[SPG_Active_Members] Software archaeology: Basic for Apple I on cassette tape

Al Kossow kossow at computerhistory.org
Wed Jul 16 11:28:13 PDT 2008


On 7/15/08 9:08 AM, "Randall Neff" <randall.neff at gmail.com> wrote:

> The author recovered the bits from an audio file off the cassette.
> 
> See:
> http://www.pagetable.com/?p=32
>

>From Sellam

Well, nice work on his part, but all he had to do was e-mail me and I
could've sent him a perfect copy, which I've had for years, and which I've
given out to several people.

Also, I simply read the program from a copy I have on tape into an Apple
][+.  Once you get the volume levels correct on the cassette tape (not
trivial, but do-able after enough tries) then it's a no-brainer.  No fancy
waveform graphs or C code required.

Finally, Apple-1 BASIC is simply "Integer BASIC", which came with the
Apple ][ and is pretty readily available itself.

Anyway, it was a nice intellectual exercise.





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