Failure: playing video from audio cassette
Update 2022-07-12: I recently received an email from Pablo Vidal (@this_may_be_it), who had success getting with a similar project, using a MiniDisc player — see the end of this post for details. The idea for this project came from a few different places: Curiosity about how cable modems actually transmit ones and zeros along the coax cable. This led to some reading about the various modulation methods used. Code I’d written to read the data on cassette tapes containing files from the Dragon 32 computer of my youth. (Including this one.) The modulation here is fairly simple, being one cycle of a certain tone for a ‘0’ and one cycle of a different tone for a ‘1’. Some fairly superficial reading
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