Any interest in these tapes from former game designer Bruno Fontaine?

[dafivehole]

I got these in a huge lot from Bruno a year or so ago... I have five cassettes that have one of the games he designed called Poussinet at what seems to be different stages of completion. Atarimania doesn't list much info on the game: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-poussinet_4074.html

Before I throw them on eBay, I was wondering if they might have any interest on AA. I have no way of testing any of these tapes... so please let me know if you have any interest in them. I will post pics later...

 

Thanks,

Roger

[dafivehole]

Alrighty... no interest, so off to the Bay they go...

 

[ivop]

Alrighty... no interest, so off to the Bay they go...

 

 

Perhaps the people that read it had no interest, but I'm sure there are people interested. Could you record the audio and share it with us or are you only interested in selling the tapes?

[nukeshed]

I, for one, second this request.

[dafivehole]

I honestly have no way of doing that. Like I said, they are now on ebay.

 

Thank you

[low.blow]

Sorry for the necro-bump, but www.atarimania.com, were you able to get a copy of these tapes? I believe I was the one that ended up buying them off ebay. If you want copies let me know. I tried to pm you instead of posting, but I think your box is full! I see you were interested in this stuff in another ancient thread.

Edited April 22, 2014 by low.blow

[Rybags]

There would be interest. If you can't get them into files it'd probably be easier if you just record each side into seperate MP3 files at a decent bitrate.

 

Then after some playing around they could probably be made into readable files and it could be worked out what's in there.

[+Allan]

Sorry for the necro-bump, but www.atarimania.com, were you able to get a copy of these tapes? I believe I was the one that ended up buying them off ebay. If you want copies let me know. I tried to pm you instead of posting, but I think your box is full! I see you were interested in this stuff in another ancient thread.

If you could copy them that would be great. I can post them on Atarimania when you get a chance to copy them.

 

Allan

[low.blow]

There would be interest. If you can't get them into files it'd probably be easier if you just record each side into seperate MP3 files at a decent bitrate.

 

Then after some playing around they could probably be made into readable files and it could be worked out what's in there.

Thanks for the tips Rybags. Unfortunately I don't have a cassette player to rip from. Perhaps I could send these to Allen or somebody(luckybuck?) that could get this done?

[+Guitarman]

You wouldn't need any more than a regular cassette deck to transfer these, right?? If so, I have the hardware and software to transfer them, if needed.

[+Allan]

As long as there is just a program on the cassettes (not an additional audio track) you can copy these with any cassette deck that has an audio output (most do), a male-male audio cable, a computer and software.

 

Somebody here can do it if you can't. Guitarman seems the closes to you it would make sense to have him do it.

 

Allan

[low.blow]

Ok, I've sourced a tape player, and found a cable. I've installed Audacity and plugins. I think I'm ready to try this. What bit rate should I use for mp3? I will save as wav as well. Should I filter noise with software? I assume I should set levels for as high as possible withoutclipping? Stereo or mono?

[low.blow]

Well, after MUCH trial and tribulation, I finally got somewhere with this. Initially I was trying to convert a test cassette so as to make sure I could have the process work, and not have one of these tapes get eaten. For the life of me I could not get anything to work(about 98% of the hex dump showing "bad"). I believe several of the test cassettes I tried to convert are actually bad to begin with. I also had battery issues with the tape player. Finally I found a test cassette that didn't work, but at least had mostly "ok" flags in the hex file. Through all of this no tapes were damaged, so I felt comfortable trying to get one of the poussinet tapes converted.

 

The files in the link below are from my most successful attempt. There are still 2 "bad" flags near the end of the hex file, but I was able to load the game in altirra(atari 400/800 osb 48k) and play it(i didn't get past the first screen as yet). The cassette case claims 16k required, but the loaded game says 32k on the screen. The casssette itself is simply labelled "commercial (18 juin)".

 

Anyone interested please check these files out. Are the 2 "bad" flags potentially normal? I don't really understand how all of this works. I have available the .hex, the .cas, and the .wav files. Could someone check all three and let me know what I need to do further? is the .wav acceptable quality? I did do a small amount of noise reduction if I remember correctly. And I'm not toatally sure, but I may have normalized the signal as well(can't remember as I've tried different things soooooo many times to get this to work).

 

Hopefully my link works, Files Here! I will have to take this down if my bandwidth gets destroyed. If that happens, maybe someone else can host them?

[+Allan]

I just tried it in Atari800MacX and it seemed to work OK.

 

Here's the CAS file.

 

I also posted in on Atarimania.com.

 

Thanks for dumping this.

 

Allan

Poussinet.zip

[low.blow]

Cool. Thank you. I am not certain that my dump is totally good though. Any way to be sure? I can try anything that someone thinks might work better while dumping. I'd like to get this one perfect before converting the rest of the tapes... In altirra, there was no music. Was it the same for you?

Edited May 11, 2014 by low.blow

[_The Doctor__]

oh my they didn't preserve the audio tracks? that's gotta be done!

[+davidcalgary29]

I've been looking for a boxed copy of 'Poussinet' ever since I saw it advertised in Antic in '84. I never did find one, even in the Toronto area, at the time.