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Many questions about cassette tapes



Gents (and Ladies?),

My first Apple was a II+ with floppies.  I never got to experience the
joy or frustration of cassette tape as a volatile storage medium, so I
thought I'd give it a go and was able to backup and restore a BASIC
program.  However...

I've been trying to load up a few games from the excellent
http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html archives on
my IIe (physical and virtual) and I get ERR.  Most likely because most
of them are INT BASIC.  So I booted a 3.3 master and typed INT and
then LOAD and now I get ERR*** MEM FULL ERR.

Questions:

1.  Can I remove FP and replace with INT BASIC on the IIe without a
soldering iron, chip extractor, or PROM burner?  Will that solve my
MEM FULL ERR?

2.  If I can do #1, how would I tape load INT BASIC?  Can I make a
tape of INT BASIC?  I want to see how far I can take this tape thing.
E.g. Boot, reset, LOAD INT BASIC, INT, kill FP, LOAD INT game,
play, ...

3.  Can I boot from tape on a IIe?  Actually I know I can based on the
ADTPro instructions.  But how would I create a boot tape?

4.  Is there any advanced tape usage/programming information floating
around?  "Beneath Apple Tape?"  All I have been able to find was the
II and II+ tape guides that do little more than cover SAVE and LOAD.
I did find the audio format on Apple's site (it may be of interest
later on).

5.  Any cool hacks, like IIe to IIe networking with audio?  Or a token
passing network with 3 or more IIs?

6.  Any great tape stories?

Thanks.