Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I only used cassette tape drives a couple times in 3rd grade before we upgraded to Apple IIs, but even then I knew to try putting a music tape in it.
It didn’t work.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 days ago
I did the same thing with PlayStation games in CD players. And my PC. Sometimes, the cutscenes were just AVI files you could watch without even playing the game!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It was rather common for PC games to include regular everyday “red book” audio for background music; I seem to remember back in the day you’d actually have to hook the optical drive to the sound card with a cable so it could pass through audio.
The Secret of Monkey Island did this for its CD releases; the audio options for that game ranged from PC speaker to Ad-Lib chip tunes to Roland MT-32 support and eventually CD Audio. The game shipped on a few diskettes, a few megabytes tops, so the whole game is tiny on a single 750MB CD, plenty of room for extremely high quality game audio.