[Coco] Destruction of wav by VCC 1.42

[Luis Fernández]

Anyway should not change anything in a file that is reading, not writing.
In this test, you do not write or CLOADM Cload. open only in the section of tape

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> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:47:12 -0500
> From: robert.gault at att.net
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Destruction of wav by VCC 1.42
> 
> David Ladd wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Hello friends
> >> I found a dangerous error in VCC, v1.42
> >> Do not open a tape file of 44100 different sampling because it damages
> >> immediately. Load without play, change it to 44100, damaging it.
> >> This header information can be repaired with a sound editor, but not easy
> >> Just touch the header, no data information
> >> in other words if you have a wav to 11025, it passed to 44100, without
> >> asking, and the sound will be very sharp, preventing subsequent loading,
> >> both, VCC as real.
> >>
> >> If you want to test you can use this file, which is 11,250
> >> ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/NEWLY-RECEIVED/MANIFESTO.WAV<cut>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for letting us know about this destructive bug.  At least will help
> > others to make sure to convert their wave files to 44.1KHz before using
> > with  VCC.
> >
> > Might want to pass that problem on to Joseph who is the author of VCC so he
> > knows.
> >
> 
> Here are a few more details. MESS CSAVEs files as 44.1KHz 16-bit wave files if 
> that format is chosen. It will read either 8 or 16-bit files. Files CSAVEd by 
> MESS can be read by VCC with either 8 or 16-bit format.
> VCC CSAVEs files as 44.1KHz 8-bit wave files if that format is chosen. The files 
> can be read by MESS.
> 
> Now the sample file given by Luis is not a Basic or ml program. It is some kind 
> of data file created by a Editor program. Oddly enough, it could have been a 
> Basic program as lines start with 0 PRINT".... 1 PRINT".... etc. However, the 
> Coco will not recognize it as a Basic program. It can be CLOADed but will not list.
> I was able to do a CLOAD and then SAVEM"MANIFEST",&HE01,&H7FFF,0 the file to 
> disk. Once exported to my PC, I was able to read the file with Windows Wordpad.
> The text is an almost incoherent rant from someone who could not manage his 
> finances and holds the United States government responsible.
> 
> In my opinion, it is not worth anyone's time trying to read this file.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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