Taper

• The ultimate solution for your Spectrum tapes,
• The same great Graphical User Interface (GUI) as SGD,
• Compatibility with all PCs with a 386 or up,
• Dual tape screen,
• Easy drag and drop of blocks between tape files,
• View and change header blocks,
• View screen blocks,
• View/edit BASIC blocks in full Spectrum context, with full Spectrum character set and attribute support, including FLASH (and save out),
• View/edit blocks in memory dump format (both hex and ASCII),
• View blocks in full Z80 disassembly (and save out),
• Output tape blocks as real Spectrum tape sounds through a SoundBlaster or Parallel Port Interface to be loaded in a real Spectrum,
• Read real Spectrum tapes through the SoundBlaster,
• Auto-convert between tape file formats,
• Advanced decoding of VOC sample files to tape files. TAPER has an extremely high success rate and can even convert parts of a game!
• Does not require ANY command line option,
• Fully supports tape filetypes TAP, LTP, VOC, ZXS (read-only), TZX (up to v1.13), Z80em 'raw sample files', and Ramsoft's CSW format,
• Supports snapshot filetypes Z80 and SNA (read-only), which are on-the-fly converted to compressed, turbo-loading tapes,
• Can be called from within SGD,
• Internally uses the TZX format,
• It's open source, using the GNU General Public License!

• In order to be able to use this program you will need the following hardware:
  • A 80386 or better processor,
  • A (Super)VGA card with at least 256Kb,
  • A mouse with a fully Microsoft compatible driver,
  • At least 4Mb of memory,
  • An 8-bit SoundBlaster 2.0 compatible soundcard or Parallel Port Interface if you want to replay the tape to an actual Spectrum,
  
  
• And the following software:
  • (MS)DOS 5.0 or better,
  • A copy of the free DOS/4GW runtime.

• Download TAPER v2.07 NOW from FTP or HTTP (including source code, 794,764 bytes)
  
  
• Download a TAPER Icon file, courtesy of Gerardo Oporto Jorrin
  
  
• Download the freeware DOS/4GW runtime (143,699 bytes, needed to run TAPER).