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 )
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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
Why it's here
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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)