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Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio (newslttrs.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I only used cassette tape drives a couple times in 3rd grade before we upgraded to Apple IIs, but even then I knew to try putting a music tape in it.

It didn’t work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I did the same thing with PlayStation games in CD players. And my PC. Sometimes they actually had music that played in a CD player, and sometimes cutscenes were just AVI files you could watch on a PC without playing the game!

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 2 days ago

It was rather common for PC games to include regular everyday "red book" audio for background music; I seem to remember back in the day you'd actually have to hook the optical drive to the sound card with a cable so it could pass through audio.

The Secret of Monkey Island did this for its CD releases; the audio options for that game ranged from PC speaker to Ad-Lib chip tunes to Roland MT-32 support and eventually CD Audio. The game shipped on a few diskettes, a few megabytes tops, so the whole game is tiny on a single 750MB CD, plenty of room for extremely high quality game audio.