Announcement: UberCassette V0.01!

Spirantho · Post by **Spirantho** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:07 am

Hi everybody,

I've been trying to archive my CBM cassettes of Manic Miner, JSW etc., with no luck. So... I thought I'd write my own cassette reader. I've used various ways of parsing the WAV files, and it seems to be yielding good results on worse quality tapes.

It's called UberCassette as I want it (eventually!) to do everything I can think of.. but at the moment it just makes .T64 and .TAP files out of WAV files. It does do VIC-20, C64 and C16/+4 tapes, though.

Could anybody with any interest in it please check out my development page? It's at:
http://www.retroreview.com/iang/UberCassette/

It's still a very early version at the moment, so please ANY feedback would be fab. Suggestions, complaints, all are welcome.

Thanks to anyone who tries it, especially those who let me know how they get on.

It includes source, by the way, and is written in POSIX ANSI C, so is portable, but contains Linux x86 and Windows command line binaries.

Thanks!

bokvamme · Post by **bokvamme** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:50 pm

Hi!

It would be interested to check your resulting tap files with other tools like tapclean. I will have a look this weekend.

Spirantho · Post by **Spirantho** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:22 pm

Great, any feedback or ideas would be eagerly received!

CurtisP · Post by **CurtisP** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:55 pm

I like this project. Being able to handle tapes from different computers would be very handy.

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:11 pm

Interesting project and I will try your Android game of course

Spirantho · Post by **Spirantho** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:20 pm

Thanks! And tell your friends.

I've been expanding UberCassette a bit. now it does C16, C64 and Vic Tap and T64 images, and I've even got BBC and Electron games being dumped to UEF... I can use the same wave routines for any computer!