[Coco] Playing or converting CAS files

[Charlie Pelosi]

I fired up my old Win98 PC and Used the Jeff V. emu and casout.exe to make 
wav files. I struggled with it for a bit for a few reasons...
For one, the Madness and the Minotaur CAS file at the repository just can't 
seem to be converted and of course that was the one I was using to play 
with.
Second, the old PC, a PII233 Win98SE sound blaster AWE32 card just could not 
play back a CAS able to be recorded and loaded on the coco.
I even tried my Yamaha cassette deck match the recording levels to retail 
coco tapes, but no go.
When I used casout to make WAV files and sent them over to my modern Windows 
7 laptop, the coco could read them perfectly and was able to record them to 
tape with no issues too.
So.. no idea why the old PC couldn't play them back ok...
I wouldn't have wasted so much time if I had picked the old game "Middle 
Kingdom" to play with 1st. What ever the issue with Madness is had me stuck 
thinking it was something to do with volume and all that..
-C


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From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 3:13 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Playing or converting CAS files

> Looks like "The FACTS" is in error.
>
> Bytes 11-12 and 13-14 as given before seem to be EXEC and START 
> respectively. At least that is what I see when I use VCC to create a .cas 
> file.
>
> MESS will input a .cas file but creates a .wav file even when asked for 
> .cas.
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