(January 18, 2013 at 7:19 am)pocaracas Wrote: indeed... but clearly you didn't use the almighty Sinclair's ZX Spectrum.... floppys? LOL. it used these things:
And sounded like this:
copying a game was a simple task of copying the tape... sound IS data!
Floppies were for wusses. If you've never spent twenty-plus hours a day loading up tape cassettes until you can recognise each individual game title by the loading sound alone... then you've never lived.
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