Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery
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A repository detailing data recovery of OnStream tapes.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2023-05-24 · latest 2025-06-17
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Here’s a gist that might be enlightening: https://github.com/Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery/blob/main...
comment by chris_wot · 2025-06-17 · in How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video] -
The data format is documented at a high level here: https://github.com/Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery/blob/main... It's a linear, 192-track format that's read 8 tracks at a time. The other files in that repo are also worth reading.
comment by userbinator · 2023-05-25 · in The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives