TOOLS downloads

[wgoodf]

howdy
i notice that the .cas to .wav faq mentions DC.exe and FIXCAS.exe as required tools for converting but there seems to be no TOOLS section in the download section to actually get them.
anyone help out?

link or email - all good for me!

cheers

[wgoodf]

actually - any macintosh tools instead of windows - classic or osx?
java perhaps?
linux at a push?

[sixxie]

If you just want to do CAS to WAV, I have a really basic Perl script here.

If you want to do WAV to CAS that's a little more involved, but the 'tapemangle' stuff in http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/ does the job - basically a patch to XRoar to dump any data read from cassette (ie, the WAV file) into CAS output. I could probably build a patched MacOS binary if you needed it.

[wgoodf]

ahem
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just what would i do with the pearl script!??

[admin]

Hmmm, just reminded me. I have a bunch of tools I wrote ages ago that I need to clean up and release.

Features are:
wav -> cas (without stripping the long sync pulses! No need for FIXCAS.EXE)
Basic cas file to text (currently only Dragon tokens, but I should add Coco support).
Handling of cas files like 'zip' archives. e.g. add/list/extract/delete etc.
Long filenames (woo!)

Currently these are separate tools, and I really need to combine them into 1.
Written in ANSI C (gcc) so should be easily portable (I need to check for endian problems though...)

Anyone interested?

[admin]

Hmmm, just reminded me. I have a bunch of tools I wrote ages ago that I need to clean up and release.

Features are:
wav -> cas (without stripping the long sync pulses! No need for FIXCAS.EXE)
Basic cas file to text (currently only Dragon tokens, but I should add Coco support).
Handling of cas files like 'zip' archives. e.g. add/list/extract/delete etc.
Long filenames (woo!)

Currently these are separate tools, and I really need to combine them into 1.
Written in ANSI C (gcc) so should be easily portable (I need to check for endian problems though...)

Anyone interested?

[wgoodf]

sounds like a nice and simple thing your wanting to put together, thats always a good thing for folks.
especially idiot dumb folk like myself!

[admin]

ahem
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just what would i do with the pearl script!??

If you ever wanted to develop dragon software on your desktop PC and then transfer it to a real dragon then you probably would need to convert a CAS file to a WAV file and then (optionally) record to tape. You can also just convert archived CAS files to real tapes. The perl script helps here. If you want to use it then you'll need to download the perl interpreter from here:

http://activestate.com/Products/activeperl/