18 May
2010
18 May
'10
12:51 p.m.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
OK... I don't get it. How is this news now?
They've connected something other than a tape player to the cassette input and played
audio into the computer.
It's still slow as hell.
What's wrong with the disk drive again?
Well, it could be broken... or gone.
I had a chicken/egg problem when I first received a IIgs and IIe. I
had literally no floppy disks for them. But I did have a bunch of
disk images. I was able to track down the right serial cable for the
IIgs and transfer the disk images from a PC using ADTPro. It worked
great. Although it was a bit odd. When boot-strapping from nothing,
you use an IN#2 command to "type" bytes read from the serial port into
the monitor after a call -151. Then the ADTPro software could run and
write itself to a blank floppy disk.
This isn't a bad hack for a lot of the older cassette-based computers
out there. Just wire the cassette port to the output of the sound
card on a PC and keep your library of "tapes" on the PC, or maybe an
iPad.
brian