How do I check old ZX spectrum cassettes work - the tapes are after all quite old?
I am fairly computer savvy (my life is a continual strand from that Speccy to this here Thinkpad - and many stations between :-)) and I have a mono cassette player so I figure I can sample the tapes to something like *.tzx and load them into an emulator. Is this really necessary? If it is necessary, is there a quicker way of determining whether the software is still OK?