Early PC games often came on cassette. Data encoded in an audio signal can be transmitted many ways!

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #80s #tech #tape #asmr

Loading "Pie Man" from cassette on the apple lI

[duomaxwell]

That cassette tape loading sound is louder than a 90s dial-up modem!

In fact, they almost sounded similar!

[wybuchowyukomendant]

yeah, it was popular in poland to record games off the radio at night lol

[ashtonsretrocomputerroom]

If you’ve got an apple II it might be possible to load this game from the audio included in the this Short! I haven’t had luck with it though. The audio must get compressed or altered slightly when uploaded to YouTube. (Re-Uploaded due to crooked lettering and missing clip 😅)

[TheWeakestLinuxUser]

You got recommended to me when I first started my journey with my Commodore 64, I love your videos ever since

[BoiledPotatoes]

These videos are so peaceful, life was truly really simple back then, enjoyable. Those keyboard sounds are heaven!

[_vexx_]

In Poland in the 80s the scout radio station broadcast games on the radio. I recorded the broadcasts and had the game on Atari :)

[johnthecyber-wolf]

Vintage tech never fails to surprise me

[peter]

Yeah, I remember that well. 😊 I also recorded programs through a radio program in Holland late evening. After a while we expanded our Apple ][ with a floppy drive. Thanks for all the good memories you're giving us!

[gunzz]

I was born in 82 and absolutely did not know that was possible 🤯

[Bleats_Sinodai]

Fun fact: there's a (discontinued) guitar amp series by Roland, the Cube GX (10GX, 20GX and 40GX), that had an app which uses an audio stream for loading different amplifier presets into it, which is basically how these old computers read info from tapes!

[averageguy]

That initialization string is the sound of my childhood

[ElCharroNegro]

Recorde mi pimera clase de computacion en 1984....ese dia al entra al salon de clases y ver un extraño aparato conectado a una cassetera, por un momento pense que hibamos a escuchar musica, hasta que aparecio en la pantalla ¡¡ un videojuego!!! fue un momento mágico 😀

[cabbitkisser]

i remember when i was 13 back in the mid 1980's. my dad brought home a trs-80-coco 2 it only had a cassette drive with it. time went by he picked up floppy drive

[guessundheit]

To those who weren't around then, NEVER look down on cassettes as a means of storage. Early home computers cost US$400-1200, and a floppy drive would have cost just as much. A $20-40 "shoebox" cassette deck was slower, but it was affordable when you could barely afford the computer. ($400 in 1978 is $1900 today). The home computer revolution would have taken a LOT longer, and been mainly for the wealthy for the first ten years.

[thethriftyfawn]

I've only heard of tapes providing information to computers but have never seen it... thanks for the demonstration!

Also, all of your equipment is so clean and NEW looking! You must have been taking excellent care of it all of these years! 😊

[Human_hll]

The static reminds me of sleep music, i could fall asleep to that if i was given the chance

[Texasplit]

Wow. that is so neat. Man I wish I could have touched that time.

[jovankabroz]

That's very cool! Also, can we see some demonstrations on gaming in the early 90s? It would be awesome if you would happen to have a copy of DOOM! If not it would be nice to see a short on the specs and some software for the Apple 2 or the IBM-PC

[matthewhamlett]

Wow I just love it when 10 seconds was really 10 seconds

[Gewpyvr]

I didn’t read the loud warning and now I think I’m legally deaf