C64Whiz

So, I'm not sure who knows, but I'm the lucky person to have been gifted @AdrianRiskin 's Commodore PET 2001 with the chicklet keyboard.

He even included a cassette (pictured) which states it holds Microchess 2.0 by Peter Jennings.

Now, Adrian said it held his own programs and asked if I could retrieve them if/when I got the computer working.

First off, I thought this was a really cool inclusion! I was not expecting a cassette from 1978...and Commodore branded at that. Seeing as it has, or had, published software I can understand it. Without my glasses, I thought Commodore had just provided a blank cassette with the system. 😂

Second, rather than waiting for the working computer (and cassette deck), I'm going to see if I can play the cassette in a modern cassette player (ha! modern, well a sort of) and record it on my workstation as a WAV.

So my question to the community is: 1) How might one play a WAV flle into the VICE emulator, or 2) does anyone have a lead on a WAV to PRG conversion tool? (That would be a cool utility to have!)

#RetroComputing #Commodore #PET2001 #VICEEmulator

Mar 24 at 10:36pmWeb
Show threadC64WhizMar 24

I got's some reading to do!

https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/schematics/computers/pet/2001/index.html

/pub/cbm/schematics/computers/pet/2001/

Show threadAdrian Riskin Mar 24

@c64whiz

Thanks again for giving it a good home!

Ah, a commercial tape. I guess mine is long lost, oh well. The only two programs I explicitly remember writing were a fixed shooter kind of like space invaders and a program to randomly generate NPC stats for D&D DMing. The first one used PEEK and POKE, which were a revelation to me when I first saw them on an Altair 8800 after learning BASIC on a PDP-11 that I talked to over a teletype machine.

Show threadC64WhizMar 24

@AdrianRiskin

Well, we'll see. Maybe you accidentally overwrote Microchess?

I found this: https://wav-prg.sourceforge.io/

So I'm going to try and play with that this weekend.

WAV-PRG and Audiotap: from Commodore tapes to PC and back

Show threadWintergreenMar 25

@c64whiz @AdrianRiskin

Maybe this:

>Use specialized software like KCS (Kansas City Standard) decoders or tools such as Audio to Tape Emulator (ATTE) to convert the audio back into binary data (e.g., .tap, .cas, or .dsk files).

Show threadC64WhizMar 25

@Wintergr33n @AdrianRiskin

Will check it out, thanks!

Show threadDrive Not Found - OfficialMar 25

@c64whiz @AdrianRiskin not 100% certain if this will work with the pet, but you may also take a look at wav2tap for converting the raw wave audio to a tap file. I know this worked for my c64 back when I used tapes on it.

https://github.com/nippur72/commodore-tap-wav

GitHub - nippur72/commodore-tap-wav: WAV to TAP conversion utility for Commodore computers

WAV to TAP conversion utility for Commodore computers - nippur72/commodore-tap-wav

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Show threadC64WhizMar 25

@DriveNotFoundOfficial @AdrianRiskin

This is another option...cool, thanks!

Show threadDrive Not Found - OfficialMar 25
@c64whiz @AdrianRiskin it is also handy for writing tap files to tape! Through your sound card of course! Handy for transferring programs from the web to your pet!
Show threadWintergreenMar 25

@c64whiz @AdrianRiskin

https://github.com/privatezero/KCS

GitHub - privatezero/KCS: Tools I found for KCS

Tools I found for KCS. Contribute to privatezero/KCS development by creating an account on GitHub.

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