🚀 go-pugleaf

Bloody heck, my newsreader won't let me kill this article!

Oh well.  I realized immediately after sending that no work is required at 
all -- who cares if you can decode the data stream on a PC.  

What's important is that you can capture cassette output to a .WAV file 
(or whatever) via the microphone in jack on a PC sound card, then play it 
back any time you like, even trade the sound files with other owners.

That said, does anyone have Sinclair ZX-81/TS-1000 games they'd like to 
capture and send me or upload to an archive? :)

  -Dorian

In article <4etnnl$4fj@news.microsoft.com>, doriang@microsoft.com says...
>
>{Forgive me if this has already been addressed in a FAQ somewhere...}
>
>So we've got dozens of old relics that have nothing to save/load data 
>to/from but a cassette tape recorder.
>
>Now, note that a PC clone with a cheap sound card can generate and 
capture 
>audio signals.
>
>Proposal: Is it possible to write an app that could capture programs & 
>data from an old computer's cassette interface via a sound card?  If so, 
>could it be architected to accomodate all popular data formats and so 
that 
>people could add new formats as they're discovered?
>
>The benefits are obvious: greater reliabilty, limitless, random access, 
>and greater ease in trading/distributing/archiving legacy code for old 
>hobbyist platforms.  Also, those old cassette tapes are losing their bits 
>with every passing year!
>
>Would anyone want to take this on with me?
>
>  -Dorian
>

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