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- From: Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
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- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 00:36:35 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
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- Phil Hoff (phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote:
-
- : I remember reading in an old Pirate's Handbook that duplicating
- : Commodore tapes by Audio means was very unreliable. To get a reliable
- : copy, you had to load the program and save it back out, and that only
- : worked for unprotected software. I can't help but wonder if an audio
- : readout from tape to a sound card would not suffer from the same
- : problem.
-
- Well, I dunno about using a sound card, but one of the Cosiners has made up
- a transfer system that can read C64 tape signals (saved with his own tape
- loader) and transfer them to an Amiga via a sampler. But he has also
- managed to make the Amiga emulate the same tape signal so that he can
- write (different) files back to tape by recording the Amiga's sound output
- and loading it back in at the C64 end!
-
- Can't see why it won't work with a sound card!
- (Slight PS, it is possible to copy tapes with audio decks, but its best to
- use mono decks (like the ones people used to use with Spectrums). If
- possible its better to get two datasette's and a doubler!)
-
- Jason =-)
-