+davidcalgary29 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Has anyone tried this? http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~sgl/atari/...00/turb6000.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Not me. I haven't hooked up a tape drive in 10 years. -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy California Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Those mods were fairly popular in Eastern Europe at the time. ++ RC ++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 I'd love to try one! It might eat up my last (crumbling) tapes, but I'd be willing to make the sacrifice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 But that uses a different format...correct? So commercial tapes wouldn't be able to load using it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 Geez, you're probably right. Is a "compact cassette" a microcassette? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Is a "compact cassette" a microcassette? No, it's just a regular cassette tape. That was the name that Phillips (of the Netherlands) used when they introduced the format in the 1960s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 here is earlier version (Turbo2000) of modiffication. Near everyone here had modiffied tape drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Uh oh...you voided your warrantee j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Is a "compact cassette" a microcassette? No, it's just a regular cassette tape. That was the name that Phillips (of the Netherlands) used when they introduced the format in the 1960s. Cassette tapes used to have the "Compact Cassette" logo (for authenticity) the same way that CD's have the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo. This was because there were other competing tape formats like Sony's Elcaset (a larger tape cartridge that housed 1/4" tape). -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndary Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 There where several "Turbo-Tapes' upgrades for the 1010/xc212 tape drives. the first one i saw was called "RAMBIT" at it was designed in the early 80ths in UK. later Trubo2000 & AST upgrades started to show in eastern europe. the original Tape game was needed to be converted to turbo format, but once it did it reduced the loading time dramticlay.. .i.e. Bruce Lee on tape was 212 Records had been cut to 42 records. all turbo upgrade requires a special loader to load the new turbo format. these loaders needs to be loaded before the "shrunked" game.. in east europe cartriges that contains this loader also appeard. along with utilities to convert regular tape games to turbo format. the fasted tape upgrade supposed to be the czech turbo6000. that you can see above.. there is also a similar CDROM interface for the ATARI, look at the attached picture nir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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