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Encoding Data for Audio Tape?

Posted by Cliff on from the Atari-and-TI-did-this-years-ago dept.

Kris_J asks: "I've recently purchased and installed an audio cassette deck for my PC. It makes recording to and from tape particularly painless, but I'm looking for some funky other stuff to try. Along the lines of my new old SuperDisk FD32MB that can store 32MB on a normal 1.44MB floppy, and my Cuttle Cart that can load Atari 2600 games from encoded audio I'm wondering if there's any program that can encode a file as audio that can survive being recorded to audio tape or compressed as an MP3. I'll worry about 'why' later."

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  1. Brings back memories by Rxke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    of how i used to curse, as a kid, on my crappy cassettedeck not wanting to load my programs... Diskdrives too expensive, not to mention harddisks... And you want to do that VOLUNTARILY? Geez...

  2. Re:Not a useful comparison by cowbutt · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've had a bad file during a RH install. I noticed that Anaconda was retrying the rpm over and over, so I switched to the shell console, unmounted the CD, ejected it and replaced it with a good CD and remounted. The install continued as normal and I was left with a clean install. I'm not sure this will work every time and it's certainly not documented or supported, but it worked for me.

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