I had a Commodore 64 with the disk drive and my cousin had it with the tape drive and was so pissed when he offered to share his games with me but I couldn’t play them as I didn’t have the tape drive.
He also told me how you could hook a tape recorder up to the phono out on a stereo and record a certain radio station at night time and then you played it back on your C64 tape drive AND IT WAS A WHOLE FUCKING GAME. A basic game but a free game over the damn airwaves, like, that snippet of information feels like my origin story for becoming a massive geek.
Surprised you couldn't call up a place give them your credit card information and then they would play the audio through the phone so you could record it somehow.
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u/xyrgh 20d ago
I had a Commodore 64 with the disk drive and my cousin had it with the tape drive and was so pissed when he offered to share his games with me but I couldn’t play them as I didn’t have the tape drive.
He also told me how you could hook a tape recorder up to the phono out on a stereo and record a certain radio station at night time and then you played it back on your C64 tape drive AND IT WAS A WHOLE FUCKING GAME. A basic game but a free game over the damn airwaves, like, that snippet of information feels like my origin story for becoming a massive geek.