BAS files

[abruno17]

I was wondering if anyone has ever successfully used a trs 80 emulator to convert a .bas file into a .cas file. If anyone has please could you explain how you did it step by step. That would be really helpfull!

 

[steaminghacker]

Hi,

you could use gp2000's trld program.

http://48k.ca/trld.html

 

[abruno17]

Tried that. It cant really do Bas to Cas conversion.

 

[Patrick.B (TTR)]

well according this his web site it seems it can:

"While BASIC programs can be loaded, their output is in the form of an executable which will work on
a cassette-based TRS-80 Model 3 as a load address is hard-coded. This is odd and unlikely to be useful to many.
This can be suprising as you might expect:

trld file.bas file.cas

To output a cassette image file that you load with "CLOAD" but instead get something that loads with "SYSTEM".
Converting BASIC programs between different formats is pretty easy but might best be a job for a different utility program

 

[steaminghacker]

I've successfully used trld for this, at least on some programs.

 

[Jenz]

This manual way should also work in TRS-80 emulators:

1. Insert virtual disk with DOS into drive 0
2. Insert virtual disk with the BASIC program into drive 1
3. Create a virtual cassette image (in SDL(2)TRS: "Create Blank Cassette Image with Above Parameters")
4. Boot into DOS
5. Load the BASIC program:

   BASIC LOAD "PROG/BAS"

6. In BASIC type:

   CSAVE "PROG"

   to create the .CAS image file