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First attempt at restoring Magnetic Scrolls backup tapes
- m0dest 9y agoThey're recovering Magnetic Scrolls from some actual magnetic scrolls. There's something beautifully poetic there.
- mtrycz 9y agoYeah, the game seems fitting.
- steaminghacker 9y agonice idea. I'll use that in the blog!
- jxramos 9y agoI salute your effort! Best wishes.
- bhhaskin 9y agoWhat a fascinating project! The tooling source code sounds like a pretty awesome find as well. Wish you guys the best of luck and thank you for documenting your efforts!
- ggambetta 9y agoI love this kind of thing! I recently did something similar, perhaps lower level, with some ZX Spectrum tapes from 1990. Saved them to wav (miraculously, they didn't stretch or snap!), literally fixed broken bits by hand (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GabrielGambetta/posts/fcXkKmD8dow https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GabrielGambetta/posts/fcXkKmD8d...), and managed to recover my first "game", TOP CAT (https://plus.google.com/+GabrielGambetta/posts/8RkT5K2KR18 https://plus.google.com/+GabrielGambetta/posts/8RkT5K2KR18). But my real challenge is much more interesting. I have a few tapes with more of my very early software... but they were stored using an extremely proprietary device, invented in my country, so essentially nobody knows that it exists (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000510 http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000510). I have the raw tapes, but I'm not sure how to get started, even. Probably try to interpret bits and trying to find strings. Exciting times ahead!
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- steaminghacker 9y agoHi everyone, Strand here; We're BAKING the tapes now. check it out. https://strandgames.com/blog/tk50-tape-baking https://strandgames.com/blog/tk50-tape-baking