[Coco] cocotape project

[Roger Taylor]

At 10:17 PM 11/21/2008, you wrote:
>New progress.
>
>Text BASIC listings, this means programs meant for other computers 
>as well, are now CLOAD'ing into the CoCo, in ASCII format.
>
>cocotape any.bas -o=test.wav
>
>I haven't done the tokenized files yet.



Ok, tokenized BASIC is done.  The file to be sent to the CoCo has to 
already be in the tokenized format stored on the PC.

Tomorrow I should be just about done with cocotape.exe.  The utility 
is not a sine-wave to byte converter like casin.exe is, nor is it a 
.cas to sinewave converter like casout.exe.  It turns any PC-stored 
file into a live CoCo tape audio stream or a Wave file (or 
both).  You just specify what format the CoCo expects to load the 
stream as.  Obviously if the CoCo can load it (which it can), the 
Wave file is ready to record onto a cassette tape from the PC if you 
have a way of doing that.  This makes it possible to produce CoCo 
tape software from your PC.  The Rainbow IDE will add support soon 
for all these new tools I'm working in.

-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com