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Dutch Basicode Tapes

ReinierReinier
edited November 2013 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Hi, last time i got 2 big bags of ZX Spectrum stuff.
Also i got al lot of (NOS) Basicode tapes, many looks like new.
Are those usefull or can i tosh the tape and use the good cases for games?
Or are poeple that collect this kind of stuff?
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  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited November 2013
    They might be useful, do you have any pictures?
  • ReinierReinier
    edited November 2013
    Here:
    0imo.jpg





    What i understand they are programs from a Dutch radio program.
  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited November 2013
    yes I'm interested in those!
  • rokoroko
    edited November 2013
    Thomas Rademacher, a member of the German ZX-Team, is preservating the Basicode stuff and I am sure he would welcome items like yours.
    His site: http://www.joyce.de/basicode/

    Basicode was a special BASIC language (invented in NL) which could be used on lots of home computers in the 80's. It was rather successfull in several countries until the commercialised version 3 was launched.
  • TimmyTimmy
    edited November 2013
    Reinier wrote: »
    Here:
    0imo.jpg
    What i understand they are programs from a Dutch radio program.

    Oh... Were there so many of them!!!

    I used to borrow some of those from the library to play with. Most of it were pretty boring (for me) since they were not games, but I was always fascinated that they could be downloaded from the radio and played back on many kinds of computers.

    Please let someone preserve them, they are of great (Dutch) cultural value.

    (PS. Note that these are stored in Basicode formats, so if they were to be stored in an archive, they should be stored in the original cassette format, so .WAV files for these.)


    EDIT: Oh, and yes, they were from a radio program. I used to listen to it back in the day.
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  • ReinierReinier
    edited November 2013
    Ok then, so there poeple that want this kind of stuff.
    I think i imail this German guy, so this kind of stuff is saved.
  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited November 2013
    I'm on the preservation team here.
  • ReinierReinier
    edited November 2013
    You got PM ;)
  • ReinierReinier
    edited November 2013
    Hi ghbearman,
    I want to sent a reply to you, but i get a error.
  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited November 2013
    hi, sorry about that, I've cleared my pm box out now.
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