Why did I build this?

The other day, when I was surfing the net, I found the new version (3.1) of
Atari800Win Plus. This emulator can read cas files. But the problem is that
writing to this file is not implemented yet. In the help file there is a note
what a cas file is and of course a link to the wav2cas page. When I saw the
wav2cas program I did not believe that it would work. So I got my old Atari
and I connected my XC12 and tried it.
First, I wrote a simple program in Basic :) and ... It Works !!!

So, next I decided to convert some old application on my very old cassette to
cas file. A few errors, but I sampled my program three times, and I compared
the hex file, next I corrected it. (I wrote my own simple application to
change a hex file to cas). It Works too !!!

I decided to test cas2wav. I thought, on the net are more old games for Atari,
so why can't I use it to test on my real Atari? Now this is the problem.
All games or almost all games are in DOS format, and additionally the emulator
can't write them to cas files. Another problem is that for all DOS files we
must add some cassette boot loader (you know !-file).
Hmm... I found that amongst my old cassettes some game had it. I sampled
this and changed it to cas. On the emulator I converted it to a clear file.

At the end of my crazy work I wrote a program in C++ which converts xex files
to cas and adds a boot loader.

How it works?

Let us assume I have a file "seawolf2.xex". :)

I write:
xex2cas seawolf2.xex seawolf2.cas

And now in my directory I have seawolf as a cas file. Next of course use
cas2wav and write the file to tape.

Finally, Start + Option and I have my new (old) game on my Atari.

I know that is crazy but I love Atari :)

I think my program is a nice supplement to the cassette utilities.

For all questions my e-mail is always ready,

Regards, Gienek.
plug@poczta.fm