Vinyl Records May Harbor Secret C64 Games

[Anonymous No.5961432]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CZpFqvDQo
I think that's amazing, who knew?

[Anonymous No.5961435]

A tiny text blurb is easy to include, but holding an actual game would take a lengthy stretch of track. Once I press play on the tape, I can go make a sandwich and eat it. It isn't a just a meme, it really takes a long time to load anything worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.5961436]

Umm

[Anonymous No.5961469]

you can fit around 60k per 20min side of an LP. Enough for a decent program

[Anonymous No.5961636]

>>5961435
That's because whoever made what you're loading is retarded. It's probably a BASIC program with everything spelled out. If you need to load a lot of data you'd start with an auto starting fast loader. That'd be >10x faster. If you knew you were loading from vinyl you could go 25x faster. You could even compress the data so it takes only a few seconds to load your program. The key would be making the loader as small as possible because it might take longer to load that than your whole program.

>>5961469
It'd be closer to 40k with the overhead. Using a good loader you could store over 1MB.

[Anonymous No.5962008]

There was a lot more code on vinyl for the ZXes than there was for the C64. Probably cause the Commodore's digital tape input meant you couldn't just hook a record player straight up to your computer like you could with the speccy. British computer magazines would sometimes include thin bendable plastic records full of code called "flexi-discs". They were waaaay cheaper to distribute than floppies, which most of your audience wouldn't have owned a drive for anyways back then.

[Anonymous No.5962051]

>>5961432
That's pretty slick. Thanks for breaking up the monotony around here.