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Post by kaos116 on Jul 27, 2006 2:24:07 GMT -5
I have come up with a way to have CF storage for just about any retro. Too good to be true? Well..... it is possible, but not the way we are all hoping. I had an old PDA collecting dust. So, it was play time. With a little surgery I was able to remove the built in microphone and put a jack on it. What this has done is created a replacement to a cassette recorder. With the voice recorder feature in the 'note' taking software, I am able to record and play back the audio from the cassete ports. The best part is I can store the files on a compact flash card and give them meaningful names. When it comes time to load one, I just double tap on the file and it loads. No fast forwarding or rewinding. The setting that I use that works for every computer I have tried is 11khz 8bit stereo. It records at 22kbps. The files are on the large side when compared to the size on a floppy. A simple morse code tutor program took about 500K of space on the PDA.
Now granted, if you are home and have the space, a floppy drive is the way to go for the retros. But, what if you are retroing on the go with the trusty Tandy 100/102? The PDA with a 1gig CF card makes one heck of a storage unit.
It has been tested on a Tandy 102, COCO 2, MC-10 and a Commodore Plus/4. All worked flawlessly.
The next attempt might be to try and get it to store it serially as a text file and try to load it at 9600 baud or maybe even 19.2 on the Plus/4!!!
Food for thought!
Todd
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Post by gmoon on Jul 27, 2006 9:12:15 GMT -5
Practically-speaking: I'm sure mosts folks want a faster solution than that.
Hacking-wise: That's a classic, totally in the hacking spirit! I'm sure someone will find that useful...
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