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How to make MZF/MZT from tape

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:51 pm
by halvork
Hi.

I have no clue why I bought a MZ-700 many years ago. It came without any software and was soon abandoned in my garage. Now I am rebuilding my home office and was going to reserve 1/3 of the space to my old 8bit computers when I found this Sharp-thing. Difference this time was that I found this site on the web. I started reading and the Mz-700 grew on me. I downloaded some MZFs and loaded up the computer using a bluetooth cassette adapter and my iPhone (and mzf2waw).
Now I love this computer and have bought some old software on casette online. Some of this software I can't find as MZF and I feel I should make MZFs of this software and make it available for others. But I can't seem to find a tool for making a MZF/MZT.
How do you guys do that?

Re: How to make MZF/MZT from tape

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:02 pm
by mz-80a

Re: How to make MZF/MZT from tape

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:52 pm
by halvork
Should I make a .wav from the cassette first? Or how else can I use the cassette as input to the PC program?

Re: How to make MZF/MZT from tape

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:57 pm
by hlide
Having both is good

Re: How to make MZF/MZT from tape

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:17 pm
by mz-80a
halvork wrote: ā†‘Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:52 pm Should I make a .wav from the cassette first? Or how else can I use the cassette as input to the PC program?
For transferring to laptop I use the software Audacity on my laptop and I have a hi-fi tape deck with a USB soundcard to make the WAV. Then MZFStudio can read the WAV and convert to MZF. If it won't read on the first go I will then split the WAV into left and right channels and try to get MZFStudio to read one of those. Usually one of these methods works.

Re: How to make MZF/MZT from tape

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 11:12 pm
by halvork
mz-80a wrote: ā†‘Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:17 pm For transferring to laptop I use the software Audacity on my laptop and I have a hi-fi tape deck with a USB soundcard to make the WAV. Then MZFStudio can read the WAV and convert to MZF. If it won't read on the first go I will then split the WAV into left and right channels and try to get MZFStudio to read one of those. Usually one of these methods works.
:o
Wow! So not quite straight forward then...
Firstly I have to buy a cassette player. Next is getting the sound into a computer. Iā€™m not even sure I have an audio input ' :roll:
I will see what I come up with.

Thanks for your help and answers anyway. :D