Been feeling so old for the last few weeks. See this post and think, “Wow, finally something that makes me feel a little young. I don’t remember those as anything, but a joke.”
Look at copyright tag on cassette. Realize I don’t remember them because I was too poor and was more than old enough to remember them if I had access to them as a kid.
Now feel old and poor.
It was always that the cover had screen shots from other versions of the game that i enjoyed the most as a Spectrum owner.
I’m not sure they could get away with that now-a-days.
Aztec Challenge on the old Atari. . . . there were others, but that’s the one that I recall the name of it.
I seem to recall some sort of dungeon crawler on a . . . . crap, I don’t even recall what the name or brand of the computer was anymore. Texas Instruments, I think. Needed both the game cartridge AND the cassette. You didn’t see mobs, just ran through endless halls and got random encounters, every room had an encounter, and the battles were top down turn-based like in the later SSI gold box game, but in a much smaller space.
Wow, games on computer tape. Haven’t though of those in a long time.
Remember them? Sure. Don’t remember ever seeing a legit one with a printer label on it though (innocent whistle).
Should of put up a pic of a 8 Track Cassette. I remember those….
Damn, you made me go upstairs and check a couple of boxes. Didn’t find anything. But I promise, ten years from now, when I move, I’ll find that Donkey Kong cassette and I will have my revenge.
Ahh I remember. When I had my Commodore 64 I must have been about 5. I remember coming home from school, putting the cassette in to load, eating dinner and then watching TV for a bit while it loaded. Frequently only to find out it had actually crashed at some point. But, when they worked…joy!
I remember all too well long load times and failing to load games as different games had different recording qualities / cassette qualities and on the spectrum at least you had to vary sound, treble, bass etc sometimes just to get the darn game to load! (disclaimer: this may have been the cheap cassette deck we had at fault).
Nothing quite like waiting 5 or more minutes for a game to load and then to see it crash just as it should be finishing!
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the only form of non volatile storage was an audio cassete (1200 baud if I recall). I was a very hit and miss business. A lot of fiddling with volume and tone controls was required to try and esnure that the computer could read back the tape correctly. Of course ihe fact that I was too stingy / poor to buy a decent tape machine probably didn’t help.
The discovery that the same port used to download programs to the tape could also be used to record digital “music” from the Spectrum’s beeper was something of a breakthrough. I am not one bit musical but I learned how to transcribe printed music into the notes of a ZX Basic program. The combination of low fi tape deck and 8 bit beeping made wasn’t quite up to classical music but it managed some pretty lively renderings of Irish Jigs and Reels.
Wow! Blast from the past. My first computer was a Sinclair something-er-other…cue Google-fu:
Displayed it on a lil’ B/W TV and learned Basic, one line at a time. Then I upgraded to a TRS-80! Ahh, the good ole days.
I’m with Seanxxp, I used to go have a snack while it was loading. My kids nowadays freak out if it takes more than 5 seconds for something to load. Whatever happened to patience??
BTW, I used to put the C-64 tapes into my ghetto blaster and listen to it. It really pissed everyone off around me
Computer cassettes — who remembers these? Wow!
Been feeling so old for the last few weeks. See this post and think, “Wow, finally something that makes me feel a little young. I don’t remember those as anything, but a joke.”
Look at copyright tag on cassette. Realize I don’t remember them because I was too poor and was more than old enough to remember them if I had access to them as a kid.
Now feel old and poor.
It was always that the cover had screen shots from other versions of the game that i enjoyed the most as a Spectrum owner.
I’m not sure they could get away with that now-a-days.
Aztec Challenge on the old Atari. . . . there were others, but that’s the one that I recall the name of it.
I seem to recall some sort of dungeon crawler on a . . . . crap, I don’t even recall what the name or brand of the computer was anymore. Texas Instruments, I think. Needed both the game cartridge AND the cassette. You didn’t see mobs, just ran through endless halls and got random encounters, every room had an encounter, and the battles were top down turn-based like in the later SSI gold box game, but in a much smaller space.
Wow, games on computer tape. Haven’t though of those in a long time.
Remember them? Sure. Don’t remember ever seeing a legit one with a printer label on it though (innocent whistle).
Should of put up a pic of a 8 Track Cassette. I remember those….
Damn, you made me go upstairs and check a couple of boxes. Didn’t find anything. But I promise, ten years from now, when I move, I’ll find that Donkey Kong cassette and I will have my revenge.
Ahh I remember. When I had my Commodore 64 I must have been about 5. I remember coming home from school, putting the cassette in to load, eating dinner and then watching TV for a bit while it loaded. Frequently only to find out it had actually crashed at some point. But, when they worked…joy!
I remember all too well long load times and failing to load games as different games had different recording qualities / cassette qualities and on the spectrum at least you had to vary sound, treble, bass etc sometimes just to get the darn game to load! (disclaimer: this may have been the cheap cassette deck we had at fault).
Nothing quite like waiting 5 or more minutes for a game to load and then to see it crash just as it should be finishing!
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the only form of non volatile storage was an audio cassete (1200 baud if I recall). I was a very hit and miss business. A lot of fiddling with volume and tone controls was required to try and esnure that the computer could read back the tape correctly. Of course ihe fact that I was too stingy / poor to buy a decent tape machine probably didn’t help.
The discovery that the same port used to download programs to the tape could also be used to record digital “music” from the Spectrum’s beeper was something of a breakthrough. I am not one bit musical but I learned how to transcribe printed music into the notes of a ZX Basic program. The combination of low fi tape deck and 8 bit beeping made wasn’t quite up to classical music but it managed some pretty lively renderings of Irish Jigs and Reels.
Wow! Blast from the past. My first computer was a Sinclair something-er-other…cue Google-fu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000
Displayed it on a lil’ B/W TV and learned Basic, one line at a time. Then I upgraded to a TRS-80! Ahh, the good ole days.
I’m with Seanxxp, I used to go have a snack while it was loading. My kids nowadays freak out if it takes more than 5 seconds for something to load. Whatever happened to patience??
BTW, I used to put the C-64 tapes into my ghetto blaster and listen to it. It really pissed everyone off around me
I had to look it up. Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was the computer, and Tunnels of Doom was the game. I also kinda remember Hunt the Wumpus and Parsec as games I played on that thing. Those didn’t need cassettes, though, just the cartridge.
Dang, I feel old now.
READY
RUN
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE