Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!cfchiesa From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Was: Re: Need a cassette tape drive. Summary: Tape to Disk Message-ID: <4525@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 28 Oct 88 08:35:05 GMT Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.4525 References: <736@wsccs.UUCP> <1270006@hpclkms.HP.COM> <31302@bbn.COM> Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 29 In article <31302@bbn.COM>, slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey) writes: > In article <1270006@hpclkms.HP.COM> ken@hpclkms.HP.COM (Kenneth Sumrall) writes: > >written properly. The ONLY time I ever use my tape recorder is when I get > >old software on tape, and I want to move it to disk. I then junk the > > Do you really know how to do this? I tried once (from bootable tapes, > that is) and was unsuccessful at reverse-engineering the formats. I Hmmm... why "reverse-engineer" anything, when it is all thoroughly docu- mented in the OS User's Manual? I know, I know, you DON'T HAVE the OS User's Manual... I was just pointing out that it should be possible. If the original poster doesn't "come through" for you on this, I am sure I could write some- thing; I hacked a transfer the other way, from disk to bootable tape, all by my lonesome a couple years ago; even got it to work with multi-stage load files, after a fashion... could be considerably improved, but by the time I got the kludge version working, the need had passed... > would really like to move my tapes onto disk! The tapes have games > and stuff that I'm not too interested in (pool, rubik's cube, etc) but > my kids would be. Me too; would particularly like to see the Rubik's Cube thing, as I wrote my own version of THAT a few years ago, too (Binary is available if anyone wants to see it; source was lost). Chris Chiesa -- UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!cfchiesa cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP