tape drive convert?

[Atari-Jess]

I believe in theory it is possible, but I'd like to know for sure before fiddling,

 

Is it possible to mod a commodore tapedrive to work on an atari 8bit, I would think it to be as simple as just adjusting the port from the commodore configuation and shape to the SIO ports shape and adjusting placement where important.

[Bryan]

Nope..not so easy because it's not just a normal tape drive. The Atari one has extra circuitry to do tone decoding so it can send out a digital stream instead of an analog one. I don't know what's in the Commodore one.

 

-Bry

[ijor]

There were third party tape recorders with dual interface (Atari/C-64). I have no idea how easy or difficult is to find them now.

[walter_J64bit]

There were third party tape recorders with dual interface (Atari/C-64). I have no idea how easy or difficult is to find them now.

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Wow I've never seen that one!

[ijor]

IIRC they were branded General Electric, but I might be wrong. I think they had a dettachable interface one for each computer. I don't know for sure, but I suppose they were not available in the US. They were likely produced for countries based on tape market (and not disk drive market as the US).

[+kheller2]

Also the Atari tape drives had a motor control line. The Atari computer could start and stop the tape as needed for some pretty awesome stuff, especially education and speech.

Edited July 28, 2005 by kheller2