> Floppy dumps aside, I think it's also worth noting that the current Commodore
> cassette format is actually not faithful to the tape's contents (lacking basic things
> such as pause length), so right now the only properly preserved cassettes for this
> system are those with WAV dumps.
>
> The same thing was happening with MSX cassettes until, just a couple of years ago,
> somebody started dumping those in a TZX-based format and successfully asked emulator
> authors to support it. So, in case that anyone wants to give it a try on figuring out
> a similar "proper" cassette format, know that it's not too late for that.
Not that TZX is really much better... or at least the tools that work with it aren't, and there are so many undefined edge cases + things that don't belong in a cassette format at all making it a bit of a nightmare.
massive oversights like not having a checksum of what the raw data should decode to with a correct decoder make TZX a poor archival choice.
we've very much been left to deal with what people chose to leave tho, guess we should at least be glad to movement of trying to convert everything to snapshot memory dump files instead was quashed fairly early (although some dumps still only exist in that form)
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