Tape image

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Tape image is a term used in the world of emulation. A tape image is a file image of a program which was distributed on cassette tapes. In the old days of computing, applications were distributed on cartridges, floppy disks or cassette tapes. Many computers such as the TI-99/4A, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, et al had a cassette tape drive add-on.

A tape image is nothing more than the contents of a computer cassette tape which is dumped to a file.

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