Most of the actual news about this project has already been covered elsewhere, so this is really just me indulging my love of strange physical gaming media and the wonderfully impractical things people come up with.
I’ve always been fascinated by oddities from gaming history, and the idea of someone getting Doom and Super Mario Bros. working with VHS tapes was far too interesting for me to ignore.
So here’s a little/casual dive into GCVHS, the bizarre Action Max console from 1987, and why I think there’s something super curious about people finding new uses for old technology. Sometimes I just like writing about things because they’re weird :)
northernlights@lemmy.today 1 day ago
For what it’s worth the first computer I played on had games on cassette tapes
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?
myyass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was a really cool feature on the Apple 2e. Just lost technology like watching a movie off of 4 cds.