13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
8:37 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:14:41PM -0600, Richard wrote:
I love this album and had no idea there was a spectrum
tie-in;
apparently that was only done for the UK edition?
<http://www.headen.com/XL1.htm>
Cool! I only knew of one example of this beforehand. The Swedish group
"Adolphson & Falk" has a LP with an Atari 8-bit track on it. I have the
record and an Atari 800 on the way to test it :)
But after reading your link a friend found this:
http://www.kempa.com/2004/03/09/vinyl-data/
Which suggest it wasn't _that_ uncommon. And it states that XL-1 only
had the data track on UK pressings.
Last summer I visited the computer games museum in Berlin:
http://www.computerspielemuseum.de
They had vinyl records with Basic distributions on them. Apparently
floppy disks was hard to come by in East Germany, so vinyl was used
instead.
Cheers,
Pontus.