Quit your job when your young to take on another project that interests you, been there. To have the results of that decision have an effect 35 years later, that has to be very satisfying. Great interview!
If I had a dollar for every time I took on a challenge not really knowing if I could do it when I started... pretty neat that he did that as a young guy.
1:16 It's interesting how some people can read a script conversationally into a microphone and others can't. I can almost do it. It helps a lot to read the script live to another person. 4:04 It probably helps a great deal to make the cassette recording in mono, or better, to a mono cassette deck. I ripped all of my Commodore tapes to digital, and when looking at the tracks, the left and right channels are badly out of sync. If you looked at the record output from a stereo record player, would the channels be similarly mangled? 7:28 You could probably put raw text in a number of places, like after a GOTO, a RETURN, a condition that's always false, lines that are never reached, DATA elements that are never read.
@@HutchCA I must have been very lucky as I've recorded a couple of programs in the early 2000's 1st by converting the TAP files to WAV and then just playing them (back then with Winamp or GoldWave) and recording them to tape with a really cheap stereo deck connected to my PC sound card - I got them to load on a C-64 with 1st try and never had to deal with any issues. The sound from TAP to WAV conversion differs from the sound of data saved on an actual Commodore, it's more robust and thus, my logic was, it would better last in loadable condition as time consumes the recording on a tape so I also did some backups of tapes by recording them on a PC, converting the WAV to TAP and then back to WAV and re-recorded the "more robust" result on new cassettes. Unfortunately I've since lost the C-64, the datasette and the tapes :((((((((
Exactly. Nowadays this exposure is something great. It is not your average day to day task that goes live 35 years later.
Quit your job when your young to take on another project that interests you, been there. To have the results of that decision have an effect 35 years later, that has to be very satisfying. Great interview!
Ah, the memories. What a journey it has been. Love Easter eggs.
I'd load my C64 program tapes into an "Omnibot" and it would drive around and blink its lights.
If I had a dollar for every time I took on a challenge not really knowing if I could do it when I started... pretty neat that he did that as a young guy.
1:16 It's interesting how some people can read a script conversationally into a microphone and others can't. I can almost do it. It helps a lot to read the script live to another person.
4:04 It probably helps a great deal to make the cassette recording in mono, or better, to a mono cassette deck. I ripped all of my Commodore tapes to digital, and when looking at the tracks, the left and right channels are badly out of sync. If you looked at the record output from a stereo record player, would the channels be similarly mangled?
7:28 You could probably put raw text in a number of places, like after a GOTO, a RETURN, a condition that's always false, lines that are never reached, DATA elements that are never read.
@@HutchCA I must have been very lucky as I've recorded a couple of programs in the early 2000's 1st by converting the TAP files to WAV and then just playing them (back then with Winamp or GoldWave) and recording them to tape with a really cheap stereo deck connected to my PC sound card - I got them to load on a C-64 with 1st try and never had to deal with any issues. The sound from TAP to WAV conversion differs from the sound of data saved on an actual Commodore, it's more robust and thus, my logic was, it would better last in loadable condition as time consumes the recording on a tape so I also did some backups of tapes by recording them on a PC, converting the WAV to TAP and then back to WAV and re-recorded the "more robust" result on new cassettes.
Unfortunately I've since lost the C-64, the datasette and the tapes :((((((((
TCB is a half-dead TOT? (Not German, but This Old Tony ?)
TCB sounds like a JCB... perhaps you should explain what the fuck went wrong here.