According to the MiSTer forum topic on the Astrocade, this console had cassette support. The Astrocade had a pretty active indie scene way back in the late 70s and early 80s. There are hundreds of cassettes for the Astrocade and this format actually dwarves the number of cartridge games available for the console.
Here's an excerpt from a post on this thread: "It had a few different BASIC carts, a 300-baud cassette interface for saving and loading programs from tape, and a revision of BASIC that had a 2000-baud interface built-in. Thanks to the intense preservation work over at Ballyalley.com a lot of these tapes are preserved as wav files, and a whole lot of documentation (including schematics for the console itself and the cassette interface circuitry) can be found up there. Happy to compile it for interested devs - I think it'd be a great use case for the audio-in port MiSTer accessory, as well."
Would love to get cassette support to make the Astrocade a more compelling console. Here's a link to the thread: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=234. The thread also has links to schematics fyi.
According to the MiSTer forum topic on the Astrocade, this console had cassette support. The Astrocade had a pretty active indie scene way back in the late 70s and early 80s. There are hundreds of cassettes for the Astrocade and this format actually dwarves the number of cartridge games available for the console.
Here's an excerpt from a post on this thread: "It had a few different BASIC carts, a 300-baud cassette interface for saving and loading programs from tape, and a revision of BASIC that had a 2000-baud interface built-in. Thanks to the intense preservation work over at Ballyalley.com a lot of these tapes are preserved as wav files, and a whole lot of documentation (including schematics for the console itself and the cassette interface circuitry) can be found up there. Happy to compile it for interested devs - I think it'd be a great use case for the audio-in port MiSTer accessory, as well."
Would love to get cassette support to make the Astrocade a more compelling console. Here's a link to the thread: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=234. The thread also has links to schematics fyi.