| A Windows port of DATlib and a DAT-to-WAV program |
| A Macintosh program called DATXtract |
| A Linux program called read_dat
by Andrew Taylor. |
| Marty Gulaian
has sent me a new and improved version of my original program. Here
is the source code and the executable.
I have included Marty's program notes in both Zip files. |
| An anonymous programmer contributed this C++ source
code for reading audio DATs and CDROMS. He tells me that my VB code
and the CDEX program were his
inspiration. |
| Eduard Ungemach of Germany has released a
Win32 program called VDAT. |
| A commercial Macintosh product called DAT Studio from a company in England.
(It looks like this product is no longer available.) |
| Andrew Longhorn of Australia is working on a Mac program called DAT
Audio. |
| A DOS program by Computall Services of Canada called DAT2WAV
that reads audio from a tape and dumps it to a WAV file. |
| Some routines written in C for Solaris, called DATlib.
(The link seems to be broken.) Here is another source: http://www.hoxnet.com/dat-tools/datlib/.
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| SGI DAT Goodies |
| WavDump.zip (9KB) from Computall
Services lets you look at the header of a Wave file. |
| A very nice guide ASPI
programming in Win32 covering C++, Assember and Visual Basic. |
| Chapter
9 of the SGI Digital Audio and MIDI Programming manual. (The link seems to be broken.)
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| The SGI IRIX 6.5 man page describing their DAT
Audio Library. (The link seems to be broken.)
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| The SGI IRIX 6.5 man page describing a DAT
audio frame. (The link seems to be broken.)
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| The main SGI IRIX
6.5 man page. (The link seems to be broken.)
All of the DAT information is listed under the Subroutines
(3) section. |
| A copy of the final draft specification for SCSI-2
in PDF format from T10. Chapters 7,8
& 10 are the most useful for programming purposes. |
| Adaptec's ASPI
SDK, FAQs and Technical Reference. (The link seems to be broken.)
See the VisualBasic Source Code page for a local copy of the ASPI SDK.)
|
| Ade Rixon has a good information page called: Using
Audio DATs in DDS drives (The link seems to be broken.)
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| Computall Services has a very nice DAT
FAQ. |
| A nice overview
of how audio DATs work from The Cassette House. |
| A patent by Archive Corporation.
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| The document that defines the standard for audio DAT is The DAT
Conference Standard. |
| The Audio File
Format FAQ (describes WAV files, among others). |