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A "new" way to transfer files PC -> CPC

Many thanks to Pierre Guerrier for AIFFdec, without which I would never have written this ...

To use it, you need a very simple cable (jack 3.5 / DIN 5) from your audio card output to your CPC input (I did succeed in building it, so you must be able to do it too !!! :) ). You can also simply record CPC files back to an audio tape !

This program has been designed for a PC running Win95 and was compiled using djgpp, but it should compile and run on any machine (well, I hope so :) The only requirement is a .wav player & audio device (the program will run even if you don't have this, but it wouldn't be of much use :)

It was also compiled and tested under Linux (slackware I-cant-remember-which-version and kernel 2.0.34).

The shell syntax is : cpc2tape FILE [-epv][-r < rate >][-w < player >] [-o < file.wav >][-s < length >][-b < length >]

where FILE is the cpc file you want to send. FILE must be present as a plain file on your hard disk - The program cannot read it from a .dsk image.
(this would be quite a lot of work to implement this, and utilities already exist to do this kind of transfer: see CPCfs for example. I think most emulators can do this too.)

After generation of a .wav file, it automatically launches a wav player.
The default player is sndrec32.exe (Win95/98's one), but you can select the one you want to run using -w option.

The command line options are:

  • -e : Tell the program not to generate an extension for the file. That was implemented because often in basic loaders, there are commands like load "foo" to load file "foo.bin". With a disk, this is not a problem. But with tape, the file simply won't load.
  • -v : Verbose mode. (not very useful actually, mainly for debugging)
  • -p : Doesn't play the out.wav file.
  • -r < rate > : let you specify which sample rate you want to use, default is 11025 Hz. The higher the sample rate, the faster the transfer. But too high values may give read errors. Also, if you record your programs on poor quality tapes, you might have to use a lower rate.
  • -o < file > : let you specify the name for produced .wav file. Default is "out.wav".
  • -s < silence > : Silence duration between two blocks. If this is too short, AMSDOS will skip blocks, and give the well-known error message "Rewind tape.". Leaving the default duration is a safe bet.
  • -b < blank > : Silence between a header and the block following this header. You can safely forget this option. I used it in testing phase, but seemingly AMSDOS doesn't expect a silence period here.
  • -w < program > : Sound player to be used. If it needs an option, don't forget to quote the program name, for example -w "play -t wav". At least it is the way it works under Unix, under DOS, I don't know.

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★ YEAR: 1999
★ OS: DOS ; LINUX
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» cpc2tape  v1.1DATE: 2001-07-19
DL: 868
TYPE: ZIP
SiZE: 57Ko
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L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent  du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko.