1200-Baud Archeology

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 14, 2008 @09:32PM from the when-men-were-men-and-interpreters-ran-in-4k dept.

jamie found this singularly geeky article on reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a cassette tape. It claims to offer the first confirmed perfect dump (BIN) of the 4096 bytes of this venerable interpreter. Terrific fun for the whole family. "The Apple I is extremely rare. Only 200 were built, and less than 100 are believed to be in existence. Neither Steve nor Woz own an Apple I any more, and neither does Apple Inc. The cassettes are even rarer, as not every Apple I came with one... So here is how to decode the signal. Let us first open the audio file in Audacity and look at the waveform... It is now time to write a small program to measure and dump the width of the pulses."

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Re:Alternative tools by jez9999 · 2008-07-15 03:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sorry to OT the thread with this and I guess I'll get modded down, but it's taken me this long to figure out that Slashdot doesn't have an internal messaging system (Why the hell not? E-mail sucks now, not good enough.)
Anyway,
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows [aegidian.org]
Alioth, what do you think is the best ever Elite game or Elite clone ever made? Is it Oolite, or is there something better about the retro NES version?

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