Commander X16

If one owns a typical 8 bit home computer that 30 years ago communicated with a cassette recorder/datasette, what are reliable mass data storages as of today for these machines - beside using a PC's sound card?

Most people just use the headphone jack of their phone, if you only have a tape modem for storage I/O. But if you also had a digital port, like a serial or parallel port for connecting a floppy drive, there are many disk emulations that take flash media, like CompactFlash or SD cards, the SD2IEC most famously for Commodore 8-bit computers.

1. 
   Digital audio recorder  (bonus points if it does uncompressed linear PCM)
   


2. 
   MP3 player
   


3. 
   Smartphone
   


4. 
   Dedicated "tape emulator', such as Tapeuino.
   


5. 
   FPGA emulator, such as Ultimate II+ or Turbo Chameleon.
   

 

I quick search unearthed the CBM Tape Pi, I expect there are probably other implementations using a Raspberry Pi or similar as data cassette emulator.

On 5/5/2022 at 9:44 PM, Ju+Te said:

If one owns a typical 8 bit home computer that 30 years ago communicated with a cassette recorder/datasette, what are reliable mass data storages as of today for these machines - beside using a PC's sound card?

Phone. iPad.

I've used tapDancer on an Android 4 phone with a C64 Datasette and a Cassette Adapter for MP3 Player with 3.5 mm stereo jack and that worked well to load C64 programs stored as prg-files into a real C64.

https://paleotronic.com/software/tapdancer/

"Currently, tapDancer supports Commodore (TAP / T64 / PRG formats), Sinclair ZX Spectrum (TZX / TAP), Amstrad CPC (CDT), Acorn Electron / BBC (UEF), MSX (CAS) and Atari (CAS)."