Re: UD3 ROM on a 3032

From: Marko Mäkelä <msmakela_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 08:17:46 +0200
Message-ID: <20170206061746.6awytabiypzvzdsy@hp>
On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 11:03:42PM +0100, Francesco Messineo wrote:
>Now the 3032 is stable for a few hours, it just crashed once while 
>playing with tape load/save, I don't know if a bad tape can solid crash 
>a PET anyway, it was in the searching phase.

At least the Vic-20 and C64 can be crashed by a bad tape. I would expect 
the routines to be based on the PET ones, because during SAVE you can 
observe a similar amount of jitter in the signal. The tape routines on 
the 264 series (C16 and plus/4) are substantially different, and so is 
the tape format and even the connector.

>I need to get a disk drive or a ieee-sd kind of drive, I had forgotten 
>how slow were tapes :/

My C2N232 might be one more option, if you can find one second-hand.  
However, it relies on RS-232, which nowadays is mostly available via an 
unreliable USB converter. The c2nload utility would load a minimum-size 
loader (192 bytes tape header + 2 bytes payload to jump into the tape 
header) and then use that to load the actual payload at 38,400bps.

	Marko

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