alt.hn

5/31/2026 at 3:58:50 PM

Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c744iD0_fWU

by zdw

6/3/2026 at 2:10:46 PM

Cool idea but it doesn't even work after the hour long video

by butlike

6/3/2026 at 3:46:15 AM

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.

by kristianp

6/3/2026 at 4:49:46 AM

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.

by atmanactive

6/3/2026 at 6:10:05 AM

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.

by qingcharles

6/3/2026 at 6:33:44 AM

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on...

by stevekemp

6/3/2026 at 6:05:10 AM

Pete 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

by dasfsi

6/3/2026 at 3:40:47 AM

I 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!

by jeromesalimao

6/3/2026 at 8:48:40 AM

This is the kind of content that one comes to HN, great stuff!

by pjmlp

6/3/2026 at 3:27:41 AM

Might be the peak of "We did it just because it is so stupid." Bravo!

by HerbManic

6/3/2026 at 3:47:31 AM

This should be labeled humor or taken down. I did laugh though

by rbren

6/3/2026 at 4:28:02 AM

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