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The Swedish band Adolphson-Falk included a computer program in the innermost track of its album “Över tid och rum” from 1984.
Reminds me of the original Quake game on CD, which, if put into a normal CD player, would play through the NiN soundtrack.
We didn't have "apps" in the 80's we had "programs".
They have always been referred to as "applications" on the Mac, and I know that was abbreviated as "apps" by the mid-90s. It wouldn't surprise me to discover that abbreviation was used by Mac users as far back as the 80s.
Reminds me of the original Quake game on CD, which, if put into a normal CD player, would play through the NiN soundtrack.
A list of games can be found here: https://www.giantbomb.com/redbook-audio/3015-6487/games/
We didn't have "apps" in the 80's we had "programs".
You see those blocky colours in the youtube video? Those are the Spectrum's "attribute file", a small colour overlay that goes on top of the higher resolution 1-bit monochrome bitmap part of the machine's video ram. Gives you a "hi-res colour computer" while saving a ton of ram, but at the cost of creating horrible artifacts when differently coloured objects get too close together. The same principle is still used in…
Where can I read more about it.
http://gfxzone.planet-d.net/articles/zx_spectrum_graphics-ar...
Another spiritual successor to this 'image compression scheme' are compressed texture formats in modern GPUs.
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NeXTSTEP was around in the early 90s and used the file extension .app
Oh that’s a good point you have there and app is just an abbreviation of Application which I think philosophically was a subset of Programs / Programmes.
We didn't have "apps" in the 80's we had "programs".
That may be the case for the Spectrum, but not for the Mac. They have always been referred to as "applications" on the Mac, and I know that was abbreviated as "apps" by the mid-90s. It wouldn't surprise me to discover that abbreviation was used by Mac users as far back as the 80s.
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"Application" was around way earlier, as shorthand for "application program" (to be distinguished from "utility program", and, possibly, "game") For examples look at the search hits in https://archive.org/stream/1981-03-compute-magazine/Compute_... . I wouldn't call this an application, though. "App" is completely wrong, as it was introduced by Apple for user-facing programs running on a mobile phone (if Android had…
"App" significantly predates the iPhone. Binary/warez sites regularly used "apps" as a shorthand, NeXTSTEP used .app before Apple bought it...heck, Apple called an early Mac development framework "MacApp". We've been calling applications "apps" for going on thirty years at a minimum.
Very cool - brings back memories of loading programs from a cassette tape on an old TRS-80 back in high school, and watching those " " stars blink in the top corner. I believe the cassette players we used used to also play the signal as audio at the same time it was uploading to the PC. Then, after a few minutes: "Hammurabi, I beg to report..."
I remember pirating games using my moms double casette deck in the kitchen. It played the signal as audio while copying.