Cassette Tape Data Recovery

Опубликовано: 31 Март 2026
на канале: Noel's Retro Lab
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This episode is sponsored by PCBWay https://www.pcbway.com
Cassette tapes degrade over time, and eventually you may not be able to read the data stored in them. In this episode, we dive into the technical details of cassette tape data recovery: how data is encoded, what we can do to recover it, and what kind of tools we can use.

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Links:
SVI-CAS https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/ha...
TI99/4A tape format http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspike...
Classic99 emulator https://github.com/tursilion/classic99
CS1er http://www.cs1er.com/
DumpListEditor http://bugfire2009.ojaru.jp/download....

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:36 Amplification
02:22 How is data stored?
07:15 TI99/4A format
10:13 Emulator
12:00 DumpListEditor
13:28 CS1er
15:50 Merging recordings
17:59 GOGFIGHT
19:12 Conclusion

Music tracks:
Funky Stars by McKlain https://mcklain.bandcamp.com/track/fu...
Battro OST by McKlain https://mcklain.bandcamp.com/track/ba...
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