[Coco] Old cassette tapes

[Ciaran Anscomb]

richec wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:26:39 -0300
> Luis Oliveira <lfl.tr at soeiro.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking at how to record old Coco cassette tapes in order have
> > them permanently digitized as a wav file, which can be "loaded" by an
> > emulator.
> > 
> > The problem is that the material is too old and the sound is not
> > good. What can be done to improve it? Has someone done something like
> > it?
>
> Hi Luis, have you considered using Audacity? It's free and available on
> both Linux and Windows. Don't know about MAC, but newer MAC can run
> Windows, as I understand it.

Audacity is certainly the go-to tool for capture.

If you still have problems and really want to learn about the Dragon/CoCo
tape format, Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt (or just robcfg) wrote
a tool for low-level editing of bad captures:

http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5404

I seem to remember it not working too well under Wine, but if you have
a Windows box, it might prove useful.

..ciaran