Could an LP or wax cylinder hold a supercharger game?

[+doctorclu]

I don't know about all of you, but *I'm* thinking 8-track.

 

Oh yeh!

[Keatah]

Alright, Took a supercharger tape and put it into mp3 format, sent it to ipod. From the Ipod I sent to one of those kidz am broadcaster radio kits from radioshack. Received it with my crystal radio, sent it back to the pc through soundcard input. Transfered it to another pc in a trailerpark with satellite broadband, had my buddy there burn it to cd, sent it to my sisters place where she copied back to cassette and sent it back to me, played it and it worked good enough!! Impossible!!

 

Someone top that!!

[LS_Dracon]

I already think on that.

Atari 2600 LP Add-on

[Godzilla]

I had someone convert the binary bits of a 2600 rom to smoke-signals and had a native tribe send the game 40 miles across the brush to a hut in the wilderness, where they fed the bits in one at a time to specially modified smoke-signal compatible supercharger. aw yea, baby.

[Keatah]

smoke-signal compatible supercharger? yeh, ok. But that could work with a basic photocell and lightsource. The smoke would interrupt the light beam. Smoke signals are binary in nature, aren't they? yes..

 

What about Morse Code? Could we somehow work that into the transmission medium?

 

And for the grandprize, someone for chrissakes connect a Zoetrope and scanning photocell (gear driven by the rotating drum) to read a ups-style moving barcode (stored in each frame of the zoetrope).. I would estimate we could get about 20 kbytes with a setup like that. yehbaby!

[fiddlepaddle]

Alright, Took a supercharger tape and put it into mp3 format, sent it to ipod. From the Ipod I sent to one of those kidz am broadcaster radio kits from radioshack. Received it with my crystal radio, sent it back to the pc through soundcard input. Transfered it to another pc in a trailerpark with satellite broadband, had my buddy there burn it to cd, sent it to my sisters place where she copied back to cassette and sent it back to me, played it and it worked good enough!!

Hey! I did that too... (except I emulated everything).

[darthkur]

The important thing would be to play it on a mechanical television.

 

 

Already been done. It's a little known fact that the VCS was around in 1931. In fact here's a photo to prove it. Here we have a woman relaxing as she enjoys a fun filled new 2600 game on her Western Television Corp mechanical TV.

 

And here she's having a blast playing the less the appreciated adaptation of Pac-Man, a full 49 years before it was released in the arcades.

Edited March 10, 2009 by darthkur

[LS_Dracon]

Hehe

Note this television had a build in paddle controller.

[Inky]

Ohh!!! You can put the program on film and put it through the supercharger by holding the film up to the light!

[Glenn Jupp]

Frivolity aside (I know, I know, why start now?) I really do want to try getting a Supercharger file on vinyl.

 

I've been fiddling with the source code to MAKEWAV, and it's not quite behaving as I would like. While I'm banging my head against that particular wall (I'll figure it out, eventually) I've been wondering about something else. MAKEWAV normally spits out WAVs that use a square waveform, but does have an option to use sine waves instead. Does anybody think sine waves would be more vinyl-friendly than squares?

 

At $60 (US) a pop, I want this experiment to be successful on the first try

 

And if that doesn't work, then I can always try connecting a microphone to the Supercharger and carefully gargling the file into it...

[Godzilla]

I would think setting the -w1 flag (sine wave form,) and using speed 0 (flag -f0,) would take care of it? (u do have to set those options, tho, as they default to -w0 and -f2.)

[Tempest]

I was expecting a lot of either (1) nothing or (2) what a stupid idea

Nothing will happen, what a stupid idea!

 

Come on, you should have known better. This is AtariAge! Heck, I bet you could get someone to make disk drive for the 2600 if you dared them.

 

Tempest

[Godzilla]

how about something that reads adam tapes with 2600 games on them? or CEDs with rom data on them... or or...

[Keatah]

I would be willing to try hooking up a Disk][ unit to the 2600. The Disk][ is a very simple and elegant device. A preliminary analysis says that would be the best drive from the era.. But what to do with it?? And why?

[accousticguitar]

I wonder what Les Paul could dream up?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1FYKyk2L4

[midnight magicman]

Good god. I didn't think a thread on here could give me a boner.

 

I was wrong.

 

Peace

[Keatah]

explain..?