http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

A brilliant thing.

I've done this. Not with the Spectrum and not in 1983, but a few years later for the C64. Recorded on tape with my stereo and played it back on the datasette. Since the tape heads of the stereo were adjusted a little different, the datasette tape head had to be fine tuned with a screwdriver every time when I was using tapes recorded from there. Also when I got tapes from other people. There was a little program to adjust the head (fortunately loading from diskette :-)). And the most important positions of the screw were marked with colored dots (the screw only had to be turned within a ~120° range for most tapes.

Bloody brilliant read. You should share it on r/games, or I will. ;)

Ah yes, those were the days. I've never done it myself (I'm not sure it was ever done on Danish radio), but I did know that it happened.

On a related note, I know that it is possible to record your old C64 tapes to MP3s, and load them in an emulator "the old-fashioned way".

Oh, good. Now I get to relive those nightmares of IP-over-Radio network implementations from the last 20 years. Thanks so <twitch> much ^_^

[url= Good times! Why, just a few years ago we had to integrate an IPoR (much less fun than RoIP) with a radio that only supported RIP as a routing protocol, and didn't use gateway of last resort! Amazing that people would make a radio in the 2010s with 1970s technology, but I guess that helps keep things interesting. Unlike this comment, which induced narcolepsy in anyone unfortunate enough to read it. Sweet dreams...][/url]

Nice article, thanks for sharing it!

I'm fairly certain it happened on Swedish radio, though I never took part of it as I never had a computer using tape, and I don't remember having heard that any of my friends recorded from such programs either.

They used to play C64 / Spectrum games on Chan4 TV [when it was off air] many moons ago, which you recorded onto tape, The BBC ceefax had games for BBC / Acorn.

They also did this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKmu68URUeI

Back in the day, we sure used to... eeeh... "make safety copies" of ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games with a double deck cassette recorder (even though the success rate was about 50% if we were lucky), but I never heard of (and it would've never occurred to me to) actually broadcasting these kind of games over the radio. :D

Go ahead. I really only use reddit for GW. :D