Cassette tape collectors

by **Flack** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:18 pm

I think that's the point. They can't give them away ... so instead they're selling them. ;)

by **AArdvark** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:04 pm

Sounds like something Dick Clark would shill for. So you don't get to choose the artists, just pays your money and gets your tapes. What's the point of that?

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by **Flack** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:53 pm

Ran across this "deal", if any of you are interested:

http://www.moonlightsales.com/AudioCass ... le.100.htm

100 new cassette tapes from various artists for $48.88.

Free shipping.

Let me know how it turns out.

by **straw** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:11 pm

NICE! I've been rocking some old tapes my brother gave me when he moved all winter.. moving them in each night so they don't freeze in the car.. CRo2 BABY!

by **AArdvark** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:17 am

Anyway, the real reason I wanted to post here again was the nostalgia factor of finding a tape that has been lying around in a shoebox for the last twenty years and being able to experience a mental time warp. I remember when cassettes were cutting edge (well, maybe not cutting edge but certainly the best medium at the time) And me only buying the CrO2 kind that went for maybe five bucks each for a sixty minute tape.

Regular everyday tapes were nine bucks for a three pack at Record Town so these were OOOooooo top end! because your music's worth it!

by **AArdvark** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:04 pm

Chances are some of it's already there! Tindeck is my friend!

Note: We made a song last night about my friend's dad's balls. It's also on tindeck if anyone really REALLY cares

Click here to listen to it

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:43 pm

What are the odds it will make it to the Internet??

by **AArdvark** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:29 pm

Was over at my friends house last night. He finally got around to cleaning out his basement and found a tape of us from the mid 80's. Some stuff I haven't heard since my four track broke back in 1990. The tape deck I had in the attic plays a half step slow, probably from age and temperature. Sounds pretty good tho.

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by **Flack** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:17 pm

More than that, it was the idea of "our console does all that, and then some." In other words, would you rather have an Atari 2600, or a ColecoVision that also plays Atari 2600 games? It's one of those plus one games; our console plays everything yours does, +1.

This was important when you consider the Atari 2600 had more than 900 titles, whereas the ColecoVision had 125 and the Atari 5200 had about 70.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:25 pm

Huh. I guess they assumed people didn't want to go through the hassle of hooking up multiple game consoles to their (lone) television.

But then again, with what a debacle the Coleco Adam was, who knows what they were thinking.

by **bruce** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:23 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:The C64 and Atari 2600 (and 400/800/etc) could use the same joystick, but the carts aren't compatible.

They made a thing for the Colecovision that took Atari carts, and I think the Intellivision could do it too, but they were add-on thingies.

At least for the CV it's basically an Atari 2600 in a smaller case. The weird thing is, I'm not sure there was ever one of these that was actually cheaper than just buying a 2600.

Bruce

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:01 am

Flack wrote:The 1541 Ultimate is a ~100% compatible "drive" that uses SD cards for storage and reads/writes D64 disk images instead of real floppies. It is, bar none, the best thing I ever bought for my Commodore, period.

I think it runs around $200 but they way I justified it is, that's about what I paid for a real 1541 back in the day. I cannot overstate what an awesome product it is.

nnnnnghhhh! This is why I am still running on like a 17" SyncMaster 750s from 1989. I decide I want to get a new monitor, and then I am made aware of something that will function as a non-magnetic C64 drive. Argh! Well, I've got to get that before I upgrade monitors next year. I can get more time out of the old Syncster here, I can't live without that 1541 SD drive.

by **Flack** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:42 pm

As far as carts go, the C64 only plays C64 carts and the Atari 400/800 only play Atari 400/800 carts. ICJ is right that there are adapters for the ColecoVision and Intellivision to play Atari 2600 carts. There is also an adapter for the Atari 5200 as well, and the Atari 7800 plays them without an adapter (they just plug right in).

If you want to be really geeky, those Atari Flashback consoles that came out a few years back have solder points on the board for connecting a cartridge slot, if you want to upgrade it. :)

by **Garth's Equipment Shop** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:45 pm

AArdvark wrote:Speaking of carts, did the C64 take Atari carts? I had a box of carts that I swear were for the 2600. Lemmee think.

Asteroids, Moon patrol, Park ranger, Can't remember the rest of tham... had speedloader too, but that's not an atari game.

I had the C64 with data cassette drive, but never saw one that you could put Atari cartridges in. Man I would have loved that! I had Atari 2600 with many carts back when it was still sold in stores [found it under the family tree one year]. Or are y'all referring to the Atari computer from around the same decade? As far as cartridges go I am having trouble remembering them too. One that springs to mind is Pitfall. I think the console came with a dual game cart that had Tennis or pong on it and some other game I don't remember. Oh, oh, their coming back to me now! I remember having Donkey Cong, Zaxxon, Pole Position, Tank, Raiders of the Lost Ark, QBert, Rampage, Atlantis, That Ski sports game, oh and who can forget the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Lol!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:16 pm

The C64 and Atari 2600 (and 400/800/etc) could use the same joystick, but the carts aren't compatible.

They made a thing for the Colecovision that took Atari carts, and I think the Intellivision could do it too, but they were add-on thingies.

by **AArdvark** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:04 pm

Wow, that's like too much emulation. with CCS64 the scroll lock light flashes as if it's a disk drive light to let you know it's 'working'. I thought that was a bit much. With emulation you don't the frustrations that were inherent with a floppy drive. The number one being all the games that were out there that you couldn't get. I can remember hooking up with another C64 user and transferring a game thru the phone lines, where in the past I would use the post office. I thought 'THIS IS SOOOO COOL!' Nine hours later I had a new game on it's own floppy and everything.

Speaking of carts, did the C64 take Atari carts? I had a box of carts that I swear were for the 2600. Lemmee think.

Asteroids, Moon patrol, Park ranger, Can't remember the rest of tham... had speedloader too, but that's not an atari game.

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by **Flack** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:53 am

The 1541 Ultimate is a ~100% compatible "drive" that uses SD cards for storage and reads/writes D64 disk images instead of real floppies. It is, bar none, the best thing I ever bought for my Commodore, period.

I also own a 1541-III which had a pretty small run. Same idea, but much lower compatibility.

The 1541 Ultimate is seen like a real disk drive, so much so that you can open up Fast Hackem' or any copier of your choice and copy files back and forth between real drives and D64 disk images. It also has a block of storage set aside for cartridge ROMs so you can use Action Relay, Final Cartridge or the fastloader of your choice to speed things along. The new version of the unit has an ethernet connection and is RRNet compatible apparently (mine is the original version).

I think it runs around $200 but they way I justified it is, that's about what I paid for a real 1541 back in the day. I cannot overstate what an awesome product it is.

That being said, WinVice is a pretty good emulator these days and if you're okay with emulation, it's not a bad way to go. If you want/need the real thing however, the 1541 Ultimate is where it's at.

(EDIT: Here's how accurate the 1541 Ultimate is. It has red and green lights on the board that flash accordingly just like a real drive, and it also has a speaker jack. If you plug in a set of speakers the thing makes sounds just like a real 1541. That's crazy silly.)

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:02 pm

Hey, is the 1541 Ultimate a flash cart? (I guess I can look this up, but my main question is---->) What do you prefer for C64 gaming? I have an Atari 800 hooked up with a flash cart, and it's cool, but honestly, there is a ton of stuff on the Commodore that I'd love to play, but never got a chance to. I didn't have one growing up (we had a PCjr) and while I was able to grab an Atari home computer around 1993 or so, I never did so for the 64. I feel I have been missing out!

by **Flack** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:31 pm

For a couple of years I couldn't go to a thrift without tripping over a 1541 drive. I ended up with 15 in all. I had two hooked up to my 64 upstairs, one hooked up to my PC for transferring games back and forth, and the rest are all out in the garage. I stopped at 12 because that just seemed like a logical number. I haven't seen one in a few years now. I figure I have enough to last me a few lifetimes at this point.

A year or so ago I replaced the two 1541s with 1571s which is nice because of the dip switches (so I can set one to 9) and they're a lot quieter since the heads don't constantly bang. Truth be told, 99% of my C64 loading happens on a 1541 Ultimate these days; the only thing I need a real drive for is transferring more of my old disks to D64 images.

by **AArdvark** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:57 pm

I remember picking up a 1571 drive for my Commodore in a Salvation Army for six bucks. I couldn't believe it was so cheap. I'd never even think of using a 5-1/4 drive today. i have a couple discs at work with machine parameters backed up on them but there are no drives there.

I want an 8-track USB player.

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