Archiving Dozens of ZX Spectrum Tapes: Building a Zero-Effort Preservation Pipeline
TL;DR: https://gitlab.com/markotka/zx-spectrum-tape-archiver For years, I’ve been slowly digitising my vintage computer collection — taking photographs, cataloguing machines, and preserving software. But one category always intimidated me more than the others: cassette tapes for the ZX Spectrum. Unlike floppy disks (which you can usually image in a few minutes), cassettes are slow, noisy, mechanical, and—above all—time-consuming. A single 30-minute game tape loads at roughly the speed of geological processes. When you have dozens or even hundreds of tapes to archive, the task becomes overwhelming. ...