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BASIC to TAP

Version:

2.5

Release date:

Saturday, 12 February, 2011

Home:

http://live.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek/utils

License:

Interface:

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Mentore Siesto

This is the OS/2 port of BAS2TAP, a C program designed to convert a ZX Spectrum BASIC listing into a .TAP file suitable for being loaded into an emulator (or even in a real ZX Spectrum).

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

BASIC to TAP v. 2.5 (12/2/2011, Mentore Siesto)	Readme/What's new	2.5 06-06-10: Changes: - Functions would take "the rest of the expression" as argument rather than just the next value. - Stronger enforcement of separator tokens (;,') in a PRINT statement. - The use of 'TO' in string arrays was not accepted. SYNTAX ------ BAS2TAP [-q] [-w] [-e] [-c] [-aX] [-sX] FileIn [FileOut] -q goes into quiet mode, suppressing banner and progress indication. -w suppress generation of warnings. -e write errors to the stdout in stead of the stderr stream. -c makes token matching case independant. The drawback is that variables that have the same name as a token (eg. 'print') cannot be used, as they will be treated as (unexpected) tokens. -n disables syntax checking. -aX sets the auto-start line to line X. -sX sets the TAP block name to X (max 10 characters). If no output filename is provided, the same name as the input file will be used, but with extension `.TAP'.
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/emulator/bas2tap-25.zip