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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atmanactive 2 hours ago | parent | 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 an hour 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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stevekemp 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | 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...

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dasfsi an hour 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