Monthly Archives: July 2011

Very positive results for beta testing of the new DC2N feature

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Luigi Di Fraia

Massi cadenti got his DC2N and dumped a C16 tape that uses another interesting turbo loader. It requires measuring the duration of the 0- and 1- states of the encoded signal separately. Very positive results so far. It seems DC2N … Continue reading →

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DC2N fully supports C16/+4 tapes

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Luigi Di Fraia

Internal testing of the “halfwave” feature in DC2N for dumping C16/+4 tapes using special turbo loaders is over. The feature is now available for beta-testers only. Two different strategies were designed and fully implemented. I chose to let beta-testers have … Continue reading →

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Studying the C16 tape loader that started it all

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Luigi Di Fraia

A few days ago Massi cadenti sent me a few TAP files for C16 for my tests with DC2N. The titles on these files use a quite interesting tape loader: This is the one loader that required significant change in … Continue reading →

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