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I used the same tap file that produced the wav that I posted before. Maybe that's a clue. There has been a couple of times that my datasette has slowed or stopped when rewinding while powered by the adapter, but it doesn't happen consistently (and not at all when powered by my Commodore 128)

I do have another datasette (that hopefully works this time) that I'm going to try. If it does, I'll use that one for recording and the one I'm using now for playback since that part seems to work just fine.

Here is the wav of the TAP file that works when recorded outside of the datasette and does not work when recorded with the datasette.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/t6j4zk679zxonw5/impossible.zip/file

That didn't help. Nothing loads on that tape if I do that unfortunately.

It's time to call it as unsuccessful for me. I hope everyone else has a better overall experience and this is just my problem

Edit: Just to confirm that everything should be working just fine, I did the following:

1. Loaded my copy of Excaliba that I got from eBay. It's the commercially recorded tape. It loaded and booted up fine. No issues.
2. I erased the same tape I have been using with a electric tape eraser from Realistic.
3. Using my Eiki tape recorder with the same PC, tape image, and version of Audiotap, I recorded another copy of Impossible Mission. It loaded up fine.

I can't say if it's the adapter, but it's the only thing that isn't consistently working.

Unfortunately, the supposed new old stock datasette was no such thing. The seller just thought it was because it was wrapped in plastic in the box. The read/write head is completely dead. Oh well.

I did try a shorter tape (the dead datasette actually had a C10 tape in it), but the same problem occurs with Novaload games.

So I'll be waiting on that commercial tape to get here to adjust the azimuth so I can try again.

I've got a copy of Excaliba coming my way (cheapest cassette I could find) and I'll see if that changes anything.

Worst case at this point is that I record Novaload games via my external tape deck.

Thanks for all the help!

Thanks for the off forum troubleshooting.

I think at this point, the program I was trying to get working just isn't going to work.

I recorded a copy of Crystal Caverns and I was able to load it pretty consistently.

I'm going to try others to confirm it's just the one I was trying before that didn't work. If that's the case, then I'll just record that one on the tape deck I used before and move on with life

I'll give it a shot. The slip of paper included pointed to the instructions that said not to tick the inverted waveform box.

It can't get any worse than not working I guess