Re: Tape images for the Apple II anyone?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, if all you want to preserve are the programs, then
> converting them to a disk format is probably the right answer, ranging
> from quite easy for "single load" programs, to almost impossible for
> programs that wrote and read data to/from the cassette.

Preserving them is easy; making them do something useful is hard. :-)
Getting STORE, RECALL, and SHLOAD to work can get interesting.

Most of the old software works fine.  Some games have multiple parts
and multiple data files; these can be a nightmare (Temple of Apshai is
pretty scary).  OTOH, one or two of the cassette programs I extracted
actually came with instructions for converting it to floppy.

And, of course, you might have to defeat the copy protection:
http://fadden.com/techmisc/cassette-protect.htm

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