[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Way to fix dead tapes?

[Neil Morrison]

Sometimes I would stack a few quarters on one side or another to
tweak the loading. The higher the pitch, the better luck I had. Some
VERY old tapes that tended to stick responded to a soft pencil held
against the back of the tape as it was run through. This provided
missing lubrication.

Neil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>


> I used to have luck by either turning the tone all the way up, or
sometimes
> a file would load when the tone was down, but it DID matter in most
> cases.  Ofcourse, I always used the cheap tapes.
>
> I wonder if recording the tapes into a PC with lots of HD spac, at
48khz,
> would let you edit the signal and export back out for another try.
If one
> of the emulator loads the .wav file using CLOAD/CLOADM, etc. then
that's
> good, I guess.


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