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It has a warmer, richer tone on my hi-fi. The CD version is overcompressed.

33, 45 or 78?

when it crashes, you can really feel it

My install was all grainy, I had to return it.

I tried to use it but it said that I needed to upgrade my needle.

I left my copy under the sun, and now it´s playing all funny

lol vistafags

You're not a true man until you've manually scratched in each and every minuscule groove. Vinyl Gentoo ftw.

Does it come in a handful of 500 disks?

Get with the times, I just got mine in laserdisc.

>>752478

Put some heavy books on it for a while, it should straighten it all out.

I hope I can install on my budget computer.

>>752500

What are the specs on that thing?

>>752509

500 KHz

I'll stick with XP Tape Edition for ZX Spectrum, thanks.

I'm getting read errors. Has anyone else been able to install this with a ceramic cartridge?

/Once upon a time, software actually was distributed on vinyl, often as flexi's. The data was recorded akin to how it would be on a cassette tape, aka 300bps Kansas standard or whatnot, and you'd just hook up your TT to the tape in I guess. The density of storage was low enough that scratches and pressing flaws weren't important, I suppose.

Supposedly, with modern technology, a conventional 33 could hold several hundred megabytes of data.

>>752539
I'd like to upgrade to that. How well does it run in the stock 48k of ram? Is a 128k speccy needed for it to become practical?

>>752542
I'd recommend 128k - paging to tape is an absolute bitch.

>>752547
No, I can use my waferdrive as a page. It's pretty damn fucking fast; 80K in about 90 seconds!

>>752552
But I thought you needed Vista for ZX Spectrum to use ReadyBoost technology like that.

>>752561
It's not readyboost. I want to use my streaming cartridge drive to hold the page file, instead of storing it on standard cassette tape. With such a a short spool of tape, it should be able to find swap data within 10 seconds.

Manually rewinding and fast forwarding to work with the swap file sounds like too much of a hassle, anyway.

>>752572
OMG enjoy your limited read-write cycles! Your cartridge will die in a matter of weeks!

I love you, /g/.

I got it in cassettes, so much better...

>>752576
Yes, but what is a man to do. I cannot afford a real disk drive, not even those tiny 3" 100k one's I see hawked in computer shopper. I already bought my waffa, now I'm kinda stuck with it as that's where my saved money went. Yes, poorfag, I know.

>>752581
Lucky. I purchased the 8track edition, and it came on 16 cartridges. It takes forever to install because Microsoft didn't plan the file layout. Fucking A! It reads for a while, decides it needs a file back in track 2, goes kerchunk, fast forwards for a while, repeat process, throughout all 16 tapes. Oh, and tape 13 kept getting read errors till I stuck a matchbook under the tape.

/There actually WAS a computer that saved data to 8track tape :D

archive this, please

not in analog tapes - in 4chanarchive

I got leopard - I paid less for the vinyl and it looks so much crisper, though I still don't know why I had to get their brand of pickup, which is the same thing for more money...

>>752590
seconded

I still have a copy of Windows 3.1 on 19 78 rpm discs somewhere in my den. Even then, I had to do a mail in exchange from the 6 LP set sold in stores. Since this must be quite rare, is it worth anything?

>>752604
Why that must be worth at least ten shillings!

>>752621
Not even a few quid?

25min on each side is about half a cds worth of sound so a similar ammount of data could be stored?

for 33s only.

>>752648
http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000053.html

History of speccies and software distributed on vinyl record. I must admit, it sounds cool.

>>752680
wins

You guys should really get an ungrade.

>>753137
fail

>>753834

FAIL FAIL FAIL WIN WIN WIN

shut up faggot

>>752680
Something you can do on today's machines is play around with Ham Radio programs (HamScope, et.al.) that play and decode RTTY, FSK, MORSE..

>>753844
coolest trip ever

you kids and your modern technologies

i miss retro era

pic related

>>753889
lol, commodore 64

Don't play it backwards or you will uninstall it.

>>753975

Don't play it forward - it will install it.

>>753975
Don't play it backwards or you will install OSX over it.

So who actually has a record player? I've got an old Linn LP12/Valhalla/Ittok/AT-OC9 that still makes awesome sounds.

>>754028
Play it backwards and you will install Plan 9

>>754041
Yeah two with a Panasonic mixer slapped between them, most djs still use 12".

>>754047
OH SATAN AT HIS WORST.

>>754041
I have a pair of Technics 1200's

>>754041
I have a Technics and a Marantz