Idea:A way of adding to the firmware Load from Cas with SIO2SD

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I was thinking about this yesterday,why its not added,I know SIO2SD is a drive emulator but it connects to the SIO port so it could be added to the firmware like how it loads XEX files,why not cas files,I guess it would have to load at a slower speed like at 600 like the Tape emulator on AspeQt,

 

SIO2SD works the same way as the Tapuino for c64, but the Tapuino converts the tap files to a sound and plays them but it looks the same. SIO2SD must send a sound to the sio port cos thats how a serial works,thats how you can use your PC as a emulator and load the images (Games) to your Atari by sound,even the disk drive makes sound just faster and can store more than a tape can.

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No doubt it's technically possible for Sio2sd to load tape files.

 

But not a lot of motivation for anyone to make that happen.

 

I still use real tapes; and I think they are underrated.

 

Tapes are reliable*, cheap, and readily available. None of which matters cause they are too slow for most.

 

*I've seen more bad floppies vs tapes by about 5 to 1, ymmv.