On 2/13/2012 5:52 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, MikeS<dm561@torfree.net> wrote: >> Apologies if this is a little OT for this group: >> >> A couple of people have asked me about a disk archive of the Cursor magazine >> tapes; I have all the tapes and I also have a set of 6 .D64 files from >> somewhere containing most of them, but unfortunately many if not most of the >> programs in the images appear to be corrupted. >> >> So, >> >> Does anyone know if there is another archive of these magazines-on-tape >> anywhere that might be OK? > I got a set from the Benelux PET software archive - several Cursor > tapes per disk image. When I loaded them a week or two ago, they were > all intact. Don't know if that's your source as well. > > http://vintagecomputer.net/commodore/64/baltissen/Pbe.zip > >> Failing that, is there a program out there somewhere that will batch-copy an >> entire cassette (as data files, not audio, assuming they're still readable) >> to a CBM disk or PC file(s) without having to copy one program at a time? > I would like to know about such a program. I manually snarfed my old > tapes years ago via a PC parallel-port C2N interface and DOS software, > but I would like to check over the tapes one more time to ensure I got > everything. I wish I'd spent a few bytes back in the day to at least > put my name and date on some stuff - I didn't start doing that until > 1981 or 1982. :-( > > -ethan > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Arndt M. has been working on ZoomTape, which will work with ZoomFloppy to copy tapes, but I am not sure of the userland util options. Jim -- Jim Brain brain@jbrain.com www.jbrain.com Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-02-14 01:00:05
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