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Phil Hoff (phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote:

: I remember reading in an old Pirate's Handbook that duplicating 
: Commodore tapes by Audio means was very unreliable. To get a reliable
: copy, you had to load the program and save it back out, and that only
: worked for unprotected software. I can't help but wonder if an audio
: readout from tape to a sound card would not suffer from the same
: problem.

Well, I dunno about using a sound card, but one of the Cosiners has made up
a transfer system that can read C64 tape signals (saved with his own tape
loader) and transfer them to an Amiga via a sampler.  But he has also
managed to make the Amiga emulate the same tape signal so that he can
write (different) files back to tape by recording the Amiga's sound output
and loading it back in at the C64 end!

Can't see why it won't work with a sound card!
(Slight PS, it is possible to copy tapes with audio decks, but its best to
use mono decks (like the ones people used to use with Spectrums).  If
possible its better to get two datasette's and a doubler!)

Jason  =-)