more TV games - over 20 Kbytes on tape

more TV games elektor october 1980 — 10-17 The most obvious break with the past is that the new programs are available on tape. There are two good reasons for this. In the first place, most readers use the games computer in conjunction with a cassette deck. Since they are on record, the programs must therefore be transferred to tape for regular use. It seems more logical to supply them on tape in the first place! Furthermore, the cassette interface in the games computer was designed with tape in mind, and it proves to be more suscep- tible to the kind of errors that occur during playback from a record. The first try (ESS 003) seems to have given quite a lot of problems, and even though the second version (ESS 006) was much better, there is still room for improvement. Our tests so far seem to indicate that the new tapes are virtually moretrouble-free: using several different decks, all programs ran from start to finish without a hitch. Another advantage of a tape is that it provi...