[Coco] Xroar and tape emulation

[Allen Huffman]

Crap. I forgot why I was posting that.

The cassette emulation was tricky, since I needed to effectively rewind and reuse a tape as I moved from EDITOR to ALLRAM. Xroar made this difficult. I could ^W mount a writeable .CAS file, and save out the message base, but I couldn't ^L load it since it was still a 0K file. I had to create a temporary ^W writeable .CAS file, then it would flush out the other, then I could ^L load it and use it. I had to repeat this step if I wanted to save the data back to the same tape.

Is there a better way? Some emulator I saw years ago acted like a real tape drive, and you could just reset the counter or rewind it.

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