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WAV2BIN

General description :

This is an utility to convert Sharp computer's save tapes into ASCII or binary image files.
The source file is now available and is licensed under the GPL, please read the included copying.txt file. 

Download :

  Download the Executable version of WAV2BIN (Ver. 1.40, executable only)

  Download the Complete version of WAV2BIN (Ver. 1.40, executable, sources, and GPL)

Don't hesitate to forward me any new version, in order to make it available to the community.

Norbert Roll wrote a Mac OSX version of WAV2BIN (based on the 1.33 Windows version) :

  Download the Mac OSX complete version of WAV2BIN (Ver. 1.40, executable, sources, and GPL)

Windows interface is available for WAV2BIN on Anton's site :-).

Compilation :

This software is written in Ansi C, compilable with any compiler (I have used an old Borland C version 3.1).

How to use it :

Digitize the audio tape in a WAV file (11 KHz recommended), or better, digitize directly from the Sharp tape interface (plug the tape interface output to your sound card MIC input).

In a DOS shell type :

WAV2BIN SrcFile DstFile [T:type] [G:graph] [D:level]
 

SrcFile	WAV file, which must be compliant to the following rules :
	- 8 bits per sample, - Monophonic, - 5 to 22 KHz sample frequency (11 KHz recommended).
DstFile	Output file, the format will depend of the source file :
	- ASCII file, if the source WAV contains a Basic program, - Binary file, if the source WAV contains Assembly Program or Datas,
	If DstFile equal "NULL",  no output file is generated.
type	Destination file type (option for the BASIC sources files) :
	- BAS   Basic program ASCII image file, (default) - IMG  Basic program binary image file.
graph	Convert special characters (option used with T:BAS) :
	- NO   (default) - YES
level	Print debug traces (see source file) :
	- a hexadecimal integer (0x____)

Detailled features :

This software recognize these save type :
 

0x20	Old format, Basic,
0x21	Old format, Basic with password,
0x70	New format, Basic,
0x71	New format, Basic with password,
0x72	New format, Extended Basic,
0x73	New format, Extended Basic with password,
0x74	Data format
0x80	PC-1211 format, Basic,
0xA1	PC-1500 format, Basic,
	- Default output is an ASCII file (can be forced to binary image), - All known basic token are converted, - Unknown token are converted to a hexadecimal code between square brackets, - Special caracters are converted to a hexadecimal code between square brackets or to IBM PC caracters [ASCII code] :       e [65]         [E3]         [FB]         [9D]         [DB]         [F0]        [03]         [04]         [05]          [06]
0x26	Old format, Assembly program or Datas,
0x76	New format, Assembly program or Datas,
0xA0	PC-1500 format, Assembly program or Datas.
	- Output is a Binary image of the file content.

 

- The parameter's order after SrcFile and DstFile is not significant.
- T: and G: parameters are optional.
- The D: parameter is used only for debug purpose.

Thanks :

Thanks to Christophe LE GLATIN and Emmanuel BEAUREPAIRE for the debugging help.

Thanks to Markus VON CUBE for the 1.40 version (this version was not fully tested, but according to the source code, it should work fine) :

- General enhancements : WAV file reading more robust. WAV2BIN now detects sync sequences (strings of ones of a minimum length of about 0.5 seconds) inside the data and tries to resynchronize upon them.
- Data files : The previous version didn't support file type 0x74, data.Decoding a data file always ends with a "synchronization lost"
message.

Disclaimer :

I can't be involved in any damages consequently of the use of these software.