tapes, song on one side data on the other. name?
category: offtopic [glöplog]
When you load data off a cassette and you have a song playing on the other side of the cassette. Is there a name for this? Like a happy-cassette or something?
got it!!
Atari computer games that had cassettes only used one channel for the data, and the other could be music, which it could play.
So it's an atari thing
Atari computer games that had cassettes only used one channel for the data, and the other could be music, which it could play.
So it's an atari thing
Wow! Any example audio/video capture of such cassettes ?
What? Is this possible? Time for Breaking Baud 2! :)
i got some language education cassettes for atari8 that work like this, those seem to have been quite common back in the day
Strange stuff that never made it to mainstream! you gotta love it! ;)
Same as some radio-broadcasts of pure data in the GDR (and in England iirc) in the 80s to be recorded on cassette for later use on your datasette!
(NSA would love if this would have got common use of radio! ;) )
Same as some radio-broadcasts of pure data in the GDR (and in England iirc) in the 80s to be recorded on cassette for later use on your datasette!
(NSA would love if this would have got common use of radio! ;) )
hardy, i don't know what kind of data broadcasts they had in the UK and GDR. in holland, the national broadcast company went as far as trying to make a platform independent BASIC language system and they transmitted data for this system via mediumwave stations so it could be received internationally. according to the wikipedia page, this system became popular in the GDR in the late 80s, however by that time we just got our modems and bbs'es and i started to fuck around with those funny DTMF tones, so my interest had shifted elsewhere and i never actually ran any international code ;)
i know about almost nothing about this from my own experience, only read about it lateron, this is from wikpedia:
Here a link to the page where i copypasta´d it from:
BasiCode
Quote:
In 1986, the new BASICODE 3 standard was developed. The most important additions were routines for simple monochrome graphics, reading and writing data from within programs and sound output. BASICODE 3 made BASICODE popular in the computer scene of the GDR, and from 1989 onward BASICODE programs were transmitted via radio throughout the GDR. Also, a book was published which included a vinyl record with Bascoders for all computers common in the GDR. The last revision of BASICODE, which featured color graphics, was released as BASICODE 3C in 1991.
Here a link to the page where i copypasta´d it from:
BasiCode
@sigflup: Cool stuff!
I think someone shoudl make a demo about it.
I think someone shoudl make a demo about it.
Thomson computers have this too. The tape drive is stereo, one track is data, the other goes to the sound output.
Also, tape drive fun can't go without mentionning the 2-XL "robot": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-XL
Also, tape drive fun can't go without mentionning the 2-XL "robot": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-XL
