Re: Were there any games on Tape?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:28 am
There were heaps of games on cassette!
Some were produced by VTech directly (very rare findings - and they were mostly utilities)
Many others were made in Australia and branded Dick Smith Electronics. Most games not difficult to find but a couple are really very rare
And then there are books of programs, also sold by Dick Smith Electronics, containing listings written mostly by young Australian programmers at the time
You can download all listings from: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/creativemu/basic.php
Scanned books from: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/creativemu/books.php
Audio file recordings (WAV) of cassette games: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/creativemu ... .php#tape1
And NO the cassette games were definitely not as good as the cartridge games. For a reason: the cassettes contained games written in BASIC and the CreatiVision BASIC is notoriously crap, slow and does not allow the use of sprites. You can only play with character sets and very simple music tunes, this limits greatly the quality of the programs. And it is TERRIBLY slow!
Some were produced by VTech directly (very rare findings - and they were mostly utilities)
Many others were made in Australia and branded Dick Smith Electronics. Most games not difficult to find but a couple are really very rare
And then there are books of programs, also sold by Dick Smith Electronics, containing listings written mostly by young Australian programmers at the time
You can download all listings from: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/creativemu/basic.php
Scanned books from: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/creativemu/books.php
Audio file recordings (WAV) of cassette games: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/creativemu ... .php#tape1
And NO the cassette games were definitely not as good as the cartridge games. For a reason: the cassettes contained games written in BASIC and the CreatiVision BASIC is notoriously crap, slow and does not allow the use of sprites. You can only play with character sets and very simple music tunes, this limits greatly the quality of the programs. And it is TERRIBLY slow!