Converting cassettes
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:15 am
I've got a box of ~90 Dragon cassettes (not all originals), and a cassette recorder.
If I use it with a real Dragon, I get the 'S', then (eg) 'F SPACETRK', so it appears that the cassette player & cassette are OK.
Then, I try to convert to a CAS file.
I can capture the wibbly noise (TM) to a WAV file - now what do I do with it?
I can't work out what I'm meant to do in XRoar to load it - because everything I do just leaves it sitting with an 'S' (searching). I can't tell if XRoar is even reading the WAV file at all.
If I use DCWin, then it ALWAYS gives me a 'Block checksum failure at 44' error - exactly that error, regardless of which cassette I try, and what volume level I use.
(I don't know how it works, but I'd have expected the '44' value to change if the tape was dodgy as the error would be at different places)
So, I'm obviously doing something fundamentally wrong - but what could it be?
If I use it with a real Dragon, I get the 'S', then (eg) 'F SPACETRK', so it appears that the cassette player & cassette are OK.
Then, I try to convert to a CAS file.
I can capture the wibbly noise (TM) to a WAV file - now what do I do with it?
I can't work out what I'm meant to do in XRoar to load it - because everything I do just leaves it sitting with an 'S' (searching). I can't tell if XRoar is even reading the WAV file at all.
If I use DCWin, then it ALWAYS gives me a 'Block checksum failure at 44' error - exactly that error, regardless of which cassette I try, and what volume level I use.
(I don't know how it works, but I'd have expected the '44' value to change if the tape was dodgy as the error would be at different places)
So, I'm obviously doing something fundamentally wrong - but what could it be?