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Date: 2003-05-19 05:15:01
If the signal is not on the tape, you cannot get it off. Try an oscilloscope on the output from the read head. If you have signal, a storage scope may be able to capture it. On Sun, 18 May 2003 marko.makela@hut.fi wrote: > I have some old Commodore 64 tapes from 1985 that are in rather bad condition. > Few of the standard format programs can be loaded correctly, and it is > hopeless to try to load any of the programs that are in the 64'er Turbo Tape > format. > > Last December, I tried archiving these tapes with a modified 1530, where I > rewired the internal card edge connector, so that a C2N232 device could be > plugged in. Tonight, I tried reading a couple of tapes with Andreas > Andersson's TAPir program, which samples the audio from a sound card. It > didn't produce better dumps than those I already have. > > Are there any robust tape decoder tools that apply some sort of a search > algorithm in order to read almost-unreadable tapes? Do they require a > loopback to the pulse detection algorithm, or can they work on pulse streams > (TAP format)? > > Marko > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list
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