Re: Programming the Apple IIe via the cassette in

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams) wrote in message news:<1fw758r.6gwq4x1x13xhmN%email@luddite.ca>...
> 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

That would be leet as a test case, that could be used to implement
cassette support in emulators. :)

-uso.