Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 months ago
And Programs/Games came on Casettes :)
Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 months ago
And Programs/Games came on Casettes :)
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
You cad cassettes? We had manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Just in case, no it’s not a joke.
Examle: Book - 101 BASIC games: archive.org/details/101basiccomputer0000davi
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 months ago
well yeah and because you don’t want to type the listing down all over again, you save it onto tape.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have a 40 year old book about TI BASIC somewhere in the garage plus some magazines with games. I built a fantasy game and saved it to cassette.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
For a ti-99/4a? Me too! It was my favorite thing (up until my dad bought a used 286 from work, then skipped a few generations and went right to a Pentium 133)