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Recently hooked my 99/4A back up and no longer have a working tape player. I have been trying to use Audacity and my cassette cable so I can have some way to save a program that I write. I do not have a PEB, any Carts or anything else really. My mom still has them and she won't share.

If anyone has any ideas on how to do this it would be greatly appreciated. I really want to play Nerm of Bemer but I don't feel like having to write the program everytime I want to play it.

Thanks for any help anyone can give,
Patrick

Also I'll take any leads on a PEB

People have had mixed success using the PC as a cassette storage option. There are a couple of threads over on the AtariAge TI subforum about it, IIRC. On getting a PEB, they show up on eBay pretty often, and even stay within a very reasonable price range most of the time. The real problem is shipping--that is often more than the price of the PEB! One other reasonable alternative is to pick up a cassette deck from your local Radio Shack (yes they still sell them, amazingly enough). That would help on program acquisition from other sources as well.

You might look at some of the other threads here too--as a couple of people have posted available hardware and software, some free for the price of shipping.