Difficulty with UPLOADING SECTION - please confirm

[Cloete]

Hi.
My previous stuff uploaded wothout problems.
I am currently having no success in uploading my stuff - the system just keeps showing that spinning arrow and eventually defaults to a new blank upload screen. Is it perhaps a system issue or could it be on my side?
I am trying to upload 3 programs seperately (5MB, 6MB and 9MB). All have been compressed as required. Also all 3 are ex-Basic, now Sprint compiled programs - wonder if that could play a role?
Cheers Cloete

[robcfg]

I usually cannot upload anything beyond 2mb.

I have already talk about this a couple of times, but I don't know how it can be solved. Maybe upload it to dropbox or similar service and post the link.

[zephyr]

Hi.
My previous stuff uploaded wothout problems.
I am currently having no success in uploading my stuff - the system just keeps showing that spinning arrow and eventually defaults to a new blank upload screen. Is it perhaps a system issue or could it be on my side?
I am trying to upload 3 programs seperately (5MB, 6MB and 9MB). All have been compressed as required. Also all 3 are ex-Basic, now Sprint compiled programs - wonder if that could play a role?
Cheers Cloete

The easiest way round this is to convert your .WAV files to .CAS format with XROAR, DCWIN, or one of the attached DOS utilities.

[Cloete]

Hmmm.. ok.. should I have an XROAR up and running to get the CAS converter working? Sorry - but I'm in the dark here - when I double click on the DC.EXE or CAS.EXE then nothing special happens. Sorry for irritating some of you,but pls tell me how the CAS conversion should be done. I have limited access (time) to the internet / DragonForum / so I can only touch-and-go most of the times.
I work on a real Dragon 32K and my XROAR hasn't roared once. I will allow myself to tinker with the XROAR as from October this year once my final JAVA exams are over and done. Until then, I will work with my Dragon as time permits. But please someone gimme some advice here.

[Sarah]

Hi Cloete what operating system do you have? If you prefer using a Windows interface you could try this converter. You would need to have .NET 3.5 installed and the WAV file will need to be 8-bit for that version. On the other hand, if you can run it but need the 16-bit feature then I could hurry-up and upload the version that has it!

[Alastair]

DC.exe and CAS.exe are both command line programs where you have to type in the name of the file you wish to convert as well as any optional switches, e.g., from the command line in the directory where both dc.exe and program.wav reside you could type DC PROGRAM.WAV to convert program.wav into a .CAS file.

As DC.exe and CAS.exe are also DOS programs they cannot handle long file names for this reason I would suggest using DCWIN (if you have .NET installed) or XRoar to convert files.

[Cloete]

Thanks everyone.
Sarah, I wll start with your 8 bit Windows-based converter.
I will resave my porgrams in 8bit WAV.
Hopefully I would be able to upload CAS converted program by Monday morning. Hope it works. Have a good weekend.

[zephyr]

I work on a real Dragon 32K and my XROAR hasn't roared once.

Here is a copy of XROAR ready to go with D32/64 ROMs and batch files with all the settings you will need to get you started. All you need to do is unzip the XROAR folder and its contents to your hard drive.

Regards,
Steve

EDIT: Xroar zip archive updated on the 14th October, 2012, at 4:40 pm. Replaced the buggy 0.28.1 version with the latest XROAR snapshot (snap-20120922) release.

[Cloete]

Thanks Steve. I will give it a go.

[zephyr]

Here are the instructions for converting .WAV to .CAS via XROAR. Use "Dragon64_NO_DOS_TAPEFIX" and follow the instructions below.

Press Ctrl+L to attach the .WAV file you want to convert, then Ctrl+W to specifiy a .CAS file to write to. Enter CLOAD or CLOADM and XRoar will write out a .CAS copy as it loads from the .WAV file.

Tip: Press and hold F12 while the emulated Dragon 64 is loading to speed up the conversion process.