Re: Cassette programs (was Re: RAM Applesoft found!)

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Vince Briel <vbriel@removethisspamcamcast.net> wrote:
> I have a few tapes that I haven't even tried to read.
> 
> Little Brick Out B-side Color Demosoft 600-2023-00
> Alignment Test Tone B-side Renumber/Append, 600-2024-000
> Finance I B-side Penny Arcade 600-2025-000
>  Brian's Theme B-side Phone List600-2027-000
> 
> I assumed these were already preserved but if I'm wrong let me know what is 
> needed to back them up.

Looks like I already have those.

There's a procedure for capturing the audio described in the CiderPress
help pages.  I've found that slightly over-driving the volume can be
helpful with some tapes (the zero crossing matters, so clipping the
peaks isn't usually harmful).  Using something other than a 15-year-old boom
box and the "line in" on the PC motherboard audio might improve things
as well, but a careful examination of the non-working tapes suggested
that most of them were too tweaked for recovery.

I have some 660MB of WAV files from my extraction efforts.  There are
some tapes there that weren't in the collection I posted, mostly copies
of things or personal programs that were in a big pile of tapes I bought
on eBay several years ago.  One tape had 72 distinct segments (if you
count things like Applesoft, which has a header, as having two).

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