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https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1649345411335725056 https://twitter.com/jennmcallister/status/1649902644713127937 https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1649920368348393473 https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1649909465716518913  This was not on my imagined list of things that could gently caress twitter over.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What video game platform/console used cassette tapes as their media format? I know there was one in Japan, but I can't think of any in America that didn't use disks or cartridges. I don't know how popular the Commodore 64 was in the US, but that's what I had and it used tapes. I even bought some! It wasn't all copying (didn't even know enough to call it piracy back then). There was a radio show that would transmit short games or programs over the air and if you recorded it onto an audio cassette and were lucky enough to not get interference at critical moments you could load that onto your computer.
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The C64 was very popular, but we all had disk drives. Tapes died out very quickly in the states.
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Cassette drives were very common in the 1980's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_home_computers 
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Osmosisch posted:There was a radio show that would transmit short games or programs over the air and if you recorded it onto an audio cassette and were lucky enough to not get interference at critical moments you could load that onto your computer. There was a nice segment about this in On The Media, interviewing one of if not the pioneer of this distribution method
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kefkafloyd posted:The C64 was very popular, but we all had disk drives. Tapes died out very quickly in the states. Yeah I had a c64 and had a 5 inch floppy and a cartridge system as well, no tapes. e: It was a hand me down from my grandpa and he had a bunch of pirated games on floppies, including strip poker lol
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What video game platform/console used cassette tapes as their media format? I know there was one in Japan, but I can't think of any in America that didn't use disks or cartridges. Computers: Apple II, TRS-80, Commodore PET, Atari 800/400
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kefkafloyd posted:The C64 was very popular, but we all had disk drives. Tapes died out very quickly in the states. I did eventually get a disk drive, but it was definitely not ubiquitous. Sagacity fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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My friends had C64s and I had the SVI 728 and I was so mad at my parents for not getting me a C64 too. I remember a friend had a disk drive for his C64 and it was cool. IIRC it had a GUI even.
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That was GEOS, a very blatant (but cool) knockoff of the early Mac OS that came along in the late 80s. I was really into the Commodore scene in high school, they did some crazy, crazy stuff long after the company itself was kaput.
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Apr 24, 2023 13:51
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The GTA Vice City intro started with a reference to Commodore 64 games on tape. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaGiMYUn7p4
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After The War posted:That was GEOS, a very blatant (but cool) knockoff of the early Mac OS that came along in the late 80s. https://www.the8bitguy.com/
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The demoscene remains the most active out there! At least in Europe, anyway. I got to be around for the NTSC scene's last hurrah, ushered in by internet access before it all finally faded away.
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Many years ago when I got my first car which only had a tape deck and no aux in, you could and probably still can get a tape adapter with a 3.5mm cable. I still think this is one of the neatest little technical hacks I've come across in real life. The quality was terrible but I didn't care I could listen to Darude sandstorm over and over again delivering pizzas.
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Professor Beetus posted:Yeah I had a c64 and had a 5 inch floppy and a cartridge system as well, no tapes. I can only imagine C64 strip poker had slightly better graphics than Custer’s Revenge.
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Silly Burrito posted:I can only imagine C64 strip poker had slightly better graphics than Custer’s Revenge. No, it was digitized real images, and googling it I discovered that it actually had a real licensed model and singer attached. The full name is Samantha Fox Strip Poker and there's apparently even sequels. https://youtu.be/rBcbh6qDXX8 Link is SFW unless you're working at the Vatican and the pope is standing behind you Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Professor Beetus posted:you're working at the Vatican and the pope is standing behind you
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HootTheOwl posted:But I can't understand a love for cassettes. They were always lovely, they weren't designed for or to improve quality. They were just smaller than the other tape formats. The main appeal was that you could buy a ten pack of blank cassettes with like 60 minutes to a side and dub a lot of your favorite albums from friends. It was especially huge in college where everyone was strapped for cash so if you were at a party or friend's house and heard something you liked, you could just make a copy of it for yourself with a blank tape. SOme stereos had dual cassette decks where you could even do "high speed dubbing" so you could bascially get two brand new albums in about 10 or 15 minutes. It was a great way to hear new music and get turned on to bands you didn't know about and myself and everyone I knew did it all the time. It was fun to make your own art work on the blank sleeves too. All this goes without even mentioning the legendary MIX TAPE of various songs you dug. Also, portable cassette players were the way to listen to tunes on the bus, at the beach, etc. Portable CD players sucked because if you moved around too much they'd skip. Of course, none of this explains the love for them NOW I still have a bunch of the ones I made but they've degraded and have terrible hiss to them
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Can't believe all this awful neglect of my first games machine ever, the ZX Spectrum. We had a +2 which had the cassette player *built in* so you didn't even have to attach your own! R: Tape Loading Error , 0:1 Those were the days
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BiggerBoat posted:Of course, none of this explains the love for them NOW I assume that cassettes appeal to some these days, but it has to be out of pure nostalgia. One thing the capitalist class doesn't seem to understand about Gen-X is that we've been endlessly adaptable to technology. How could we not growing up from Apple computers and Atari video game consoles through the modern cell phone and consoles? I watch some of these "retro" based Youtubers like 8-bit Guy and LGR, and they completely satisfy whatever nostalgia based "itch" for that old technology. Am I tempted to go hunting down my old C-128 and Atari 2600 in my parents' garage that's only 10 minutes away? gently caress no, i have better things to spend my time on and dedicate my space to. Like you said, I grew up recording vinyl and CD to tape for my off-brand walkman out of available convenience. I'd have used an ipod or a cell phone if I had it. There's nothing appealing to me about going back to a cassette player.
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BiggerBoat posted:The main appeal was that you could buy a ten pack of blank cassettes with like 60 minutes to a side and dub a lot of your favorite albums from friends. It was especially huge in college where everyone was strapped for cash so if you were at a party or friend's house and heard something you liked, you could just make a copy of it for yourself with a blank tape. This. Growing up in the eighties, it was super-cheap to just buy a whole bunch of blank cassettes for recording stuff. Most cassette decks had the ability to engage AND pause the Record functionality. Remember too that this was all occurring when FM terrestrial radio was hugely popular, along with MTV. I nearly always had a cassette cued up to record while listening to FM radio. All it took was a quick press of the Pause button to start and another press to go into Record “standby”. I had a gazillion tapes filled with nearly every song that played on the radio back then. Hell, I lived close enough to Baton Rouge High that I could easily pick up the national feeds that they aired back then, including Metal Shop which was a great pre-Internet way to discover different metal bands. 
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HopperUK posted:Can't believe all this awful neglect of my first games machine ever, the ZX Spectrum. We had a +2 which had the cassette player *built in* so you didn't even have to attach your own! Just in case you feel nostalgic enough to share footage of that: Do NOT, under any circumstances, post a gif of that thing in action. It WILL give me a seizure. I know this from experience.
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SerthVarnee posted:Just in case you feel nostalgic enough to share footage of that: God yeah I bet it would, I never thought of that. I wasn't going to though, too lazy
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HopperUK posted:Can't believe all this awful neglect of my first games machine ever, the ZX Spectrum. We had a +2 which had the cassette player *built in* so you didn't even have to attach your own! for n=0 to 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZIM9MtLo next n
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laserghost posted:for n=0 to 2 Awesome, thanks for the flashback  Been a while.
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I think mixtapes are an interesting artifact of history, because although they're not hugely different from burned CDs or (now) shared playlists, they were a lot more work to create, there were more time constraints (not so much relative to CDs, but certainly to playlists) and you couldn't just skip around or randomize the order, so you necessarily put a lot more thought into what you were doing, to get it just right. It's an interesting situation where the constraints of a system actually make the end result better. See also, arguably: the erstwhile length limitation on tweets.
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Aware posted:Many years ago when I got my first car which only had a tape deck and no aux in, you could and probably still can get a tape adapter with a 3.5mm cable. I still think this is one of the neatest little technical hacks I've come across in real life. The quality was terrible but I didn't care I could listen to Darude sandstorm over and over again delivering pizzas.
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cat botherer posted:Oh yeah, that was my setup until about 2012. The cassette adapters worked pretty well, and a hell of a lot better than the ones that use a weak FM signal. Yeah, I had the misfortune of buying a car between tape decks and aux inputs, so my only options were the FM transmitter or burning cds. Which, thankfully, I was able to do for a couple years until I no longer had a pc with an optical drive. e: I cannot emphasize how much the FM thing sucks rear end. I wonder if those were more useful in less populated areas with fewer competing signals, but tbh I'm not even sure if that has anything to do with how those work.
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Professor Beetus posted:Yeah, I had the misfortune of buying a car between tape decks and aux inputs, so my only options were the FM transmitter or burning cds. Which, thankfully, I was able to do for a couple years until I no longer had a pc with an optical drive.
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Professor Beetus posted:Yeah, I had the misfortune of buying a car between tape decks and aux inputs, so my only options were the FM transmitter or burning cds. Which, thankfully, I was able to do for a couple years until I no longer had a pc with an optical drive. I had a 2000 Toyota with CD and Radio for 20 years. The trick that worked the FM adaptors was to get being sold in Europe for some reason. It was more powerful and it worked. FYI in 2004 my future wife bought a 2003 Mercedes C240 and one reason was (besides being a crazy good deal) was it had radio, CD changer, and cassette tape player.
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I used an FM transmitter forever in my first car, the trick was to figure out where your car's receiver actually is. I got the best results having it in my back seat. Once I got a new car I made sure it had an aux cable, the superior option even to this day.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:This. Same. There were some college radio stations I'd listen to from time to time and I'd do the same thing just to capture some songs that caught my ear at the moment or ones I'd heard before that I wanted to record. Often, the lead in would be truncated and the end might have a but of a commercial or some poo poo but you could rewind and try to get the editing just right. The sweet spot on some mix tapes was getting that song transition JUST right and it often made my happy for reasons I can't entirely explain if you didn't grow up with it. I get the nostalgia for vinyl. As an illustrator and graphic designer, one thing I love about 12" x 12" is the loving art work on so many cool albums and the thought that went into it. I used to put on my (wired) headphones, read along with the lyrics and pore through the art in ways that added to the entire experience and enhanced my enjoyment of the art. Learning the words to songs added another layer of my understanding and appreciation for the work. It's kind of like how a movie soundtrack or a good score, done right, adds to the film. Or even a comic book/graphic novel where the writing and images work in concert. A lot of these albums were what made me want to be an artist/illustrator and were my inspiration, full stop. KISS, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Prince, Parliament/Funkadelic, YES, Jethro Tull, Bowie, Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Grateful Dead had amazing packaging that often turned the album into a visceral, tacit and thematic experience that stimulated not only your sense of sound but of sight as well. Often, these elements translated onto the live shows and big acts with important releases often NEEDED this stuff. You'd associate the art with the music. But there's really no need to wax nostalgic for cassettes at all anymore. If you want a "mix tape" now you can burn a CD or just create a custom playlist that both sound far better. Can't decorate that case all super cool though and give them to girls you like.  Not sure what I'm on about here but figured I'd share anyway.
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But I don't give two shits about CD's or Vinyl, I do like cassettes. And that's what's important.
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The 2 best parts of cassette tape culture were: 1) All that sweet empty space on the case inserts to come up with your own mix of liner notes, artwork, and marginalia. 2) Reaching the point of contentedness with the contents that allowed you to engage in the holy ritual of “breaking the tabs”. EDIT: Also, does anyone remember those absurdly long boxes that CDs were packaged in when they first hit the market and the just-as-absurdly long plastic holders they were held captive by? C2C - 2.0 fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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C2C - 2.0 posted:“breaking the tabs” (...because you never knew what could improve the mix a year later?)
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Professor Beetus posted:Yeah, I had the misfortune of buying a car between tape decks and aux inputs, so my only options were the FM transmitter or burning cds. Which, thankfully, I was able to do for a couple years until I no longer had a pc with an optical drive. I had a hand me down minivan with a tape deck that managed to be incompatible with those adapters. The FM thingy actually worked great. I don't know if it's because I lived in the suburbs or because that car had a full sized fixed antenna but I'd drive around listening to my Zen Touch Micro mp3 player by Creative.
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PT6A posted:I think mixtapes are an interesting artifact of history, because although they're not hugely different from burned CDs or (now) shared playlists, they were a lot more work to create, there were more time constraints (not so much relative to CDs, but certainly to playlists) and you couldn't just skip around or randomize the order, so you necessarily put a lot more thought into what you were doing, to get it just right. My mum has always said proudly that the best ever present I gave her was a bootleg Evanescence CD. They had just came out and I got any and all files I could on our lovely dialup. Then made custom artwork and printed it out. Slammed it all in a jewelcase and wrapped it. She knew it wasn't legit, and knew I couldn't afford $30 for any sort of retail CD, and knew I spent actual time making it for her. Now, shes too lazy to ever watch something on my PLEX server that I can tell you, spent FAR more time and money on.
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