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For those far away from Slovenia, is the broadcast available over the internet (I know, I know)? This link says it's not available because of "regional restrictions": https://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Student-893-s25182/ Edit: Found a working link: https://onlineradiobox.com/si/tudent/?cs=si.tudent&played=1
It's a bit before my time, and tape based games never really caught on in the US as far as I'm aware, but I've always been kind of fascinated by storing programs in audio. There's something bizarrely cool about the idea of taking something designed for an analog medium and using it for something sort of definitionally not analog. It was traditionally cassette tapes, but I saw a YouTube video where some companies dist…
It's a bit before my time, and tape based games never really caught on in the US as far as I'm aware, but I've always been kind of fascinated by storing programs in audio. There's something bizarrely cool about the idea of taking something designed for an analog medium and using it for something sort of definitionally not analog. It was traditionally cassette tapes, but I saw a YouTube video where some companies dist…
Is this meant to confuse the aliens by suggesting we've decided to go back to 8 bits? (Love it, btw.)
I'd like to have a listen to those waves and I'm not in Slovenia, any source on the internet? Edit: Found a short sample of a Commodore Datasette program on Wikipedia[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Datasette.ogg
A friend of mine had faulty wiring in his house, the electricity would go out for a few brief moments whenever someone would ring his house bell. He would stand in front of his house when ZX Spectrum games were being broadcast so nobody would ring and interrupt his recorder :)
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Nostalgic feelings is what we have been going for. We have a large amount of (also scanned) issues of Slovenian and ex-Yu magazines in our collection: https://zbirka.racunalniski-muzej.si/revije/
Eh, I had all the issues of Moj Mikro while they were publishing in Serbo-Croatian, as well as all the issues of Svet Kompjutera, Računari, and PC until around 2007-2008 (Računari ceased publishing a few years later). They were all carefully packed in the basement until my mother decided to throw them all away, as who needs old stuff? And I was planning to spend my retirement days playing with the ZX Spectrum and rea…
It's a bit before my time, and tape based games never really caught on in the US as far as I'm aware, but I've always been kind of fascinated by storing programs in audio. There's something bizarrely cool about the idea of taking something designed for an analog medium and using it for something sort of definitionally not analog. It was traditionally cassette tapes, but I saw a YouTube video where some companies dist…
The PS1 used CDs. Many games could be dropped into a cd player, and if you skip the first track (the data track), the rest of the game's music/audio could be played.
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The BBC version was a small square of "static" broadcast in the corner of the closing credits of the Micro Show and you put and square plastic box (you could get from the show, I can't remember if you had to pay for them or not) with a light sensor over that "static" square and run the special software which take the data and save it as a file. It wasn't terribly reliable but it was an interesting experiment by the B…
The "(BBC) Micro User" used to be published monthly, and had hardware project in each edition. Towards the end there were instructions on how to build your own acoustic-coupler modem where you pushed a regular telephone into two muffled cups. I think the only or main thing you could connect to was Prestel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel It was a great machine for doing early robotics too - there was an Osbourn…
I remember Micro User magazine, wish I still had my collection!