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What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The only question here is how many bytes per minute the VHS can hold. I’ve played several games in music cassette tapes. They played in normal speed and sounded like a modem after the handshake. IIRC, It took more than 20 minutes to load Hero and, sometimes, it didn’t work.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    LGR has a video about Danmere Backup system which used your home VCR for backups. It apparently could store up to 4GB to a normal VHS-tape. Quick search around the net didn't find much other than LGRs video and random snippets, but apparently that was slow, roughly 4MB/minute. But at the time when a lot of people didn't even have storage on their computers up to gigabytes, so it could've been a viable option, but I haven't heard about anyone who'd actually used a thing like that.

    C-cassettes on Commodre 64 were a common thing and in here even the national broadcasting company sent some programs over the FM radio during nights.

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