Just noticed this online over at the Oric1 & Atmos Owners forum on Faceache, Oricians: Think we've all been there with piggin awkward tapes not wanting to play ball and they always seem to be the ones with most interest, ie. an old back-up of some long forgotten game/util you were working on when you were 15 etc. Seems Erik Persson's been doing some useful work with a rescue util so why not consider his little life saver before pulling out your remaining grey hairs, Oric abusers? Yeah, I'm looking at you, Baz, Rich and maybe Robofruit Al?! Link over at: https://github.com/erik-persson/oric-toolbox Remember, there is NO GUARANTEE that Thunderbirds will turn up and rescue your tape but your call is important and kindly hold the line (for 40 years)...
There's a guy called Baktra on the AtariAge forums who created a tool to do similar stuff for Atari tapes.
Yep, he contacted us on the old Brenski Atari Sector and asked for various tech details which we did our best to supply him with but as you allude to there, Paul, Baktra was working somewhere up in the stratosphere, so to speak, way above our knowledge base and yes, he did do a lot of investigative work on Atari baud rates and custom tape header files etc etc and was very interested in the Rambit system which I had a little bit of prior knowledge/experience of.
I knew three things about tapes, Hold Start, press play, type CLOAD and you could put cracking 'choons' on them.. I was lucky to be able to transition from tape to disk very quickly, thanks to my job. I could write a machine code disk loader but had zero clue about tapes.
