Savetz Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Hi VIC-20 people, I got some VIC-20 tapes in a lot of Atari stuff. I don't know the state of VIC-20 software preservation, or where to look to see if Commodore software has been preserved, so I'll just put this here. If any of these tapes need to be digitized, let me know. I can create WAV files from them. I wouldn't worry about the "bad load" labels. I think someone at some point was trying to load these on an Atari system. -Kevin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norm8332 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 (edited) I may want them for the denial community..let me ask around. Thanks for the offer! Edited January 7, 2018 by norm8332 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 You can try, Spelling Practise (sic) is probably the only one I'm interested in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eslapion Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 AFAIK, these are unarchived and I would love to lay my hands on Tiny Basic Compiler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norm8332 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 It looks like they are un-archived. If you would capture WAV files they could be converted from that. Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted January 9, 2018 Author Share Posted January 9, 2018 Here you go, Commodore friends. Let me know if you get these working. I have a second copy of Graphvics and Piper, but was unable to digitize them. (Something is weird with the tapes, and my cassette player stops partly through the playback.) Luckily those are duplicate tapes — hopefully the ones I did capture are good. Ababus Software - Budgeteer.wav Ababus Software - Budgeteer - copy 2.wav Abacus Software - Graphvics.wav Ababus Software - Piper the Music Machine.wav Ababus Software - Tiny BASIC Compiler.wav.zip Noble Computers - Spelling Practise.wav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norm8332 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 On behalf of myself and others who are are not on this board, I would like to thank you for your efforts. It is much appreciated! I will convert/test them..They sound like good recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norm8332 Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 (edited) I was able to convert two of the titles so far..They had to be processed and fixed with Audacity. The others are a bit more challenging because they are of poor quality unfortunately. The recovered tapes are attached. I'm afraid that the "Bad Load" labels were for the Commodore because on the Tinybasic compiler program the 8k version file was the hardest to successfully recover and that is what it said was bad on the label. Thanks again for providing these. Ababus Software - Tiny BASIC Compiler_TAP.zip Noble Computers - Spelling Practise_TAP.zip Edited January 10, 2018 by norm8332 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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