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

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:
> Andy McFadden wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> As I wrote, I got good results with a Commodore Datasette attached to 
> the PC's parallel port, and Markus Brenner's "mtap" program (Google for 
> "mtap36.zip"). The Datasette is built for zero crossing detection, it 
> has internal triggers for that.

The algorithms I used were a direct response to what I saw on the tapes.
If you'd like to take a swing at some of the tapes that didn't transfer,
and can accept 2-3MB e-mails, I can forward a few.

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