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Enhancements

• Tape Self-Extractors: Support for KSO Turbo 2000. Note that you must set the newly introduced Hardware type configuration entry for the plugin, to ensure the created TSFXs work with you data recorder. For more details, refer to the product documentation, section Creating Tape Self-Extractors.

Fixes

• Turbo D: Refined transfer speed and pulse duration calculations.
• Turbo D: Maximum speed capped to 9000 bd also for the Wizard for files.

This is a hotfix release.
Release 9.2.14 introduced a regression: The tape self-extractors generated oversaturated output, resulting in unusable recordings. Release 9.2.15 is fixing the regression. All users of 9.2.14 are advised to update to 9.2.15.

Fixes
* Tape Self-Extractors: The POKEY-based beeps resulted in oversaturation of the recordings.

Enhancements

• Tape Self-Extractors: Turbo Blizzard is now supported
• Turbo D: The transfer speed setting closely matches behavior of the Turbo DNM utility
• Turbo D: Maximum transfer speed capped to 9000 bd
• Wave and Audio output: Display time in HH:MM:SS format instead of just MM:SS when the time exceeds one hour

Fixes

• Turbo Blizzard: Fixed a bug when saving project items, the silence list was not saved
• Packaging: The test16k_monolithic.xex sample file was not included in the distribution packages

This is a small update with assorted minor enhancements

• Turbo D: You can choose tape mode (N:) or (D:)
• Turbo D: The transfer speed setting uses average speed (assuming 50% zeros), instead of maximum speed (assuming 100 % zeros)
• Standard: Refined GUI, streamlined color choosers
• Rambit Turbo Tape: Refined GUI, streamlined color choosers
• Documentation: Ability to specify special file names using $HEX$ notation documented for plugins that support it (Turbo 2000, Super Turbo, Standard, Lower Silesian Turbo 2000).

Slovak Turbo D

• A new plugin was added to support the Slovak Turbo D system.

Tape Self-Extractors

• Composite self-extractors can optionally play an alarm sound when finished

This release is a mixed bag of changes, mostly improvements for the Czech, Czechoslovak and derived turbo systems.

Tape Self-extractors

• The duration of the gaps between files is adjustable (1-5 seconds)

Turbo 2000, Super Turbo, B-TAPE, Turbo 2000 - Kilobyte blocks, Omicron Turbo

• The user interface of the plugins was simplified
• Unnecessary configuration entries have been removed
• The binary loaders for BlockLoading and ChainLoading were updated. The loaders use a modest color scheme.
• The binary loaders for B-TAPE and Turbo 2000 - Kilobyte blocks were fixed so they work also with pre-XL/XE computers. The binary loaders for B-TAPE use a modest color scheme.
• The ExpressLoading conversion creates blocks up to 42 KB. This makes the conversion more suitable for use with Tape Self-extractors. ... read more

Overview

TURGEN 9.2.10 brings fixes to critical bugs in the Tape Self-Extractors (SFX). All users are encouraged to update to this release as soon as possible.
The 9.2.8 and 9.2.9, given the critical bugs in them, have been completely removed and cannot be downloaded.

Critical Bug Fixes

• Failing Tape Self-Extractors. The block termination pulse recorded by the Self-Extractors was too narow. This caused random load or checksum errors when reading the data recorded by the Self-Extractors.... read more

The Turbo Self-extractors now support also the Lower Silesian Turbo 2000 and Hard Turbo.

Turbo Self-Extractors allow you to record Turbo files on tapes, when the only tape recorder you have on hand is the data recorder.

The Turbo Self-Extractors are binary load files that work as follows:
1. Load the self-extractor from a universal cartridge, disk drive, or disk drive replacement device
2. Connect a data recorder with a compatible turbo upgrade to your Atari computer
3. Insert a blank tape in the data recorder, press PLAY+RECORD.
4. Press START to record the program held within the self-extractor to the tape.... read more

Some of the accompanying utilities have changed their home pages.
Refer to the Utilities page to get the new links.

Create Turbo 2000 Self-Extractors

This new tool creates Turbo 2000 Self-Extractors from project items.
Turbo 2000 Self-Extractors allow you to record Turbo 2000 files on tapes, when the only tape recorder you have on hand is the data recorder.

The Turbo 2000 Self-Extractors are binary load files that work as follows:

1. Load the self-extractor from a universal cartridge, disk drive, or disk drive replacement device
2. Connect a data recorder with the Czechoslovak Turbo 2000 or compatible upgrade to your Atari computer
3. Insert a blank tape in the data recorder, press PLAY+RECORD.
4. Press START to record the program held within the self-extractor to the tape.... read more

Create Dual Track Tool Enhancements

• Switch to FFMPEG. Instead of the SOX external tool, the Create Dual Track tool now depends on the FFMPEG external tool. FFMPEG is more mainstream and supports the still popular MP3 format out-of-the-box.

• The user interface of the tool was enhanced, so that now you can locate the FFMPEG and ASAPCONV external tools using a file chooser. Depending on the PATH variable is still the default option.... read more

Enhancements

• KSO Turbo 2000. You can choose between two types of the Speedy2700 loader - "Streamlined" and "With title screen". The "With title screen" option emulates behavior of the original Speedy2700 loader. Silence can be optionally generated after the Speedy2700 loader.

• The Create Tape Sides tool was enhanced to generate tape images.

Bug Fixes

• GENCAS CLI: Using the -a option to append to an existing tape image didn't work. No chunks were added to the existing tape image. This was bug was caused by the refactoring in 9.2.4.

This is a smaller bugfix release. Mostly cleaning the mess that was created by the previous refactoring.

Bug Fixes

• Execution of the PAUSE instruction resulted in premature termination of the signal generator. High severity bug introduced by the refactoring.
• The B-TAPE plugin incorrectly offered transfer speed of 2270 bd that is not supported by the original B-TAPE and Turbo Tape software.... read more

Infrastructure

The instructions used by the SignalGenerator and TapeImagePWMGenerator classes have been changed from being simple integers to be full objects. This change has minimum impact on end-to-end experience, yet simplifies the inside of the product.

Enhancements

• The Tape Image Extractor displays chunk type in the data listing

• The Audio and Wave output configuration has been simplified. The "Number of channels" and "Signal in the right channel only" options have been merged to just one named "Channel setup". The channel setup can be either "Mono" or "Stereo". In the "Stereo" setup, the data track is present in the right channel.... read more

The satellite application for Android was updated to version 1.0.3

• A new option to invert polarity of the pulses was introduced
• List of 12 most recent tape images allows easier re-selection
• UI has been slightly refined

Refer to: https://github.com/baktragh/CAS2Audio/releases/tag/1.0.3

This is a small bugfix release, fixing bugs in the Turbo 2600 support.

Bugfixes

When a Turbo 2600 file was converted using the Wizard/CLI/Batch Processing, the program title was not automatically generated.

When a Turbo 2600 file was converted using the Wizard, the number of the offered transfer speeds was excessive (the step was 1 bd instead of 20 bd).

Turbo 2600 files couldn't have been converted with transfer speed higher than 700 bd.... read more

Enhancements

• The Standard Plus plugin has been enhanced to support the Polish Turbo 2600 system. Turbo 2600 provides a sophisticated file format and transfer speeds up to 2600 bps. For transfer speeds above 1200 bps, a special interface is needed. For more information on Turbo 2600, refer to: http://atariki.krap.pl/index.php/Turbo_2600

Enhancements

The Standard Plus plugin has been enhanced to support the Tennis (Turbo SOFTWARE) loading system from Chile. This loading system allows playing a PONG game during the loading.
The Tape Image Extractor has been enhanced to display data of multiple selected tape image chunks.
The Tape Image Extractor displays the AUX value of the fsk tape image chunks.
The GENCAS CLI Interface has been enhanced to support output of the signal to the sound card. Use the -o:audio option.... read more

The 9.2.0 has been repackaged. The changes in the packaging allow easier navigation to the JRE or JDK.

• The turgen.exe and gencas.exe launchers navigate to the project web's Download page when no JRE or JDK is present
• The product documentation navigates to the project web's Download page for convenient JRE or JDK downloads
• The Download page has been updated to include links for convenient JRE downloads
• The full pack installers include a new launcher for the GENCAS CLI and do not contain duplicates of the launchers.

This is a maintenance release of the xex2cas command line tool.

• The STDBLOAD 2A binary loader was replaced with the more recent TSCBL
• The messages displayed by the tool were refined
• The default IRG duration after blocks that hold INIT segments is 2.4 seconds
• The shortened leader tone (the -s option) duration is 14 seconds instead of 12
• The tool is now built using the CMAKE tool

Microsoft Windows binaries (Windows 7 and newer).
https://sourceforge.net/projects/turgen/files/xex2cas/... read more

System Requirements Changes

TURGEN now requires JRE or JDK version 9. Please review the product documentation, section “Installation”.

Manage Plugins

This new function is available in the 'Tools' menu. You can reorder and disable or enable plugins using a convenient GUI. The changes take effect after TURGEN is restarted.

GENCAS CLI

A new option -a is introduced. This option allows appending to an existing output file. The -a option can be used only when the output is a tape image. Incompatible change in the syntax: The -mode:turbo option is replaced with a more accurate -mode:full option.
For more details, refer to the product documentation.... read more

The 9.1.6 is a hotfix release. The following bug has been fixed:
The Turbo 2000 and Super Turbo project items were saved to the project file with nonsensical transfer speed of 600 bps.

Infrastructure Changes

From 'pulses' to 'transfer speed'
The selection of the transfer speed has changed for all plugins.
From now on, the responsibility for providing a user interface for selecting transfer speed is delegated to the plugins. The terminology has changed, too; from now on, the 'transfer speed' is used instead of 'pulses' where applicable. It is now the responsibility of the plugins to interpret the meaning of the transfer speed.... read more

Primary Enhancement

The new Standard Plus plugin converts binary files to special systems that are built on the top of the standard tape records (FSK), usable with unmodified data recorders. The supported systems typically offer longer, non-standard block sizes, the ability to re-read a failed block, increased transfer speeds and loading progress indication.

The first loading system included in the Standard Plus plugin is NHP 3.6 (Rainbow).
A system from Chile that offers: 1. Increased transfer speed, 2. Increased block size (257 bytes), 3. Ability to re-read a failed block, 4. Loading progress indication by a block countdown. The 'NHP' stands for 'No Hay Problema' ('No worries'). The system supports binary files with INIT segments, but there are certain limitations—e.g., the loader's screen is renewed after each INIT segment, and the loader uses the 'RAM under ROM'.... read more