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

[James Diffendaffer]

The tapes were a victum of poor storage.  Someone placed something
magnetic near them.

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at h...>
wrote:
> 
> One of these days I must write an article on tapes and the loading
> thereof. Forget demagnetizers, cleanliness is the most important
> factor.
> 
> Another thing is to find the azimuth screw adjustment on the
> recorder, and set it for each tape to the highest sounding pitch.
> Also, you need to fiddle with the volume level to get the tapes to
> load. The Coco system was pretty reliable, but tapes were always an
> SOB to load, esp. commercially produced tapes.
> 
> Neil
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Diffendaffer" <jdiffendaffer at y...>
> 
> 
> > I have some old COCO games on casette that won't load anymore and I
> > was wondering if there was any way I could fix them.
> > The games are Lancer and Robottack.



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