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33 Year-Old C64 Game Saved From Vinyl

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A follow-up demonstration showing how to record and decode a Commodore 64 game stored on a 1986 vinyl record.

We take a look at another '80s vinyl record with a Commodore 64 program encoded it, this time 1986's Heartware. In addition to rescuing the Piggy game, we take a look at some extra details that were overlooked in the previous 1984 Electric Eye album video (link youtu.be/6_CZpFqvDQo ) Become a patron: patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell Links: Piggy's Fatal Trip: 8BitShowAndTell.com/prg/piggy.prg WAV-PRG and Audiotap: wav-prg.sourceforge.net/ 1NVADER:darrenfoulds.itch.io/1nvader Prodigal: prodigalnow.com Index: Intro Why bother with cassette?? And TCB 1984 About Heartware Marantz 2220 & Dual 1218 - recording the C64 program from vinyl Looking at the audio in Audacity Pencil vs. Pen controversy Problems - TAP to the rescue - how cassette data is encoded Loading PIGGY - the game is revealed! Playing PIGGY'S FATAL TRIP Looking through the game's LISTing (aka source code) Discovering a minor bug Thanks

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On “Secret C64 Program Found On A Christian Rock Band’s Vinyl Record”

The guy also has a followup video with a different vinyl that has a more proper game: link to this video (timestamped to when he runs it, he has a bit of a rant about methods and so on earlier)
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