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Sorry, when I said "I was unable to save it all" I meant the entire computer. I do have a complete ROM and was able to successfully extract it. I've got some
by bodyfour 12y ago
Sorry, when I said "I was unable to save it all" I meant the entire computer. I do have a complete ROM and was able to successfully extract it.
I've got some documents including schematics and some of Interaction and Micro Video magazines. I was able to determine the bytewise format of the tape data (such as the dumps on archive.org) from reading the disassembled ROM, It's pretty simple as you can imagine. There is very little circuitry driving the tape drive so I'm confident that it's just toggling between + and - tape bias and the timing determines if it's a 0 or 1 bit. I looked at the wave form of a cassette rip in an audio editor and it looked pretty clear. I'm sure with a little work I could extract the data although there are probably tools that would help clean up the audio.
I had no idea MESS had any Interact support (they certainly seem to do a good job making their web documentation has hard to use as possible) I'll have to give it a shot at some point.