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Re:Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an os... by scarybeast on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:51PM (#27188296)
Great that you're working on something similar! How are you finding those tools for handling degraded tape waveforms? I keep bouncing back and forth between hacking up my own vs. wanting to find some existing tool that has some clever math formula.
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Re:Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an os... by colanderman on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:24PM (#27188632)
Both those I linked seem to work fine, though the tapes I'm recovering from are mostly in good condition. The Python one is a bit more robust than the one included with ti99sim, but much much slower and picky about DC offset.

(Note that both of these also decode the TI's frame format; but it should be easy to pull out the core waveform decoder of either.)

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Re:Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an os... by linux_is_nice on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:34PM (#27190995)
rewrite it for speed :)
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