[Coco] New COCO 2 - moving .CAS files over to real hardware

[Bill Pierce]

Devin,
I just loaded the nuclear reactor game in it's "cas" form into the Vcc Coco 3 emulator and the XRoar Coco 2 emulator, and it ran fine on both emulators. So the problem is not the original file.
I suspect that for some reason (from what I see on the screenshot), cocotape is garbling the file when converting it to wav format. I've never used this utility, so I have no idea how it works. I usually use Jeff Vavasour's "casout.exe" which will play "cas" files directly out the PC soundcard without converting them to wav. I can then send cas files from my PC sound card to a cassette recorder or straight to the Coco itself and they load fine. The "casout.exe" program is part of Jeff's "Coco2 emulator" and "Coco 3 emulator" packages which can be found in the Color Computer Archives here:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Emulators/Coco%201-2/Jeff%20Vavasour/coco2-16.zip

and here:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Emulators/Coco%203/Jeff%20Vavasour/coco3-16b.zip
 
I've used this program for "cas" files many times without fail.
The only problem is that it's an MSDOS program and has to be run from a cmd prompt, so you will need to oepn a "command prompt" window in Windows.

Another thing to remember when recording PC to cassette or playing the wav from the PC to the Coco, the Coco is very sensitive about the volume of the signal so sometimes you have to play with the volume of the PC output to get it right. I've found on my PC that a volume of about 50% works well, but all soundcards are different so adjustments will be needed.
 

Bill Pierce
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