PerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoWhat If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Outgardinerbryant.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down14cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.segames@lemmy.worldretrogaming@lemmy.world
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minus-squareusername_1@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42arrow-down1·5 days agoIn the Sinclair era we used cassettes instead of discs. It was shitty but cheap solution.
minus-squarenon_burglar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 days agoAh, yes. 300 lines of basic from a magazine, wrote it to a cassette tape and played it back when I wanted to play the game.
minus-squareHejMedDig@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoOnly to find out that there was a typo in the magazine, and 8 year old me had no knowledge on what was wrong, except "error in line 130“
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·5 days agoSame with Commodore and my Japanese drum machine from the 90s. Stands to reason that VHS would put that “on steroids”, relatively speaking.
minus-squareEldritch@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoEeeeeh, not as much as you might think. Well at least not compared to something designed for it like lto tapes etc.
minus-squareBruncvik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoAnd for some reason, copying the tapes via a double-deck never worked. I had to use software like Mr. Copy to copy over the tapes I borrowed from a classmate.
minus-squareZedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThe Atari 400 and 800 used a modified cassette player to store and load. It was tremendously buggy with the sync tone that started transfer.
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoThere’s some projects on guthub that turns sound into files same deal. Interesting way to convert and its been around for a long time.
In the Sinclair era we used cassettes instead of discs. It was shitty but cheap solution.
Ah, yes. 300 lines of basic from a magazine, wrote it to a cassette tape and played it back when I wanted to play the game.
Only to find out that there was a typo in the magazine, and 8 year old me had no knowledge on what was wrong, except "error in line 130“
Same with Commodore and my Japanese drum machine from the 90s.
Stands to reason that VHS would put that “on steroids”, relatively speaking.
Eeeeeh, not as much as you might think. Well at least not compared to something designed for it like lto tapes etc.
And for some reason, copying the tapes via a double-deck never worked. I had to use software like Mr. Copy to copy over the tapes I borrowed from a classmate.
The Atari 400 and 800 used a modified cassette player to store and load. It was tremendously buggy with the sync tone that started transfer.
There’s some projects on guthub that turns sound into files same deal. Interesting way to convert and its been around for a long time.
Link?