📻 The world without Internet - Software broadcast on radio (8-bit comp., cassettes, teletext, BBS)

** An amazing journey back in time to the "prehistoric" era, when there was no Internet and computer programs were broadcast over the radio. A story about Atari, ZX Spectrum and Commodore. Long-forgotten titles regained thanks to a few enthusiasts. An explanation of where the iconic beep sounds in the air came from? And lots of curiosities for dessert. Old tape recorders. First teletext broadcasts. Prestel and Minitel terminals. The mysterious abbreviation BBS. Software on vinyl records. And many, many more... More than 20 minutes during which you will not be able to tear yourself away from your computer. **

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The world without Internet - Software broadcast on radio

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The history of the Radiokomputer (Radiocomputer) show from the 1980s broadcast by the Polish Scouts’ Radio, thanks to which software for 8-bit computers was delivered to every home. Radio transmission was used instead of the Internet. In the evening, tens or even hundreds of thousands of listeners sat in front of the receivers to listen to the latest information from the bits and bytes world and to download the best software. The video also briefly presents the British Datarama show broadcast by Radio West and the Dutch Hobbyscoop broadcast by the NOP. The following programs are presented: Feud (Bulldog Software), Kartka Radiokomputera (Radiocomputer card), Robbo (demo) (LK Avalon), Podróże po Polsce (Travels around Poland) (Dariusz Rogoziński), Ćwiczenia chemiczne (Chemical exercises) (Wojtek Mroczka), Letter to the editor (Janusz Koliński), Kolędy Radiokomputera (Radiocomputer carols), Sound Tracker (J. Burczyński, M. Wroński), system utilities for Turbo 2600 system Kopier (Copy Software) + Super Monitor + Casdup (Cassettes duplication) (Szok), Mine Killers (Multididact BV Venlo), City Invasion (Multididact BV Venlo), Cztery Pola (Four Fields) (Henryk and Sebastian Siwy), Czarna Skrzynka (Black Box) (Henryk and Sebasian Siwy).

Music - source    / audiolibrary  
8bit Dungeon Level - Video Classica, Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
8bit Dungeon Boss - Video Classica, Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
We Ride!, Reed Mathis    / @reedmathis4623  
River Blues, TrackTribe    / @tracktribe  
Harsh Alien Machine, Jason Shaw https://audionautix.com/
+ excerpts from the original software soundtrack
Sound effects    / audiolibrary   + my own
Public domain photos (free to use for whatever purpose without any conditions):
Laser 500, Antonino Porcino   / 263150584310074  
Dutch teletext, Koen Suyk https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
ZX Spectrum +3, Frode Tennebø https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Atari 800XL, MOS6502 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
BBC Mikro, Stuart Brady https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
ZX81 Timex clone Timex Sinclair 1000, Marco Tangerino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ti...
Vinyl with software, Michael Holley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fl...
GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 photo:
Signetics 2650, Konstantin Lanzet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC 2.0 Generic license photos (use for any purpose, even commercial without the requirement to provide the same license for the resulting work):
Minitel, kevin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Minitel, Frédéric BISSON https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Teleguide, Per-Olof Forsberg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
For typewriting effect Elusien's Shotcut WebVfx Framework has been used. http://elusien.co.uk/shotcut/webvfx/i...
Connection with Amis XE BBS.
The on-screen sprites are taken from the demo program included with Quick Assembler (LK Avalon).
For preparing Atari style titles Videograph (Mirage Software/AS) application was used.
Morse code https://textcleaner.net/morse-code-tr...
Atari forum https://atarionline.pl/forum/

All product names and registered names have been used only in order to identify the products. I am not affiliated in any way with the companies which products I present. The copyrights to the presented software belong to their authors or publishers.

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