Airshack Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I have that pin-for-pin compatible Tandy cassette cable. Hooked it up to my Aquarius and the TI099/4A Program Recorder. Nojoy! It's simply a rebranded generic recorder of the day. Tape playback proves the Aquarius is recording the typical data sounds: A (BEGIN) Tone, followed by garbled noise I presume is code, followed by another tone (END)? So it seems to be recording some output from the Aquarius. Any suggestions as to how I should adjust the TONE and VOLUME on the cassette recorder? Anyone have success saving and loading BASIC programs to cassette on the Aquarius using alternative cassette recorders? How about digital recorders or computers? GarageBand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I've loaded from a cassette drive and a Bluetooth cassette tape and my tablet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I3YLHAC?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 20 hours ago, Airshack said: I have that pin-for-pin compatible Tandy cassette cable. Hooked it up to my Aquarius and the TI099/4A Program Recorder. Nojoy! It's simply a rebranded generic recorder of the day. Tape playback proves the Aquarius is recording the typical data sounds: A (BEGIN) Tone, followed by garbled noise I presume is code, followed by another tone (END)? So it seems to be recording some output from the Aquarius. Any suggestions as to how I should adjust the TONE and VOLUME on the cassette recorder? Anyone have success saving and loading BASIC programs to cassette on the Aquarius using alternative cassette recorders? How about digital recorders or computers? GarageBand? The radio shack cable is different 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) 21 hours ago, Airshack said: I have that pin-for-pin compatible Tandy cassette cable. Hooked it up to my Aquarius and the TI099/4A Program Recorder. Nojoy! It's simply a rebranded generic recorder of the day. Tape playback proves the Aquarius is recording the typical data sounds: A (BEGIN) Tone, followed by garbled noise I presume is code, followed by another tone (END)? So it seems to be recording some output from the Aquarius. Any suggestions as to how I should adjust the TONE and VOLUME on the cassette recorder? Anyone have success saving and loading BASIC programs to cassette on the Aquarius using alternative cassette recorders? How about digital recorders or computers? GarageBand? They Tandy radio Shack and the Aquarius both use a 5pin DIN but are wired differently. This is a quick chart to show you how to rewire it for use with the Aquarius computer Just cut the cable and cross the wires so that the Tandy wire joins the Aquarius wire. IE Tandy PIN 1 to Aquarius PIN 4, Tandy PIN 2 to Aquarius PIN 2, Tandy PIN 3 to Aquarius PIN 5, Tandy PIN 4 to Aquarius PIN 3, and Tandy PIN 5 to Aquarius PIN 1 Tandy Cassette Aquarius Cassette Pin 1. remote sleeve Pin 4 Pin 2. ground Pin 2 Pin 3. remote tip Pin 5 Pin 4. data in Pin 3 Pin 5. data out Pin 1 This is the DIN PIN out 1 3 4 5 2 Edited April 5, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Thank You! Looks like I'll need another TRS-80 cable since my COCO2 and Model100 may need this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 In case it's helpful, I write a short tutorial some years ago on loading data to the Aquarius through a PC sound card. See here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 12 minutes ago, jaybird3rd said: In case it's helpful, I write a short tutorial some years ago on loading data to the Aquarius through a PC sound card. See here. I use your way to load .WAVs also. Maybe AQUACART 2.0 will include the tape games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, rietveld said: I use your way to load .WAVs also. Maybe AQUACART 2.0 will include the tape games I'm glad it helped! And I haven't forgotten about "Volume II"; I've been thinking about it some more lately, but I need to get school out of the way first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) https://www.ebay.ca/itm/DRAGON-32-DRAGON-64-CASSETTE-TAPE-RECORDER-CABLE-LEADS/391164004605?hash=item5b133108fd:g:BNEAAOSwpdpVcbtI The Dragon 32/64 cable is the same as the Tandy coco/102 except cheaper. or you can make one . If you are only loading .WAVs from a PC like jaybird3rd suggested then you only need to connect PIN 3 and PIN 2 to the Aquarius. Thats an easy cable to make. PIN 2 goes to the sleeve of the plug and PIN 3 goes to the tip. Heck you dont even need a DIN plug then, just get a mono headphone cable and strip the wire and tin it a bit and it will slide right into the cassette port on the Aquarius. Edited April 5, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Thank You! Looks like I'll need another TRS-80 cable since my COCO2 and Model100 may need this one. I just made an adapter for the ti99 cassette able as I have a ton of them Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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