#818

You are officially my hero, low-fi and all.

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#819

Oh man thanks so much for this tip! Iā€™m going to keep playing around on tape one while I get the hang of it but as soon as I get comfortable Iā€™ll have to start using the other tapes. Do you happen to know if the tapes are all 8 hours or are they divided up into an hour and a third (8 hours divided by six tapes)?

#820

Does TT also give you an overview of the tape status? For instance: does it show the user what minute their on when recording?

#821

Not right now. The TT integration is still a work in progress. The commands available in the beta allow you to set the recording state, jump to relative cues (next/prev), set the play direction and set the looping state.

Commands Iā€™d like to see is a jump to absolute position, get current absolute position and wipe the tape.

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#823

Iā€™ve been wanting the OP-1 tape deck in euro format for years and, even without the visual feedback, the ease of use of w/ comes pretty close imho.

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#824

Better data viz would go a long way towards addressing my usability concerns. Interesting train of thought.

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#825

Think I just ran into a bug.

When rewinding all the way back to the beginning of a tape in NAV mode, the play button does not seem to work anymore.

#826

IMHO Iā€™d rather better data and control than visualisation.

I think I might have hit the rewind bug. Try playing backwards when you hit that, then stop and play fwds? At least I think thatā€™s what I did (note to self, take better notes!)

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#827

Iā€™ll give it a shot next time I run into it.

Besides operating w/, turning my case on and off is also becoming muscle memory.

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#828

Keep these up. PLEASE!

#829

I think Teletype can deliver that with straight text. No real need for a fancy tape illustration. It would be pretty cool though!

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#830

I agree. Should be easy to add to TT. Cool visualisation is likely to be quite a lot of work though.

#831

Yes, itā€™s true. We get so used to the graphics subsystems on our general purpose computing platforms that we forget what itā€™s like when you have to manage every pixel yourself.

#832

Iā€™d be fine with simplistic tape position feedback like ā€œ12m 56sā€.

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#833

The post just dropped off my W//!! A day early, and on a Sunday to boot. :slight_smile: Time to dive in!

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#834

:champagne::champagne: have fun!

#836

@scanner_darkly has done a bit of graphics programming on Teletype. Maybe he can show you around his code a bit and turn you into a TT firmware hacker. :wink: but I guess this is veering off-topic and thereā€™s a W/ Type Firmware Ideas thread.

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#838

also donā€™t forget

@sliderule made this incredible alt firmware

Teletype Oscilloscope (Telescope - build released)

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#839

Six tapes each of eighty minutes

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#840

Some wobbly tape via THAT CV input:

Iā€™ll have one more of these today, but thatā€™s it. Itā€™s back to the grindstone tomorrow, and then some vacation time.

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