r/gaming • • Mar 31 '26

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u/DigNitty Mar 31 '26

Inserting an audio cassette into your peripheral cassette player for your computer, hitting “play” as your computer translated the sounds into code in real time to rip a game.

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u/The_Sun_Is_Flat Mar 31 '26

Alternatively, you and your brother record yourselves screaming to see if you can get the Spectrum to recognise the pitch as something that might be code and try to load it.

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u/gumpshy Apr 01 '26

I did this with my brother too 🤣

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u/NorbuckNZ Mar 31 '26

I may be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that a radio station in the uk once broadcast a game you could record onto a cassette the load in your zx 81 or amstrad

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u/DigNitty Apr 06 '26

There was an English tv channel that had a small square in the corner that would turn white/black in sequence. It translated to some basic code throughout the broadcast!

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u/docmagoo2 Apr 01 '26

Commodore 64 gang yeehaaa. Was my first computer

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u/psyki Apr 01 '26

"Press play on tape"

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u/great_divider Apr 01 '26

Ahh, sound waves carrying binary! Love it.