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Yes, even more Microbee Tapes have been recovered - ChickenMan - 29-01-2021
Thanks to kimjohn for providing access to these tapes including their cassette labels and inserts. Tapes were recorded at 44.1khz and saved as stereo 16bit WAV files. The Left & Right channels were separated and saved as individual mono files. Once the recordings would load error free, they were down-sampled to 16khz and saved as 8bit WAV files to reduce their size considerably but still remain loadable.
A couple of the tapes were able to load directly into ubee512 as an IC or PC85 error free while others needed noise removal, low frequency filter, some both and some needed manual fixing of small sections of the WAV file to enable them to load error free. For the programs we don't have on a compilation disk, the MWB files is included within the ZIP file. Beedat and Ledgermaster took a lot of work and many re-recordings to recover them.
I'm not sure if Cosmic Fighter was made available from Microbee or not as this copy was on an early Applied Technology labelled tape but just had a large hand written COSMIC on the label.
Ledgermaster is the r version 2.3 rather than the Public Domain version on MBUG disk #22 and Education Disk #7.
Personal Finance Manager was written by Michael Fackerell in 1982.
The Underworld of Kin cassette insert actually has it labelled as Underworld of Kyn and it now also quotes "Underworld of KYN is copyright of DIGITAL CONCEPTS." but is on an original Microworld tape. Underworld of KYN was the official name of the program for the later Commodore 64 version.
There are a couple of EDASM source code files also, including the EPROM Programmer file for the ETI 668.
The program STRESS is a plastics STRESS ANALYSIS PROGRAM written by G. KEAYS in 1987 and 3D-b was written by Jon McCormack and is a 3 DIMENSIONAL SURFACE PRINTER, with a printer being required.
A few of the cassette insert & labels update our existing files also for being more complete or better quality.
So in to MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Software/Tapes/Original folder we placed
3d-b.wav
chase.wav
cosmic_fighter.wav
data_bee.wav
data_bee_demos.wav
datman.wav
eprom_programmer.wav
escape.wav
escape_from_colditz.wav
house_of_frankenstein.wav
ledgermaster_v23.wav
minedrop.wav
monkey_maths.wav
mytek_asteroids_plus_1200b.wav
mytek_defender_1200b.wav
mytek_defender_300b.wav
mytek_trsbee_1200b.wav
personal_finance.wav
stress.wav
tonetest.wav
underworld_of_kin.wav
vocab_quiz_5.wav
wumpus.wav
beedat.jpg <--- in Microbee\Documentation\Pictures\Tapes folder
chase_wumpus.jpg
cosmic_fighter.jpg
microbee_demonstration_tape_t3.jpg
house_of_frankenstein.jpg
ledgermaster.jpg
minedrop.jpg
pcg_sampler_t3.jpg
personal_finance.jpg
shipwreck_island_goodison.jpg
starshot_hangman.jpg
underworld_of_kyn.jpg
vocab_quiz_5.jpg
data_bee.jpg <--- these replace existing files
escape.jpg
escape_from_colditz.jpg
escape_key_16k_32k.jpg