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Many questions about cassette tapes
- Subject: Many questions about cassette tapes
- From: Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
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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.