Re: Apple II cassettes by Brutal Deluxe Software

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 7 jan, 14:15, "Jayson Smith"
<ihatespamratguynospample...@insightbb.spamsucks.com> wrote:
> I would tend to stay away from Dolby or any other noise reduction
> methodologies where computer data are concerned. Computers are so much more
> sensitive than humans when it comes to reading data from an audio source. It
> might be that the tapes have deteriorated enough that properly reading the
> data is impossible. This could be especially true if, while listening to the
> audio going into your computer from the tape deck, you hear audio dropouts.
> If this is the case, there could well be no way of recovering the data,
> short of finding another copy of the same cassette in better shape. One
> suggestion, if you have the type of Apple system the software requires, have
> you tried hooking a cassette recorder up to the Apple directly and doing a
> read the old fashioned way? If the Apple itself can read the data and the
> software works fine, but CiderPress can't recognize the wav files, that
> would seem to indicate that something's wrong either with your tape deck or
> something in your computer setup.
>      I don't know if you plan to do this, but I think it would be
> interesting to have the actual audio files of the cassette tapes. That way,
> someone could, at least in theory, hook their computer up to a real Apple
> and load the programs in the old fashioned way.
> Jayson
>

Thank you Michael and Jayson for your comments. I have a //e with an
external cassette player which I will use one day but I think the
cassette is probably misaligned or the data corrupt as I hear audio
dropouts. As told by Michael, I will try to align the tape.

Reading it normally or with Dolby B or C fails each time. But if it
fails for 5% of the cassettes and if someone else has them, then it is
no big deal.

antoine