a single attempt at sampling Katerpillar 2 and converting it to a CAS file. First attempt failed, probably because I used 16 bit samples. Once the WAV file was properly converted to 8 bit mono samples, I got a clean CAS file that loads into XROAR. Brilliant, thanks ...

Thankyou Rob, that's helpful feedback! I appreciate your comments! Hopefully DCWIN can cope with those damaged tapes at least as well as DC does, however I'm aware that they can struggle with such troublesome recordings. I've been considering including at least one alternative conversion algorithm i...

No worries, thanks anyway. If it helps, DCWIN doesn't need the full framework package, just the minimal "Client Profile" release is sufficient. New installations of Windows 7 can already have .NET 4 included, whilst other Windows 7 systems should at least have .NET 3.5 (as required by the previous v...

Oh... that sounds like a challenging setup! I don't really know about it but found this:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=17886

I'd be grateful for feedback on DCWIN please, if anyone's given it a trial (especially if someone's had success with it)! :lol: The only testing I was able to do was with WAV files that had been back-converted from CAS files, although hopefully it should work at least as well as the old MS-DOS versi...

I've attached an updated version of Dragon Convert for Windows . This update (v0.2) adds support for loading WAV files and saving CAS files. I've also introduced some improved options for handling leaders from WAV files, so that the user can choose whether to fix them at a specific length, or keep t...

You're welcome. I'm not sure why you're experiencing that behaviour; if you "eject" the first tape (or CAS/WAV file) whilst the music is playing, you should find that you only need to have PLAYWAVC ready (as attached) for afterwards.