copying cassettes, will this work?

[ace]

I have several Atari game cassettes that are VERY old most still work some I have to load over. but what I am wondering is can I just put them in my home stereo and copy them to new cassettes? and will the new copy play? this may seem like a dumb question, bu t I thought I would ask it. maybe they will last a little bit longer... and copys are always good. especially for when I pull a no brainer like I did last week and sat a stack of em on my stereo speakerbox! argh. magnetic tape sux. I really need to pull my head out of my @$$ and just do the IDE thing, or have someone do it. always wanting to play it and not work on it!

[Tickled_Pink]

If the tape's not too degraded it should work. Depends on the game, though. Some games had background noise that was too low for an Atari tape deck to play back but which was often picked up too easily by ordinary tape decks - it would be too loud on the copy so it wouldn't load up on the Atari.

[Zybex]

Hi...

 

Try to save the cassette in your computer in .wav format. (with the line-in of yuor SoundCard and some sound capture software, like Sound Recorder).

 

With Wav2Cas utility, you can inmortalize your old cassete in a digital format.

wav2cas.zip