Dreamer of the year (Arcade Edition)

'High speed dubbing' for the win

CathalDublin wrote: »

My mate(the same guy who gave me the boxed c64 the other day, misplaced the games, tape deck, etc though) had one of them too, just plug in two commodore tape decks and play on one, record on the other.
was it possible to copy c64 tapes on a standard stereo? I thought they were mastered at a low volume so it wasn't possible.
I knew you could just copy the Speccy tapes but never managed to copy a c64 one without the device above.

You could copy a most games on a stereo, i think some games had some kind of copy protection though.

I remember the volume level being pretty loud!

Maybe it was the cheap cassette tapes I used to buy or the cheap stereos in our family but I never successfully pirated a C64 game like that. Never got the pages of code you used to get in the Commando Christmas annuals to run properly either

Luckily we had an uncle who used to bring shoeboxes full of C64 games back from the markets in England when we were kids, he'd play them once, declare them to be sh1te and let us take them home with us.

Myrddin wrote: »

^ never seen one of them before, how does it work?

Yea, someone already said how it works. One datasette for loading on the load port and one datasette for recording on the save port. Ideally, you used your own datasette on the save port as that meant the record levels/azimuth (like Ciderman mentioned 'Head Levels') would be correct for you to load it again from that datasette. It was meant to get around most copy protections of the time, except those red lens or 'look up page 143 and the 3rd word' pass/code protections

Two tape deck stereos generally sucked at duplication of data tapes, especially when people used the turbo copy button on them!

Thargor wrote: »

I thought it was something you used to pirate these:



I still dont have a clue how it works on cassettes though, whats it called? Do you have to solder it into somewhere or something?

Nop, the two datasettes (Load & Save datasette) connect to the top two connectors and the bottom connect connects to the C64 as you would normally connect the datasette to the C64

Clown, trying to mislead people.
http://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/cocktail-arcade-machine-for-sale/7783129#comment_47629794

He's saying he restored it, I'd beg to differ:

restore (rɪˈstɔː)
vb (tr)
1. to return (something, esp a work of art or building) to an original or former condition
2. to bring back to health, good spirits, etc
3. to return (something lost, stolen, etc) to its owner
4. to reintroduce or re-enforce: to restore discipline.
5. to reconstruct (an extinct animal, former landscape, etc)

Off now to stick destiny graphics onto my defender and pull that poxy unreliable CRT out of it😱

CosmicSmash wrote: »

22 Euro for a bad lttp copy, immaculate condition:rolleyes:

http://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/zelda-a-link-to-the-past-four-swords-gba/7830004

:mad:

oh dear oh dear...
http://www.adverts.ie/arcade-retro/resident-evil-original-1996/7493138

Why are people asking these mad prices recently, did something come up on pawn stars ???