[Coco] Cassete reading

[camillus Blockx]

Make use of a good tape player, and use line out to your computer sound
card input. Then use audity ( free ) to make sound file. These files you
can use on one of the emulators.

cba


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker <
ranaur at ranaur.net> wrote:

> Hi Folks!
>
> Anyone here have experience to ressucitate old tapes?
>
> I have around 100 cassete tapes with CoCo programs that I would like to
> "digitalize".
> Well, many programs I probably can find in the net, but there are some
> programs I made by myself, or maybe I can unbury something lost long ago
> ...
>
> What are the best programs to use? I have an Windows XP and MacOSX or
> anything virtualboxed.
>
> The "hardware" I have is an old MSX datacorder and an USB tape player
> (Jansen).
>
> The tapes are very, very old. And maybe are damaged by the time.
>
> Should I do some treatment with them before reading? Maybe rewind/FF a
> couple of times before using them?
>
> Any digital archeology tips?
>
> I'll put my progress in a spreadsheet, for those who want to follow the
> adventure ...
>
> https://public.sheet.zoho.com/public/ranaur/trs-80-ranaur-s-cassetes
>
> Wish me luck!
>
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