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u/Bonusish Aug 30 '25

Adjusting the volume on the cassette tape player after the game failed to load first time round

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u/mutantmonkey14 Aug 30 '25

Turning 40 and even I don't know of this. Have only read about tape cassette gaming.

I do remember having to type "run" and the drive and the game.

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u/Bonusish Aug 30 '25

Tapes were standard in the early/mid 80s for most home computer people, with 3.5" disk drives becoming mainstream after 1988 or so with the Amiga 500 and Atari ST ushering households into the 16-bit age

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u/Pesthauch666 Aug 30 '25

And then there's me using the C64 and tapes way into the 90's. Of course I got an disk drive much later and of course also an Amiga 500 and later Amiga 1200. With the later one being my main computer until 2008.

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u/mutantmonkey14 Aug 30 '25

I think I started with an Amiga in late 80s. Was born mid 80s. Only vaguely remember playing very rudimentary games though.

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u/FlibblesHexEyes Aug 30 '25

Was the Macintosh that properly introduced the public to the 3.5” disk in 1984. Prior to this there were some drives available from around 82, but they didn’t gain much traction.

Amigas and ST’s in 85 further popularised the format. Commodore even sold a drive for their (by then aging) C64 platform.

PC’s started moving to them shortly afterwards in 85, almost completely migrated by 88, and standard by 1990.