[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Way to fix dead tapes?

[Tad Burnett]

I have had some success by copying tapes through a HiFi system where you 
can adjust the bass and trebal and turn off the AGC...I also have copied 
to a 7 inch real to real...by coping at 7 inch per second and playback 
adjust at 3 1/2 then back to 7 or something like that...It can take a 
few trys and don't overwrite your origional..you may need to start over 
again...I was able to dig the data out of a tape that had been recorded 
with a bad ground and all you could hear was the 60 cycle...I did borow 
an asiliscope for that one though...but it can be done...
 
Tad

Neil Morrison wrote:

>One of these days I must write an article on tapes and the loading
>thereof. Forget demagnetizers, cleanliness is the most important
>factor.
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>Another thing is to find the azimuth screw adjustment on the
>recorder, and set it for each tape to the highest sounding pitch.
>Also, you need to fiddle with the volume level to get the tapes to
>load. The Coco system was pretty reliable, but tapes were always an
>SOB to load, esp. commercially produced tapes.
>
>Neil
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "James Diffendaffer" <jdiffendaffer at yahoo.com>
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>>I have some old COCO games on casette that won't load anymore and I
>>was wondering if there was any way I could fix them.
>>The games are Lancer and Robottack.
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