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My sister corrupted my favorite game. She pressed fast forward on the tape deck while it was playing (and loading). I think that stretched the tape, because after that the game wouldn't load anymore, it would error out.
This happened to me in the early 80's with the family's Tandy Color Computer 1. We didn't have a disk drive, just loaded things using tape drive.
As an aside, I think the modulation used was a simple frequency shift keying, with likely no error correction.
Why all that complication?
Why not just play the audio on a computer speaker to a microphone and maybe a generic audio preamp board ( to get the levels right ) to the destination computer.
Could have the speaker and microphone in a small cardboard box to avoid any audio interference ....
Once you get the speaker, the mic, the cardboard box, the "finding the proper input/output level", the EQ, the "WIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIiiiiscreeeeech" sounds...
I don't think that device is much more complicated. Also, working with it is way way simpler. Drop the files, press play.
RE "WIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIiiiiscreeeeech" sounds.
Why a speaker and mic? Why not just connect the headphone out of a PC to the audio in on the old computer?
That may work with WAV files recorded from cassette tapes, but not the various other tape file formats like TAP or TZX, those are often "shortcircuited" to skip the tunneling through sampled audio. Some of the fastloader formats are also extremely sensitive to irregularities in the signal transmission.