[Stephen.]

Ok so I want to record some music I have on my PC to a tape (in the recorder I have connected for radio recording) but I can't work out what wires I need going where
Can anyone help

[Adam]

cut the red wire, not the green on!

[Sidders]

Get a 2-way jack and plug one end into the line-out socket in your PC the other end into a line-in socket on a tape recorder.

Alternatively you could get a tape deck with 2 tape drives and use one of those tape adapter things that you use to play CDs from a portable CD player in the car.

[Stephen.]

Ah yeah I get what you mean but my two-deck player aint with me at the moment so I'll just use the jack,
Cheers

[Sidders]

You need to have a line in socket on the recorder though, most tape players don't have them.

[Stephen.]

I'll have a look, if not then I'll just have to do without!

[Dopey]

Alternatively you could burn a CD with what you on it, then record from the CD.

[Stephen.]

I could yes... but (this is why I don't want to/can't) the CD player that is attached to the recorder is broken, for some reason it won't read my CDs so I will have to wait until it is fixed

[Dopey]

ah! so for now you're a bit stuck.

[Stephen.]

indeed

[bob_fleming]

like iwth a spectrum if u ajust the volume to 9.5 then use a small screw driver to ajust the head you wont get tape loading error, but remember dont touch the ram pack


hope this helps

[Sidders]

If you even so much as breath while a Spectrum was loading you'd get a tape loading error. I always used to go and shut myself away while I waited for the infernal games to load up.

[ninemaster]

Ah now your talking the ZX spectrum Paperboy(a classic) You had to play the music on a seperate stereo. I do miss the screaching of the loading

[Sidders]

I've still got a working model at home.

[ninemaster]

Do you use it? every xmas i mean to have a trip down memory lane but the PS2 wont let me go

[Sidders]

No, not anymore. It's fairly unreliable these days and it doesn't give a very good picture. We're going to keep it for 50 years or so and sell it for a fortune when it becomes antique! Imagine a ZX Spectrum on Bargain Hunt! What would the Duke think of that?

Nah, these days I've got a speccy emulator and with the know-how you can convert all your tapes to .tap or .z80 files. The advantage is they load in about 1 second!

[ninemaster]

What no screaching that just isnt cricket -part of the charm i always thought. Not a bad idea to keep hold of it though hmm my first airloom

[Sidders]

Well true, but I don't really have the patiance to wait 10 minutes for a game to load these days! You can slow it down if you really want to, but I never bother. You never get the 'R Tape loading error' message which is also a great advantage!

This one looks very similar to the one I've got:

[ninemaster]

Ah look at that - a thing of beauty. Did anyone have a 48k the predecessor with the rubber keys or an Amiga, Commodore 64, BBC. The golden age of game playing

[Sidders]

My mate used to have one.

Remember this magazine?

[ninemaster]

Sidla you have made my day im now leaving to have a read of this many thanks

[Sidders]

I aim to please.

[Lew]

i am very proud to have a working commodore 64

the complete set, i have 2 of them in fact, cool eh?

[ninemaster]

Lewis i bow before you what do you use it for?

[Jacqui]

I have 2 perfectly working Sinclair ZX spectrum +2s. they work, and i must admit, i still use them. the games are great, especially one called Blizzard pass. its a logical game and i love it!

that's the one! i've got 2 of those!