tape2pulses(1)

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version 1.4.6 · 2 versions
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🌸 tape2pulses — the ZX Spectrum tape pulse dumper bestie 💖

okay so welcome to the tape2pulses(1) page, this is the little tool that yanks the pulse info out of yer ZX Spectrum tape images and drops it into a text file. no cap. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tape2pulses infile outfile

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, tape2pulses dumps the pulse information from ZX Spectrum tape images out into text files. that's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? it ate. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — gives u a brief lil usage help moment, listing all the available options 💜
  • -V, --version — spits out the version information ✨

🦋 THE ARGUMENTS (yes they go here too) 🦋

  • infile — specifies the tape file to be converted. this file can be in any of the tape formats supported by libspectrum(3). literally any of them. 👑
  • outfile — specifies the output text file. if u set it to "-" it will write the file to standard output instead 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

None known. not a single one, periodt. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

fuse(1), fuse-utils(1), libspectrum(3), listbasic(1), tapeconv(1), tzxlist(1), snap2tzx(1), tape2pulses(1) tape2wav(1)

also the comp.sys.sinclair Spectrum FAQ, at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/index.html — go read it, it's giving archive core 📚✨

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Fredrick Meunier (fredm@spamcop.net). ty for ur service king 🫶

ok bestie that's the whole page 💕 this version is 1.4.6, dated 25th July, 2026, and it's part of the Emulators family. go dump some pulses, ily, bye 🎀🦋💅

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