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Utilities

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. The application doesn't create any temporary audio files.
For more information, refer to the project page: https://github.com/baktragh/CAS2Audio.

Turbo Decoder

This tool extracts 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 analyzes and categorizes directory trees of DOS 2 binary files. Requires JRE or JDK version 8 or newer.
D2BFC detects the following structures of binary files:

  • Corrupt or with bad structure (damaged files)
  • Monolithic (one DATA segment, one RUN segment)
  • Monolithic with INIT segment (monolithic with extra INIT segment)
  • Segmented without INIT segments (complex structure, but not executing code during the loading)
  • Segmented (unrestricted structure)

Download D2BFC

DTX Manager

An interactive tool for manipulating segments of binary load files.
Use DTX Manager when you want to examine or change the internal structure of your binary load files. GitHub repository: https://github.com/baktragh/dtxmanager

Cassette Tools

This repository holds Source code of various cassette loaders, loader skeletons, utilities, and TSFX skeletons.

Use the repository to learn how to program cassette operations for 8-bit Atari computers.