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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by Clamchop on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:20PM (#36065699)
I would be surprised if it used helical recording. Data tape recorders rarely do because it's much more complex, increases tape wear, and the use cases don't usually demand that kind of linear bandwidth.
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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by jandrese on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:56PM (#36066278)
Wasn't the whole selling point of these drives that they were able to encode more on the tape than their competitors? I figure that must include some clever tricks.
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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by userbinator on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:17AM (#36067018)
The data format is documented at a high level here:

https://github.com/Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery/blob/main...

It's a linear, 192-track format that's read 8 tracks at a time. The other files in that repo are also worth reading.

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