[Coco] The Cruncher

[Steve Ostrom]

Thanks, John.  Makes sense.

-- Steve --


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Guin" <johnguin at hotmail.com>
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The Cruncher


> IIRC, the Dragon tokenized BASIC commands differently.  The workaround to
> get a tape working on either was to save with the ,A command:
> CSAVE"File.bas",A
> To have the file written in "pure ascii" so either machine could read it 
> and
> re-tokenize it.
>
> But since the commands were the same and only the tokenized values varied,
> it seems the "Cruncher" probably just read the tape into a buffer, 
> converted
> the needed values and saved in the desired format.
>
> But I may be wrong,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Steve Ostrom
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:20 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The Cruncher
>
> I came across a Coco program a few days ago, called "Cruncher".  It is
> supposed to be able to "convert Dragon tapes to Coco format".  Does any 
> one
> on the list know about this program or what it might do?  Are Dragon tapes
> recorded with a different format than Coco tapes?  I think I have seen 
> tapes
> that will work for both Dragon and Coco, so I'm guessing that the 
> recording
> formats are the same.  Might it do some conversion of the code, making the
> Dragon program Coco compatible?  Any ideas or experience?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Steve -- 
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