5/31/2026 at 3:58:50 PM
by zdw
6/3/2026 at 7:59:59 AM
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...by sanqui
6/3/2026 at 2:10:46 PM
Cool idea but it doesn't even work after the hour long videoby 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 albumIt's on youtube, very cool for 1983
by dasfsi
6/3/2026 at 8:49:09 AM
Oh wow, lyrics tooby iso1631
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 thoughby rbren
6/3/2026 at 4:28:02 AM
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