I didn't know about that but I knew of a generic PC storage device using videotape. When I worked at electronics shops they were (supposed to be) the fad thing a decade ago. 'Proper' tape backup was far more expensive, though making backups to CD or DVD were getting ever cheaper and faster.
Resourceful Youtubers have been able to load data into their ZX Spectrums without apparent need for extra hardware. The tape bus isn't actually restricted to the transfer rate of cassette and so copies of old tapes can be loaded in at blistering speed. This should also be possible with the C64.
I do remember looking into backing up data onto VHS tape, but at the time the methods were a bit on the iffy side, so I never bothered. But it was a cheap method of tape backup.
hard to live without all these multi-Switchers, isn`t it? Got plenty of them for all my Consoles (including the CD32,NES,SNES,Mega Drive (and more to come...) - not mentioning the "newer" ones since Playstation 1)
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 11/08/2011 - 21:53
by Commie_User
Certainly, but there's always just the one more to get. Good job they're cheap but I compromise and use some as patchbays too. Either that or have couplers on the end of many line out cables and use those as a kind of patch system for the one master cable going to a line in.
There's another thing for me to think about - I bought a lovely MPS 803 and it works a treat with a still-fresh ribbon. But I only bought it just to have one and now I have to find a place on the last patch of wall left empty.
There was a Multiface on there earlier but someone must have bought it. I fancied buying a few Speccy bits today but thought better of it - even in the face of the sampler add-on. There's one in the MSSIAH and I have a MIDINES coming. Plus there may be better things to squander on. And any unique sounds worth programming can easily be snatched using an emulator with sampler anyway.
How to stop CRT telly buzz from interfering with the sound recorded from my game consoles? As a proud Luddite but willing to compromise, I'll look out for cheap S-VIDEO/Composite-VGA converters.
With my local charity shop selling LCDs for just £10-20 each, why not spend a touch extra to make a telly from one of them? And it'd make my MIDINES console or moused-up SNES look even more psuedo-pro!
I'd like to buy British but I don't have the extra 150 sheets odd. Sweatshop labour bags me a 13 quid bargain.
Yup it's gone. I just bought a parallel floppy drive, which can do 'super disks' too. But I'm really into this SNES floppy drive controller stuff. Funny little workstations I've got on the wall now.
If I have success in getting this thing going I'd recommend you lot get some SNES floppy controllers too. In the meantime I'll leave the links just here and handy, as I don't think Google Chrome has a favorites list you can save your hyperlinks to.
A lot of people on different boards have complained about the guy taking peoples' money but rarely delivering the goods - or even communicating, which seems the biggest bugbear of all. On the Wayfar site he says he switched from Paypal to Google Checkout due to difficulties. If the legal action against him had any weight, I'm not surprised.
Some copies of Sound On Sound command obnoxious prices for what they are. Those ten I have from the '80s, still in news-stand condition, could help my pension if things go on the way they are.
