Re: List Apple II Tape

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

pyro00099@yahoo.com (Pyro99) wrote in message news:<2a52a11d.0303051202.73134fa@posting.google.com>...
> > >This makes it all the more important to have a way to archive these
> > >tapes in binary format, as has been done with the Commod(or)e 64. ;)
> > 
> > I just load the cassette tape files into the Apple and SAVE or BSAVE
> > them to disk.  That pretty well solves the archiving problem.
> > 
> > -michael
> > 
> 
> I have done that to most of my tapes but I have at least one tape
> where this won't work.  It loads at a low address (probably around
> $300).  It loads over the text screen, starts executing, and then
> loads some more from tape after that (If I remember correctly.)  I
> think it may be a backgammon program.
> 
> I think it would be great to have a tape archival format that could be
> used to back up tapes, and record them back on to a real tape.
> 
> I will have to go home and make a list of all my Apple II tapes I have
> (there are maybe 20+) and post the list here later.  I bought them all
> on eBay recently.  Surprisingly, almost all of them work.

As an example, I would probably have Dapple ][ use these keystrokes. 
(F11 means 40/80 in //c mode but nothing in the other modes.  //c
doesn't "do" cassette I/O)

  <F11> - Pop-up menu:
     1. Record
     2. Play
     3. Rewind
     4. Fast Forward
     5. Stop
     6. Pause

While running/paused (not stopped), and in the menu, a counter would
be visible on the screen.  The beginning of the file is 0000.

This is the order of keys that would be fairly intuitive - since
that's the order in which the buttons appear on most tape decks.  This
would need to be emulated, since the ][ cannot control the motor by
remote as the PC and the MSX can.

I would transfer the raw bitstream with a header designating it as a
cassette (\xDE\xAD\xBE\xEFDPL2CASS\x00\x00\x00\x00).  Utilities could
translate to/from WAV and receive/send the data over a Sound Blaster.

-uso.