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Hi Chris. I have tested your BIN2Wave tool and unfortunately receiving ERROR 130 on physical NewBrain. Does not get past lead of the program via open #1,1 command before reporting error. I have extracted a number of tokenised files from your emulator discs and all report same behaviour. I have been experimenting with NewBrain emulator found in MAME 0.287 and it has fully working tape support for WAV files for NewBrain for Load and Save. I have uploaded two test zip files which hopefully will help you fix tool.
NEWBRAIN_TEST_1.ZIP has 13 line BASIC program in ASCII (NBAVE.BAS) along with tokensied version (NBAVEEMU.BAS) along with saved WAV file from MAME (NBAVEMAME.WAV) and your tool output (NBAVEEMU.WAV). NBWAVEMAME.WAV loads perfectly on physical NewBrain and MAME emulator but your tool output (NBAVEEMU.WAV) reports ERROR 130.
NEWBRAIN_TEST_2_ZIP has classic NIM.BAS file from Beginners tape. NIM.WAV is a known working WAV file taken directly from the original tape. NIMMAME.WAV is the WAV file output by MAME after loading the original WAV and NIMDESP is the WAV output from your tool. The NIMWAVE.WAV file works perfectly with the physical NewBrain but ERROR 130 with the tool output. .
Hopefully you can compare the WAV files and understand what the issue might be. On initial inspection there are major differences in teh WAV files.
If your NewBrian emulator could support WAV files in the same way as MAME it would make it much easier for users of NewBrain’s to load and exchange programs without extra hardware such as disc controllers etc. I use a disc controller and Gotek along with the Emulator to transfer files from the emulator to phyical NewBrain and physical 5.25″ floppies and vice versa.
Happy to help test again if you have an update and love the work you are doing to keep the NewBrain alive!
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