Re: Hardware gadget for tape loading

["Chris Young" <unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:07:40 GMT, Robert J. Baker (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
wibbled on for an age:

> For the past several years, Speccy enthusiasts using the emulator
> "Z80" by Gerton Lunter have had the use of a neat little gadget to
> interface the parallel port to a cassette deck for tape loading.  (I
> think this gadget has been adopted by other emus as well -- the gadget
> may also work on other makes of computer, though I haven't heard about
> this.)

The Amiga ZXAM one is essentially the same thing, but connects to a
different port.

> Recently, it has been proposed on the Sinclair and Oric NGs that this
> gadget also be adopted as the tape-loading method for the PC Oric emu,
> Euphoric.
> 
> I hereby propose that it be adopted as the standard for *anyone*
> writing or maintaining an emu for *any* 8-bit machine where transfer
> of old tapes to snapshot (and back) is desired, so I've crossposted
> this to all the relevant NGs I can think of.

I'd argue that using sound sampling hardware - if already available -
is probably better (or, at least, means that people don't need a new
interface if they already have something capable of converting sound
to data)

Chris
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