The following MIGHT be a good place to start:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Ridge/9965/
ZXTAPE 3.0 Its directed towards the zx81, but it could
be applicable to your application. Dunno. I've a feeling every
computers tape format is different, though.
David
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 03:25, Hills, Paul wrote:
> I have quite a bit of software on cassette tapes for 1980s home computers.
> Does anyone know of a simple method (without having to design and build
> myself a dual-tone decoder circuit + write suitable PC software) of getting
> this information onto a PC? I guess the home computer emulator pages on the
> web must have done this.
>
> Maybe I could record it as a WAV file then write a program to decode the
> WAV? Or would MP3 encoding be capable of compressing and reliable expanding
> the audio data (MP3 is of course designed to compress music which these
> squeaks and whistles clearly are not, even if they lie within the audio
> spectrum!).
>
> paul
Received on Fri May 16 2003 - 20:37:01 BST