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It is now time for a release. WAV-PRG 3.0 is a major rewrite of the program. It now uses TAP format as native format, and can access sound card and audio files if the Audiotap shared component is present. It is also meant to be (relatively) easily portable.

Audiotap is a new program which converts between C64 tapes (as WAV samples, or directly from sound card) and TAP files. It is based on the Audiotap shared component, which uses Audio File Library(http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile) to access audio files and Portaudio/pablio (http://www.portaudio.com) to access sound card in a portable way.

This version fixes a small bug in wav2prg.c, and adds a new feature in prg2wav.c, the ability to create files in kernel loader format.

The CVS repository should be ready soon

This new version of WAV-PRG fixes some bugs in PRG2WAV:

• the lengths of RIFF and DATA chunks in generated WAV files arew now correct
• a possible memory leak has been fixed
• a small bug when detecting P00 files has been fixed.

Projects for the future:

• write an open-source Windows version (the current Windows version is closed-source and written in Delphi, writing one based on the current C code for Linux and MS-DOS could be good)
• port the plug-in architecture on Linux, so loaders other than Turbo Tape 64 can be converted.... read more