Description: 1530USB Datasette To PC Adapter Record Games To Tapes,Backup Tapes to PC Hi Folks.Welcome to my listing. My name is Remzi.I am an amateur electronics hobbyist.I like designing and building modern interfaces for the vintage computers in my spare time. This 1530USB adapter has been around for almost 5 years.It's fully tested by some Commodore communities for preservation,duplication and recreation purposes and gave brilliant results.If you have a Commodore 1530 Datasette,you can create C64,C16,VIC-20,PET software tapes.It is also possible to use it for other systems like SINCLAIR / AMSTRAD ACORN / BBC / MSX / ATARI. Software used below is for Windows only. MacOS is NOT supported. Backing Up Tapes To PC Why would you back up your tape while there are digital images of tapes already available on the net? Well,it's just like ripping your audio CD's and converting them to MP3 files.You paid for those CD's back and you own them.The digital copies are %100 yours.It is just that strange feeling. If you have some multi load games like Last Ninja and you want to make sure tape is totally error free,you can play the game from begining to the end or back it up and do an error check on your PC. If you were a programmer back in the 80s and 90s and have some your own basic or machine language programs,you can back it up to your PC and carry on working on them. Backing up process is very simple.You just need to capture the audio using Audacity,save it as a WAV file.Convert it to TAP file using the program called AudioTap. After creating the TAP file,open it with FinalTap to clean and optimize. Load it on your emulator to check if it works. RECORD TAP Files To Tapes TAP files are usually exact copy images of original tapes. If you are a collector and have some non loading tapes,you can download the TAP file and record it over to have fully working tape again. Recording a TAP file on to a tape is straight forward.Start the AudioTap.Choose the TAP file,click OK and Press Record and Play on the Datasette. RECORD Turbo Load Games,Make a mix tape T64,PRG,P00 Images are usually cracked games take less space on the tape and loads much quicker than original tapes. It is possible to fit 50 medium size games on a 60 minute tape. Download some T64 files and unzip them to a new folder.Start the program WAV-PRG and drag-drop the T64's on it. Press Record and Play on the datasette.It will record the games one by one. Datasette Health Check: You can test your tape deck by recording a 3Khz tone,play it back monitoring with a Wow and flutter program. It should fluctuate between 2990 and 3010hz.If it fails this test,you might need to change the drive belt. Listen to tapes: No,I don't mean music tapes.They sound horrible as the datasette is not designed for that. Some users claim,they can adjust the tape head azimuth by listening.I don't know how they do it as I tried many times and failed.Hats off to them. Go to microphone settings,click on the listen tab and check the box says listen to this device. Go to playback settings and set your speakers as default. Don't forget to undo this if you want to record something to tape.It will mess things up badly. Backup (Real) Floppy Disks to .D64,Create Floppy disk from .D64 Files: I don't recommend this if you have tons of floppy disks.What you need is XUM1541. But if you want to backup or create a few floppy disks,it might be useful. Use Mcopy disk to tape backup software to copy disk to tape on real C64. https://csdb.dk/release/?id=107392 Backup the tape to pc,create a TAP file,load Fcopy Tape to disk software on Winvice,attach the TAP file,create a D64 image and mount it.Run the software. https://csdb.dk/release/?id=107393 Reverse this process if you want to create real floppy disks from .D64 images. You can find the step by step instructions at the LOAD64 Support Forum. If you'd like to see it in action,follow the link below; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5P7QAGbBFg Allergy Advice: Contains large amounts of hot glue. Shipping Information UK buyers,it will be sent by 2nd Class Large letter.It might take 2 to 5 days.If you are from a remote island,please allow more time. International buyers,at the checkout,you have 2 options; 1.Economy shipping = NO TRACKING2.Tracked delivery = YES TRACKING It might take from 7 days up to 6 weeks to arrive depending on how busy your customs are. RETURNS If you are not 100% happy with this product,you can return it.I will give you a full refund also pay for the return postage.
Price: 12 GBP
Location: Westbury
End Time: 2023-08-27T12:28:06.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Seller
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 30 days
Vintage: Yes
Brand: Commodore
Type: Adapter
Modified Item: Yes
