Commodore 64 Program Discovered on 35-Year Old Vinyl Album (2019)

208 点作者 clockworksoul超过 4 年前

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nathell超过 4 年前

Some interesting bits from the BASIC code (as seen 14:36 into the video):- POKE 53272,23 forces character set 2 (big/small letters). I knew it could be done by a PRINT CHR$(142), but this is new to me. In general, it seems that the address 53272 can also be used to supply a custom charset: <a href="https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/53272" rel="nofollow">https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/53272</a>- C64 BASIC seems to be doing lazy tokenizing. Observe how line 1 ends with :END:TCB1984 – there is no TCB statement in BASIC, but it is never executed since it comes after the END statement.I got rid of my C64 26 years ago when I was 10 or so, but I still can recite a rough memory map and a few KERNAL addresses. For the kid that I was back then, C64 was truly a magic device.

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jnellis超过 4 年前

This was tried by a few computer hobby magazines in the early 80's. A thin square of plastic called a flexi-disc with the program on it came inserted in the pages and you'd tear it out.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc</a>

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_b8r0超过 4 年前

Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) released a single with a B Side containing a "video" for the Sinclair ZX81: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9ZyV-BHFA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9ZyV-BHFA</a>And of course The Thompson Twins had an adventure game for the ZX Spectrum on one of their releases: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAo4dj0O0c4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAo4dj0O0c4</a>

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pkorzeniewski超过 4 年前

This reminded by about a vinyl album that I own from 1987 called "Poniżej krytyki" by a Polish synthpop band Papa Dance that contains a program for ZX Spectrum on both sides of the record. According to instructions on the album it's a quiz and you could send the answers to a postal address and win some prizes :-)

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thewebcount超过 4 年前

This is similar to Peace & Love, Inc.[0] from Information Society. You may remember their song, "What's on Your Mind" that sampled Spock saying "Pure Energy." On Peace & Love, Inc. they include a track named "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode Or Ascii Download)" that is modem tones. When captured by a modem at the right settings it displays some text from the band.According to [1]: > When decoded, the content is a tale by Kurt Harland about a bizarre but purportedly true event that took place when the band was playing in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Society_(band)#Peace_and_Love,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Society_(band)#Pea...</a>.[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Love,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Love,_Inc</a>.

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martinrue超过 4 年前

For anyone craving more C64 nostalgia, I wrote about my first coding experience on the wonderful old beast: <a href="https://martinrue.com/give-yourself-more-playtime/" rel="nofollow">https://martinrue.com/give-yourself-more-playtime/</a>

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mrspeaker超过 4 年前

If you have any interest in C64, you should check out all of the 8-bit Show and Tell channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gRBswFkuteshdwMZAQafQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gRBswFkuteshdwMZAQafQ</a>He styles his videos on the legendary Jim Butterfield (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WnHuGjZ38" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WnHuGjZ38</a>) and they are all just as informative and interesting (well, if you're into that sort of thing)!

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squarefoot超过 4 年前

I still have somewhere a LP record published in the mid 80s by the band "Kissing the pink" in which one track contains a program for the BBC microcomputer. IIRC, the track once recorded on tape and run would produce video effects to be played along with the album songs. Never had the chance to try it however, as I had a C64 and the BBC micro over here was less than unobtanium. Those (actually a few years before) were the years of new wave music, and many small bands were experimenting with microcomputers before MIDI made things much easier. I still recall a friend of a friend of a friend interfacing 8 different electric shavers to the C64 user port then composing tunes for them. It was hilarious enough to be picked up and transmitted live on a local FM radio station. Good ol' days...

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Angostura超过 4 年前

Pete Shelley's album XL-1 had a Speccy programme on one side. If you loaded it into the Spectrum it played a little light-show that went with the song and displayed the lyrics in time with the music.

augustk超过 4 年前

Love the title of this Hacker News post. It sounds like something made up when trying to describe what you can find on Hacker News.

cameron_b超过 4 年前

The part of this that amazes me is that while it seems plain to lots of folks what it -probably- is and how to record to tape, pop in a 'C64' and pull it in as a file, it seems that in all of the internet, barely dozens of people might have expressed having actually done it.That kinda makes me sad

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quercusa超过 4 年前

That he felt the need to explain the cassette leader made me feel very old.

dividuum超过 4 年前

Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383889" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383889</a>

protomyth超过 4 年前

On the Atari side the 410 cassette recorder was popular with the "I cannot afford the disk drive" crowd. I can imagine hooking up a record player instead. After all, I had a lot of story records including some Godzilla stuff so why not programs.

stakkur超过 4 年前

I once discovered a C64 program I wrote in the 80s, buried in a box of cassettes in the garage and filed between The Cars and Dio. No lie. Still alphabetized.

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hullsean超过 4 年前

This is so classic, bravo!

phoe-krk超过 4 年前

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Anther超过 4 年前

That’s super cool. I love how forward thinking this is.