Re: Programming the Apple IIe via the cassette in

["John Syer" <jsyer@labyrinth.net.au>]

Thanks for the responses.

    I had checked the FAQ for information on the cassette interface and not
found any mention (perhaps I didn't look hard enough).  The idea of
connecting via the cassette interface occured to me as a conceptual
exercise,
a "Can this be done?" type of thing.  It's nice to know that I'm not the
only
one to have thought of doing this.

The logical extension of this is - instead of saving images from the apple
then
reloading, generating code off machine and loading into the apple.

Kind regards,
    John Syer (jsyerNO@SPAMlabyrinth.net.au)
[remove the NO SPAM from my email address]

"Simon Williams" <email@luddite.ca> wrote in message
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> John Syer <jsyer@labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >     I have just resurected my Base48 (Apple IIe clone) and found that my
> > entire collection of 5.25" floppies have passed on.  I remember in the
past
> > one of my apple user friends booted his machine via the cassette in (and
a
> > tape player).  Has anyone thought of connecting the audio output of a
Mac or
> > PC to the cassette input of the Apple II and sending instructions that
way?
> >
> >     I do not have a serial card for the Apple so I cannot get an
operating
> > system to the machine using ADT.
> >
> >     If this has not been done, I would be interested in exploring the
> > possibilities although I would need an image of dos3.3 or prodos, and
> > information about the cassette interface.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >     John Syer (jsyerNO@SPAMlabyrinth.net.au)
> > [remove the NO SPAM from my email address]
>
> I've succeeded in using my Mac as a very expensive tape recorder. It is
> very slow, and takes a bit of fiddling with the levels, but it will
> work. I only bothered to save and load some quick BASIC progs, so I'm
> not at all sure how you'd go about getting DOS on tape, but I'm sure I
> read something about saving binary files to tape....
>
> I've actually been meaning to figure this out so I can post a .wav file
> of DOS 3.3 and ProDOS on my site (for exactly this purpose), but I
> somehow keep getting sidetracked... perhaps I'm just worried about what
> Apple's lawyers would do to me ;-)
>
> -simon
>
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