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TURGEN is accompanied by several small utilities that will improve your experience when transferring games to your Atari computer, creating tapes or tape images, copying files, or programming your own tape loaders.

XEX2CAS

XEX2CAS is a command-line utility that converts DOS 2 binary files and other files to tape images.

  • Designed for modern operating systems (Windows, GNU/Linux, and more)
  • You can choose from 6 binary loaders
  • You can elongate inter-record-gaps (IRGs) after records that hold INIT segments
  • You can use a shorter leader (14 s instead of 20 s) or set an arbitrary transfer speed
  • You can process plain files (data, BASIC programs, boot files)
  • You can convert tokenized Atari BASIC files to a form bootable from tape
  • You can append data to existing tape images

Download XEX2CAS

CAS2Audio

CAS2Audio allows you to play back Atari 8-bit tape images (.cas) files on small portable devices (phones, tablets) running Android.
The application is small, simple, and supports all tape image chunks. Prepare your tape images with TURGEN, download them to your portable device, and play them back. Compared to MP3s, you will save a lot of space.
For more information, refer to the project page: https://github.com/baktragh/CAS2Audio.

Turbo Decoder

This tool retrieves data from digitized tapes. Turbo Decoder decodes files stored in various turbo systems from WAVE files.
Turbo decoder used to be a component of TURGEN. In 2020, it became an independent project.
Project page: https://github.com/baktragh/turbodecoder.

DOS 2 Binary File Checker (D2BFC)

This application allows you to analyze and categorize directory trees of DOS 2 binary files. Requires JRE or JDK version 8 or newer.
D2BFC detects the following flavors of binary files:

  • Corrupt or with bad structure
  • Monolithic
  • Monolithic with INIT segment
  • Segmented without INIT segments
  • Segmented
  • Files of given flavors can be copied to separate directories.

Download D2BFC

DTX Manager

Interactive tool for manipulating segments of binary load files.
DTX Manager is useful when you need to re-structure or refine your binary load file. For advanced users only.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/baktragh/dtxmanager

Cassette Tools

Source code of various cassette loaders, loader skeletons, utilities, and TSFX skeletons.
The sources can be assembled with popular cross-assemblers, mostly with ATASM or MADS.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/baktragh/a8_tape_loaders_and_utils