[Coco] loading programs via cassette interface

[Keith Monahan]

Thanks for the write-up Tim. Super useful!

and thanks Michael for the cloud9 suggestion for the cable. I can 
certainly build cables easy enough. My rant earlier was about more 
complex things like MPIs and whatever.

Appreciate it guys!
Keith


On 12/16/2021 11:33 AM, tim lindner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 7:06 AM Keith Monahan via Coco
> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>> Do you have a method for converting a text file containing a BASIC
>> program into an audio file compatible with cassette loading?
> 
> I have two.
> 
> You can use an emulator. Attach a WAV file to the cassette port, type
> in (or paste) the BASIC program, and CSAVE it.
> 
> The other way is with a set of tools called Toolshed. Here is a
> spreadsheet where I list image manipulation tools:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17RfYWQbUhSIsSn2DG_L12IN5wdcXCChApmeZZNbsnhU/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> cecb (a part of Toolshed) is a command line tool and the process goes like this:
> (Assuming you have a text file "MYPROG.BAS" with 0x0d line endings,
> now-a-days called Macintosh line endings.)
> cecb bulkerase new_file.wav
> cecb copy -0a MYPROG.BAS new_file.wav,MYPROG
> 
> or to save the file in tokenized form:
> cecb copy -t MYPROG.BAS new_file.wav,MYPROG
> 
> --
> tim lindner
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