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Software Distribution By Vinyl
townxelliot writes "Beige Records is home to the intriguing 8-Bit Construction Set. Their record has the distinction of being "the first ever use of the vinyl recording medium for software distribution - the inside tracks are audio data which can be dubbed to cassette tape and booted in your respective atari or commodore 8-bit computers". Samples of their music ("entirely programmed in 6502 assembly language") are available for download."
that we'll start getting floppy 45's in magazines again?
if you want people to think you know what you are talking about, just put ".com" at the end of everything you say.com
I wonder if you'll be able to pull the same ole trick w/ this method as you did with music. If you used lighter grooves, you able to pack more music in, it'd just be more quiet, deeper grooves was louder music, but less of them.
when copyright infringement of computer games could be done with a double cassette deck.
Some good decks could even reliably copy games in high speed dubbing mode.
Whoohoo!
if you play it backwards you can briefly hear a voice say "6502 is dead"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Basicode (Hobbyscoop) was distributed on flexi discs..
Real Men use eight tracks.
but I need to know before I buy - is the record DRM-laden ?
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
...if you wrote DeCSS in this. Perhaps the MPAA and the RIAA would sue each other over who has the right to sue you, thus annihilating themselves into pure energy?
With great numbers come great responsibility!
that we'll start getting floppy 45's in magazines again?
AOL will of course be the first and largest user of this new medium.
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I wonder if slashdot has ever been output in 6502 assembly language before?
I'm a big tall mofo.
I've been joking about LP-ROMs for years :)
This page has data on various vinyl records with computer data stored on them. Most of which are about 20 years old. So they're not the first to distribute computer data on vinyl.
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I don't think this is a primer. I remember a magazine (perhaps Keyboard Magazine) that had a disk with software in the 80s. And of course, there was the Dutch radio that broadcasted software over FM...
Diverse artists such as Tomita, Shakin' Stevens & the Thompson Twins distributed software on vinyl over 20 years ago.
http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000053.html
OH DEAR.
a bat bit
you.
check out the album XL1 by Pete Shelley (ex-Buzzcocks). apart from being a great album,t m
the last track on this album called "zx spectrum code" contains computer graphics for the sinclair zx spectrum computer. see http://freespace.virgin.net/pete.shelley/xl1-01.h
cheers, lars
When I worked on Commodore User (UK mag) in the 80s, we gave away a flexi-disc as a covermount. It was basically a floppy plastic record. One side was a Heaven 17 track and the other, IIRC, was a datatrack designed to be recorded onto tape then loaded on a C64.
Rainbow Magazine used to ship with a floppy record every once in a while.
It had the same code on it that was listed in the magazine in text, but the record came without the typing and type-o-ing.
Rainbow Magazine was a magazine with content based around the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer.
Never ask for directions from a two-headed tourist! -Big Bird
and the C64 was oh-so-popular, the local radio station used to send freeware C64 programs over radio so you could record them on a tape and use with your Commodore. It was good listening also, if you happened to like industrial/noise.
Cheers,
Ian
If you Listen To TFA, you'll realise that this isn't just software written to vinyl, this is software encoded in music, that happens to be written to vinyl. That is, the assembly code, when played back, actually SOUNDS like music. This is completely different from having a data section at the end of a vinyl disc (for all of you who have been using that as a "this has been done before with..." example).
'tho listening to some Speedy-J tracks, sounds like there some data encoded in those!
-2A
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Well, it's possible in theory, there was a vinyl-based video system called SelectaVision / VideoDisc.
Though, the discs themselves used read mechanism that was very different from LPs, and also had far higher groove density than LPs; if you store analog video on LPs, you probably get either a very short video or a very bad resolution.
If you really wanted to, you could probably encode music onto a piece of cheese...but what's the point?
A story like this should have been posted later in the day.... I woke up, went to slashdot, read the story and for a brief second thought the last 25 years of my life had been some type of twisted dream and that I was late for school. Gee thanks guys.... I nearly had a heart attack ;)
"Matching Tie and Handkerchief" has two parallel groves on one side. No mention of the material on the second track either. I always wondered why that side played so fast until I accidently hit the hidden track one time.
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John Logie Baird recorded 30 line video onto 78rpm records in 1928. He also demonstrated a 600 line HDTV colour system in 1941.
See http://www.answers.com/topic/john-logie-baird
There's nothing new under the sun !
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@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
"The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand", or so I have read.
...Of course, there are many of us who truly believe the quality of software distributed by Vinyl, will always be higher than that distributed by CD-ROM.
hi folks
thanks for the debate on our record, hope someone likes the music anyway. obviously not the first data on vinyl [just never bothered to change the webpage in 5 years] and actually not the first time the 8-bit construction set has been slashdotted. but nonetheless it's always a pleasure to see what people think.
we received an anonymous and very interesting email in early 2002 detailing some patents regarding software distribution on vinyl. i'm appending it below for interested parties.
thanks again
& peace out nerds
paul
paul AT beigerecords DOT com
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:59:03 -0500
Distribution of computer programs on vinyl records
was done in the early 70's by several different
researchers. First, a guy named
Allan B. Chertok. He has several patents in this field,
which I would recommend that you guys read:
US Patent 3,662,350 (1972)
US Patent 3,740,733 (1973)
US Patent 3,662,354 (1972)
Also- Norman L. Harvey. This guys was a real genius.
Check out his patent: US 3,755,792 (1973).
This is not to say that your work is not "original"
and "cool". But please- give credit where credit is due!
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