[Coco] Loading via cassette interface

[Bill Loguidice]

For those interested, there's this Android app, tapDancer, that supports a
wide range of systems. I'm not sure if Tapdancer support is possible for
the CoCo, but it would be pretty cool to figure a way to do it. There are
of course platform-specific apps like this as well, like Speecy Tape on iOS
for the ZX Spectrum.

As was stated, some of the platforms with non-standard cassette interfaces,
like the C-64, have little hardware dongles that take care of the interface
issue.

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mark D. Overholser <
apple2 at markoverholser.com> wrote:

> On 6/26/2015 09:34, Chris Osborn wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  It's really quite brilliant, though unfortunate this technique is
>>> thus far only possible on a handful of computer platforms.
>>>
>>
>> It would be possible to load programs from the web on the TRS-80 line
>> too, except for the need for a special cable. There’s also some
>> special apps for doing similar things on the ZX Spectrum.
>>
>>
> Any 8 Bit era computer that supported Cassette Tape Storage through an
> Audio Port can be connected to a modern computer's Sound Port and have
> Programs and Data Loaded and Saved.
>
> On a Web Page, it there was an MP3 Player
>
>> I find it really interesting trying to bootstrap computers from bare
>> metal and format a blank floppy and make it bootable. I keep thinking
>> I should do a challenge to see if people can document a procedure for
>> doing it on other platforms.
>>
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