Maxduino Review: Tape Cassette Emulator for Multiple Retro Computers

(retrogamecoders.com)

58 points by ibobev74 days ago

3 comments

  • thijson70 days ago
    My sister corrupted my favorite game. She pressed fast forward on the tape deck while it was playing (and loading). I think that stretched the tape, because after that the game wouldn&#x27;t load anymore, it would error out.<p>This happened to me in the early 80&#x27;s with the family&#x27;s Tandy Color Computer 1. We didn&#x27;t have a disk drive, just loaded things using tape drive.<p>As an aside, I think the modulation used was a simple frequency shift keying, with likely no error correction.
  • asdefghyk70 days ago
    Why all that complication?<p>Why not just play the audio on a computer speaker to a microphone and maybe a generic audio preamp board ( to get the levels right ) to the destination computer.<p>Could have the speaker and microphone in a small cardboard box to avoid any audio interference ....
    • tecleandor70 days ago
      Once you get the speaker, the mic, the cardboard box, the &quot;finding the proper input&#x2F;output level&quot;, the EQ, the &quot;WIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIiiiiscreeeeech&quot; sounds...<p>I don&#x27;t think that device is much more complicated. Also, working with it is way way simpler. Drop the files, press play.
      • asdefghyk70 days ago
        <p><pre><code> RE &quot;WIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIiiiiscreeeeech&quot; sounds. </code></pre> The cardboard box would attenuate that nicely
    • flohofwoe70 days ago
      That may work with WAV files recorded from cassette tapes, but not the various other tape file formats like TAP or TZX, those are often &quot;shortcircuited&quot; to skip the tunneling through sampled audio. Some of the fastloader formats are also extremely sensitive to irregularities in the signal transmission.
    • qingcharles70 days ago
      Why a speaker and mic? Why not just connect the headphone out of a PC to the audio in on the old computer?