Re: Tools for BAS to WAV?

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

On 07/04/2010 03:31 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:

> OK, what little I can get out of it is it writes a 3-byte payload containing
> the length and something else (I'm not exactly sure how it's formatted),
> followed by the actual content.
> 
> I doubt it'll be too hard to hack together once I can generate the 3-byte
> payload correctly...


I've found the following via Google:

> the cassette LOAD routine does the following:
> 
> - read 3-byte header from tape (program length + lock flag)
> - store program end address at $69/6A
> - store lock byte at $D6
> - load program from tape
> - if locked, start running, otherwise jump to "FIX.LINKS" routine 

No more details though. I assume "FIX.LINKS" repairs the pointer to the
next line that precede every tokenized line of BASIC code. The function
would be to allow for relocating BASIC code for different RAM size
machines, especially important for Integer BASIC, which stores lines
from HIMEM downward rather then from LOMEM upward.

Probably you wouldn't want this to happen with your code, so you'd set
the lock byte to "true" (whatever that value is).

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Linards Ticmanis