This era of CD Gaming was Bizarre | Nostalgia Nerd

The rapidly switching back-and-forth thing wasn't fake stereo, it was a legitimate cost-reducing way to do stereo. The sound was stereo, not mono, it just used a trick on a "mono" chip to do stereo. Even the first Sony CD player in 1982 did it, to avoid an already expensive product being even more expensive.

I have never even heard of the existence of this system. I expect that it was simply never sold in Denmark. I am curious though: you spent nearly all the time on the Spectrum version, but gave conflicting information on the C64 version. First you mentioned (and showed) an adapter for the C64 datasette port, but then later said that the C64 version had the same joystick port adapter as the Spectrum. Which was it?

You don't get anywhere without trying. Sometimes you'll fail, sometimes you'll succeed. But at least they tried. It's a shame innovation is all but dead these days.

Seems ages ago when we used to load games on tape, kids these days have it so easy now, instant boot even during the ps1 era that was still considered instant boot compared to tapes on the specy and c64, I remember Manic Miner my tape was a bit knackered most of the time it loaded but the odd occasion it would crash right near the end, I remember my bother nearly ripping his specy from it's cables and throwing it out the window lol.

I run emulation now, the Fuse emulator through Retroarch and I love it because has the feature of loading tape images in real time you get to hear the noises and the colour bars run up and down the splash screen of the games, it also allows you to boot directly to the spectrum boot screen so you can load it with the good old Load ::

It's like Atari games on CD

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I want a 4k release, of that presentation

"CHUNE"

I remember having the Cosmi Top 20 Gold pack in Texas and that came on over five floppy disks.

All we could get our hands on in Texas were floppies and cartridges, never had the tape drive.

I don't remember this a thing here in United States. I thought a lot of people into the early computers were piraters and traded games. I did do a lot of trading for the Tandy Color Computer. I still own all my pirated discs although Atari / Commodore was a lot bigger. I did pick up a homebrew CD for the Starpath Supercharger released for Atari 2600 when it was released. It worked the same way just plug the cd player into the Starpath Supercharger adapter that was plugged into the Atari it would load using audio. It had all the games plus some new ones some were hidden tracks on the disc. The graphics were enhanced using that format.

This wouldn't really work on any of the Sugar-coated +2s or the +3, or at least not without an adaptor. Since they didn't use the Atari-standard (or any standard for that matter) pinout in their DB9 joystick ports, with pin 1 and 6 not even connected up… Awh, Lord Alan Sugar… just such a sweet sweet guy. 🙃

'Impossible Mission' what a game !