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General discussionback when i was little i used call game cartridges "tapes."(28 posts)(28 posts)
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Posted January 21, 2016
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sunshinecorp: We still call cartridges tapes in Greece. Or rather, cassettes. But it's the same word in greek "κασέτες".
Well, both words mean the same, I guess. I mean a tape is a tape, but "casette" and "cartridge" are linguistically equivalent to "casing", no? Meaning a solid exterior the function of which is only to protect the contents that provide the actual function of the whole thing.
Posted January 21, 2016
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sunshinecorp: We still call cartridges tapes in Greece. Or rather, cassettes. But it's the same word in greek "κασέτες".
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Wishbone: Well, both words mean the same, I guess. I mean a tape is a tape, but "casette" and "cartridge" are linguistically equivalent to "casing", no? Meaning a solid exterior the function of which is only to protect the contents that provide the actual function of the whole thing.
Yep.
Posted January 21, 2016
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Wishbone: My games back then actually did come on tapes. Well, mainly floppy disks by 1990, but a few years before I had lots of tape games. Ah, the good old C64 days...
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tburger: Heh remember playing 'floppy' (multi stage) games like Defender of the Crown or Red Storm Rising using cassete tape...5 min of playing and then 15 min waiting until main map or another level loads...With floppy drive (which I got from my parents years later) it just wasn't the same :-P
Some of those didn't have the same head alignment either. Recorder Justage was probably my most loaded program. After turbo 250 that is.
Posted January 21, 2016
What pissed me off was when people called diskettes cassettes. You know, back when there were still diskettes. :D
Posted January 21, 2016
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fortune_p_dawg: little 8 year old me back in 1990 would've said something like "mom can we go rent a nintendo tape?"

i guess the association came from the use of VHS tapes as a little one.

and then when i read in a nintendo power (the final fantasy ii issue with the person riding a bird on the cover) a few months later that they were actually called "cartridges" the magic was gone. i've been a bitter gamer ever since.
Well, I still remember the time when cassettes (called "Datasettes) where used to storage programs and other data on them.
Posted January 21, 2016
The other day I had a kid ask me what a record player was.
Posted January 21, 2016
Here in Brazil it was the norm so don't feel bad about it.
Posted January 21, 2016
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Wishbone: My games back then actually did come on tapes. Well, mainly floppy disks by 1990, but a few years before I had lots of tape games. Ah, the good old C64 days...
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tburger: Heh remember playing 'floppy' (multi stage) games like Defender of the Crown or Red Storm Rising using cassete tape...5 min of playing and then 15 min waiting until main map or another level loads...With floppy drive (which I got from my parents years later) it just wasn't the same :-P
If that was a C-64 floppy drive, why didn`t you use a speeder program like "Hypra Load"?
Posted January 21, 2016
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Tarm: Some of those didn't have the same head alignment either. Recorder Justage was probably my most loaded program. After turbo 250 that is.
In my case I was using Action Replay - this cartridge had such prgs built-in but were those the ones you've mentioned - can't remember
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Maxvorstadt: If that was a C-64 floppy drive, why didn`t you use a speeder program like "Hypra Load"?
I was playing those 2 games from cassete tape and they were recorded without any turboloader. Once I got floppy drive speed loading wasn't problem anymore.
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Posted January 21, 2016
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tinyE: The other day I had a kid ask me what a record player was.
Have they found his body yet?
Posted January 21, 2016
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Tarm: Some of those didn't have the same head alignment either. Recorder Justage was probably my most loaded program. After turbo 250 that is.
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tburger: In my case I was using Action Replay - this cartridge had such prgs built-in but were those the ones you've mentioned - can't remember
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Maxvorstadt: If that was a C-64 floppy drive, why didn`t you use a speeder program like "Hypra Load"?
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tburger: I was playing those 2 games from cassete tape and they were recorded without any turboloader. Once I got floppy drive speed loading wasn't problem anymore.
What kind of floppy drive, if I may ask? Because the floppy for the C-64 (1541 and the likes) was very slow, but that was due to the lame algorithm it used. It was possible to use a program that did overwrite the original floppy algorithm with a better and faster one.
Posted January 21, 2016
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Maxvorstadt: What kind of floppy drive, if I may ask? Because the floppy for the C-64 (1541 and the likes) was very slow, but that was due to the lame algorithm it used. It was possible to use a program that did overwrite the original floppy algorithm with a better and faster one.
The one you've just mentioned - 1541. But at the time I purchased floppy drive - I already had Action Replay cartridge that increased speed of loading games from floppies.
Posted January 21, 2016
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Maxvorstadt: What kind of floppy drive, if I may ask? Because the floppy for the C-64 (1541 and the likes) was very slow, but that was due to the lame algorithm it used. It was possible to use a program that did overwrite the original floppy algorithm with a better and faster one.
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tburger: The one you've just mentioned - 1541. But at the time I purchased floppy drive - I already had Action Replay cartridge that increased speed of loading games from floppies.
Ah, that cartridge was used by many people to cheat! Confess!!!! :-)
But I must admit, that it was very usefull. U could make a copy of the situation in a game, so you were able to play that extremely difficult part of a game agai and again until you were good (or just lucky) enuff to beat that part of the game. :-)
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