If you ever owned a Tandy Color Computer and have a lot of old disks sitting around, this suite of utilities will help you transfer them over to your Linux box.
The software contains the source, makefiles and docs. Also included are programs to convert Telewriter64 binary text files and Color Computer BASIC Program binary files to ASCII. Included in the package is a bunch of messages the author of the disk drivers (Alain Knaff) and I exchanged...well worth reading for the insights into floppy disk paramater setting under Linux.
Word 2x converts Word documents to text without needing any furhter Microsoft software by converting Word to a central format and then having output modules write the target format.
Pcx2ppm converts PCX files to PPM format. It supports many more files than pbmplus/netpbm's `pcxtoppm'; in particular, it supports 24-bit PCXs. It's based on the PCX reader used in zgv 3.3.
cwtext is a program that will accept ASCII text as input and generate International Morse Code as output. The output formats can be:
- . -..- - (text) on the console
Raw audio on /dev/audio (8bit PCM data)
.wav files (future)
.ogg or (proprietary format) compressed audio (future)