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sanqui 3 hours ago [-]
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...
pjmlp 2 hours ago [-]
This is the kind of content that one comes to HN, great stuff!
kristianp 7 hours ago [-]
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.
atmanactive 6 hours ago [-]
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 4 hours ago [-]
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.
stevekemp 4 hours ago [-]
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.
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...
It's on youtube, very cool for 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4X2FG9Jbqw