[Coco] Xroar and tape emulation

[Allen Huffman]

On Apr 2, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk> wrote:
> Hmm, yes, XRoar's approach isn't very good for that case (though it's
> alright for the "load a program off one tape, same data out to another"
> case).
> 
> I'll stick it on the list to consider a better interface for this sort
> of thing.

At the very least, a way to flush the tape to disk without having to exit the program or load another tape file... Maybe there is a way?

I have not used Xroar enough to know how the cassette emulation works yet, but in real life, we had to swap out cassette tapes if we wanted to write to a different one, and make a note of the counter if we were going to fast forward to a program to load it quicker. 

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