[rescue] Current collections...

Klaasjan Brand sunrescue at kjb.dds.nl
Tue Apr 6 14:59:33 CDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 17:42, Dan Duncan wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I like the idea of the older "historical" boxes, but the reality of storing
> > programs on cassette tape is a challenge...
> 
> If you mean for archival purposes, why not mp3?  It would be trivial
> to put them back onto a cassette, or for that matter couldn't you
> just fake the cassette altogether?

There's the .TAP format lots of spectrum emulators are using which
contains the byte stream that's encoded on the tape. There are even
tools to play those streams on a sound card (zxlink). Guaranteed no more
tape loading errors ;)

Klaasjan



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