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Downloading games

  • 13-07-2018 01:19PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭


    ....from the radio.

    Came across this little gem; http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio about how it used to be easier to tape broadcasts sent over the radio, and then play them back into your computer.

    Did anyone here do it a long long time ago?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,426 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    After tv channels finished for the day there was a time they'd also play programs for you to record.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭marathont


    I know someone who tried to send a game over the telephone, could'nt get it to work though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    I remember reading about it but I always assumed it was more of a British thing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Twin tape deck with high speed dubbing and auto reverse, sorted :D that’s likely all gibberish to anyone under 30 :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Inviere wrote: »
    Twin tape deck with high speed dubbing and auto reverse, sorted :D that’s likely all gibberish to anyone under 30 :o

    this was a blessing when I got one as it was a pain to have to use a program copy tape to load the game into memory and then record to a blank tape


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,527 ✭✭✭Doge





    Saw another cool video where the BBC sold kits to the public that used a photo diode.

    The idea was to hold or tape it to the screen while they would have a pulsating light at the corner of the screen during the broadcast of their computer show and it would turn the light into data and send it to your computer.

    I can't remember which keywords are required to find it on youtube though!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    C&VG published an issue back the 80's that came with a terrible Thompson Twins game with it.
    It also had a few songs they released at the time.
    And cassettes must have been expensive to use on the cover as they used a terrible plastic record, which just made it impossible to load, thanks to the crackles of the format.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,170 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    marathont wrote: »
    I know someone who tried to send a game over the telephone, could'nt get it to work though.
    And the internet was born:eek:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    And the internet was born:eek:

    I thought it was developed so, in the event of a nuclear attack, the US military could still watch porn?


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