Re: Many questions about cassette tapes

[Moose <moose@move.to>]

On Aug 12, 9:17 am, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Back in 1981+82, I used tape with my school's Apple ]['s and
compatibles and in 1983 I purchased my own Apple ][+ clone for home
and used tape for almost a year until I saved up and purchased my own
floppy drive.

As well as BASIC, I also worked with machine code stuff on tape.
During the first half of 1983, I could borrow a floppy drive for a
weekend very occasionally, and I would use this to transfer my
favourite machine code games from disk to tape.  e.g. Apple Panic,
etc.  I still remember the commands now: AA60, AA72, etc and of course
CALL-151 (for a good time), without looking them up and without having
used them for almost 30 years.  (I'd have to look up which numbers to
add, etc though).  Funny how things stick in your head ....

Years ago (mid-late 1990's ?), I found my old Apple ][ notes and typed
these in and uploaded them to places like Asimov.  They included
instructions of loading and saving machine code programs to and from
tape.  If these sound interesting for you, have a poke around Asimov.
If you can't find them, let me know and I'll dig through old backups
and find the old text files.

Moose