tezza
Veteran Member
Hi,
This request is a long shot, but I'll give it a go anyway...
I've recently acquired an EACA Colour Genie, which I'm having a good time playing around with.
One problem is I have no Colour Genie software. However I DO have the colour Genie Emulator (Colour Emu 3.0) which comes with some software as cassette images. In the emulator's readme.txt file, the authors (Burkhard Lehner and Stephan Scholz) say the following....
"Transferring software :
***********************
If you have old Colour Genie tapes, you can load them directly into the PC using an ordinary tape recorder, the SoundBlaster and the CASSLOAD tool. You may have to adjust the volume and/or tape recorder header, but
good tapes should be readable. You can get CASSLOAD from our WWW site along with another useful tool called ANALYSE. It analyses CAS-files and checks if there are any errors. Moreover, there is a program called CASSSAVE which converts CAS-Files to VOC-Files which can be used for loading programs into the Colour Genie (the original machine) - you can even save them on tape."
That sounds like just what I need! Theoretically, this would allow me to use those cassette images that are bundled with the emulator and use them on my own real machine.
However, the problem is the website (http://www.student.uni-kl.de/~sscholz/ColourGenie.html) has been dead for some time, and no website I can find which deals with the colour genie mentions these tools at all! Did anyone on this list ever download the above tools, or know if they still exist somewhere?
Or have any other suggestions?
Terry
This request is a long shot, but I'll give it a go anyway...
I've recently acquired an EACA Colour Genie, which I'm having a good time playing around with.
One problem is I have no Colour Genie software. However I DO have the colour Genie Emulator (Colour Emu 3.0) which comes with some software as cassette images. In the emulator's readme.txt file, the authors (Burkhard Lehner and Stephan Scholz) say the following....
"Transferring software :
***********************
If you have old Colour Genie tapes, you can load them directly into the PC using an ordinary tape recorder, the SoundBlaster and the CASSLOAD tool. You may have to adjust the volume and/or tape recorder header, but
good tapes should be readable. You can get CASSLOAD from our WWW site along with another useful tool called ANALYSE. It analyses CAS-files and checks if there are any errors. Moreover, there is a program called CASSSAVE which converts CAS-Files to VOC-Files which can be used for loading programs into the Colour Genie (the original machine) - you can even save them on tape."
That sounds like just what I need! Theoretically, this would allow me to use those cassette images that are bundled with the emulator and use them on my own real machine.
However, the problem is the website (http://www.student.uni-kl.de/~sscholz/ColourGenie.html) has been dead for some time, and no website I can find which deals with the colour genie mentions these tools at all! Did anyone on this list ever download the above tools, or know if they still exist somewhere?
Or have any other suggestions?
Terry