Date   : Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Thomas Harte <t.harte@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Tape Creation - Possible ?

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:52:58 +0100, Colin McNaughton wrote:

>  I've tried the FREEUEF utility but it just immediately exits back to DOS,
without ever trying to use my soundcard.

I'm the author of FreeUEF and I've just had a quick look at the source to
try and fix it. If you were using the DOS version, there was indeed a bug
that could cause it to successfully initialise your sound card but think
that it hadn't which I've fixed and uploaded a new version of. If you
weren't, or that copy still doesn't work, as I understand you want something
to work now I've also very quickly written a version that outputs a RAW
sound file rather than trying to touch your sound hardware and uploaded that
also. As a rule of thumb, on average the produced RAW sound file is about as
many megabytes as the UEF was kilobytes, but it can be much larger or much
smaller because of course UEF files are compressed.

I hope you have better luck with this fix, as I am unaware of any other
tools for producing BBC tapes via a sound card.

-Thomas





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