On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Ingo Korb <ml@akana.de> wrote: > Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> writes: >> 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. > > Assuming that you have .tap files you can use tapclean... I have a box of 30-year-old cassette tapes. The method I used 15 years ago was to plug a real C2N into a custom cable and read directly to binary on a DOS machine. If the tape and tape drive were aligned well, it worked and I got a file. If not, well... I got read errors, just like the old days. I think I was able to read 60%-80% of the files. I'm looking for a way to dig out the rest. If I have to start by creating WAV files of all my tapes then convert WAV to TAP, I can do that, if that's the best path to take. I'd like to preserve as much as possible since according to the tape labels, I worked on some of this software in 1979 - it represents some my early programming efforts. Nothing earthshattering and probably very little worthy of publishing, but it's still a piece of my personal history I'd like to recover. In the intervening years, though, all the drive belts on my C2N drives (I have at least 3) have aged and stretched. I need to find a source of a replacement (including a length, which I can only estimate now). -ethan Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-02-14 19:00:39
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