Cassette Tape Data Recovery

This episode is sponsored by PCBWay https://www.pcbway.com Cassette tapes degrade over time, and eventually you may not be able to read the data stored in them. In this episode, we dive into the technical details of cassette tape data recovery: how data is encoded, what we can do to recover it, and what kind of tools we can use. Support Noel's Retro Lab on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NoelsRetroLab You can also support Noel's Retro Lab on YouTube by joining this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-SP1bYi3ueKlVU7I75wFw/join Links: - SVI-CAS https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/hardware/svi-cas-image-player-initial-announcement?page=0 - TI99/4A tape format http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/cassette.htm#Cassette%20tape%20format - Classic99 emulator https://github.com/tursilion/classic99 - CS1er http://www.cs1er.com/ - DumpListEditor http://bugfire2009.ojaru.jp/download.html Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:36 Amplification 02:22 How is data stored? 07:15 TI99/4A format 10: