40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
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40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
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Re: 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
#2This triggers a lot of nostalgic feelings. We also had that in Belgrade during 80s, in a radio show hosted by late Zoran Modli. I even recorded some of emmited games although I didn't have a computer at a time. Access to software, music, or any kind of information was hard, slow, and limited back then.
Hats off to Žiga Turk and Moj Mikro magazine. That one along with Svet Kompjutera and Računari was the main source of IT knowledge for hungry minds in ex Yugoslavia.
Re: 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
#3Is this meant to confuse the aliens by suggesting we've decided to go back to 8 bits? (Love it, btw.)
Re: 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
#4Is this meant to confuse the aliens by suggesting we've decided to go back to 8 bits? (Love it, btw.)
Maybe :) Before "live to production" later tonight I tested it using a car FM transmitter adapter so things are already in motion haha.
Re: 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
#5This triggers a lot of nostalgic feelings. We also had that in Belgrade during 80s, in a radio show hosted by late Zoran Modli. I even recorded some of emmited games although I didn't have a computer at a time. Access to software, music, or any kind of information was hard, slow, and limited back then. Hats off to Žiga Turk and Moj Mikro magazine. That one along with Svet Kompjutera and Računari was the main source o…
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/
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#6Now could be the right time to put your old tape recorder on eBay (If you are in Slovenia) ;)
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#7It should be possible to capture using a sound card.
Re: 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
#8For 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
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#9What I'm most curious about is if this was always just a happy side-effect of cassette-based data storage, or if they put specific effort into making this work. Ie. by being resilient to noise before and after a broadcast, having error correction, etc.
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#10This is AWESOME! But, I absolutely love this time period of computing history.
It was around this time (late 70s), before storage was accessible to computer nerds, that the Kansas City Standard was developed. It provided a cheap and easy way to store "large" amounts of data on standard audio cassettes which were cheap and easy to come by!
It really opened up a lot of things! People no longer needed to retype their programs in to the computer every time they turned it on, it was now easy to share & copy data with friends, and it ALSO gave us the ability to broadcast programs over the radio (like this article is doing!).
The original Kansas City Standard was pretty slow (300 baud), but other standards were developed shortly after (CUTS [Bob Marsh] is one) which provided more speed (1200 baud) and even backward compatibility with KCS.
If anyone is interested in a the dirty details of how KCS all works, I did a series on it (https://youtu.be/6m7vDhscGzU). And am working on covering CUTS in the near future!