That was a really cool feature on the Apple 2e. Just lost technology like watching a movie off of 4 cds.
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northernlights@lemmy.today 1 day ago
For what it’s worth the first computer I played on had games on cassette tapes
myyass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
axh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The important question is: did it support turbo or only the slow loading?
northernlights@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I don’t think so. It was an Amstrad CPC464.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
What is turbo loading?
I just had an idea what the old generations could have done to load games faster. If you buy multiple cassettes and readers, then connect them to master device (to start and stop with a single button), and load them all at once from different positions. Basically hardware level multi-threaded loading if you will. I mean cutting the loading in half would be a huuge improvement already. Would this have been possible?
axh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No idea if that was possible back then. My computer was only able to load from one cassette player. And it was slooow. Until my father (who was an electronics engineer) upgraded it somehow to support a turbo mode, it required pushing an additional button on the cassette player, and it just ran faster. The sound had a much higher pitch and the loading sometimes failed. But it was much faster.
I also remember “copying the game” by typing the machine code printed in the magazine. Funny times.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Machine code or BASIC possibly? I remember PC magazines hat sometimes BASIC games printed. At that time I didn’t own any sort of computer, so was always curious what that even was. I don’t remember seeing any machine code, but at that time everything was machine code for me.