As some of you may know, what Matthew Reed and Tim Mann did for diskettes, Knut has done for cassettes.
Knut has now refined his wonder cassette utilities and has released a major major upgrade. The new version has the following features/improvements:
Reads LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2 and MODEL III High-Speed
Reads tapes with more than one “file” and they can be any combination of the above types.
Decodes the data to verify the contents and displays the result
The LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 decoding is better (now it is probably better than the original)
Improved Model III High-Speed decoding, some special typical errors are handled too.
Dropout problems are almost gone, as long as there is data wav2cas can read it.
There are currently a few outstanding issues:
Will not read tapes that have very bad timing
Doesn’t like ringing so don’t record with too high volume.
Will probably have problems with system tapes output directly by EDTASM, because EDTASM inserts pauses.
You should use at least 22,050 samples per second when recording.
While it understands basic and system tapes, it does not yet understand assembly from EDTASM or Scripsit documents.
Disassembly is not yet implemented.
No documentation or help file is supplied.
You can download it here, or from Knut’s Web Site.
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![[Model I]](../../../../../images/computer-model1bx150.png)