| How to connect a Commodore Pet to a modern PC [message #370949] |
Wed, 18 July 2018 16:32  |
James Harris
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The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!
But now the next step is that I want to get the programs from the
cassettes onto a modern PC. Any suggestions on how to do that?
I checked for USB-to-GPIB adaptors but even used ones are rather
expensive. So, other suggestions would be welcome.
Any ideas?
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| Re: How to connect a Commodore Pet to a modern PC [message #370950 is a reply to message #370949] |
Wed, 18 July 2018 19:25  |
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James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
> them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
> still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!
>
> But now the next step is that I want to get the programs from the
> cassettes onto a modern PC. Any suggestions on how to do that?
>
> I checked for USB-to-GPIB adaptors but even used ones are rather
> expensive. So, other suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Any ideas?
There's mtap:
http://markus.brenner.de/
But it doesn't mention PET support (and it has special commands
for Vic-20 and C16 tapes so maybe that means something, or maybe
not).
There's also WAV-PRG which only mentions C64 tapes, but it does
have a very healthy alternatives page:
http://wav-prg.sourceforge.net/alternatives.html
This actually mentions the PET, but it's a dedicated device:
https://www.luigidifraia.com/c64/dc2n/select.html
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| How to connect a Commodor [message #370966 is a reply to message #370949] |
Wed, 18 July 2018 15:03 |
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Originally posted by: nospam.Mike.Powell
> The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
> them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
> still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!
A couple of years ago, I found all of my old TI99 cassettes, which were
written to around 1981-83. They mostly were also still good! In my case,
the only way I could figure to get them transfered was to buy a floppy
drive (from ebay, I think) that worked with the TI99, install it, load the
cassettes into memory on the TI and then write the program data back out to
floppy.
If, for some reason, I want then copy those to my PC, there are some
utilities for that (at least, that run under DOS).
I am not sure about your CBM platform, but maybe there is an easier way. :)
Mike
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| Re: How to connect a Commodore Pet to a modern PC [message #370978 is a reply to message #370949] |
Thu, 19 July 2018 17:31 |
Andreas Kohlbach
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:32:05 +0100, James Harris wrote:
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> The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
> them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
> still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly
> delighted!
>
> But now the next step is that I want to get the programs from the
> cassettes onto a modern PC. Any suggestions on how to do that?
>
> I checked for USB-to-GPIB adaptors but even used ones are rather
> expensive. So, other suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Any ideas?
I wouldn't bother if these programs were already dumped to files made
available in the internet.
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Andreas
My random toughts and comments
https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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