PlayUEF
PlayUEF is a javascript player for UEF (Acorn Electron and BBC Micro) and TZX/CDT (ZX Spectrum/Amstrad CPC/others) format cassette games. Conversion to 44.1KHz WAV is done in the web browser.
Just connect your computer’s cassette port to the headphone socket on a laptop or smartphone and you’re ready to load games!
You can try a demo version of it at http://pelrun.github.io/PlayUEF/PlayUEF.html
Running locally
Set up a local web server as below and navigate to http://localhost:8000/PlayUEF.html in your web browser
$ cd PlayUEF
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
For testing purposes http://localhost:8000/test.html fetches links to the STH UEF archive.
Local conversion & WAV download
Press play on the media player in the web page to play the cassette audio from the browser.
Clicking the cassette player causes PlayUEF to download the converted audio as a WAV.
Adding the LOCAL=true parameter to the URL causes PlayUEF to request user to select a file to convert on their local machine.
Browser compatibility
Tested on Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge browser
Known issues on some versions of IE and Android browsers (e.g. UC browser), to be fixed…
Thanks
Thanks to Thomas Harte for the UEF spec and Wouter Hobers for uef2wave.py, BigEd, Commie_User, DavidB, Vanekp of the stardot forum for suggestions and Matt Godbolt for the awesome JSbeeb. Not forgetting Arcadian and the archive of over 1000 games at the STH archive which make this project come to life.