Posted By
Krill
on 2022-07-26
05:28:25
|  Re: endianness of tape file bits
In files and memory, bytes are almost always stored with the bit order 7..0.
Endianness almost always refers to the order of multi-byte integers, not the bits in individual bytes
The .TAP file data size field (4 bytes) is stored in little-endian order, with the bits in each byte in the usual 7..0 order.
It is extremely likely that the file data pulse-length bytes are stored in the 7..0 order, too.
KERNAL stores bytes in LSB->MSB order, bit 0 appears first on tape.
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