[Coco] easy tape file transfer from PC to CoCo

[theother_bob]

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----- Original Message ----
From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:16:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] easy tape file transfer from PC to CoCo

At 12:02 PM 11/16/2008, you wrote:

>Now that is neat, too bad I don't have the emulator.  I *think* I 
>could find a
>cassette cable if I dug deep enough.


Also, if you use casout.exe to turn a .cas file into a .wav, when 
using WinAmp, the WimAmp volume needed to be less than 50% on my 
system, and Windows is at about 90%.  WinAmp equilizer is flat.  It 
gave a crisp tape sound that my real CoCo loaded fine.  I just tried 
this with bedlam.cas and am playing it on the 2 now.

I suppose that the CoCo Line Out from the cassette cable can be fed 
into the PC's sound card Line In to capture tape saves, but as of now 
I can't get a real CoCo, VCC, or M.E.S.S. to give me any sound when I 
type AUDIO ON:CSAVEM "TEST",1024,1535,1024.  I was hoping to hear the 
audio on the emulators but on the real CoCo I assume that a tape deck 
has to be connected and in record mode for the sound to come back 
into the CoCo to hear it live?  I forget.


   You may need to enable the Line-In on your pc.With your Windows mixer console open, select Options->Properties and select the Recording radio-button. Make sure the Line-In control is checked and hit OK. Then select the checkbox below Line-In in the Mixer console (now says Recording Control instead of Volume Control).

Now in Winamp (or emulated coco) you should get sound from the real CoCo's line out (or a real cassette player).
I believe on the VoVo if you type AUDIOON and CSAVE(M) you will hear the audio.



I'll probably add a mode in the Rainbow IDE that can output built 
programs as live tape audio so we can type CLOAD(M) on the real CoCo 
and get it loaded and tested pretty quick.  This would only work well 
with short programs since it takes a while to load big ones, 

   It ain't that slow... SAVE"22KPROG",A at high speed would take ~30 seconds. Transferring many files might get tedious and slow, but for occasional use this is a great alternative to disk transfers. A poor-man's drivewire? Suitable for most common usage I think.



but the CoCo is already equipped with this "protocol" for importing from 
anything that can output the cassette format.  The good thing is once 
you get the PC's audio set right, there won't be any dreaded tape 
drop-outs or other problems typically experienced with real tape drives.


-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com


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