Blarg_King
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- Nov 21, 2012
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So I just got my TRS-80 CoCo Model 1 in the mail today. I believe its a 16K version since it doesn't have the black trim around the keyboard.
I made my own audio cable from a 5 pin DIN plug and a mono audio cable. After determining the correct wires using a continuity tester, I wired it all together.
Now here comes the fun part.
I downloaded about 20 .cas files from the TRS-80 CoCo software repository site, and also downloaded PlayCAS. Every single file I load into PlayCAS gives me a "no header/corrupted file" error. I somehow don't believe all 20 files managed to get corrupted somehow. So I downloaded CAS2WAV and used that to convert some files to WAV. It gave me a success report each time. So I connected my DIY audio cable from the audio out port on my laptop to the CASS port on my TRS. I turned audio on on the TRS and typed in CLOAD and began playing the .wav file. The cable appears to work as I can hear the sound coming out of the TV the TRS is plugged into, but no matter what file I play and no matter what the volume, the TRS just sits there with the little "S" in the top left corner.
I have no idea what to do, I'll be kind of disappointed if I can't load programs this way since cartridges and cassettes are so hard to come by.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
I made my own audio cable from a 5 pin DIN plug and a mono audio cable. After determining the correct wires using a continuity tester, I wired it all together.
Now here comes the fun part.
I downloaded about 20 .cas files from the TRS-80 CoCo software repository site, and also downloaded PlayCAS. Every single file I load into PlayCAS gives me a "no header/corrupted file" error. I somehow don't believe all 20 files managed to get corrupted somehow. So I downloaded CAS2WAV and used that to convert some files to WAV. It gave me a success report each time. So I connected my DIY audio cable from the audio out port on my laptop to the CASS port on my TRS. I turned audio on on the TRS and typed in CLOAD and began playing the .wav file. The cable appears to work as I can hear the sound coming out of the TV the TRS is plugged into, but no matter what file I play and no matter what the volume, the TRS just sits there with the little "S" in the top left corner.
I have no idea what to do, I'll be kind of disappointed if I can't load programs this way since cartridges and cassettes are so hard to come by.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.