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Even more maintenance work in TAPClean!
Over the course of the last few days I managed to fit a few changes/improvements in TAPClean: I simplified the sync sequence matching logic in a number of scanners; I modularised the Tx scan in “Mega-Save”, “Freeload Slowload”, “Alternative SW … Continue reading
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More maintenance work in TAPClean!
I finally found the time to do some maintenance on TAPClean’s code as per my TODO list. In short, I consolidated “Ocean New F1” T1/T2 and “Snakeload 5.0” T1/T2 scanners into “Ocean New F1” and “Snakeload 5.0”, entirely rewritten. The change … Continue reading
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CHR scanner renamed and rewritten in TAPClean
Before bed today I decided to apply my field learnings about Mega-Save to the TAPClean scanner previously referred to as “CHR”, rewriting it from scratch. One nice addition is the decoding of additional information that’s part of the file header … Continue reading
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Planning another TAPClean release
I decided that the significant changes to the Visiload scanner (which Paul Jones has helped to test thoroughly), along with the addition of two Visiload Tx variants, the rewrite of the Wildload scanner and a fix to the Pavloda scanner … Continue reading
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TAPClean to support adjustable pulse durations
After inspecting some material provided by Pawel, I tested some experimental functionality in TAPClean that can automatically adjust pulse durations used to read/decode data within a TAP file. The idea is quite simple: usually pilot sequences seem to be quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodore 64, preservation, retrocomputing, TAPClean, tapes
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TAPClean update
TAPClean was updated again in order to support Visiload T7, yet another Visiload type used in “Puffy’s Saga”, kindly provided by Paul. The multiload in “Puffy’s Saga” also required some ad-hoc coding, as the one I wrote for “Narco Police”, … Continue reading
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TAPClean: Wildload scanner rewritten
I plan to do some extension of the Wildload scanner in order to support a variant found in “Mindfighter”, supplied by Paul. However, the existing code was still pretty much in the state it had been when TAPClean was forked … Continue reading
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