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/hardware/svi-cas-image-player-initial-announcement?page=0
• TI99/4A tape format http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/cassette.htm#Cassette%20tape%20format
• Classic99 emulator https://github.com/tursilion/classic99
• CS1er http://www.cs1er.com/
• DumpListEditor http://bugfire2009.ojaru.jp/download.html

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

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