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Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c744iD0_fWU
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At the Czechoslovak Game Archive, we have recently received and digitized a version of the Robot Karel educational programming environment for the Czechoslovak IQ 151 home computer stored on a vinyl record: https://herniarchiv.cz/en/blog/88-robot-karel-na-vinylove-de...
This reminds me that I once had a computer magazine from the 80s that came with a green vinyl record "single" that had a game on it for a popular computer, perhaps the Commodore 64. It was useless to me as I had a Z80 machine, but a curiosity.
As far as I remember it should be the other way around: Sinclair had analog audio input/output so one could hook up a turntable instead of the tape. Commodore 64, on the other hand, had a proprietary tape recorder called Datasette so there was no way to hook up a turntable to it. Of course, one could always just copy the signal from a vinyl record to a casette tape and then play it back to the computer.
These records that were stuck to magazines were annoying as hell. They are made from the thinest sliver of plastic, the thickness of a candy wrapper, and would invariably have suffered some sort of kink in them on their way to the store. I can't remember if I ever got one to work properly with my Speccy.
Back in the 80s most of the (monthly) magazines had a cassette tape glued to them, with demos or full games.
But there was also a brief period of time when you'd get a vinyl instead. I remember loading games from those a couple of times, though the tape deck was the standard approach and much more common.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on...
But there was also a brief period of time when you'd get a vinyl instead. I remember loading games from those a couple of times, though the tape deck was the standard approach and much more common.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on...
Pete Shelley's album XL-1 had a bonus track with a ZX-Spectrum program with some visualizations to look at while you listen to the album
It's on youtube, very cool for 1983
It's on youtube, very cool for 1983
Oh wow, lyrics too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw
I remember loading the game Frogger off a cassette tape onto my friends old Commodore 64 at the time. That blew my mind at the time!
Might be the peak of "We did it just because it is so stupid." Bravo!
Cool idea but it doesn't even work after the hour long video
This is the kind of content that one comes to HN, great stuff!
This should be labeled humor or taken down. I did laugh though