[Coco] easy tape file transfer from PC to CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 16 November 2008, Roger Taylor wrote:
>Using just a cassette cable and the M.E.S.S. emulator (probably VCC
>and Keil as well), I just confirmed a super easy way to get tape
>files from the PC to your real CoCo.  Heck, most of you probably
>already tried it already, so ignore this message if it's ancient news to
> you.
>
>Plug the CoCo cassette cable into the CoCo, connect the black audio
>plug to your PC's *Speaker* Out jack.  Turn the PC volume up maybe
>90%, fiddle with the sound equilizer if you need to, type AUDIO ON
>from the CoCo emulator, type CLOAD or CLOADM first on the real CoCo,
>THEN on the emulator.
>
>Bam!- the tape program will load into the real CoCo and emulator
>simultaneously.  From the real CoCo you can now save the file to real
>media, be it disk or tape.  There are disk-to-tape tools you can use
>to do further work with the files but at least you got them to your real
> CoCo.

Now that is neat, too bad I don't have the emulator.  I *think* I could find a 
cassette cable if I dug deep enough.
 
-- 
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