| ▲ | Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video](youtube.com) |
| 31 points by zdw 3 days ago | 8 comments |
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| ▲ | kristianp 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | stevekemp 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | 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... | |
| ▲ | atmanactive 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | qingcharles 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | dasfsi 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 |
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| ▲ | jeromesalimao 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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! |
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| ▲ | HerbManic 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Might be the peak of "We did it just because it is so stupid." Bravo! |
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| ▲ | rbren 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This should be labeled humor or taken down. I did laugh though |
