I've heard of people using minidisc to back up c64 games
When i first got a minidisc years ago i tried this with spectrum games, with no success. Was due to the compression technique removing sounds you cannot hear, but i guess the speccy would. Dumping to CD would work, just need to feed a tapedeck into my PC.
Rainbow Arts released a CD compilation for the C64 with an audio adaptor (so that your C64 thought it was listening to a tape deck).
Because of the high quality of an audio CD Rainbow Arts were able to code a very high speed loader for it, so most games booted in around 30 secs.
As an added piece of genius they added about 10 audio tracks by Chris Huelsbeck, who went on to release several reasonably successful albums in Germany. The Rainbow Arts CD contained a superb version of Katakis, and if memory serves a decent version of Shades.
I have this, and its really cool. I think Codemasters did a CD pack for the C64 too.
Rainbow Arts released a CD compilation for the C64 with an audio adaptor (so that your C64 thought it was listening to a tape deck).
Because of the high quality of an audio CD Rainbow Arts were able to code a very high speed loader for it, so most games booted in around 30 secs.
As an added piece of genius they added about 10 audio tracks by Chris Huelsbeck, who went on to release several reasonably successful albums in Germany. The Rainbow Arts CD contained a superb version of Katakis, and if memory serves a decent version of Shades.
I have this, and its really cool. I think Codemasters did a CD pack for the C64 too.
I had a similar CD for the Spectrum, seeing games load in under a minute was a real shocker back then.
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