awesome stuff, YT has it and modli.rs is, well, up and running.
thank you!
saltysalt 3/31/2025||
I played games on a Commodore 64 from cassette tapes, in principal you could record games onto a blank cassette but it was very flaky. Good times though.
HNDen21 3/31/2025|
I did this all the time... even used a double cassette deck to make copies... azimuth was the problem if the heads were aligned different.. so you used a small screwdriver and the top of the cassette had a small opening, this is where you had to align the heads by listening till it didn't sound distorted.. fun times
Then came a nifty upgrade called "LED control" which installed a red LED next to that screw so all you had to do was turn until it was brightest, significantly reducing ?LOAD ERROR. Good times.
HNDen21 3/31/2025||
Yep, there was also a program where a red line would be on your monitor and you had to turn the screw until the line was completely flat
j_french 3/31/2025||||
From what I remember I had a decent amount of success copying games using a twin tape deck for my amstrad 464. I ended up passing on the amstrad to a colleague over a decade ago, who since moved to the US and is almost certainly on here. If you see this Jim, I found the manual!
there was "live streaming" of concerts over special phone lines in the early/mid 1960's
and sending photos over a dot matrix phone line system in the late 1940's
first "drone" flight of an unmaned aircraft, steered by radio control was in the late 19teens
old technical books and album covers, reveal the oddest stuff...
so we are kind of living in an "alternate history"
where everything that could of happened, actualy is happening, all at once, right now
NikkiA 4/6/2025|
> and sending photos over a dot matrix phone line system in the late 1940's
Facsimile was actually invented in the 1840s to transmit images over telegraph.
This is wild. Was it a European thing only? I never heard of it in the states. I was stuck typing in games from the back pages of Compute's Gazette...
pantulis 3/31/2025|
I remember a Spanish radio program doing this (“Bienvenido Mr. chip”)
fabiopjve 4/1/2025||
I did that in Brasil in the late 80s! There was a show on the radio that every sunday afternoon they would broadcast computer programs! The problem is that I had a coco2 clone and most programs were for Spectrum or MSX (the more common machines in Brasil back then). Needless to say, any noise on the radio would damage the recording and the transmitter was very far from me so usually there was noise... :(
dghughes 3/31/2025|
This would have been amazing if I had known about it. I had an Atari 600XL about 1984 I never even heard of a Commodore 64 back then. We wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway. I'm still shocked that my parents even bought me the Atari.
I did eventually get a cassette storage device. I wonder would it have worked for Atari too?