A non-compressed format would be best. Considering the general quality
of cassette tapes you may have some degradation and add to that any
lossy format is asking for disaster.
I would suggest that you read them into the computer first as data NOT
audio. As I recall they are written to the tape as square waves in Intel
Hex Checksum format which can help identify lost bits (Not great but
better than some.) Square waves in an audio can generate distortion.
(One of the early copy protection schemes?)
I can remember lots of loads aborting due to checksum errors and the
standard response was to back up the tape and restart. If you have
problems let me know; I think I have the old source code for the monitor
(BIOS) in a closet somewhere.
Be careful though if you copy the BASIC. The MSA BASIC that was released
for the SOL carries a copyright notice of the MICROSOFT CORPORATION and
Big Bad Bill might come and get you. Seriously, this is some of the
software B.G. wrote about in his open letter to hobbyists.
Good Luck,
Wayne
> Question for those who know Sols, Solos, Cutter, etc.
> I have many old original PT cassette tapes - basic, Gamepak 1 & 2,
> ALS-8,etc.
> Will an MP3 of those tapes work? [for the sake of argument, assume a
> 128k bitrate]?
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Wayne Talbot <awt_at_io.com>
Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 18:06:05 BST