C64WhizMar 24

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

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@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.

Mar 24 at 11:09pmWeb
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