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Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]
- pjmlp 4mo agoThis is the kind of content that one comes to HN, great stuff!
- HerbManic 4mo agoMight be the peak of "We did it just because it is so stupid." Bravo!
- jeromesalimao 4mo agoI 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!
- kristianp 4mo agoThis 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.
- atmanactive 4mo agoAs 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 4mo agoThese 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.
- dasfsi 4mo agoPete 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
- iso1631 4mo agoOh wow, lyrics too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw
- stevekemp 4mo agoBack 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-vinyl-flexi-discs-zx-spectrum https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on...
- rbren 4mo agoThis should be labeled humor or taken down. I did laugh though
- indianrestrooms 4mo ago[dead]
- sanqui 4mo agoAt 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-desce-a-video-o-jeho-zalohovani/ https://herniarchiv.cz/en/blog/88-robot-karel-na-vinylove-de...
- butlike 4mo agoCool idea but it doesn't even work after the hour long video