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This reminds me that I once had a computer magazine from the 80s that came with a green vinyl record "single" that had a game on it for a popular computer, perhaps the Commodore 64. It was useless to me as I had a Z80 machine, but a curiosity.
As far as I remember it should be the other way around: Sinclair had analog audio input/output so one could hook up a turntable instead of the tape. Commodore 64, on the other hand, had a proprietary tape recorder called Datasette so there was no way to hook up a turntable to it. Of course, one could always just copy the signal from a vinyl record to a casette tape and then play it back to the computer.
These records that were stuck to magazines were annoying as hell. They are made from the thinest sliver of plastic, the thickness of a candy wrapper, and would invariably have suffered some sort of kink in them on their way to the store. I can't remember if I ever got one to work properly with my Speccy.
Pete Shelley's album XL-1 had a bonus track with a ZX-Spectrum program with some visualizations to look at while you listen to the album<p>It's on youtube, very cool for 1983
I remember loading the game Frogger off a cassette tape onto my friends old Commodore 64 at the time. That blew my mind at the time!
Might be the peak of "We did it just because it is so stupid." Bravo!
This should be labeled humor or taken down. I did laugh though
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