This small tool belongs to the group of utilities supporting the emulation
of the good old C64. To be more precise, it helps you to reuse your old tapes
recorded with the C2N (Datasette) of Commodore and full of programs for the
C64. All you have to do is to record the C64-tape with your soundcard and your
favourite sampling-software (for example the sound-recorder of Windows 9x).

tape64 then uses the recorded file (usually a .wav-file, when you use a
Windows-OS) to 
a.) create a .tap-file (C64-TAPE-RAW). If you use Hakan Sundell's popular 
    emulator CCS64 or my favourite emu VICE, this .tap-file behaves like a 
    real tape. You can load your programs directly with the LOAD-command (or 
    <-L if they were saved with Turbo-Tape) in the emulation.
b.) create p00-files (binary images) from the C64-programs. In current version
    the following loaders are supported/emulated:
     - ROM-loader (files saved with the SAVE-kernal-routine)
     - Turbotape
     - Input64 (tapes coming with german magazine; tested with tapes
       11/85-6/86)
     - Novaload (commercial loader; special Nova-blocks are not supported
       due to limitations of the binary format)
    Support for other loaders may follow in next versions.
    The p00's can be loaded directly in the emulator (I tested it with CCS64
    and VICE) or can be converted (using another tool like 64copy) to other
    common C64-archive-formats like D64.
c.) create a t64-archive, which includes all detected C64-files, offers a 
    directory-structure and is supported by nearly every emulator.

tape64 even accepts a formerly created tap-file as input, if you want to build
a t64-archive and have deleted the sample-file or if you downloaded tap's from
internet. 

AUTHOR

Andreas Matthies <andreas.matthies@arcormail.de>

AMIGA PORT

This port was done by Dirk Stoecker <stoecker@epost.de> using SAS-C
6.58. I included original source code and an Amiga diff file.

You get the compilable source by extracting the .zip file and
afterwards calling "patch <Amiga.diff" in the directory, where sources
have been extracted to (Do not forget correct pathname for Amiga.diff
file). Afterwards call "smake".

HISTORY OF AMIGA PORT

1.2 2002-05-09 first release of Amiga port
               removed lots of compiler warnings
               made source endian neutral
               fixed overwrite problem when file already existed
               fixed return code problems

Use this tool as you want, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY!

Contact me (concerning the port only) at:

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Following is my PGP signature for the corresponding LhA-File.
Use ' pgpv tape64.readme -o tape64.lha ' to check it.
Key fingerprint: B9 F2 3A 1A 29 02 75 16  6A C6 5B 7D 5E F6 16 CF.
All my releases after April 2001 have a PGP signature with this key.
Be alarmed if signature is missing or wrong.

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 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                 5154   16550  31.1% -lh5- a4ee May  9  2002 source/Amiga.diff
[generic]                23876   23876 100.0% -lh0- 5919 May  6  2002 source/tape64_source.zip
[generic]                18025   29316  61.5% -lh5- 5f51 May  9  2002 tape64
[generic]                 1585    3393  46.7% -lh5- d116 May  9  2002 tape64.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         4 files   48640   73135  66.5%            May 12  2002