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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333 |
Demos which load from tape ?
After reading covert bitops rants about irq-tapeloader, i wondered if there are any Demos which load their next Part from Tape ?
Something like a castro ?
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carlsson
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 41 |
Since yago already is considering modifying the Datassette with a headphone jack, why not rebuild it completely with a small CPU and data buffer, so the timing-critical work takes place inside the tape recorder? :-) If you also add a software controlable fast forward and reverse mechanism, it soon becomes an "intelligent" serial random access tape device (did someone say Microdrive?)... |
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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333 |
Quote: Since yago already is considering modifying the Datassette with a headphone jack, why not rebuild it completely with a small CPU and data buffer, so the timing-critical work takes place inside the tape recorder? :-) If you also add a software controlable fast forward and reverse mechanism, it soon becomes an "intelligent" serial random access tape device (did someone say Microdrive?)...
A datasette plus cpu modification is beyond my "cheating with hardware" abilities. If one really want to do this, the "clever" datasette should have an IEC-Port.
The modification I describe is already done by some people plus there are these cassport-to-hifi[1] adapters. And my hifi does have a headphone :-)
@Oswald: Tape loading does not only suck, it sucks slowly!
[1] In the golden Eighties, as I did not have enough Money for a Datasette, there were adapters to connect your normal audio-cassette-player to the c64. |
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Clarence
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 121 |
Check 'We Can by Vision' 2nd part, for a tape-interactive demopart. |
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Rattus
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Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 34 |
This is kinda off-the-topic, but does anyone remember a device attached to a C64's port... maybe cassette port ?...
that made it able to load from CD-player with cassette load commands ? The CD was propably some custom format CD for the cassette/cd-module... In finnish magazine Mikrobitti was a review of such thing... It would be nice to know what the hardware had eaten... :)
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Hoogo
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 105 |
Such an CD-Player-Adapter was once produced by Rainbow-Arts. They sold a CD with some games by them. Pentagon (a german scener) produced about 15 pieces of such adapters. I'm currently involved into a kind of upgrade to these. |
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uzzy/entropy
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Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 4 |
Don't know about a castro, but we did once have a demo on the front of Commodore Format. (Is a castro like a dwarf castrato? (-; ) |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 677 |
Heh,
I just hit this old thread by accident.
Well, here we go:
A Load of TAP |
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goto80
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 138 |
also Deep Throat by DUREX
Deep Throat |
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Zer0-X
Account closed
Registered: Aug 2008
Posts: 78 |
While we're at it...
http://oms.wmhost.com/Rainbow_Arts/ |
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Klegg
Registered: Feb 2006
Posts: 16 |
Goto80:
Was just gonna post that link as well, hehe. |
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